Howdy all!
So, I'm helping my father build a new gaming computer and was looking for some advice. The budget is $1800 USD. He is mostly playing Racing, Space Sim and turn based games. He and I have talked a bit about it, but I was hoping to get some advice as I'm not up to date with the newest hardware that's out. (I've built my own computers before, so we'll be buying the parts separately and I'll be assembling it).
Specs:
Case: Height should be no more then 20" and width should be no wider then 8".
Motherboard: Needs USBC and bluetooth natively, as well as x2 PCIE slots. If it can also do 7 channel sound, that'd be great, otherwise, a recommendation for a sound card that can do it would be appreciated.
CPU: i7 or i9. He wasn't very picky on this, but no lower then i7
GPU: 4060 or 4060ti or equivalent. He is a fan of NVidia, but he isn't SUPER picky. As long as it's at that general level.
Memory: 32GBs. Again, he's not very particular on this, so whichever you recommend.
Drives: One 1 TB M.2 and One 3TB SSD
Power Supply: He has no preference at all, so whatever you'd recommend
Cooling/Fans: He likes water cooling, but if there's something better that is recommended, it's not required.
Monitor: He'd like a 27-30" monitor. It'll need to have a fairly high refresh rate/response time and preferably 4k.
If it's really impossible to get all that within the budget, he is willing to go up to $2200, but would prefer under $1800 if possible. (Also, if the numbers seems odd, it's because we live in Canada, so it's $2500-$3000 CAD)
He's only planning on buying the parts on July 7th, so there's time to work things out.
If there's any questions you have, please don't hesitate to ask.
Thank you in advance for taking the time to read/help!
Jeff
So, I'm helping my father build a new gaming computer and was looking for some advice. The budget is $1800 USD. He is mostly playing Racing, Space Sim and turn based games. He and I have talked a bit about it, but I was hoping to get some advice as I'm not up to date with the newest hardware that's out. (I've built my own computers before, so we'll be buying the parts separately and I'll be assembling it).
Specs:
Case: Height should be no more then 20" and width should be no wider then 8".
Motherboard: Needs USBC and bluetooth natively, as well as x2 PCIE slots. If it can also do 7 channel sound, that'd be great, otherwise, a recommendation for a sound card that can do it would be appreciated.
CPU: i7 or i9. He wasn't very picky on this, but no lower then i7
GPU: 4060 or 4060ti or equivalent. He is a fan of NVidia, but he isn't SUPER picky. As long as it's at that general level.
Memory: 32GBs. Again, he's not very particular on this, so whichever you recommend.
Drives: One 1 TB M.2 and One 3TB SSD
Power Supply: He has no preference at all, so whatever you'd recommend
Cooling/Fans: He likes water cooling, but if there's something better that is recommended, it's not required.
Monitor: He'd like a 27-30" monitor. It'll need to have a fairly high refresh rate/response time and preferably 4k.
If it's really impossible to get all that within the budget, he is willing to go up to $2200, but would prefer under $1800 if possible. (Also, if the numbers seems odd, it's because we live in Canada, so it's $2500-$3000 CAD)
He's only planning on buying the parts on July 7th, so there's time to work things out.
If there's any questions you have, please don't hesitate to ask.
Thank you in advance for taking the time to read/help!
Jeff