New to building need help

[Nades]

this is my very first time building my own Gaming PC and i have no clue what to get could anyone please help me i have a price cap of under 800$ and this will be for just about only gaming. i don't need a mouse,keyboard or monitor it will be for 1080p at highest settings if i want them and i also have Windows ready.

help would be appreciated thanks

[aeroencychris]

Hi, welcome to the forums

This should be a good starting point:

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/XTmHWX
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/XTmHWX/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($198.88 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: ASRock H170A-X1 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($76.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($40.78 @ OutletPC) 
Storage: Kingston HyperX Fury 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($44.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($45.71 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon RX 480 8GB Red Devil Video Card  ($255.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Case: NZXT Source 210 Elite (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($45.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($51.43 @ OutletPC) 
Other: Windows 10 /r/microsoftsoftwareswap ($25.00)
Total: $785.75
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-29 10:58 EDT-0400

 

The GPU and motherboard support Crossfire so if this isn't enough performance later on down the line you can simply add another RX 480.

The CPU should be more than capable to handle most gaming tasks (don't let i5 discourage you)

The SSD will make Windows and programs start a lot faster, while the 1TB HDD will give you a lot of storage for games and other large files

Windows is normally pretty expensive but reddit.com/r/microsoftsoftwareswap has some really cheap licenses (look for Windows 10 Home N)

[Nades]

does 8gb of ram compaired to 16 make a big difference for gaming for the current state of games or is 8 fine ?

also i forgot to add i already have a 2tb seagate from a resent prebuild that i am gonna take out and use. Thanks for the Welcome!

[Thinkfreely]

1 minute ago, Nades said:

does 8gb of ram compaired to 16 make a big difference for gaming for the current state of games or is 8 fine ?

8 is perfectly fine for most games, there are only few titles out there that recommend 16gb of ram, or would you run into bottlenecking but that is rare right now. And upgrading ram is easy and cheap if and when you need to do that.

[Thinkfreely]

5 minutes ago, cdsboy2000 said:

Hi, welcome to the forums

This should be a good starting point:

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/XTmHWX
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/XTmHWX/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($198.88 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: ASRock H170A-X1 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($76.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($40.78 @ OutletPC) 
Storage: Kingston HyperX Fury 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($44.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($45.71 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon RX 480 8GB Red Devil Video Card  ($255.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Case: NZXT Source 210 Elite (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($45.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($51.43 @ OutletPC) 
Other: Windows 10 /r/microsoftsoftwareswap ($25.00)
Total: $785.75
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-29 10:58 EDT-0400

 

The GPU and motherboard support Crossfire so if this isn't enough performance later on down the line you can simply add another RX 480.

The CPU should be more than capable to handle most gaming tasks (don't let i5 discourage you)

The SSD will make Windows and programs start a lot faster, while the 1TB HDD will give you a lot of storage for games and other large files

Windows is normally pretty expensive but reddit.com/r/microsoftsoftwareswap has some really cheap licenses (look for Windows 10 Home N)

Only thing I would change is the RX 480. Go with a GTX 1060 6gb version is you can afford it. The RX 480 performs better in DX 12 applications and VR, but the 1060 beats it in almost every other benchmark, which makes more sense as there are few games that actually take advantage of DX12 currently.

[Nades]

so once i want to upgrade ram do i need the same type or just another 2x4gb ram sticks ?

[Thinkfreely]

Just now, Nades said:

so once i want to upgrade ram do i need the same type or just another 2x4gb ram sticks ?

Same type. For instance if you buy two sticks of Kingston Hyper Fury Ram and each stick is 4gb, then you would need to buy two more sticks of of the exact same ram, as you can't mix and match. That motherboard in that list has 4 total ram slots so you can just add two slots of 4gb ram of the same type later to upgrade. Or get two sticks of 8gb ram later on and use 2 of the 4 slots available.

[Nades]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($198.88 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H170-GAMING 3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($77.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($62.99 @ Newegg) 
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB Strix Video Card  ($319.88 @ OutletPC) 
Case: Corsair SPEC-ALPHA ATX Mid Tower Case  ($79.99 @ B&H) 
Power Supply: EVGA 430W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply  ($24.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $764.71
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-29 11:12 EDT-0400

so based of what you guys have shown me and said i made this would this be fine ?

[Herman Mcpootis]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($198.88 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: ASRock H170A-X1 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($76.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: GeIL EVO POTENZA 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($56.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: SK hynix SL308 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($64.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($45.71 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB WINDFORCE OC 6G Video Card  ($249.00 @ Amazon) 
Case: Deepcool DUKASE V2 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($51.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Power Supply: Corsair CXM 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($39.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $784.53
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-29 11:13 EDT-0400

[Herman Mcpootis]

 

4 minutes ago, Nades said:

 

psu isn't for a pc like this. get the corsair cx550m for $40 instead, MUCH better quality.

[Nades]

3 minutes ago, herman mcpootis said:

 

psu isn't for a pc like this. get the corsair cx550m for $40 instead, MUCH better quality.

ok i have been trying to find a psu and i always get told that the cx550m isnt good compaired to every evga but i liked it for the price and it was semi and other forums i have tried or reddit just give me a psu i dont even need that has like 800w and cost 100$+

[Nades]

9 minutes ago, Thinkfreely said:

Same type. For instance if you buy two sticks of Kingston Hyper Fury Ram and each stick is 4gb, then you would need to buy two more sticks of of the exact same ram, as you can't mix and match. That motherboard in that list has 4 total ram slots so you can just add two slots of 4gb ram of the same type later to upgrade. Or get two sticks of 8gb ram later on and use 2 of the 4 slots available.

ok thanks also if i was to get 16gb as of now the 2400 is cheaper than the 2133 will the mobo automatically clock it to 2133 ?

[Thinkfreely]

11 minutes ago, Nades said:

ok thanks also if i was to get 16gb as of now the 2400 is cheaper than the 2133 will the mobo automatically clock it to 2133 ?

Yes you have to manually adjust.