PC build

[Freyaka]

I'm working on building a pc. I want to keep the price around $1,000. I want something that is 4k capable, but I won't be doing 4k right now because 4k monitors are still hella expensive.

https://pcpartpicker.com/user/freyaka/saved/

[Hawgdriver]

Super hard to read, but looks like a 2600 build? Have they come down in price? 1600s have been so super cheap, I'd have a tough time not going 1600. But 2600 is understandable too.

[OrangeHoof]

Can it be a Dell? You can get a lot for $1000 from these guys. They ship from Texas.

https://discountelectronics.com/


(https://discountelectronics.com/)Just tell them the specs you want and they'll give you options.

[Hawgdriver]

Can it be a Dell? You can get a lot for $1000 from these guys. They ship from Texas.

https://discountelectronics.com/


(https://discountelectronics.com/)Just tell them the specs you want and they'll give you options.

I'd take Frey's build over that garbage.

The best 'deal' they have is this one

https://discountelectronics.com/dell-optiplex-9020-quad-i7-ssd-gtx-1650-gaming-pc/

and it's a sad fraction of the power of Frey's rig & w/o a monitor for only $200 less. Basically throwing away money.

Edit: assuming we are looking into gaming rigs

[Hawgdriver]

Frey it feels like you could shave some $$ by going w/ a 1600 and a different mobo. Microcenter.com is worth a look. Maybe there's a hidden gem in 'hoofster's link but nothing jumped out at me.

[Tned]

Am I reading that right as only 8gb of RAM? That seems a little light. Guess it depends on your use.

[Freyaka]

Super hard to read, but looks like a 2600 build? Have they come down in price? 1600s have been so super cheap, I'd have a tough time not going 1600. But 2600 is understandable too.

It's changed a bunch since I posted it.
Ryzen 3600
AsRock Fatal1ty B450 Gaming board.
16 GB dd4-3000
WD 500gb NVME Solid State
Geforce RTX 2060
and a 24' 1440p monitor with 1ms response and 144hz varible refresh rate.

[Freyaka]

Can it be a Dell? You can get a lot for $1000 from these guys. They ship from Texas.

https://discountelectronics.com/


(https://discountelectronics.com/)Just tell them the specs you want and they'll give you options.

I can get a lot more by buying the individual parts and putting it together myself :D which is my plan. I don't let other people build my computers, I do that myself.

[Freyaka]

Frey it feels like you could shave some $$ by going w/ a 1600 and a different mobo. Microcenter.com is worth a look. Maybe there's a hidden gem in 'hoofster's link but nothing jumped out at me.

Right now I'm sitting at 1145. I'm slightly over budget, but I think I can get my wife onboard, especially since this crisis has left me with a lot of overtime at work as we move to work from home.

[Freyaka]

Am I reading that right as only 8gb of RAM? That seems a little light. Guess it depends on your use.

Yea it is, and I've bumped it up to 16gb. I originally was skimping in some areas like ram knowing I could add another stick in a few months.

[Canmore]

It's changed a bunch since I posted it.
Ryzen 3600
AsRock Fatal1ty B450 Gaming board.
16 GB dd4-3000
WD 500gb NVME Solid State
Geforce RTX 2060
and a 24' 1440p monitor with 1ms response and 144hz varible refresh rate.

Couldn't read original any chance you will type in the rest.

[Hawgdriver]

It's changed a bunch since I posted it.
Ryzen 3600
AsRock Fatal1ty B450 Gaming board.
16 GB dd4-3000
WD 500gb NVME Solid State
Geforce RTX 2060
and a 24' 1440p monitor with 1ms response and 144hz varible refresh rate.

when you finish, compare it to these two to see if you have done a good job (imo)

Powerspec is the Microcenter store brand and they are hard to beat from a performance per dollar standpoint.

https://www.microcenter.com/product/608933/powerspec-g706-gaming-desktop-computer

https://www.microcenter.com/product/617582/powerspec-g705-gaming-computer

[Freyaka]

when you finish, compare it to these two to see if you have done a good job (imo)

Powerspec is the Microcenter store brand and they are hard to beat from a performance per dollar standpoint.

https://www.microcenter.com/product/608933/powerspec-g706-gaming-desktop-computer

https://www.microcenter.com/product/617582/powerspec-g705-gaming-computer

Mine is pretty comparable to the $1200 one, difference is, I have a 2060 instead of a 2070 and I have a high end gaming monitor included in my price point.

[Freyaka]

Couldn't read original any chance you will type in the rest.

CPU
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor $174.99

Motherboard
ASRock Fatal1ty B450 GAMING K4 ATX AM4 Motherboard $94.99

Memory
Team T-Force Delta RGB 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory $76.99

Storage
Western Digital Blue SN550 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $64.99

Video Card
MSI GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB VENTUS XS OC Video Card $299.99

Case
Apevia CRUSADER-F-WH ATX Mid Tower Case

Power Supply
EVGA GD (2019) 600 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply $52.98

Monitor
AOC AG241QX 23.8" 2560x1440 144 Hz Monitor $380.98[/CODE]

Just noticed that the price of my monitor changed drastically, as did the video card so I may need to reconfigure again right before I buy, but this at least gives me a baseline.

