Opinions needed on gaming desktop build

[hotrodcobra]

OK, I have read enough on here to know there be some serious geek knowledge on this forum. First thing is I am not interested in building my own computer. I have upgraded/plugged in a few things over the years, but that's about it.

I plan to have one built soon, like in the next week or so. I kinda/sorta have an idea of what I want, but would like to see opinions of what you guys would get with a 1500 to 2000 budget used primarily for gaming. I am going from a ps3 to this. And not a big gamer at that, so not really interested at this point in 4k. Opinions wanted...Thanks.

[JC316]

Being perfectly honest, building you own is as simple as plugging stuff in. You screw the motherboard into the case, drop the CPU in to the socket by matching the arrows, click a cooler into place, drop RAM into the slots, screw in the HDD and DVD, then hook up the electrical.

[fordracing19]

Funfordcobra probably has enough spare parts to build you something nice. He upgrades monthly.

[03mustangdude]

You can do a good gaming build in the 1-1.3k range. that 2k will get you 4k. That doesn't include a monitor. Dell has a sweet deal on a 34" ultrasharp curved monitor for 700 right now. Debating to get or not to get lol.

[Craizie]

You can do a good gaming build in the 1-1.3k range. that 2k will get you 4k. That doesn't include a monitor. Dell has a sweet deal on a 34" ultrasharp curved monitor for 700 right now. Debating to get or not to get lol.

My cousin just got one, it's the ultra wide monitor and it's sweet.

With that said, If I was going to spend that much, I'd spend a little more and get a monitor with G sync. You can order a kit to do it after the fact, but I wouldn't fuck with it.

[CJ]

4k will rape your ass, good choice. $600 in mobo/ram/proc, $1,600 in gpu, 1k in monitor.

2k is plenty. You can do a skylake 6700k, 16gb ram, 980ti, and a 144hz 1440p ROG monitor with that budget.

[hotrodcobra]

2k is plenty. You can do a skylake 6700k, 16gb ram, 980ti, and a 144hz 1440p ROG monitor with that budget.

Cool. That is VERY close to what I had in mind.

[03mustangdude]

I'd avoid skylake for gaming the price difference isn't worth it unless your trying to future proof. And ddr4 is still expensive

[FunFordCobra]

Lol only spare parts I have is those 120mm fans now lol.
I also have a lg bluray burner.
I have a new unopened ssd 240gb from corsair.

Will sell all cheap.

[FunFordCobra]

4k will rape your ass, good choice. $600 in mobo/ram/proc, $1,600 in gpu, 1k in monitor.

2k is plenty. You can do a skylake 6700k, 16gb ram, 980ti, and a 144hz 1440p ROG monitor with that budget.

If you can find a 6700!

[Jewrrick]

4k will rape your ass, good choice. $600 in mobo/ram/proc, $1,600 in gpu, 1k in monitor.

2k is plenty. You can do a skylake 6700k, 16gb ram, 980ti, and a 144hz 1440p ROG monitor with that budget.

I'm trying to figure this out:

6700k-$370
16gb DDR4-$95
980ti-$622
144hz 1440p-$450(Not even ROG so add $175 for that)

That puts him at $1537 and he still needs MB, SSD, OS, Power Supply, cpu cooler(not included with 6700k as far as I can tell), possible HDD for more space, and optical drive.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/tthNbv is what you are looking at and that's taking some short cuts but also giving some room to grow. You can get close to $2100 if you drop to a 980(http://pcpartpicker.com/p/6qtYD3) and get to sub $2000 if you give up 144hz(http://pcpartpicker.com/p/G69Zbv)

[FunFordCobra]

I wouldn't buy a TN 144hz rog. IPS onry.

[CJ]

I'm trying to figure this out:

6700k-$370
16gb DDR4-$95
980ti-$622
144hz 1440p-$450(Not even ROG so add $175 for that)

That puts him at $1537 and he still needs MB, SSD, OS, Power Supply, cpu cooler(not included with 6700k as far as I can tell), possible HDD for more space, and optical drive.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/tthNbv is what you are looking at and that's taking some short cuts but also giving some room to grow. You can get close to $2100 if you drop to a 980(http://pcpartpicker.com/p/6qtYD3) and get to sub $2000 if you give up 144hz(http://pcpartpicker.com/p/G69Zbv)

Win 7 upgrade is free, I'm sure he has windows 7, if not you can buy codes for like $10 and just upgrade. You can get an SSD for $40 on newegg right now (I'm still running a 128gb primary SSD). All he would need is an 80 certified 600w PSU to power that system, you can find those for $100-150 depending on the features you want. A cooler for about $40 on amazon like a coolermaster. I would definitely not go with a 980 over a 980ti, the performance sacrifice just isn't worth it, with a 980 you don't need anything near a 6700k. Spend the money on a case you like, and you don't need an optical drive anymore. Heck, many new cases don't even have a provision for an optical drive, like my case.

Or, I'll sell you my old system for $150, it's an AMD FX-8350, 12GB DDR3, Asus motherboard, just plug it in and go. It handled 4k with a 980ti, it will do everything you want, and it's already put together, just screw it down, cooler cpu and ram all installed, bios configured.

In my opinion:

Shit that matters (in order):
GPU
Monitor
Motherboard
Processor
Ram
PSU
Case

Stuff that's worth the money:
Resolution
Gsync
Refresh Rate
M.2

I wouldn't go with anything less than 1440p, 1080p is yesterday's resolution. You sacrifice so much detail at 1080p. 4k is fucking incredible, but probably not in your budget. In another 3-4 years GPU's and monitors should catch up.

[CJ]

I wouldn't buy a TN 144hz rog. IPS onry.

Any 144hz 1440p screen, doesn't really matter. I don't have any preference.

[Goku025]

How much would you take for the SSD FunFordCobra?