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Suggestions and Pricing for making a good gaming computer

#1 Post by brainbomb » Mon Aug 06, 2018 8:25 pm

What do people recommend as a desktop? Wal mart you can buy a dell for like 150-300 bucks. What would it need to be souped up with that can run stuff like civ 6 and other decent games

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#2 Post by brainbomb » Mon Aug 06, 2018 8:26 pm

Im lookin into building a gaming computer which isnt super pricey

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#3 Post by WyattS14 » Tue Aug 07, 2018 4:33 am

I have a 2005 laptop running on windows 6 that I use to play “Snake” and “Pong”

I’d highly recommend this model for seaking all of your gaming pleasures at a fair price. I hope I could help :)

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#4 Post by Kingdroid » Tue Aug 07, 2018 6:54 am

hey bud, you definitely do not want to buy a dell from walmart and then try to "soup" it up. What kind of budget do you have for building a computer? I've built a couple and can offer some resources and help. Feel free to pm me

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#5 Post by flash2015 » Wed Aug 08, 2018 2:55 pm

Does size matter?

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#6 Post by flash2015 » Wed Aug 08, 2018 2:56 pm

I mean do you want a full massive ATX desktop...or would you like power in a smaller form factor (e.g. mini-ATX/ITX etc.) or it doesn't matter?

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#7 Post by brainbomb » Thu Aug 09, 2018 12:26 am

I have no idea what I want. Or where to begin. I just know it needs a good video card

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#8 Post by Kingdroid » Thu Aug 09, 2018 2:01 am

ok well a goodp lace to start is to decide on a budget. Like what the max ur willing to spend is. I decently high end self-built computer will cost you about 1200. this does not include a monitor. A middle of the road PC to play games like ur describing you could build for like 800 or so, maybe less w/ a monitor if you really deal hunted.

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#9 Post by goldfinger0303 » Thu Aug 09, 2018 2:09 am

I think the price range Kingdroid is saying is most realistic. If you want any staying power on the desktop, you'll want a NVIDIA GTX 1060 or a rough equivalent as a starting point. That alone is gonna cost you $250-300ish. I find sites like wirecutter or pcgamer give good reviews so you can get a starting point on what best fits your expectations.

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#10 Post by flash2015 » Thu Aug 09, 2018 2:34 am

First thing you need to decide how much performance you want (i.e. are you wanting to game on a 1920 x 1080, 2560 x 1440 or 4K monitor/TV) and how much you are willing to pay. A reasonable place to start is here:

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/be ... ,4380.html

If you want to use anything other than the very bottom GPU there, you are going to need to build your own as the PSU on a standard desktop won't cut it.

If you are going to choose one of the higher GPUs, the next steps will be:

(1) to figure out the power supply you will need and make sure it has all the connectors necessary for the GPU (as everything but the bottom one needs more power than the motherboard can supply - they need additional direct connectors to the PSU)
(2) how big the thing is so you can get the size of the case
(3) Then choose a motherboard, CPU and memory compatible with this setup (at least 16GB of RAM, AMD Ryzen is probably the best value CPU series at the moment).
(4) Finally choose what disk you will go with.
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#11 Post by dargorygel » Thu Aug 09, 2018 2:41 am

Or you could buy an abacus...

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#12 Post by flash2015 » Thu Aug 09, 2018 3:15 am

dargorygel wrote:
Thu Aug 09, 2018 2:41 am
Or you could buy an abacus...
What sort of frame rate could you get with that?

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#13 Post by Randomizer » Thu Aug 09, 2018 3:57 am

flash2015 wrote:
Thu Aug 09, 2018 3:15 am
dargorygel wrote:
Thu Aug 09, 2018 2:41 am
Or you could buy an abacus...
What sort of frame rate could you get with that?
How fast are your fingers? I've seen 50 fps by experts.

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#14 Post by MajorMitchell » Thu Aug 09, 2018 5:46 am

I've got an old NCR "tower" series Server with quad processors that runs Unix software in my "tools & technology museum"..... Not for sale, but I wonder if that might be "game ready" ???
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#15 Post by Kingdroid » Thu Aug 09, 2018 6:05 am

also, once you've done some research on parts, pcpartpicker.com is a great way to find deals and test compatibility of your rig before you buy everything

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#16 Post by Oztra » Thu Aug 09, 2018 11:47 am

flash2015 wrote:
Wed Aug 08, 2018 2:55 pm
Does size matter?
size always matters flash
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#17 Post by brainbomb » Sat Aug 11, 2018 4:06 am

Major Mitchell seems like the type who wears a top hat at all times

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#18 Post by brainbomb » Sat Aug 11, 2018 4:13 am

Dell - Inspiron Desktop - Intel Core i7 - 8GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 - 128GB Solid State Drive + 1TB Hard Drive - Recon Blue - Larger Front
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$1,029.99

Should I not just buy an already made gaming PC? You said price wise itd be 800-1200$ anyway. This looks like it has the specs you all mentioned. Plus Dell is pretty reliable from my experiemce. The lone bad experience I had was my cat spilling vodka on my laptop and frying it out.

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#19 Post by Kingdroid » Sat Aug 11, 2018 6:21 am

WHat cpu exactly is the "intel core i7", as that phrase alone means very little.

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#20 Post by Kingdroid » Sat Aug 11, 2018 6:37 am

Basically, can u link me to the sale ur talking about? That could be a good deal, but I'd need to see specifics before I can say anything about it

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