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Need Help Building a Gaming Computer?
Hello, my co-worker is trying to build a gaming computer for his son. We're figuring in the $1000 to $1500 range. He'll be buying it piece by piece, but we are looking for recommendations on hardware.
He's looking for an i5 processor or i7. I haven't bought a computer in the last couple years, so I'm not too sure on what's considered top of the line for a gaming computer, or what he should spend more on, like should he go all out and get a really good video card?
The one thing I recommended was getting a 128 GB SSD as his main hard drive, then have a secondary hard drive to put his music and pics on?
Anyway, can you guys help me out on what he will need, maybe give a link to it on the net. I don't want to recommend him some super expensive stuff, if it's not going to be necessary.
Motherboard -
Processor -
Ram -
Graphics Card -
Hard Drive
Case
Power Supply
Anything else he will need?
Cool thanks, I'll give him that list and he can go from there. I'll also have him contact the IT guy for our work and ask him if what he thinks about this stuff.
3 Answers
- 9 years agoFavorite Answer
Motherboard: Gigabyte 78LMT-S2P
Processor: FX 4100 Black Edition 3.6GHz Quad-Core Socket AM3+ Boxed Processor
Ram: Corsair Vengeance Blue 16 GB DDR3 SDRAM Dual Channel Memory Kit CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9B
Graphics Card: EVGA SuperClocked 01G-P3-1463-KR GeForce GTX 560 (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
Hard Drive: Don't know 1 TB at least
Case: Thermal Master Mid-Tower TC102 Case With 500W Power
Power Supply: At least 500w
- 9 years ago
MoBo - Asus Maximus V Gene
Processor - Intel Core i5 3570K
Ram - G.Skill Ripjaws 1600 MHz 8GB
Graphics Card - GeForce GTX 680
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Case - Cooler Master HAF X
Power Supply - Corsair G800
On Board Sound Card is OK For Gaming
Any Optical Drive
a Good SSD is the Crucial m4 128 GB
This build will max out any game!
