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KamikazeKunze
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Hello Everyone,

 

I have a rather unusual question. My household computers are mixed. a few older Macs, a Surface Pro 3, a Kangaroo Mini PC, an Xbox One, an XBox 360 and a slew of iPads.

 

The only gamer in the house is my son who barely gets by with a Lenovo T420 and the dock that houses an external graphics card. It's loud and not very powerful.

 

I was hoping I could build a tower with lots of drives bays open as I also want to reuse a few old HD's that are laying around. (2-250gb,1-500gb and 1-1TB all 3.5" drives along with 2-320gb and 2-640gb 2.5" drives.

 

I looking for suggestions on how to build a gaming PC that would give my son s big boost over what he has now as well as handle any media streaming we need in the house at the same time. The Kangaroo is attached to our TV and whether we use it or an iPad or the Mac's we use VLC exclusively to play content. 

 

 

Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

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5 minutes ago, KamikazeKunze said:

Hello Everyone,

 

I have a rather unusual question. My household computers are mixed. a few older Macs, a Surface Pro 3, a Kangaroo Mini PC, an Xbox One, an XBox 360 and a slew of iPads.

 

The only gamer in the house is my son who barely gets by with a Lenovo T420 and the dock that houses an external graphics card. It's loud and not very powerful.

 

I was hoping I could build a tower with lots of drives bays open as I also want to reuse a few old HD's that are laying around. (2-250gb,1-500gb and 1-1TB all 3.5" drives along with 2-320gb and 2-640gb 2.5" drives.

 

I looking for suggestions on how to build a gaming PC that would give my son s big boost over what he has now as well as handle any media streaming we need in the house at the same time. The Kangaroo is attached to our TV and whether we use it or an iPad or the Mac's we use VLC exclusively to play content. 

 

 

Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

So what types of games does he play?  Are they demanding? What's your budget? Does size matter? 

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I was hoping to stay between $250 and $450. I already have a Win10 License.

Oh that's perfect.  I'll see what I can do, it'll be quite difficult, and I'd suggest going the used part route.

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8 minutes ago, KamikazeKunze said:

I was hoping to stay between $250 and $450. I already have a Win10 License.

Component   Selection Price  
CPU f7b72284156f3602e72076645ab77238.med.256 $74.88 Buy
CPU Cooler cf3a72593b16cf8fda76564c62ba1d93.256p.jp $17.99 Buy
Motherboard 953e049a07381f0a031e23212836bc8f.256p.jp $57.55 Buy
Memory dc197e6905fbd69999bd9ea03664567b.256p.jp $29.99 Buy
Video Card 119b0ff8d8d07bbb29f4d19f17820a46.256p.jp $178.98 Buy
Case 70455aa7140aa1d6962609d27bdf8c0d.med.256 $39.99 Buy
Power Supply 1d2ca64eece49102b8fe1f5af578f1dc.med.256 $48.99 Buy
Total: $448.37  

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 2.7GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($179.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($33.99 @ Newegg) 
Video Card: PNY GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Enthusiast Edition Video Card  ($94.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($64.99 @ Directron) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($75.98 @ Newegg) 
Total: $449.94
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-17 15:41 EST-0500

Would this do?

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1 minute ago, KamikazeKunze said:

He plays Steam a bit. Knights Old Republic, and a few various titles (can't recall) he downloaded from the MS Store.

Size doesn't matter as I have a couple different places to put the unit. He currently has a loft bed with the desk below so we have lots of room and it can be hard wired to a router if needed.

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1 minute ago, KamikazeKunze said:

He plays Steam a bit. Knights Old Republic, and a few various titles (can't recall) he downloaded from the MS Store.

Well on the list I gave you, it stays within the budget just barely.  We can cut back on the cost by getting a different GPU but it would suffer performance wise.  Downgrading from that point would mean R7 370 or GTX 950. This is a nice sweet spot card, and the XFX version performs exceptionally well.  Though you can downgrade to a GTX 950 and we can put it towards something like a better case.

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1 minute ago, Matty2hatty said:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 2.7GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($179.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($33.99 @ Newegg) 
Video Card: PNY GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Enthusiast Edition Video Card  ($94.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($64.99 @ Directron) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($75.98 @ Newegg) 
Total: $449.94
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-17 15:41 EST-0500

Would this do?

Motherboard? or am I dense and not seeing it?

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1 minute ago, Matty2hatty said:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 2.7GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($179.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($33.99 @ Newegg) 
Video Card: PNY GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Enthusiast Edition Video Card  ($94.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($64.99 @ Directron) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($75.98 @ Newegg) 
Total: $449.94
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-17 15:41 EST-0500

Would this do?

The CPU is okay but you totally forgot a mobo which puts him way over budget and the GPU is pretty bad.

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5 minutes ago, Marziman said:
Component   Selection Price  
CPU f7b72284156f3602e72076645ab77238.med.256 $74.88 Buy
CPU Cooler cf3a72593b16cf8fda76564c62ba1d93.256p.jp $17.99 Buy
Motherboard 953e049a07381f0a031e23212836bc8f.256p.jp $57.55 Buy
Memory dc197e6905fbd69999bd9ea03664567b.256p.jp $29.99 Buy
Video Card 119b0ff8d8d07bbb29f4d19f17820a46.256p.jp $178.98 Buy
Case 70455aa7140aa1d6962609d27bdf8c0d.med.256 $39.99 Buy
Power Supply 1d2ca64eece49102b8fe1f5af578f1dc.med.256 $48.99 Buy
Total: $448.37  

Sweet, thanks for this. You guys ROCK! I'm a SQL Server DBA by trade and have always had the luxury of having a Windows Team around to build hardware (at work) this will be my first at home build. Thanks again

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No worries, it still helps!

Oh I wasn't trying to be rude!  Though you can find the components on my list for quite cheap used.  You're going to have to go the X4 860 route because of it's price to performance ratio.  an i5 will put you out of budget, i3 will as well and won't be as good.  Pentiums are okay at around the same price but suffer from being dual core vs. the X4 which is a quad core.  The 380 is a mid tier High settings 1080p to 1440P mid to high settings card.

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1 minute ago, KamikazeKunze said:

Sweet, thanks for this. You guys ROCK! I'm a SQL Server DBA by trade and have always had the luxury of having a Windows Team around to build hardware (at work) this will be my first at home build. Thanks again

Hey no problem it's what we do :) take pictures and post it as a build log here!

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Oh I wasn't trying to be rude!  Though you can find the components on my list for quite cheap used.  You're going to have to go the X4 860 route because of it's price to performance ratio.  an i5 will put you out of budget, i3 will as well and won't be as good.  Pentiums are okay at around the same price but suffer from being dual core vs. the X4 which is a quad core.  The 380 is a mid tier High settings 1080p to 1440P mid to high settings card.

Perfect! Thanks a lot!

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