Question about building own gaming computer
Hi, so I decided I was going to build my own gaming computer and I have no idea what I'm doing lol. I went to tiger direct and the store worker and I compiled a list of the parts I would need to build the computer, and basically I just want advice on if the parts will work with each other, and if the build itself is balanced. Any help would be appreciated please and thank you.
Case - Red phantom
Processor - AMD FX 8150 3.60Gz 8 core
Motherboard - http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=8991522&srkey=GGG%20-%20102410092
Video card - http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=8906821&srkey=KNY%20-%20102334060
Power supply - http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=899123&srkey=T925-5002
Ram - http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=8033818&srkey=P33%20-%200106
Storage - http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3232686&CatId=2459
any help would be appreciated once again.
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[quote=Burning]Answer as many questions as you are willing. The information you provide will help me determine what your options are.
What country/state do you live in?
What is your budget?
Would you like to save money or do you want to spend as much of your budget as possible?
Can you order online? If you cannot order online, what stores are around you?
Do you already have a monitor, keyboard, and/or mouse? If you have a monitor, what is its screen resolution?
Do you need an operating system such as Windows 7 or Windows 8?
How much hard drive space do you want?
What games do you play or want to play?
What other programs do you use?
Are you interesting in overclocking the processor, the video card, or both?
Do you have any preferences or restrictions for a computer case(features, looks, etc.)?
Mention any other special requests you may have. Be as detailed as you can with all your responses.[/quote]
I live in Mississauga, Ontario CAN.
My budget is approx 1100-1200
I would cannot order online qq. The stores around me are tiger direct and canada computers. future shop also I guess.
As of now I have no monitor, but I do have a mouse and for the keyboard im fine with a 20-40 dollar one for now I can get a better one later.
I probably do not need one but if I was going to get one it'd be windows 7.
1 tb harddrive is the hard drive space I want.
I want to play league, skyrim, darksouls 2 and other steam games.
Other programs would just be microsoft excel, word etc.
I do not want to overclock anything tbh.
and as long as the computer case isn't ugly im fine with it.
Answer as many questions as you are willing. The information you provide will help me determine what your options are.
What country/state do you live in?
What is your budget?
Would you like to save money or do you want to spend as much of your budget as possible?
Can you order online? If you cannot order online, what stores are around you?
Do you already have a monitor, keyboard, and/or mouse? If you have a monitor, what is its screen resolution?
Do you need an operating system such as Windows 7 or Windows 8?
How much hard drive space do you want?
What games do you play or want to play?
What other programs do you use?
Are you interesting in overclocking the processor, the video card, or both?
Do you have any preferences or restrictions for a computer case(features, looks, etc.)?
Mention any other special requests you may have. Be as detailed as you can with all your responses.
Hm...
Change the CPU unless you can get at least an FX-8320 and even that isn't great. I would personally go for Intel since most games to my knowledge are optimized for them, plus Nvidia.
In terms of graphics, if you plan on the computer lasting 3+ years on med-high settings, you may have some trouble with that card. Maybe get a 760 if you can afford it. Maybe an R9-280(x) or a GTX 770 even.
[quote=SirKibbleX2]amd cpu? why?[/quote]
The last I checked, the 8350 blew away the caparable Intel even OCed too. At least that's what I'm running in my old system. No need to be fanboy give some AMD chips a chance, but I will admit there are some AMD chips out there that don't make sense. Go Geforce though.
Little starting point though, try pcpartspicker, the system you build there should be greatly compatible.