Hello friends, I have come looking for help. I am trying to build my friend a pc that would mainly play fallout 4 and games of equal or less graphical strain on hopefully at least good setting. I am hoping to get as much as I can on black friday but since there is no way to know what will be on sale for how much some alternative/equivalent parts would help when throwing the build together. So without further typing of words,
Budget: $750 max Hoping to get some parts on cyber monday. Resolution: If I reuse a monitor it would be 1400x900 But hoping to either get a 1920 x 1080 or at the least upgrade to that later. Games / Settings Desired: Fallout 4 on good/normal Any other intensive software or special things you do: Doubt it is intensive but InDesign and Illistrator for his work. This is a last priority. Country: 'Murica Parts that can be reused: I have a case actually, cooler master haf xm mid tower and I can just use his current HD right? Or would that be problematic? Do you need an OS? No Do you need peripherals (e.g. monitor, mouse, keyboard, speakers, etc)? Just a monitor upgrade if there is room. I think I can just check the deals and make a call here on my own from the pcpartpicker site but since it is for gaming do I need to worry about response time or any of that?
Thanks guys I will check out any suggestions you have for me.
Ok so here's the deal. You can't fit everything inside those 750$ without performance compromises. In order to avoid that as much as possible you got 3-4 solutions:
1) Extend your budget by another 50$, re-use that old case and hdd for storage and fit a monitor along with an ssd:
2) Get a nice new case so you got a fully new case/rig and leave monitor for sometime later maybe with more budget for an even better one, while keeping the ssd
Sweet I will probably do the #2. The case I mentioned I have is actually still in the box and never opened, a friend was building hers and before it arrived she decided she wanted a different one with more lights. Also she could not be bothered to return it for money back so I offered to take her "trash" off her hands. But the idea of waiting on the monitor is a sound strat. I may yet have enough coin left over from my other shoppings to get him one still before Christmas.