If you're building god-like, don't even mention AMD.
If you're building god-like, don't even mention AMD.
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Never, ever buy top PC hardware anymore. Mid range is plenty, even my Nvidia 970 still runs everyting fine. i Would go with Predator monitor tho, that is unlikely to be replaced for a long time.
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Thanks mate, and yeah that is what I've decided to do now, it's gona be hard. But I'll do it for my lad.
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Yeah you can pick up some good cards for fair prices, for me personally graphics are not that important to me, but I do always want to have good frame rates. I grew up in the 90's so I like a lot of pixel and sprite art styles.
@Greendog Looks to me like you've got two problems here. One is the computer problem, but the other is the savings problem. I suggest you talk to someone who can help you with financial planning. I can't even begin to guess what your options are since you're apparently not in the US, but I suggest looking into short term investments for this project and longer term for the expenses that are still coming up like graduation.
With COVID-19 making its impact on our lives, I have decided that I shall hang in there for my remaining days, skip some meals, try to get children to experiment with making henna patterns on their skin, and plant some trees. You know -- live, fast, dye young, and leave a pretty copse. I feel like I may not have that quite right.
Well originally this is why i decided to buy it piece by piece. It's much easier for me to save a few hundred quid, even though in the end I'm spending more. The plus side to this is that my son can see what hes getting bit by bit and once all the tech is bought we can build it. Another option would be to get the case first. Then a few weeks or a month later get the motherboard and fit it, adding the pieces as I get them each month.
Do you remember being 16 (or actually a couple of years short of 16)? I don't think that will go as well as you hope. "This will be really cool in a couple of years" assumes a level of patience that he probably doesn't have.
Seriously, you're at the point in life where it gets expensive. I don't want to derail a computer thread, so I'm going to post in another forum and ping you.
With COVID-19 making its impact on our lives, I have decided that I shall hang in there for my remaining days, skip some meals, try to get children to experiment with making henna patterns on their skin, and plant some trees. You know -- live, fast, dye young, and leave a pretty copse. I feel like I may not have that quite right.
"Why spend $1,000 on a good PC when I can instead spend $3,000 on mostly outdated parts bought over time?" --this OP.
Don't start buying now. At all. Not only are we looking at a new CPU generation coming in the next 6 months, we're probably going to see another one before November 2021.
Oh, and another GPU generation is very likely too.
In addition to that:
The 840 is old as fuck, and has been replaced by the 860 or 970 depending on what you want. There are also just as good and cheaper products out there if you don't need the warranty that Samsung offers
32gb of RAM might sound good, but it's pointless for gaming. If your son doesn't do animation or similar there's no point in getting 32 over 16gb
Your case is mediocre, get a Lian Li PC O11 Dynamic instead, it's just better.
Your mouse is.. Eh. The sensor is acceptable but nothing fantastic, get something with a 3366 sensor instead if you want truly "godlike"
PSU is prone to failure, get something Seasonic made instead.
You say you need help with the monitor? Well what does he need the monitor for? Pure gaming? Colour accuracy? Does it need to be curved? 16:9 or 21:9?
TLDR: Don't start buying now, put the money into another bank account and then find out how much money you have when the time comes
AMD's CPUs are currently the best on the market. Intel is horribly outclassed in everything but super niche situations.
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Maybe ask him if he wants it bit-by-bit or all at once. He'll want it all at once. Because until you have all/most of the parts, it's just a very expensive paper weight, where you can't even check if the components are DOA, and depending on how long you take between parts acquisitions, they might run out of warranty and be completely out of luck.
Others already answered, what you want to do is not ideal, unless your requirements are low, for someone that wants a strong rig, it simply doesnt work like that.
Save your money, when its collected, post again.
Rumors of next generation things are already out, which means averagely 6 months to 9 months before big hop to performance, which makes any sort of "slow buying" a terrible idea.
Most godlike gaming pc I have ever seen is the MacPro.
AMD Build: | CPU: FX-9590 OEM 8-Core(4.7 GHz) Black Edition | GPU: STRIX R9 380 2GB(x1) | Ram: 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
Main: Samsung 850 500GB | BU: WDC Caviar Blue 2TB(x2) | Power: Corsair CX500 | Mobo: Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 [Old faithful!]
Now my living room center piece and open case HTPC.
I get that it's easier to save money for one part at a time but when it comes to computers it's just a terrible idea. Anything you buy now will be mediocre or outdated 2 years from now. Put the money into some kind of savings instead, 2 years from now you could spend 2k and get a better computer than you could get by spending 3k now (or 3k over 2 years).
Thankyou for the info on the CPU's.