[Rick]

I won't be doing 4k right now because 4k monitors are still hella expensive.


When I bought my new PC a couple of months ago I bought a 43" 4k tv to go with it as my monitor.

Working great, and cheap.

[Hawgdriver]

When I bought my new PC a couple of months ago I bought a 43" 4k tv to go with it as my monitor.

Working great, and cheap.

Stand or wall mount?

[Hawgdriver]

When I bought my new PC a couple of months ago I bought a 43" 4k tv to go with it as my monitor.

Working great, and cheap.

I'm guessing stand..refresh rate ok for gaming?

[Rick]

I'm guessing stand..refresh rate ok for gaming?

The rate is good enough for me.

Currently I have it on the stand, but I plan to wall mount it.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung-43-class-led-6-series-2160p-smart-4k-uhd-tv-with-hdr/6373061.p?skuId=6373061

Has some kind of game mode in it, not really sure what it does. Looks fine to me though, but I am not a hardcore gamer.

[Hawgdriver]

The rate is good enough for me.

Currently I have it on the stand, but I plan to wall mount it.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung-43-class-led-6-series-2160p-smart-4k-uhd-tv-with-hdr/6373061.p?skuId=6373061

Has some kind of game mode in it, not really sure what it does. Looks fine to me though, but I am not a hardcore gamer.

That's about how I am. I'm not going to pay extra for a fancy gaming monitor, I just want stuff to look decent.

edit: that's a good price for a nice 43" monitor

[Rick]

This is the PC I am running with it.

Got it $250 bucks cheaper because they price matched the price from Dell.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/alienware-aurora-r9-gaming-desktop-intel-core-i7-9700-16gb-memory-nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-super-1tb-hdd-512gb-ssd-white-lunar-light/6373818.p?skuId=6373818

[Hawgdriver]

damn bro!

[Rick]

Planning to up it to 32 GB ram soon and sometime this year put the water cooling kit on it.

Need to make sure Microsoft Word runs smooth!

[Freyaka]

When I bought my new PC a couple of months ago I bought a 43" 4k tv to go with it as my monitor.

Working great, and cheap.

I have a 36 inch tv for a monitor now, but I want something with low response and high refresh rate. I'm shooting for a 2k monitor at the moment.

[Freyaka]

This is the PC I am running with it.

Got it $250 bucks cheaper because they price matched the price from Dell.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/alienware-aurora-r9-gaming-desktop-intel-core-i7-9700-16gb-memory-nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-super-1tb-hdd-512gb-ssd-white-lunar-light/6373818.p?skuId=6373818

I love that case. That's a very nice PC!

[Freyaka]

The rate is good enough for me.

Currently I have it on the stand, but I plan to wall mount it.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung-43-class-led-6-series-2160p-smart-4k-uhd-tv-with-hdr/6373061.p?skuId=6373061

Has some kind of game mode in it, not really sure what it does. Looks fine to me though, but I am not a hardcore gamer.

I just wish you could get smaller 4k tvs. I don't need that big, that thing will eat my desk alive.

[Rick]

I just wish you could get smaller 4k tvs. I don't need that big, that thing will eat my desk alive.

This one does have the screw holes to mount it to a wall, if you are able to do that in your situation.

[Freyaka]

This one does have the screw holes to mount it to a wall, if you are able to do that in your situation.

I went back and forth several times considering it, but I'm going with two 1080p monitors. Going to be streaming pretty extensively so...I'm going to need a second monitor for chat and OBS. Maybe even a third eventually.



CPU

AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor $174.99

Motherboard

ASRock B450M-HDV R4.0 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard $68.98

Memory

Team T-FORCE VULCAN Z 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory $69.99

Storage

Western Digital Blue SN550 250 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $54.99

Video Card

EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 8 GB SC BLACK GAMING Video Card $383.98

Case

Corsair SPEC-DELTA RGB ATX Mid Tower Case $79.99

Power Supply

SeaSonic S12III 650 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply $64.99

Monitor

Asus VS228T-P 21.5" 1920x1080 60 Hz Monitor $94.00

Monitor

AOC 24B2XH 23.8" 1920x1080 75 Hz Monitor $119.99

Mic

TONOR Professional Condenser Microphone XLR to 3.5mm Podcasting Studio Recording Condenser Microphone Kit Computer Mics with 48V Phantom Power Supply Blue $46.99


Base Total: $1170.91
Mail-in Rebates: -$20.00
Shipping: $7.98
Total: $1158.89

That's pretty much my finalized build. Getting tax returns within the next two weeks and going to buy everything then.

https://pcpartpicker.com/user/freyaka/saved/J7tK3C

[Poet]

You gonna stream some shit?

