Runescape Bits & Bytes
https://www.rsbandb.com/forums/

Building Me A (Cheap) PC
https://www.rsbandb.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=84884
Page 1 of 1

Author:  Forged [ June 26th, 2013, 12:26 pm ]
Post subject:  Building Me A (Cheap) PC

Hello, I'm looking into getting myself a desktop again.

Currently looking at:
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/CCameron/saved/1QvL

I do NOT want to spend more than 800$. This includes a monitor and Windows 7.

I will be playing GW2 and Rift on it, and would like to run it smoothly at higher settings if possible.

What parts should I upgrade/downgrade?
How would this current build work for those requirements?

Any feedback is appreciated.

Author:  Adbot [ June 26th, 2013, 12:26 pm ]
Post subject:  Register and login to get these in-post ads to disappear


Author:  99887 [ June 26th, 2013, 2:58 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Building Me A (Cheap) PC

I would definitely upgrade the CPU to an i5, as well as 8Gb of RAM.
I have pretty similar specs to what you have atm, with 8G ram and a HD6870, but I still get fps tanks in GW2 when there are like 20-30 people around in combat.
and judging from the resource use, it definitely is my i3-3220 that's slowing me down.

Author:  Jaden [ June 26th, 2013, 5:26 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Building Me A (Cheap) PC

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/ ... ls.asp?EdpNo=8204317

Here's a good combo deal. I pretty much purchased the same parts separately looking for the best deals. Except I got one higher model of the PC case, 850W PSU, and 8GB RAM DDR3 2133Mhz. Paid $592 for my bundle so pretty similar in price. The CPU and mobo are pretty good in my opinion. The quality of the mobo is great. Good for overclocking the intel core i5-4670K.

There's also another combo deal with the new intel core i5 & i7 and newer gaming mobo's. Check it out for awesome savings...
http://promotions.newegg.com/intel/13-2 ... =DYM-PMS-13033-S-PDP

Last parts I need to buy for my build are a CPU water cooler, SSD for fast OS boot, and a good GPU (waiting for radeon hd 7970 to go on sale once 8000 series comes out).

Author:  Lord Rickles [ June 26th, 2013, 6:03 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Building Me A (Cheap) PC

Definitely beef up the i3 to a i5, if anything. RAM increase is debatable - you'd be fine with what you have, but then again, for a little bit more, you'd be running twice as much.

Author:  Bonsai99 [ June 26th, 2013, 6:06 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Building Me A (Cheap) PC

Changed some things around
Total: $811.92 (Slightly more expensive but much better overall)
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1aEdk

Upgraded CPU
Upgraded Cooler
Upgraded from WD to Seagate HDD (Same Price Better Performance)
Z77A-G45 @ Newegg comes with free Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
Upgraded to 7850
Downgraded to 430 watt PSU (it should be able to handle it without any problems)
Case, Screen, and Keyboard are the same
Oh and removed DVD drive because they are useless for the most part :) but if you really need one then go for it.

Author:  Forged [ June 26th, 2013, 7:24 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Building Me A (Cheap) PC

Thanks for all the feedback, still need to save a few pay checks to afford it, but I'm glad to see people helping me out.
Would you recommend buying parts one by one or all at once?

Author:  Adbot [ June 26th, 2013, 7:24 pm ]
Post subject:  Register and login to get these in-post ads to disappear


Author:  Forged [ June 27th, 2013, 8:53 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Building Me A (Cheap) PC

Does anyone have any recommendations for a case? That one was just recommended from some random build I looked at.

Author:  Evelyn [ June 27th, 2013, 12:13 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Building Me A (Cheap) PC

Find a case that has good airflow and decent cable management.

Author:  Jasonmrc [ June 27th, 2013, 1:53 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Building Me A (Cheap) PC

Glad ya got some help here ;)

Are you capable/do you feel comfortable building it yourself? If you DIY you will be able to get a much better machine than pre-fab. Kinda assuming you can DIY since you started off looking at individual parts instead of a pre-fab.

I would buy the parts whenever the deal is best unless you have a deadline of when you want the computer finished. If there's no rush then buy them when you find a good sale for that particular item.

For cases, you need good airflow and room for cables as Cliff mentioned and also make sure your Mobo is compatible with it. Most are fairly universal but sometimes you find a case or board that has the holes in odd places. Rosewill makes some good cases.

I would highly suggest a minimum of 8gb of RAM. Your current Mobo choice says it has 4 slots so you could easily put 16gb in there if you can find it for a decent price(check Newegg.com). RAM is one of those things that is fairly cheap to increase but you'll kick yourself if you don't have enough. All Windows OS's that I've worked on are RAM hogs and require a few gigs just by themselves(Win7 takes ~20gig of storage, easy to see how it requires a few gig of RAM). Then when you figure a high end game requires 2 gig and you want at least 1-2 gig free for your browser/music/other stuff you're doing. If you figure 2gig for Win7 and 2 for your game, 4 is only just getting by, 8 or 16 would run better and allow you to do other stuff.

For the CPU I would also highly suggest a multi-core, either a triple or quad. I have a triple and only ever max when rendering HD video(although as I type this while playing RS HTML5 Beta my CPU is going between 60-80%, no other game does that, oddly).

I'm not sure the difference in Graphics cards, but 1gig of RAM on your Graphics card is helpful because that is that much less of the system RAM used.

Question: What are you doing with/what is happening to your old one? Can you use the screen from it(thus saving ~100$)?

Author:  Jaden [ June 27th, 2013, 9:57 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Building Me A (Cheap) PC

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... o=2851011&CatId=1510

This is the case I bought that was on sale. It has awesome air flow and comes with all the fans. Plenty of room to install a liquid cpu cooler inside. I would get that case.

This CPU liquid cooler just want on sale and will fit in that case at the top. I got this cooler and it's awesome. You can control fan speeds and the radiator has a larger surface area for better heat dissipation.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181032

This is the SSD I bought for fast booting Windows 8:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211601
$60 for 64GB. 550MB/s read and 505MB/s write speed.

Author:  Bonsai99 [ June 28th, 2013, 1:38 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Building Me A (Cheap) PC

Forged wrote:
Does anyone have any recommendations for a case? That one was just recommended from some random build I looked at.

The case is perfectly fine as long as you like how it looks.

Forged wrote:
Thanks for all the feedback, still need to save a few pay checks to afford it, but I'm glad to see people helping me out.
Would you recommend buying parts one by one or all at once?


All at once, and if you are going to take a few weeks before buying the parts it will be likely that the free ram offer will be over so you will need to add something like this http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004CRSM4I/?tag=pcpapi-20

Author:  Evelyn [ June 29th, 2013, 12:56 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Building Me A (Cheap) PC

While you save your money, keep on the lookout for sales or special deals. It's how I was able to save around $500 on my PC build.

Page 1 of 1 All times are UTC - 7 hours
Powered by phpBB® Forum Software © phpBB Group
http://www.phpbb.com/