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Gaming Computer - Recommendations?

Mr Nay took on board all your suggestions and is getting a pc built by a local business.

i5-4570 processor
GeForce GTX660 video card
16 Gig RAM
No water cooling
1T hard drive

All for $990. He's really happy. Thanks, everyone!
 
Orphia Nay said:
Mr Nay took on board all your suggestions and is getting a pc built by a local business.

i5-4570 processor
GeForce GTX660 video card
16 Gig RAM
No water cooling
1T hard drive

All for $990. He's really happy. Thanks, everyone!
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Nailed it. :D
 
That's a good system. If you can spare the expense, an SSD is a good buy as well, especially with that amount of Memory.
 
malicus said:
Well yes. But. If you have an i5 with an unlocked multiplier you should be overclocking, lest you miss out on some easily attained free performance.
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Except that, as already pointed out by several people, the CPU isn't going to be the limiting factor most of the time. Overclocking a CPU isn't going to get you any extra performance, free or otherwise, if the bottleneck is the GPU or hard drive.

Sceptic-PK said:
Well nobody suggested one did they?
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They did if you actually read the link Orphia posted.

Orphia Nay said:
Mr Nay took on board all your suggestions and is getting a pc built by a local business.

i5-4570 processor
GeForce GTX660 video card
16 Gig RAM
No water cooling
1T hard drive

All for $990. He's really happy. Thanks, everyone!
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Not bad, but maybe a little odd. 16GB is way more than you'll use for years to come, but the GTX660 is already last year's model. For the same price (or possibly even a bit cheaper), you could get 8GB RAM and a GTX760 which would be much better right now and cheaper to upgrade in the future.
 
I just recently updated mine and it happily takes most things thrown at it.

AMD-FX8350 8 core CPU (cheaper than your i5 / i7 and equivalent grunt)
Motherboard that supports crossfire
Radeon 7790 OC (just one, with the option to chuck in another should stuff get too slow)
16GB DDR3 RAM, more the merrier. Room for another 16GB
128GB SSD just for Windows and currently GuildWars 2, Steam lives on it's own partition, and all other apps in another., 4TB of hard drive space.

It also dualboots into Linux Mint for when I need to do proper work, but putting Windows on an SSD resulted in a huge leap in performance over a normal HDD.
 
Orphia Nay said:
I thought i7 was the new thing? :confused:
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I-7 would be above your needs. It's more suited if you're going to do a lot of 3D model rendering on your computer.

Otherwise, I-5 is more than sufficient. I would also recommend spending the extra money on a good graphics card, in order to insure yourself for a year or two before it becomes obsolete with newer, better cards.

ETA: Solid state drives would also be preferable, to store your OS - for quicker booting times, less noise, and less likelihood of failure, as there are no moving parts
 
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Cuddles said:
Except that, as already pointed out by several people, the CPU isn't going to be the limiting factor most of the time. Overclocking a CPU isn't going to get you any extra performance, free or otherwise, if the bottleneck is the GPU or hard drive.



They did if you actually read the link Orphia posted.



Not bad, but maybe a little odd. 16GB is way more than you'll use for years to come, but the GTX660 is already last year's model. For the same price (or possibly even a bit cheaper), you could get 8GB RAM and a GTX760 which would be much better right now and cheaper to upgrade in the future.
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Pretty much my thoughts.
 
Wow! I'm still gaming on a 2008 MacPro. Had to put some RAM in it though, and I don't play anything with cutting edge graphics. Mainly EVE and LoL.
 
Cuddles said:
Except that, as already pointed out by several people, the CPU isn't going to be the limiting factor most of the time. Overclocking a CPU isn't going to get you any extra performance, free or otherwise, if the bottleneck is the GPU or hard drive.



They did if you actually read the link Orphia posted.



Not bad, but maybe a little odd. 16GB is way more than you'll use for years to come, but the GTX660 is already last year's model. For the same price (or possibly even a bit cheaper), you could get 8GB RAM and a GTX760 which would be much better right now and cheaper to upgrade in the future.
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I'm a tightwad with technology because it's all going to be obsolete anyway. I think I might stick with the 660 and cut back to 8 gb just to save a few bucks.
 
Cuddles said:
Not bad, but maybe a little odd. 16GB is way more than you'll use for years to come, but the GTX660 is already last year's model. For the same price (or possibly even a bit cheaper), you could get 8GB RAM and a GTX760 which would be much better right now and cheaper to upgrade in the future.
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He didn't pay for 16GB. He ordered 8GB, but got an extra 8 for free.
 
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