The Cohhilition

Hey guys,

I don't think i would be able to build a new PC from scratch buy fortunately i have come into some money from grants. So my price range goes to about £1000 to buy a pc and maybe a monitor. Im looking to buy a PC to play MMORPG's on as well as other steam games, ranging from Wild start to AA to LOL to dawn of war also witcher 3 i want a pc that would be able to cope with them games and future games that may come out over the coming years. Also one day i hope to stream in my spare time just a few hours a day so a PC that could handle me streaming and playing with out affecting the quality would be amazing. Here are two PCs i am currently looking at ;

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/desktop-p ... 4-pdt.html

and

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/desktop-p ... 3-pdt.html

Thank you for your help guys and taking the time to read this.

Hi, might i ask why you dont belive you can build one, its much easier than anyone depicts, all you need is a common sense and proper guidance(thats where i come in).
Lets start with the advantages of building yourself, first of all there is the completion,once you get the build together and all working you will feel happy and super excited, almost like a kid who just completed an awesome lego building. Second there is the computer itself, the prebuilt systems are always so unballanced, if you look at the hp for instance, it has a 4790 as processor but 270 as gpu, 4790 is the of the line while the 270 is only a low-midrange enthusiast card. the motherboard is probably some nobrand, same goes for the powersupply,then you have three tb of harddrive but no ssd, in 2014 every computer above 600£ should have a ssd.
Well, what are the fears, often its breaking stuff, but i tell unless you are really.really careless its hard to damage the components. SO recommend you this, buy components and build yourself, its a great experience.

ok here we go:
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/kWGwD3

with this you get a 240 gig sdd(super fast harddrive), a nice motherboard,a cpu cooler(which means lower noice and longer lifespan),and a beastly gpu. its 30 fps faster than the 270x and the hp was had a 270 which is slightly weaker than the 270x.

then you get a psu which almost got perfect score everywhere and has a ten year warrenty and lastly but not least you get a beatiful red case with a window to show of your pride. Alos thnx to the motherboard and psu its is prepared for a second gpu. you also get a 27 inch monitor with 5ms input instead of 7,
What do you lose then, well you dont get a i7 anymore but since almost no game utilizes more than 4 cores an i5 is plenty enough, you get 8gb of ram since you dont need more for gaming, you also downgrade from a 3tb to 2tb drive but i mean which gamer uses that much storagre
well thats it, tell me what you decide to do

Wow thank you for the help ill have a good look into it now and tomorrow morning

Do you know of any guides or videos to help build it please and as you can guess i have no idea about PC's just the games i like to play on them lol

There are lots of guides on youtube for building a P.C, and it is rather straight foward to do. Most components in a P.C can only go in one place or in a certain orientaion, the hardest part is picking the right CPU socket and mobo combo.

Here is a little guide on P.c forum i look at a bit and has a good little guide http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showth ... t=18046396 the guide is for building an intel based system but pretty much the same thing for AMD , just different sockets.

The guys here will be happy to assist and help where needed and with guidence on the PC part picking.

hope this helps a little.

smuttbudgie wrote:There are lots of guides on youtube for building a P.C, and it is rather straight foward to do. Most components in a P.C can only go in one place or in a certain orientaion, the hardest part is picking the right CPU socket and mobo combo.

Here is a little guide on P.c forum i look at a bit and has a good little guide http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showth ... t=18046396 the guide is for building an intel based system but pretty much the same thing for AMD , just different sockets.

The guys here will be happy to assist and help where needed and with guidence on the PC part picking.

hope this helps a little.

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here you go, this was the guide i followed when i built my first pc, the hardware in it is a bit outdated but the principles are the same.
if you want you can add me on skype and i can guide you through it.
username: da.cool.me(dont judge,got this when i was a fourthgrader)

OK im going to try build the PC with the parts from the first link wish me luck guys thanks a lot for the links and help its been very helpful still kind of nervous but hey new experience and a new skill

good luck, and as i said dont hesitate to send me a message if you wonder anything or have any problems
oh right one more thing.
i didnt include a cd-bay so here is a guide on how to install windows on your brand new ssd. so make sure you have a 4+gb usbstick
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link to micrsofts guide
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/wind ... resh-media

haha yes a CD bay would be needed haha any one will do though right? and sweet my dad will be able to figure out how to install programes onto it i think its his job at work to deal with PC and laptops that are broken and things lol

you dont need a cdbay, just another computer and a usb stick, dont buy a cd bay, you'll never use it(unless you are a oldfashioned gamer) plus that case doesnt have any bays,