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HazardVortex
By HazardVortex
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My Friend wants to build a Gaming PC that can play games and edit video's for his YouTube Channel. I'm posting this because he asked me to help him with it and he doesn't have a computer nor does he now about this site. His Budget is $1000, which is 2x the budget I have for my own PC. I was thinking 16gb+ RAM, 4gb or Higher Graphics Card, No Liquid Cooling, With a Operating System, Because of this High Budget No less than 16gb of Ram since I now what kind of system you can get for even $570.

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If he is going to video edit record possibly stream, I would say I7 from haswell and 16gb of ddr3 2133 or something you want, go for a 1060 6gb they are good for price to performance he can use that for quite some time psu case and other things are really just preference and i would go the extra mile for some liquid cooling if your gonna overclock, if not use your extra few bucks on some software. good day

 

 

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Here's what I came up with. You can get Windows for $30 from kinguin.net so it comes to about $1030. HOWEVER, AMD's Ryzen CPUs should be launching in a few weeks, and it's highly possible that they could greatly shake up pricing of CPUs. By that, I mean that you could potentially get a comparable performing CPU to the 7700k here for $100 less, and could potentially get a 6 core 12 thread Ryzen CPU for $300. So while this build is decent, if I were you I would wait a few weeks to see what Ryzen offers.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K 4.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($338.89 @ OutletPC) 
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler  ($34.88 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: MSI Z270 SLI PLUS ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($113.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($99.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Sandisk SSD PLUS 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($43.74 @ B&H) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($49.33 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: MSI Radeon RX 480 8GB ARMOR 8G OC Video Card  ($208.98 @ Newegg) 
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($64.99 @ B&H) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic S12II 620W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($47.89 @ Newegg) 
Total: $1002.67
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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10 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

Here's what I came up with. You can get Windows for $30 from kinguin.net so it comes to about $1030. HOWEVER, AMD's Ryzen CPUs should be launching in a few weeks, and it's highly possible that they could greatly shake up pricing of CPUs. By that, I mean that you could potentially get a comparable performing CPU to the 7700k here for $100 less, and could potentially get a 6 core 12 thread Ryzen CPU for $300. So while this build is decent, if I were you I would wait a few weeks to see what Ryzen offers.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K 4.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($338.89 @ OutletPC) 
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler  ($34.88 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: MSI Z270 SLI PLUS ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($113.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($99.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Sandisk SSD PLUS 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($43.74 @ B&H) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($49.33 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: MSI Radeon RX 480 8GB ARMOR 8G OC Video Card  ($208.98 @ Newegg) 
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($64.99 @ B&H) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic S12II 620W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($47.89 @ Newegg) 
Total: $1002.67
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-02-20 20:39 EST-0500

Why would you even offer him this when RyZen is about to be released in < 2 weeks?

"Ryzen is doing really well in 1440p and 4K gaming when the applications are more graphics bound" - Dr. Lisa Su, 2017

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I am definitely going to wait for Ryzen and I personally can't wait to see what they offer 

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5 minutes ago, MakeAMDGreatAgain said:

Why would you even offer him this when RyZen is about to be released in < 2 weeks?

1) Because it gives something to base his build off of once Ryzen does launch

2) I like making pcpartpicker lists :P 

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Desktop:

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CPU: i7 6700k, CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3, Motherboard: MSI Z170a KRAIT GAMING, RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws 4 Series 4x4gb DDR4-2666 MHz, Storage: SanDisk SSD Plus 240gb + OCZ Vertex 180 480 GB + Western Digital Caviar Blue 1 TB 7200 RPM, Video Card: EVGA GTX 970 SSC, Case: Fractal Design Define S, Power Supply: Seasonic Focus+ Gold 650w Yay, Keyboard: Logitech G710+, Mouse: Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum, Headphones: B&O H9i, Monitor: LG 29um67 (2560x1080 75hz freesync)

Home Server:

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CPU: Pentium G4400, CPU Cooler: Stock, Motherboard: MSI h110l Pro Mini AC, RAM: Hyper X Fury DDR4 1x8gb 2133 MHz, Storage: PNY CS1311 120gb SSD + two Segate 4tb HDDs in RAID 1, Video Card: Does Intel Integrated Graphics count?, Case: Fractal Design Node 304, Power Supply: Seasonic 360w 80+ Gold, Keyboard+Mouse+Monitor: Does it matter?

Laptop (I use it for school):

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And if you're curious (or a stalker) I have a Just Black Pixel 2 XL 64gb

 

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