Approximate Purchase Date: As soon as I have enough saved.
Budget Range: Saving until I can buy a machine I’ll be happy with. I was originally aiming at around $1,500, but GPU prices are disgusting. Ideally, I would stay below $2,000, but this is going to be my primary school/work/gaming pc for the next while, so I’m willing to splurge a little if I end up having to.
System Usage from Most to Least Important:
Parts to upgrade: Full build potentially, possibly re-using GPU. This is what I’m here for.
Do you need to buy OS: Yes
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Newegg, Amazon, doesn’t really matter as long as it’s reputable. Looking for quality components at decent prices.
Location: Nebraska, USA
Parts Preferences: No preference
Overclocking: Probably not, but I don’t see a reason to limit myself unless the price difference is prohibitive
SLI or Crossfire: Maybe later
Monitor Resolution: 1080p, will be upgrading to 1440p 240hz main later and running a dual setup
Additional Comments: A quiet rig would be nice.
The most resource-intensive games I will be playing in the near future:
My rig is 7 years old and I can’t play/record/stream the games I want to. Also, video editing is limited and takes ages to process.
Current specs:
Current Earmarked Shopping list:
My plan is to hand my current PC down to my kids, so if I do a fresh build right now, without buying a GPU, I’ll be rocking a blisteringly fast snail's pace with one GTX 970 for a time. I’ll leave one in this build for them to use.
So, here’s my question. Do you folks think it’s worth it to build a new rig without buying a GPU, or should I wait until I have enough saved or GPU prices come back down and build the entire system then?
Thanks for any assistance.
Budget Range: Saving until I can buy a machine I’ll be happy with. I was originally aiming at around $1,500, but GPU prices are disgusting. Ideally, I would stay below $2,000, but this is going to be my primary school/work/gaming pc for the next while, so I’m willing to splurge a little if I end up having to.
System Usage from Most to Least Important:
- College now, software development sometime in the future
- Gaming, streaming, recording, editing
Parts to upgrade: Full build potentially, possibly re-using GPU. This is what I’m here for.
Do you need to buy OS: Yes
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Newegg, Amazon, doesn’t really matter as long as it’s reputable. Looking for quality components at decent prices.
Location: Nebraska, USA
Parts Preferences: No preference
Overclocking: Probably not, but I don’t see a reason to limit myself unless the price difference is prohibitive
SLI or Crossfire: Maybe later
Monitor Resolution: 1080p, will be upgrading to 1440p 240hz main later and running a dual setup
Additional Comments: A quiet rig would be nice.
The most resource-intensive games I will be playing in the near future:
- Hunt Showdown
- Escape from Tarkov
- New World
- Any new releases I find interesting
My rig is 7 years old and I can’t play/record/stream the games I want to. Also, video editing is limited and takes ages to process.
Current specs:
- i5 4460
- GTX 970 SLI
- 1000W 80+
- 8GB DDR3 1600 RAM
- MSI Gaming Z97-G45 LGA 1150
- 1TB SATA SSD
- 2x 1TB HDD
Current Earmarked Shopping list:
- Phanteks Eclipse P360A Case
- G.Skill Ripjaws V 64GB DDR4 3600 Could drop to 32GB if 64 isn’t really needed
- i5-11600k
- ASUS Prime Z590 LGA 1200
- 2x SK Hynix Gold 1tb m.2 ssd I could sub a bigger hdd for one sdd
- Cooler Master Gold 750
- Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML240L
- GPU: Hopefully at least a 3070 or 6800 if the market finds some sanity.
My plan is to hand my current PC down to my kids, so if I do a fresh build right now, without buying a GPU, I’ll be rocking a blisteringly fast snail's pace with one GTX 970 for a time. I’ll leave one in this build for them to use.
So, here’s my question. Do you folks think it’s worth it to build a new rig without buying a GPU, or should I wait until I have enough saved or GPU prices come back down and build the entire system then?
Thanks for any assistance.