Hi forums, rookie PC builder here.
Long story short I have an alienware PC for past 2 years, it cost me $1500 or so when I bought it, but some of the components are so undervalued that its like a $700 PC. It can barely run games like League of Legends smoothly and running Photoshop just makes it laggy like hell. My roommate got help on Tom’s HW when he built his $2000 gaming PC last year (additional monitors included) but since the new haswell CPUs have been launched he is unable to guide me to build one of my own. So please, take a few mins out of your lives and make something work for me too guys 🙁
Approximate Purchase Date: The coming Tuesday
Budget Range: $2500
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Streaming, Gaming, Graphic Designing, Video Editing.
Are you buying a monitor: Yes
Do you need to buy OS: Yes
Location: San Luis Obispo, California
Parts Preferences: I have been told that the new Haswell CPUs and GTX700 series are decent. And we are asus rog mobo fanboys so if one of those can be thrown in life would be swell.
Overclocking: Maybe, since I’ve never actually done it before and learning how to atm.
SLI or Crossfire: Yes
Additional Comments: I plan to spend this much money also because I’d like it to be easy on the eye. My roomies have red-black and blue-white combos and both look beastly. Anything similar/different but aesthetically pleasing would be really appericiated.
Thanks in advance for putting your time in helping me.
Long story short I have an alienware PC for past 2 years, it cost me $1500 or so when I bought it, but some of the components are so undervalued that its like a $700 PC. It can barely run games like League of Legends smoothly and running Photoshop just makes it laggy like hell. My roommate got help on Tom’s HW when he built his $2000 gaming PC last year (additional monitors included) but since the new haswell CPUs have been launched he is unable to guide me to build one of my own. So please, take a few mins out of your lives and make something work for me too guys 🙁
Approximate Purchase Date: The coming Tuesday
Budget Range: $2500
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Streaming, Gaming, Graphic Designing, Video Editing.
Are you buying a monitor: Yes
Do you need to buy OS: Yes
Location: San Luis Obispo, California
Parts Preferences: I have been told that the new Haswell CPUs and GTX700 series are decent. And we are asus rog mobo fanboys so if one of those can be thrown in life would be swell.
Overclocking: Maybe, since I’ve never actually done it before and learning how to atm.
SLI or Crossfire: Yes
Additional Comments: I plan to spend this much money also because I’d like it to be easy on the eye. My roomies have red-black and blue-white combos and both look beastly. Anything similar/different but aesthetically pleasing would be really appericiated.
Thanks in advance for putting your time in helping me.