- Apr 2, 2013
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I'm helping a friend of mine put together a new gaming PC sometime within the next couple of weeks. I've already picked out some parts that I believe would be good but before we buy anything I wanted to get some more feedback.
First, here are the parts we've chosen so far: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/kYp83b (I used another build I found online as a starting point but have been making adjustments)
Ignore the SSD and unlisted parts. Most of that we can decide on easily or already have. I'm mostly concerned we get the best motherboard/cpu/gpu/ram combination.
So basically what I'm wanting to do is make sure I can "future-proof" this thing as much as possible while staying somewhere in the ballpark of a $700 or so budget. If possible, I'd like to make sure that whatever we decide on will be able to hold up for at least a few years.
This PC will mostly be used for 1080p gaming. My friend would like 4k but I don't see that happening with our budget. Still, if someone can think of a way, I'm sure he'd love that.
The game we've been trying to play recently is ARK: Survival Evolved. It barely runs on his laptop and sometimes not at all. Would be great to run it flawlessly. The Witcher 3 is another.
Oh, he also mentioned that he might be doing some video editing so we want to make sure we have enough RAM for that. I know I've currently only added 8gb to the parts list, and we'll probably want more.
Any and all suggestions are welcome and I am grateful for the feedback!
NOTE: I may update the parts list as suggestions are made
First, here are the parts we've chosen so far: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/kYp83b (I used another build I found online as a starting point but have been making adjustments)
Ignore the SSD and unlisted parts. Most of that we can decide on easily or already have. I'm mostly concerned we get the best motherboard/cpu/gpu/ram combination.
So basically what I'm wanting to do is make sure I can "future-proof" this thing as much as possible while staying somewhere in the ballpark of a $700 or so budget. If possible, I'd like to make sure that whatever we decide on will be able to hold up for at least a few years.
This PC will mostly be used for 1080p gaming. My friend would like 4k but I don't see that happening with our budget. Still, if someone can think of a way, I'm sure he'd love that.
The game we've been trying to play recently is ARK: Survival Evolved. It barely runs on his laptop and sometimes not at all. Would be great to run it flawlessly. The Witcher 3 is another.
Oh, he also mentioned that he might be doing some video editing so we want to make sure we have enough RAM for that. I know I've currently only added 8gb to the parts list, and we'll probably want more.
Any and all suggestions are welcome and I am grateful for the feedback!
NOTE: I may update the parts list as suggestions are made
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