So I have never built a full computer from scratch before, but I'm around this stuff all day and understand in general how it all goes together (I'm a test eng at EMC and do component lvl debug pretty much everyday), and I have built some stuff at work from pieces we have lying around.
I recently found a game I would like to get into: Elite Dangerous, but my MBP does not have a graphics card that will work for it. So I want to see if I can put something together for ~$250. I found towers on ebay that I imagine would run this for around that price: (Gigabyte MB with 8.1 sound, HDMI, 4 RAM slots, ect. an AMD Phenom X4 9600 2.3ghz quad core CPU, DVD+/-RW drive, a 1gb GDDR5 MSI Twin Frozr video card, 4gb of Corsair gaming RAM, a 500gb hard drive, and 600 watt PS). Maybe I should just go with that?
I could just grab one of those but, I feel like it might be cheaper to put together my own with parts.
I have a few drives, win7, I'd be looking for a ps around 5-700 watts, ram is simple enough, but from a gaming prospective I don't really know what I should be looking for in a MB and chip. Obviously the biggest concern will be the graphics card which I also admittedly don't know a lot about. So I would love suggestions.
MINIMUM RECOMMENDED HARDWARE SPECIFICATION:
Direct X 11
Quad Core CPU ( 4 x 2Ghz is a reasonable minimum)
4 GB System RAM (more is always better)
DX 10 hardware GPU with 1GB video ram
Nvidia GTX 260
ATI 4870HD
Other applications are Photoshop for pretty heavy graphic design maybe (right now I use my Mac)
and I'll want to put wither OSX or Linux on one of the drives I have. Something that could support 16gb or ram might be nice if it's possible for PS.
Feel free to criticize anything in here, I'm very new to the gaming world. Its different then data storage.
I recently found a game I would like to get into: Elite Dangerous, but my MBP does not have a graphics card that will work for it. So I want to see if I can put something together for ~$250. I found towers on ebay that I imagine would run this for around that price: (Gigabyte MB with 8.1 sound, HDMI, 4 RAM slots, ect. an AMD Phenom X4 9600 2.3ghz quad core CPU, DVD+/-RW drive, a 1gb GDDR5 MSI Twin Frozr video card, 4gb of Corsair gaming RAM, a 500gb hard drive, and 600 watt PS). Maybe I should just go with that?
I could just grab one of those but, I feel like it might be cheaper to put together my own with parts.
I have a few drives, win7, I'd be looking for a ps around 5-700 watts, ram is simple enough, but from a gaming prospective I don't really know what I should be looking for in a MB and chip. Obviously the biggest concern will be the graphics card which I also admittedly don't know a lot about. So I would love suggestions.
MINIMUM RECOMMENDED HARDWARE SPECIFICATION:
Direct X 11
Quad Core CPU ( 4 x 2Ghz is a reasonable minimum)
4 GB System RAM (more is always better)
DX 10 hardware GPU with 1GB video ram
Nvidia GTX 260
ATI 4870HD
Other applications are Photoshop for pretty heavy graphic design maybe (right now I use my Mac)
and I'll want to put wither OSX or Linux on one of the drives I have. Something that could support 16gb or ram might be nice if it's possible for PS.
Feel free to criticize anything in here, I'm very new to the gaming world. Its different then data storage.
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