So I've been squirreling away money for a new gaming PC for quite a while. Let's go with a budget of $3k USD. I can either build it myself, or buy it already built. Keyboard and speakers are not going to change. Open to suggestions. ;-)
New Gaming PC build advice asked
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And of course my nephew laughs at me and tells me that $1500 is all I need to spend for an "awesome gaming PC".
The new AMD chips that just came out are beasts for gaming, when married to the correct motherboards...plus cheaper than intels.
Hey man, yeah 3k is a bit overkill in all honesty. Im still jamming the latest games at full settings with my 1.5k gaming rig from 2014. Although I upgraded to SLI with twin GTX 770s.
Reminds me of like 2003 when I went all out and bought a 2.5k Alienware gaming PC. Still regret it to this day! But I was much more PC illiterate back then!
Reminds me of like 2003 when I went all out and bought a 2.5k Alienware gaming PC. Still regret it to this day! But I was much more PC illiterate back then!
Build your own.....I was able to build a great one last year for 1200, with the best Pentium and a 1060 Geforce. Runs great!
For me it depends on your interest to build and the Knowledge, that's where I fall short if it were me I would buy, like you I am on the point of change my coal fire driven machine, yes the old girl still goes that's what puts me of the change, I won't say how long I have it but I do need the change 
I'm not spending any more than $600, But then all I play is CM and some other older turn based games.
Yea, I've been building my own since the 386 was the latest CPU, lol. I think the last pre-built computer I bought was my Amiga 500.
Never tried water cooling. May give that a shot. Need to research the latest cases, CPUs, GPUs, and motherboards. Dunno if I want to keep my 1080p monitor or try a 4k. The hard drive will be an SSD, of course. I may not even put an optical drive in it.
Never tried water cooling. May give that a shot. Need to research the latest cases, CPUs, GPUs, and motherboards. Dunno if I want to keep my 1080p monitor or try a 4k. The hard drive will be an SSD, of course. I may not even put an optical drive in it.
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Be sure to laugh at him when you have a kick ass machine and he is jealous
3K USD oh that would be so nice. Check this out: https://www.newegg.com/abs-computer-technologies-icue-spec-omega-ali300/p/N82E16883102735
What more would you actually need?
Damn, that's nice.
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Interesting topic. Let us know what you eventually decide on. I will probably be in the market for a new rig in a year or two. My current rig I bought to primarily run CM2 games. My concern is that there has been some talk on the forums about going to CM3. I don't know when that might happen or what the specs to run a CM3 game will be. From reading the BFC forums I know what I would buy for CM2. Not sure what to buy for CM3. So, I may be stuck waiting anyways.....
Be sure to laugh at him when you have a kick ass machine and he is jealous
3K USD oh that would be so nice. Check this out: https://www.newegg.com/abs-computer-technologies-icue-spec-omega-ali300/p/N82E16883102735
What more would you actually need?
Damn, with that rig you would absolutely rock Solitaire and Minesweeper...
I would be the envy of Nerdville. Men would call me "Sir". Women would swoon.
What kind of monitor are you hooking it up to? I am myself long-term thinking of both new computer and monitor and want to know what kind of kit CM would kick-ass on.
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What let me puzzled is the Win10 Home edition, I'm giving you lot of money and you cannot upgrade it to Pro?
Anyhow with this build you will be fine for years!
A 4K monitor is not really needed for average purpose though.
Anyhow with this build you will be fine for years!
A 4K monitor is not really needed for average purpose though.
Are you saying that most games would not take advantage of a 4k monitor?
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I'm not an expert by any means, but given that I'm looking for a new laptop for myself, I read several times that a 4K for gamimg purpose is an overkill:
- if you are too close to the monitor for the human eye there is not a real difference
- I'm not sure how many 4K games are out there
- it is more resource consuming
Edit: and expensive!
- if you are too close to the monitor for the human eye there is not a real difference
- I'm not sure how many 4K games are out there
- it is more resource consuming
Edit: and expensive!
Advantage with high-resoultion on for example a 27 inch monitor, for wargaming purposes, is that you get to see more of a map, battlefield etc at any time which to me is a benefit when making decisions as it gives you a larger view on things. I just wish there were more high res monitors with 16:10 aspect ratio which I prefer.
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This is something I will be shopping for come the end of the summer. Will be keeping an eye on this thread.
Maybe we could have a section of FGM like the game library, but for hardware and how well CM plays with a benchmark set of scenarios?