Help to choose a Gaming PC

Hi everyone. I am looking to buy my first gaming PC because i spend most of my time on the computer playing games with friends. I want to spend about 1000$ for a PC but only if it will last me at least 4 to 5 years if i keep up with dusting the inside every 6 months and so forth. So with my research i have come up with two computers i think would be the most bang for the buck and was curious if i could have some opinions on which one would be better. I also would like to know if you think the computer will lat 4 to 5 years and still run games smoothly on high graphics. Thanks in advance for the help. Here are the two options I’ve been researching.

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You just doing 1080p or you trying to do 4k?

Get an i5 at least… And a higher end one at that…

I went with the radeon 390 due to it having 8 gig vram to future proof it…

Those two things would cost about 700$ together…

60$ for a powersupply… 600 watts would do
80$ for 8gbx2 sticks ram… Would get you started
100$ for a good intel motherboard…
I’d recommend a solid state drive… Even just 64 gigs for running the os… Another 100$

If you feel the need for a dvd/bluray drive that’s 30$/65$…

From there you can add hard drives and ram… Would get you up 24 gigs ram on most mobos…

That’s 1070$… You can look into nvidia cards… They are pretty comparable… Less memory though. 8 gigs vram is excessive though…

Oh ■■■■ you need a case too… 50$

1120$…

But no machine today is going to keep up with the new stuff 5 years from now…

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As for me, MSI 24GE 2QE 4K-001US 23.6-Inch Gaming Desktop is the best pick.
This system has a Raid 0 configuration with 2 solid state drives. Plus the monitor is a touch screen windows 8.1 and also it has a second hard drive of 2t with a built in 960m video card. Alone with a i7 quad core intel processor, what can I say. Extremely fast boot up time in a few seconds. internet pops up as fast at the i7 processor can load and display the program, in one to two seconds.

However the one flaw in this set us. is that the keyboard is hard to read, plus you would think that the keyboard was a Cherry MX Red mechanical keys for better smoother and quicker more accurate key action, along with it being a bluetooth set up. it like buying a ferrari car and then they ship to you with Datsun pickup rims, tires and brakes on the car. never the less, the keyboard can be swapped out with a better quality keyboard.

Look for reviews on computergaming, topreviews.best or newegg.com

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I don’t see the two options. But, if we are talking about changes in desktop gaming in 4 to 5 years, one word: Optane.

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Well if it really is 1000x faster that’s gonna be bottle necked by the 6GB per second speed of SATA III…

So you’ll need a specialty motherboard I’d assume…

But yeah the link you just posted right there… that’s the tech that will be more common place in 5 years…

I mean we could also all get dual 12 core Xeon processors(for cheap) from 5 years ago and have something that the top end i7 still don’t really compare with…

again finding a motherboard that would allow for the older intel chips with new memory and SATA III/USB 3.0… and the like… PCIE 3.0 and all that good stuff…

I mean tech is fun… but it has its limits… and always will.

You should look at what you want to build a PC to do… and choose the components around that…

If you are just trying to play games in 1080p… or even 2k… Get a 390 with the 8 gigs vram… (huge texture capacity)… a quad-core i5 or i7 (one that can hyperthread on all 4 cores)… and a solid state drive…

Your rig will boot in less than 10 seconds… you’ll power through the games of the next 5 years without overheating your card… mine runs more or less silently at all times… this disc drive is louder… and the memory will assure that you’re never bottlenecked when games with higher res/ more textures in the buffer start releasing…

Most graphics are going to be gauged to run one the PS4 or Xbox One… Only a few titles are going to scale up beyond the need for those capabilities…

Crysis… Battlefield… Star citizen was supposed to do it but its been in development for so long that it’s losing its luster… I mean really though… I don’t enjoy those games…

I jsut want my gamecube emulator to run at 1080p 60 frames per second… Beyond that I can stand having modern games run at less than Ultra mode graphics at 1080p…

[end of rant]

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that is cool to hear though…

They’ve found a way to make lithium ion batteries use a lattice structure as well… We should see smaller batteries with higher capacitance coming down the line pretty soon as well…

if they can find a way to do the same thing with processors… shite… moore’s law is gonna need revised… but in a good way…

Literally the smartest minds on the planet are pouring over this crap every day… Computer scientists, geneticists, theoretical physicists… we’re in pretty good hands.

[end of second rant]

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You can build your own gaming pc and save a ton of money! That’s what I did (watched these youtube videos by newegg about how to pick and put parts together)…or it would be a gaming pc if I hadn’t run out of money and had to budget my graphics card… :frowning:

If I could build another pc it would be AMD cpu, asus motherboard, with a Sapphire graphics card (high end), solid state drives for the programs and Operating system and like 32 gb of memory! Best thing, you can always upgrade memory or graphics card as time goes by!

My build, which I barely remember building in 2012, but am using as my work horse and this is the pc I’m posting from, has an intel i5 chipset, 16 gb of memory ready to upgrade to 32, gigabyte motherboard that was midrange, liquid cooler, like 3 1-tb hard drives, 1 solid state drive, blu-ray, big power supply, but then I ran out and bought a low end graphics card which I have been meaning to replace when I get a job…saved a lot of money (cost was under $1000 dollars). Still waiting to replace that low end graphics card since I do video editing for fun and I also want to start gaming again graphics card should bump the total price to about 1200-1250 dollars)

EDIT: in comparison, I bought the Samsung orange colored Series 7 gaming pc (intel i7, Radeon graphics, blu ray, 1 solid state drive) and it cost over 1700 dollars with no extra software.
Here’s a youtube link to newegg:
[newegg part I on building a pc][1]
[newegg part II on building a pc][2]

just be verrry careful with the cpu because there are no refunds if you mess it up. Just remember don’t shove it in, zero insertion force, as newegg says.
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIF43-0mDk4
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zAdwedmj1M

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