- Aug 31, 2017
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Hello,
I'm looking into building a gaming PC for use in my living room as part of my home theater setup. I've been out of PC gaming for 10 years, gaming primarily on console and occasionally on my Mac desktop, so I'm not familiar at all with current components/GPUs/processors. I'm interested in getting back into PC gaming to up the variety of games I have access to (Steam Early Access in particular). I looked at Steam Machines but I'm not interested in tying myself that strongly to the Steam ecosystem.
I could use some pointers on a reasonable setup to make this work.
Following the guidelines in the new build/upgrade sticky, here's what I'm looking for.
Approximate purchase date: September, 2017
Budget range (pre-tax/pre-rebate): $1200-1500 (for the system only, I'll worry about mouse/keyboard/OS/etc separately)
System usage: Gaming (RPG/Building/MMO). I have other home theater devices for movies, TV, YouTube, etc, so gaming is really about it.
Monitor: 1080p HDMI output to TV
Audio: Optical or HDMI to home theater.
OS: Buying Windows 10 (I'm guessing I can get by with Windows Home, for gaming purposes?)
Preferred Website/Store: NewEgg.com, or locally at Micro Center
Location: Columbus, OH
Parts/preferences: Agnostic, I've had good experiences with both AMD and Intel in the past, and with eVGA graphics cards, but I'm not married to eVGA.
Overclocking: No
SLI/Crossfire: No
Gaming peripherals: Any ideas from folks who've done this? Maybe a USB hub next to the chair with a long cord to the computer next to the home theater? Alternatively, put the computer next to the chair with a long HDMI output to the Receiver/TV? Bluetooth/Wireless is an option, but I really like gaming keypads (like the Razer Tartarus) for MMOs or other games with lots of shortcut keys, and as far as I know those are USB-only.
Existing parts: Antec A900 case (I'm scrapping the old power supply and other parts, this computer has been in a storage unit for a while and I don't trust them). If you have a suggestion for a smaller, reasonably priced case I'm open to it, the A900 is probably overkill for this build and tends to be a bit noisy.
Additional comments
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I'm looking into building a gaming PC for use in my living room as part of my home theater setup. I've been out of PC gaming for 10 years, gaming primarily on console and occasionally on my Mac desktop, so I'm not familiar at all with current components/GPUs/processors. I'm interested in getting back into PC gaming to up the variety of games I have access to (Steam Early Access in particular). I looked at Steam Machines but I'm not interested in tying myself that strongly to the Steam ecosystem.
I could use some pointers on a reasonable setup to make this work.
Following the guidelines in the new build/upgrade sticky, here's what I'm looking for.
Approximate purchase date: September, 2017
Budget range (pre-tax/pre-rebate): $1200-1500 (for the system only, I'll worry about mouse/keyboard/OS/etc separately)
System usage: Gaming (RPG/Building/MMO). I have other home theater devices for movies, TV, YouTube, etc, so gaming is really about it.
Monitor: 1080p HDMI output to TV
Audio: Optical or HDMI to home theater.
OS: Buying Windows 10 (I'm guessing I can get by with Windows Home, for gaming purposes?)
Preferred Website/Store: NewEgg.com, or locally at Micro Center
Location: Columbus, OH
Parts/preferences: Agnostic, I've had good experiences with both AMD and Intel in the past, and with eVGA graphics cards, but I'm not married to eVGA.
Overclocking: No
SLI/Crossfire: No
Gaming peripherals: Any ideas from folks who've done this? Maybe a USB hub next to the chair with a long cord to the computer next to the home theater? Alternatively, put the computer next to the chair with a long HDMI output to the Receiver/TV? Bluetooth/Wireless is an option, but I really like gaming keypads (like the Razer Tartarus) for MMOs or other games with lots of shortcut keys, and as far as I know those are USB-only.
Existing parts: Antec A900 case (I'm scrapping the old power supply and other parts, this computer has been in a storage unit for a while and I don't trust them). If you have a suggestion for a smaller, reasonably priced case I'm open to it, the A900 is probably overkill for this build and tends to be a bit noisy.
Additional comments
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■ I usually game with the sound coming through the speakers, so a quiet-ish build would be nice.
■ I'm a casual gamer, I don't need the most extreme graphics or the best performance/ping for multiplayer FPS dominance, just good enough for reasonably smooth 1080p output to my TV. I'll probably mostly play single player building games or MMOs on this machine.
■ Regarding graphics card/processor I mainly want to be reasonably confident I can still play games without an upgrade for 2 or 3 years without resorting to completely ugly graphics settings.
■ The TV is ~10 feet from the chair. To keep cords somewhat out of the way it's probably a 15-20ft run between them for either a USB cable (if the PC is by the TV) or HDMI cable (if the PC is by the chair)
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