New PC

[+JB. 4,800]

A friend of mine asked me to help him put together a new pc.

He got a budget of around 800€.

I don't know a whole lot about this stuff myself, but I know some of you do, so I thought someone may be able to help out.

If there is anything you need to know, post here, I'll ask him and post back with an answer.

Thanks

[koKo_ 350]

^{This is assuming he has a monitor and peripherals right? I'll chip in more information once I get a scope of things}

 

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Edited November 23, 2015 by koKoRoro

[+JB. 4,800]

^{This is assuming he has a monitor and peripherals right? I'll chip in more information once I get a scope of things}

 

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yeah he got all that stuff.

[- Mike - 2,728]

What will your friend be doing on the computer? Also, reddit has a nice set of subreddits for building computers or finding the right parts. I think it's reddit.com/r/buildmeapc or something like that. Also PCPartPicker has, or had, (have used them in a while) a compatibility feature to make sure the parts will fit and work with the build.

[fever 9,884]

Yeah depends what he is going to be doing/playing

[Hellfire 421]

I love this stuff and can help out. If not the pcmasterrace subreddit will build a pc for you if you give them a budget and tell them what games your friend is into.

[Troll 575]

get the stuff that does the thing

[Hellfire 421]

Here is a good build to start off with:

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/ppr2P6

 

It's a little over budget with the hard drives selected but you can pick one or the other or keep both.  It includes a 250gb SSD or 1TB HD.  That graphics card gets a lot of praise and it can run most games on very high settings at 50-60 FPS.

 

Here is a good video to compare with GTA V on very high Settings:   

 

 

 His RAM and processor in the video is a little bit better but it doesn't affect FPS that much.

[+JB. 4,800]

Yeah depends what he is going to be doing/playing

 

He mainly wants to play with it. Games like skyrim, borderlands etc.

[koKo_ 350]

Well if he's going for some higher end games, I wouldn't cheap out on both the core and the GPU

[fever 9,884]

He should be able to build a very nice machine then if he's not going for brand spanking new AAA titles. He'll easily build a decent base unit for that money that should be able to max out those games. This is what that money got me in June 2012 (no operating system though as I was putting my own on):

EZCool Black ATX Case

600W CIT Power Supply

MSI Z77A-G43 Board

Intel Core i7 2600K Processor

8GB Mushkin Blackline RAM

240GB Agility 3 SSD

MSI Geforce GTX 560ti OC (Dual DVI) Graphics Card

DVD +/- RW Drive

1 Hour Labour

Total: £872.00

This is still my main games/software development machine and I was so happy with it I bought a second. Even in this original configuration it ran most games on pretty much full fat everything. Just upgraded the RAM to 16 shortly after and added a newer graphics card recently.

Edited November 24, 2015 by fever

[Se7en 10,762]

i7 2600K 

 

i7-2600K

[fever 9,884]

i7-2600K

 

Parts list is legit, I copied it from the company who built it