- Feb 25, 2014
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Hello!
About 5 years ago, give or take, I built a PC for myself and my brother. While mine is still mostly good condition, he's managed to somehow break the tongs that hold the cpu fan in place and when he tries to turn it on, the display just remains black (tried with multiple displays and multiple cords) so we're thinking the GPU has probably gone bad too.
Anyway, we've been considering me building 2 more instead of repairing his since the new games coming out are starting to have higher requirements than we can play. I've not kept up with newer technology and have no idea what's good or bad on the market right now, I've done a small amount of research, but there's just so much to look into... So I thought I'd ask the experts!
I'm looking for a budget build, money's a little tight. We spent around $650 per PC on the last builds, for something better, I'd like to not go over 800 each.
I was originally hoping to keep my Asrock Killer FX9900 motherboard and my 16gb of memory, but using PC part picker, it seems almost nothing newer is compatible with the killer, and when I take the killer off and go for a newer CPU, no motherboards are compatible with both newer cpu AND DDR3 memory, so sadly I think I'm going to have to start from scratch and go for ddr4, even though I just bought 8gb of ram less than 2 years ago
I'm looking for something that won't go out of date in the next few years. I wanna play Red Dead 2 and Cyberpunk on it without issues, and future games as well.
I'm mostly looking for suggestions on a cpu and gpu, but mother board suggestions are very welcome as well, since it looks like I won't be able to keep the one I've got. Or suggestions on a good CPU for newer games that's compatible with my mobo/memory would be appreciated, but at this point I don't have much hope on reusing the stuff I've got.
About 5 years ago, give or take, I built a PC for myself and my brother. While mine is still mostly good condition, he's managed to somehow break the tongs that hold the cpu fan in place and when he tries to turn it on, the display just remains black (tried with multiple displays and multiple cords) so we're thinking the GPU has probably gone bad too.
Anyway, we've been considering me building 2 more instead of repairing his since the new games coming out are starting to have higher requirements than we can play. I've not kept up with newer technology and have no idea what's good or bad on the market right now, I've done a small amount of research, but there's just so much to look into... So I thought I'd ask the experts!
I'm looking for a budget build, money's a little tight. We spent around $650 per PC on the last builds, for something better, I'd like to not go over 800 each.
I was originally hoping to keep my Asrock Killer FX9900 motherboard and my 16gb of memory, but using PC part picker, it seems almost nothing newer is compatible with the killer, and when I take the killer off and go for a newer CPU, no motherboards are compatible with both newer cpu AND DDR3 memory, so sadly I think I'm going to have to start from scratch and go for ddr4, even though I just bought 8gb of ram less than 2 years ago
I'm looking for something that won't go out of date in the next few years. I wanna play Red Dead 2 and Cyberpunk on it without issues, and future games as well.
I'm mostly looking for suggestions on a cpu and gpu, but mother board suggestions are very welcome as well, since it looks like I won't be able to keep the one I've got. Or suggestions on a good CPU for newer games that's compatible with my mobo/memory would be appreciated, but at this point I don't have much hope on reusing the stuff I've got.
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