Building a new PC

Agent Orange

Agent Orange

The b0y ninja
Its time for me to upgrade. The new WoW expansion renders my CPU and video card obsolete. These are their recommendations:

Windows® 10 64-bit with latest service pack
Intel® Core™ i5-3330, AMD™ FX-6300, or better
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 750 Ti or
AMD™ Radeon™ R7 260X or better
RAM 4 GB RAM
45 GB available hard drive space

Thing is, I've never built my own PC before. I want to keep it a G or under. Since this is my first PC, I don't want to spend alot on expensive parts. Enough to get the job done. Any tips, recommendations?
 
FXCLM5

FXCLM5

bombaclaud
thats less then a $500 setup

imo very budget but will get the job done for the next year or 2 on low 1080p settings
 
FXCLM5

FXCLM5

bombaclaud
i used a 750ti then upgraded to a 970 and am building the 750ti into a downstairs media pc, get alot more ram and a ssd
 
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JesasaurusRex

JesasaurusRex

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it's not that hard to build something under 1k if you're just looking at internals and reusing everything else

can put together a damn fast rig actually. if you're worried about gaming spend the money on the video card

get the fastest i5 avaiable and pretty much whatever motherboard ram you want. i'd also get a big ssd

should put you pretty close to 1g, most of that being the vid card
 
amazighlol

amazighlol

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2 years ago I build my own, from scratch for 1100 (i7 4770, 16gb, gt970, 2 ssd and one tb hardrive ....). Everything on amazon.

And it still runs any recent game in ultra settings.

Today it would probably cost around 900, and I would do it again.
 
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#1Freak

Well-known member
i5 6600K
gtx 1070
random 1151 motherboard
randon ddr4 memory
random ssd - samsung 850 are nice
if you want to splurge a bit get a m2 nvme ssd boot drive

this setup will last a good 2 years i think
 
Lorry

Lorry

Well-known member
2nd vote for more RAM. 4GB is really minimal with a modern OS, and it probably won't bump the cost significantly to go with 8GB or more.
 
SixShock

SixShock

The Lord of Mischief
Don't do it, WoW's a trap!

You'll level up and it'll be an amazing experience, then you'll hit max level and run all the dungeons quickly and get bored and quit soon after because blizz can't keep up with how fast people clear content.
 
Agent Orange

Agent Orange

The b0y ninja
SixShock said:
Don't do it, WoW's a trap!

You'll level up and it'll be an amazing experience, then you'll hit max level and run all the dungeons quickly and get bored and quit soon after because blizz can't keep up with how fast people clear content.
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lmao. I quit right after BC. its more to do with boredom than anything. PS4 games suck right now.

it was time I upgraded this PC anyhow.
 
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asdfghwy

Well-known member
So do you have a case and all the extras? Storage? Or really from scratch. If you have a G to spend you can upgrade the essentials and be more than capable for WoW and other games
 
mikev

mikev

»»───knee───►
that's massive overkill for a WOW machine, but it'll last you quite awhile.
 
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dagle

Well-known member
PM'd if you in case you're interested in my older rig. By older, I mean Haswell i7 with a gtx980... lol :p
 
DigDoug

DigDoug

Well-known member
I just had a couple of co-workers help me get started on building a PC for myself with an identical budget. I would be happy to send you an email with the parts list they came up with if you would like. The only thing extra you probably wouldn't need is dvd blu-ray player which will shave off $50. This would bring everything to around $850 for the package. The purpose of the machine I intend to use it for isn't going to be for gaming purposes so you might want to boost the video card up from the one on my list.
 
JesasaurusRex

JesasaurusRex

Deleted User
Since you need everything new, a nice monitor makes all the difference. Have a 34" Samsung ultrawide and regret not having bought it sooner. I highly recommend the ultrawide resolution ratio even if you wind up getting a smaller screen to save a few bucks.
 
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