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Hey guys first time building a PC I've only ever had laptops and have struggled with gaming on them. I'm trying to make the jump to PC for gaming/streaming/editing videos (both gaming and irl) now and with the research that I have done it would seem building is the way to go rather than buying a pre-built rig. For my budget I am looking for a "futurish proof" (will upgrade in the future) setup that will let me stream and record any PC game at a high level as well as PS4 games for $1,000 US (I am willing to go to $1,500 if it gives a serious boost). I can wait on having the best monitors that there are as i have two generic brand ones that are 1080p 60hz that I use for work and will work for the time being but i would love to upgrade to two (maybe three in the future) with faster refresh rates. I have a steel series APEX[RAWR] from when I previously tried to play games via laptop and my mouse is a Logitech M310 I will also need to be able to connect to WiFi for the time being I have no practical way to get a wired connection to my computer. Below are links to an AMD and Intel build please let take a look and let me know if I'm missing something in them or anything. Also on looks vs performance I could really care less about the look if the money for RGB or colored parts can help up the performance. Thank you in advance for helping out a rookie. 

 

 

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15 hours ago, Mattict said:

Hey guys first time building a PC I've only ever had laptops and have struggled with gaming on them. I'm trying to make the jump to PC for gaming/streaming/editing videos (both gaming and irl) now and with the research that I have done it would seem building is the way to go rather than buying a pre-built rig. For my budget I am looking for a "futurish proof" (will upgrade in the future) setup that will let me stream and record any PC game at a high level as well as PS4 games for $1,000 US (I am willing to go to $1,500 if it gives a serious boost). I can wait on having the best monitors that there are as i have two generic brand ones that are 1080p 60hz that I use for work and will work for the time being but i would love to upgrade to two (maybe three in the future) with faster refresh rates. I have a steel series APEX[RAWR] from when I previously tried to play games via laptop and my mouse is a Logitech M310. Below are links to an AMD and Intel build please let take a look and let me know if I'm missing something in them or anything. Also on looks vs performance I could really care less about the look if the money for RGB or colored parts can help up the performance. Thank you in advance for helping out a rookie. 

 

 

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AMD

 

Go for the AMD.  also, you said that you are okay going as high as $1500, so why not just go straight to 2080 super for about $200 more.

Im with the mentaility of "IF IM NOT SURE IF ITS ENOUGH COOLING, GO OVERKILL"

 

CURRENT PC SPECS    

CPU             Ryzen 5 3600 (Formerly Ryzen 3 1200)

GPU             : ASUS RX 580 Dual OC (Formerly ASUS GTX 1060 but it got corroded for some odd reasons)

GPU COOOER      : ID Cooling Frostflow 120 VGA (Stock cooler overheats even when undervolted :()

MOBO            : MSI B350m Bazooka

MEMORY          Team Group Elite TUF DDR4 3600 Mhz CL 16
STORAGE         : Seagate Baracudda 1TB and Kingston SSD
PSU             : Thermaltake Lite power 550W (Gonna change soon as i dont trust this)
CASE            : Rakk Anyag Frost
CPU COOLER      : ID-Cooling SE 207
CASE FANS       : Mix of ID cooling fans, Corsair fans and Rakk Ounos (planned change to ID Cooling)
DISPLAY         : SpectrePro XTNS24 144hz Curved VA panel
MOUSE           : Logitech G603 Lightspeed
KEYBOARD        : Rakk Lam Ang

HEADSET         : Plantronics RIG 500HD

Kingston Hyper X Stinger

 

and a whole lot of LED everywhere(behind the monitor, behind the desk, behind the shelf of the PC mount and inside the case)

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AMD.

 

CPU: Ryzen 9 5900 Cooler: EVGA CLC280 Motherboard: Gigabyte B550i Pro AX RAM: Kingston Hyper X 32GB 3200mhz

Storage: WD 750 SE 500GB, WD 730 SE 1TB GPU: EVGA RTX 3070 Ti PSU: Corsair SF750 Case: Streacom DA2

Monitor: LG 27GL83B Mouse: Razer Basilisk V2 Keyboard: G.Skill KM780 Cherry MX Red Speakers: Mackie CR5BT

 

MiniPC - Sold for $100 Profit

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CPU: Intel i3 4160 Cooler: Integrated Motherboard: Integrated

RAM: G.Skill RipJaws 16GB DDR3 Storage: Transcend MSA370 128GB GPU: Intel 4400 Graphics

PSU: Integrated Case: Shuttle XPC Slim

Monitor: LG 29WK500 Mouse: G.Skill MX780 Keyboard: G.Skill KM780 Cherry MX Red

 

Budget Rig 1 - Sold For $750 Profit

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CPU: Intel i5 7600k Cooler: CryOrig H7 Motherboard: MSI Z270 M5

RAM: Crucial LPX 16GB DDR4 Storage: Intel S3510 800GB GPU: Nvidia GTX 980

PSU: Corsair CX650M Case: EVGA DG73

Monitor: LG 29WK500 Mouse: G.Skill MX780 Keyboard: G.Skill KM780 Cherry MX Red

 

OG Gaming Rig - Gone

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CPU: Intel i5 4690k Cooler: Corsair H100i V2 Motherboard: MSI Z97i AC ITX

RAM: Crucial Ballistix 16GB DDR3 Storage: Kingston Fury 240GB GPU: Asus Strix GTX 970

PSU: Thermaltake TR2 Case: Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ITX

Monitor: Dell P2214H x2 Mouse: Logitech MX Master Keyboard: G.Skill KM780 Cherry MX Red

 

 

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