New Tower Gaming Pc

[Canemaster]

I've been running off of a fairly decent laptop as my personal/gaming computer for about two years now and have been wanting to upgrade to a more dedicated system. I asked a friend to help me with my first build and he sent me this list: (https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/2I3FORF960YFZ/ref=nav_wishlist_lists_2). I was wondering if there would be any edits/suggestions to this list/future build that you guys would add. Another friend gave me a case already(an iBuypower 301 series it says on the back). I'm fairly certain that it is compatible with the motherboard on this list but I thought it was worth mentioning. I'm also planning on getting win7 instead of win10 so i can still play some of my older games as well that win10 absolutely hates.

 

1. Budget & Location

I'm trying to shoot for approx $1k US plus or minus $500 US.

 

2. Aim

This is going to be primarily a current gaming pc (playing games such as the new Doom release). I am into some retro gaming so I can easily see an up to date pc being incompatible (and they often are) with older games (ex: win98/95 and early 2000's era) but again worth mentioning just in case. I know I could easily get an early 2000's Pentium pc for those, but I'd rather not clutter up my room with multiple pc's for each kind of game I want to play.

 

3. Monitors

I'm planning on using a dual monitor set up but will probably settle for a single monitor at first because of budget. I was thinking of a 3 monitor setup, but in the interest of saving money I wouldn't call that a high priority feature.

 

4. Peripherals

I will need a keyboard, monitor, and a decent webcam.

 

5. Why are you upgrading?

As I said before, I want a more dedicated (and up-gradable) system than I have now. The pc laptop I have now (an hp Pavilion) gets the job done but it is starting to fall behind in some respects and eventually I wont be able to do much to keep it alive.

[Herman Mcpootis]

your friend's build is pretty decent, but i'd get a skylake mobo and i7 6700 instead of haswell and a cx550m instead of the older cx600. otherwise its fine.

[BrinkGG]

4 minutes ago, Canemaster said:

I've been running off of a fairly decent laptop as my personal/gaming computer for about two years now and have been wanting to upgrade to a more dedicated system. I asked a friend to help me with my first build and he sent me this list: (https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/2I3FORF960YFZ/ref=nav_wishlist_lists_2). I was wondering if there would be any edits/suggestions to this list/future build that you guys would add. Another friend gave me a case already(an iBuypower 301 series it says on the back). I'm fairly certain that it is compatible with the motherboard on this list but I thought it was worth mentioning. I'm also planning on getting win7 instead of win10 so i can still play some of my older games as well that win10 absolutely hates.

 

1. Budget & Location

I'm trying to shoot for approx $1k US plus or minus $500 US.

 

2. Aim

This is going to be primarily a current gaming pc (playing games such as the new Doom release). I am into some retro gaming so I can easily see an up to date pc being incompatible (and they often are) with older games (ex: win98/95 and early 2000's era) but again worth mentioning just in case. I know I could easily get an early 2000's Pentium pc for those, but I'd rather not clutter up my room with multiple pc's for each kind of game I want to play.

 

3. Monitors

I'm planning on using a dual monitor set up but will probably settle for a single monitor at first because of budget. I was thinking of a 3 monitor setup, but in the interest of saving money I wouldn't call that a high priority feature.

 

4. Peripherals

I will need a keyboard, monitor, and a decent webcam.

 

5. Why are you upgrading?

As I said before, I want a more dedicated (and up-gradable) system than I have now. The pc laptop I have now (an hp Pavilion) gets the job done but it is starting to fall behind in some respects and eventually I wont be able to do much to keep it alive.

So one of the first things I will say is that I've heard a lot of people having issues with skylake CPUs and Win7... I'd look into the microcode issues and see what you find. 

Otherwise get the newest i5 k series you can, overclocking motherboard, gtx 1070, decent CPU cooler and you should be good to go. 

 

[deleted_member_030719]

That's not a great PSU. I'd recommend changing to the gray model of CXM instead of green model.