[Freyaka]

You gonna stream some shit?

I am indeed. I'm building a desk in my room so that I have a moderately secluded streaming space.

I tried streaming awhile back and even had some success with it (100 followers and hit Twitch affiliate) but I'm mostly starting from scratch with a proper stream setup this time.

Last time I was on a crappy laptop, with a green piece of cloth thumbtacked to the back wall and a crappy headset microphone.


First game once i return will be to play the remaster of Final Fantasy VIII with some modding to make it look better. Final Fantasy VIII is one of the only games in the series I've never beat.

[Poet]

I'll sub to your channel.

[Freyaka]

I'll sub to your channel.

I'm super excited to get it started again. I'm putting real effort and money into it this time. I took time off in between and have started to grow on twitter and I actually feel like this time I might be able to get something going.

[Rick]

Good luck in your endeavors!

I bought my setup, not to play video games, but to try and actually concentrate on making a game. Been tinkering for years. Hopefully now that I have invested a lot of cash into software and equipment, I will actually sit down and do it!

Here's to our expensive hobbies hopefully turning into something, but if not, ah well, they were still fun, right? :)

[Rick]

The shit that I have spent money on this year for my hobby to hopefuly turn into something:

$1800 computer
Gaia terrain toolset http://www.procedural-worlds.com/gaia/
Atavism mmo kit https://atavismonline.com/

I am probably out of excuses for getting shit done, which is good because I am also out of money.

[Hawgdriver]

Good luck in your endeavors!

I bought my setup, not to play video games, but to try and actually concentrate on making a game. Been tinkering for years. Hopefully now that I have invested a lot of cash into software and equipment, I will actually sit down and do it!

Here's to our expensive hobbies hopefully turning into something, but if not, ah well, they were still fun, right? :)

That's exciting. I can understand the pull.

[Freyaka]

The shit that I have spent money on this year for my hobby to hopefuly turn into something:

$1800 computer
Gaia terrain toolset http://www.procedural-worlds.com/gaia/
Atavism mmo kit https://atavismonline.com/

I am probably out of excuses for getting shit done, which is good because I am also out of money.

You making an MMO? Now I'm interested :D

[Rick]

You making an MMO? Now I'm interested :D

That is the plan, at my current rate of progress, your great grand kids will love it!

[Freyaka]

That is the plan, at my current rate of progress, your great grand kids will love it!

I'll pass down the info so they can be on the lookout for the sacred game once foretold of.

[Freyaka]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/587427172352917527/701540187896807494/IMG_20200419_160940504.jpg?width=902&height=677

That's the desk I built for my room. Going to be rather nice, it's also high enough off the ground I can raise my monitor up and stand if I want to.

[Freyaka]

Today's the big day, waiting for ups to deliver and it's build time

[Hawgdriver]

That's exciting--hope the engine turns over the first time you turn the key ;)

[Rick]

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[Freyaka]

That's exciting--hope the engine turns over the first time you turn the key ;)

Yea it actually went really smoothly. Finally got stuff downloaded yesterday, spent the day playing Call of Duty Warzone and Apex and today I'm gonna check out Octopath Traveller. All in all, running smoothly! This monitor is too freaking big though... It's taking some real adjustment.

[Freyaka]

16739

No fancy Hollywood explosions. She's running at a cool 30 degrees celcius on the cpu and everything's flying along at light speed.

[Canmore]

Congrats.

[Canmore]

I'm waiting until next year to build.

[ShaneFalco]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/587427172352917527/701540187896807494/IMG_20200419_160940504.jpg?width=902&height=677

That's the desk I built for my room. Going to be rather nice, it's also high enough off the ground I can raise my monitor up and stand if I want to.

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/6HrGtfhL2nkc5LoVphjRS8-1200-80.jpg

[FanInAZ]

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/6HrGtfhL2nkc5LoVphjRS8-1200-80.jpg

He has to get out of that nice comfortable chair to get his coke, can of some other drink, spare game controller, headphones, etc.

[Freyaka]

I'm waiting until next year to build.

I had tax money and figured "why not" I am a few months in and I love it. I spend most of my time playing this game called Elite Dangerous with my flight stick and throttle setup. Not much this thing can't handle so far. (really not anything)

[Freyaka]

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/6HrGtfhL2nkc5LoVphjRS8-1200-80.jpg

Were I single maybe :D

If I did something like that I would for sure be single again since this is in my bedroom.

[Simple Jaded]

Cute cat Frey.

Btw, who still has a corded drill? Smmfh.

[Simple Jaded]

Frey it feels like you could shave some $$ by going w/ a 1600 and a different mobo. Microcenter.com is worth a look. Maybe there's a hidden gem in 'hoofster's link but nothing jumped out at me.

We have a Microcenter in Larimer Square, legit.