Another newbie coming to see what wisdom may be passed on to me in my consideration to undertake building my own PC.
Some background of what I am looking for in my rig:
So I started with the CPU as that is pretty widely acknowledged to be the biggest bottle neck with WoW. Prioritized high single clock speed and price and found a great deal on an i3-8350k for $65. Rest of my part selection grew off of that.
Here's the parts list I've come up with:
$65 CPU: i3-8350k
$85 MB: ASRock B365M Phantom Gaming 4 LGA 1151
$55 RAM: 16gb G.Skill Aegis, single stick, DDR 4 2666
$67 SSD: Crucial P1 PCIe M.2, 500gb
$65 PSU: Corsair CX550 80+ Bronze
$40 CPU Fan: Reeven Steropes 120mm
$56 Case: Fractal Design Focus G ATX mid tower (2 fans included)
$11 Case Fan: Be Quiet Pure Wings 2 120mm PWM
$8 Thermal Compound: Noctua NT-H1
$ 510 Grand Total, including tax and shipping
How's it look? Anything missing?
Open to suggestions/recommendations. My budget was $500 so I don't have very much wiggle room to up the cost, though if it really makes sense I'll have to consider it.
Thanks!
Some background of what I am looking for in my rig:
- Mostly used for gaming, and mostly for a single game that isn't super graphics-intensive but stresses individual CPU cores (from everything I have read, does not utilize multiple cores simultaneously)(Yep, World of Warcraft).
- Trying to do this for as little $$ as possible while still providing a quality machine that will last me for a while.
- Figure I can get by on my current NVidia GTX670 GPU for a while yet to save some money
So I started with the CPU as that is pretty widely acknowledged to be the biggest bottle neck with WoW. Prioritized high single clock speed and price and found a great deal on an i3-8350k for $65. Rest of my part selection grew off of that.
Here's the parts list I've come up with:
$65 CPU: i3-8350k
$85 MB: ASRock B365M Phantom Gaming 4 LGA 1151
$55 RAM: 16gb G.Skill Aegis, single stick, DDR 4 2666
$67 SSD: Crucial P1 PCIe M.2, 500gb
$65 PSU: Corsair CX550 80+ Bronze
$40 CPU Fan: Reeven Steropes 120mm
$56 Case: Fractal Design Focus G ATX mid tower (2 fans included)
$11 Case Fan: Be Quiet Pure Wings 2 120mm PWM
$8 Thermal Compound: Noctua NT-H1
$ 510 Grand Total, including tax and shipping
How's it look? Anything missing?
Open to suggestions/recommendations. My budget was $500 so I don't have very much wiggle room to up the cost, though if it really makes sense I'll have to consider it.
Thanks!