Building a budgeted PC for Gaming/ BLender

Hello all[SUB],
I am going to be building a gaming rig for around 1000-1200 USD
The parts I have been looking at are in the spreadsheet that is linked here
feel free to add to the list (add column) then change your background color to red.
I am 99 percent sure I am going with the Corsaire case so there is no real reason to add to that list.
If anybody has any concerns feel free to message me on here, pm me or leave a message in the spreadsheet, just put your screen name down so I know who I am talking to

Needs: 3 monitor setup , want to play games in max res (or close to) at 60fps (Beam(if I can with 2 cars), Race07, Assetto Corsa, Payday 2, GTA IV (on close to high) ) Am trying to stay away from Intel
want a rig that will last/ trying to avoid overclocking too much, may do liquid cooled in the future, i have extra fans I can steal from dead computers here not sure of their sizes
If you are going to argue please keep it constructive and no putting anyone down ("you're stupid")
Basically be respectful and think about others opinions
please refrain from language as this is my first build and everyone have a good day
Feel free to add me on steam "notsoslo" if it isn't that it would be "racewayelko" Can't remember which [/SUB]

 

If anything all you want is Intel. In your budget you can get a great i5 or lower end i7.

 

I heard amd is better for the price? Also better for overclocking, but I have no idea, all i know is that I have intel inside my computer now and am not too impressed with it tbh.

 

Just a few things:

The cpus in that list will bottleneck your system A LOT. Don't get an AMD CPU unless you are in a tight budget.

Do not mix RAM sticks, I'm talking about those 2gb you have laying around

Why do you need a 235$ motherboard?

Why do you need a sound card?

Why going sli instead of a single powerful card? (less power consumption, less heat)

 

1) add some you suggest
2) wasn't planning on it but I had it there for an option
3) Because it's pretty.. I have no clue, that is just what a coworker suggested
4) I have a good sound setup, also do motovlogging where a little bit of help in that category i would like.
5) gives me overpower for future, for an okay cost. Just throwing stuff in there that I think would suffice, feel free to add to the list if you want, I put write access to people who have the link. just hoping it doesn't get vandalised

 

First off use pc partpicker. Second why the hell do you need a sound card? I recommend a SSD. Don't mix ram ever. And go with Intel. One graphics card over multiple.

And there is far better forums/places to get better answers for your build.

 

I'll look at pcpartspicker tomorrow morning (have to work in about 4 hours ) I wasn't going to mix ram just putting what I had in stock on there, more cost effective for a spinning hard drive, need the 1 tb for video (in a day of riding I can get 64 gb's) and the sound card is for my 6 speaker system that I have in my room for my racing games. Will go with one graphics card, now to find one with about the same power as the two thanks guys

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So um I lied... stayed up and came up with this http://pcpartpicker.com/p/7P2JmG commence improvements? lol

 

you can save $50 by buying the 2gb version of the 760 - the card isn't powerful enough to do multi-monitor or 1440p gaming so the 4gb vram is kinda pointless. you don't need a 650watt powersupply for single-gpu builds, but it's nice to have a little breathing room for your next build. your motherboard doesn't support SLI so you will have to buy a new one if you ever decide to buy another gtx 760 to try SLI.

you don't want a single gtx 760 for triple monitor gaming. you're going to need to spend $500+ for a graphics card that will handle a triple monitor gaming effectively. even then, you won't be hitting 60fps.

if you want to use three monitors but only play games on one of those monitors, you can use the integrated graphics on your processor + your graphics card to have 3 monitors which works fine. in this case, a gtx 760 is good, but a little underpowered compared to your processor. it's not really an issue, you'll still get 60fps in the games you listed (well maybe not gta IV - did the optimization issues ever get fixed?).

^ listen to this guy.

 

Build is very nice, pci-e Wifi cards are dirt cheap pick one of those up. Um you can get faster ram for less money. Other than that nothing really. Maybe go for a 770 instead of a 780 and get a SSD for a boot drive. You will love the speed increase of a good SSD.

 

Found a "better place" lol a steam chat with a bunch of Beam players, we edited it a bit, went $10 over budget which is oh well As for the 3 moniter setup, that can come later, was planning on using it for racing but I don't even have moniters for it yet so it doesnt matter yet http://pcpartpicker.com/p/twXK23 is the final version as of now. peeps thoughts?

 

Get an internal wifi card, you will hate yourself with how slow that usb card is. And tbh a 780 is not worth that 500$ price. You should probably just get a good 770. And spend money on a ssd.... A harddrive will slow that pc down. With a ssd you will let it use all of its power. And that cheap ram uses really low end chips. And 1600mhz ram is to slow for your processor...

 

You will load faster with an SSD, but that's it. 1600mhz too slow? lmao, my RAM at 1333Mhz has a 20-21Gb/s bandwidth.

 

SSD's will only impact file load times.
1600mhz RAM is just perfect with the exception of APU's
Wireless-N bandwidth is a lot less than USB (although I do personally prefer internal wifi) even accounting for extra bandwidth required to control the device.

 

This is the bare bones of my recent build, It was right around $1000 with all of the accessories as I already had a fairly new monitor, and some other accessories, I just needed to get a keyboard and mouse for gaming and some extra case fans, heres the parts list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3vPBzy

 

Why would you buy a 4690S? It's the economy 4690. Get a 4690K instead, it's slightly better and you can overclock it. And it's just $25 more.
And the 270x is pointless, just a bit faster clock isn't worth it. Get the 270.

 

A 270x is worth it.
I don't know where you got that info that it's not worth it, because the last time I checked, a R9 270x has better perfomances by a mile, than a R9 270.

 

More like better performance by a millimetre.
http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-R9-270X-vs-Radeon-R9-270

Just a bit better performance thanks to slightly faster memory clock, uses 30W more and 2 6-pin connectors instead of one.
Also costs $20 more. Not much, but it's the difference between that 4690S and a faster, unlocked 4690K.

I was about to buy the 270X, but I saw the actual difference in benchmarks and I decided to just get the 270. Chance is I'm gonna replace it for a beast high-end card in 18 months or so anyway.

 

Wait. Did you see he already got it? Well then.

 

Yes I did, I just like to point out stuff.
Deal with it.

 

What I have in there is what I need, I am not planning on overclocking, and also if I would have gotten the 4690K, I would have had to wait 2 weeks for my next pay check, everything in that build on amazon totaled around $998.47 (w/s&h) and I only had $1000.74 in my account at that time, yeah I kinda regret not getting the 4690K but whatever, the 4690S is a solid processor and it turbo boosts to 3.9 GHz, thats all I need really. I am used to gaming on a laptop so 10 FPS average is normal to me, so when this thing runs at around 60-90 FPS on High-Max graphics depending on the game, its such an improvement.
(although BeamNG runs about 40 FPS because I neglect to turn the settings down from Max)