I've got a family member who is very knowledgeable about a lot of hardware things and will help me put it together (I'm assuming building my own is the cheapest route?), but he doesn't keep up with hardware developments in relation to gaming at all so I'm on my own there. My budget is up to $1000 but if I can do it for less that would be good. On the other hand, if I can get a pre-built PC that's only slightly more expensive I might do that.
I'm not really sure where to even start because I haven't looked at any hardware in a very long time, I'm upgrading from an ancient Dell XPS410 I bought back in 2006.
The most demanding games (I think) that I'll be playing that are out now/soon are the ARMA series, the DCS flight simulator series, and the Witcher: Wild Hunt. Ideally I'd like to be able to max out all of those (but maybe my budget isn't high enough for that?).
So I guess the main decisions I need to make are what kind of video card and CPU I want and how much RAM correct? Pointers there much appreciated. A big concern is the PC needs to be as quiet as possible I've invested in a pretty expensive high end audio headphone set-up but the headphones are "open" which means sound leaks in/out. Can I get a relatively quiet PC without shelling out a ton?
ATM, I'm also leaning towards an Intel CPU as I play some old games that only use 1 core and I've heard that Intel uses fewer more powerful cores while AMD goes with many weaker cores.
I already have a monitor so no need to include that in the budget.
Thanks for any help.
I'm not really sure where to even start because I haven't looked at any hardware in a very long time, I'm upgrading from an ancient Dell XPS410 I bought back in 2006.
The most demanding games (I think) that I'll be playing that are out now/soon are the ARMA series, the DCS flight simulator series, and the Witcher: Wild Hunt. Ideally I'd like to be able to max out all of those (but maybe my budget isn't high enough for that?).
So I guess the main decisions I need to make are what kind of video card and CPU I want and how much RAM correct? Pointers there much appreciated. A big concern is the PC needs to be as quiet as possible I've invested in a pretty expensive high end audio headphone set-up but the headphones are "open" which means sound leaks in/out. Can I get a relatively quiet PC without shelling out a ton?
ATM, I'm also leaning towards an Intel CPU as I play some old games that only use 1 core and I've heard that Intel uses fewer more powerful cores while AMD goes with many weaker cores.
I already have a monitor so no need to include that in the budget.
Thanks for any help.