Custom PC Build

[J_HooD]

Alright, I am sick of my XPS 410 freezing and then me having to restart it, or restart itself! Now, I think I want to try a custom PC build. Anyone recommend any parts?

 

[Patton2121]

Alright, I am sick of my XPS 410 freezing and then me having to restart it, or restart itself! Now, I think I want to try a custom PC build. Anyone recommend any parts?

You have a budget?

 

[Saestear]

Budget or any special requirements would be nice

 

[J_HooD]

Sorry for not replying, yes I do have a good budget, and I want a pc that won't have too many problems

 

[Saestear]

Sorry for not replying, yes I do have a good budget, and I want a pc that won't have too many problems

Again, a good budget may mean $1000 for some, but $3000 for others

Now, do you want it to be a gaming PC, office PC, multimedia PC, workstation PC? What is your typical use of a PC?

 

[J_HooD]

Well, I would like it to be a gaming pc.

 

[Saestear]

So I took about $1000 and tried to put together something you could use. It's built on an ATX motherboard with enough slots for any expansion you might like. It can just as well be swapped for mATX motherboard, if you don't intend to run multiple GPUs and want to have smaller case. The GPU should be swapped for the soon-coming GTX 1070, which is about the same price, but faster...just wait a couple weeks. The CPU is great for pretty much any modern game, but if you want something even more powerful, you can swap it for some i7 or swap the motherboard for Z170 chipset with overclockable CPU.

I think this is a a great start point to work from. Components can be swapped for other brands with almost no price change.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($194.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock ASRock Fatal1ty H170 Performance ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($99.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($36.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($88.06 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($64.16 @ Amazon)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 4GB Classified ACX 2.0 Video Card ($394.99 @ NCIX US) <- swap for gtx 1070
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($70.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $950.16
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-29 11:56 EDT-0400

Now let us know what you think about the price. This setup (even better with the gtx 1070) will be good enough for ultra details in any game in 1080p and 1440p @ 60+ fps.

EDIT: Note you have to add PC case, case fans, peripherals, display and so on....