What should i focus more on?

[DatTechGuy]

Hey guys so I wanna make a cheap budget gaming build around $1500 or $1600. Right now I'm kinda over the budget and the two things that are really making the price high is the i7 3770K and the 16GB of Corsair Vengeance Memory. I really want to do some gaming recording and editing what should be my main priority? I can upgrade the ram later but for now I want it to be cheap and will help me record games. Thanks

 

[ksham]

List your parts on pcpartpicker.com and then post up the permalink.

 

[manofchalk]

You have that special use case where your computer can become an absolute money sink.

You need gaming performance, just because that's what your doing.
Need editing capabilities because your going to be eventually editing/encoding what your recording and don't want that to take ages.
You also need a beastly storage setup to keep up with how fast data is being recorded, skimp out on this and it will negatively affect your recording quality.
Then there's also things like Capture cards you can put into it to encode video on the fly, which partly reduces the need for the storage. Although, if you get an Nvidia 700 series card, when Shadowplay drops that removes the need for a dedicated capture card.

My suggestion is you focus on the CPU, RAM and storage setup initially. Its easier to give an editing machine gaming capabilities than it is the other way around. So an i7, 16GB of RAM and I would say an SSD and two RAID0 HDD's to record too. Throw on a GTX760 for now, and when you can afford it later on get a 780 so you can really drive up the details. Reason I'm recommending Nvidia 700 series cards is because of the aforementioned Shadowplay.