Ike★ 2,906 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 It's for my girlfriend. She's mostly going to use it for League of Legends and Overwatch. Nothing too graphics intensive but she might want some multimedia stuff so I'll be boosting the memory a little. I'm thinking of these thus far: i5-3570k GTX 1060 16 GB DDR4 1TB SSD Not quite sure for a motherboard or power unit. I have the tower already. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DynamiteCop 2,085 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 (edited) Can you swing like $885, $930+ mail in rebates? Edited April 25, 2019 by DynamiteCop! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JonDnD 2,606 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 Get a 1660ti at minimum Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Casual 726 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 Couple things: 1) 1TB SSD might be overkill for that use case? Could probably save a lot of money just by dropping that down to a 500. I'd roll that money into a more modern processor BUT not a K since she probably won't need to overlock. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DynamiteCop 2,085 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 https://pcpartpicker.com/list/M2y9gw Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lynux3 2,043 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 Don't get Infail. Wait until Ryzen 3000 series comes out. It's only a couple months out. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DynamiteCop 2,085 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 (edited) Shit, I'd sell you one of my 290X's for like $60 if you just came and picked it up. If you were thinking of getting a 1060 or something that would save you like $140-$160 for comparable performance. It works perfect, got the box and everything included. If she's just wanting to play League and Overwatch at what I assume is 1080p that would more than handle the load. She can play any modern game on it too without issue. Edited April 25, 2019 by DynamiteCop! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ike★ 2,906 Posted April 25, 2019 Author Share Posted April 25, 2019 Thanks @DynamiteCop!, I can probably get that. Did you overclock it? And then maybe just get Ryzen 7 1700 for the CPU? And yeah 1TB might be overkill and I can put 500 GB there instead and save a little. I'm probably still getting most big AAA multiplats on console. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DynamiteCop 2,085 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 (edited) 3 minutes ago, Ike said: Thanks @DynamiteCop!, I can probably get that. Did you overclock it? And then maybe just get Ryzen 7 1700 for the CPU? And yeah 1TB might be overkill and I can put 500 GB there instead and save a little. I'm probably still getting most big AAA multiplats on console. I didn't run it perpetually overclocked or anything (I'm not big on GPU OC'ing) but I did it for benchmarks here and there. It works perfect, the only reason I replaced it was I went from two 290X's to a single Vega 64 because multi-GPU support is basically dead. If you want to save like $140 its an option, one which you could dedicate that money to other aspects of the system or just save it and knock down build cost. Edited April 25, 2019 by DynamiteCop! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kaz 2,439 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 get a gtx 1050 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
roflpwnedz 289 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 2 hours ago, Ike said: Thanks @DynamiteCop!, I can probably get that. Did you overclock it? And then maybe just get Ryzen 7 1700 for the CPU? And yeah 1TB might be overkill and I can put 500 GB there instead and save a little. I'm probably still getting most big AAA multiplats on console. 800-900 seems like way too much for the parts you listed. Keep checking on slickdeals....or wait for deals in general. Where you'll mess up is if you are impulsive and buy everything right away or from one place because of convenience. Power supplies are always going on sale. ram has been getting cheaper, and so are hard drives. Ryzen 7 1700 and a decent B350 board that will allow you to overclock it to 4.0 should be good. Maybe a decent $20-30 air cooler. Best bang for the buck graphics card lately has been the rx 580 but I'd get that 290x You don't need a fancy case. Use the extra money you saved to buy speakers, etc, even a secondary hard drive with a larger capacity. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
James Skywalker 528 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 (edited) I'll send you a state-of-the-art Pentium IV for $400. I'll surprise you with the other shit in it! :|D Edited April 25, 2019 by Optimus Jim Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DynamiteCop 2,085 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 12 minutes ago, roflpwnedz said: 800-900 seems like way too much for the parts you listed. Keep checking on slickdeals....or wait for deals in general. Where you'll mess up is if you are impulsive and buy everything right away or from one place because of convenience. Power supplies are always going on sale. ram has been getting cheaper, and so are hard drives. Ryzen 7 1700 and a decent B350 board that will allow you to overclock it to 4.0 should be good. Maybe a decent $20-30 air cooler. Best bang for the buck graphics card lately has been the rx 580 but I'd get that 290x You don't need a fancy case. Use the extra money you saved to buy speakers, etc, even a secondary hard drive with a larger capacity. It doesn't really, that's just what things cost. I know you can wait for deals and build piece by piece but when asked for a build you're not going to do much better than that for what it is. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
James Skywalker 528 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 3 minutes ago, DynamiteCop! said: It doesn't really, that's just what things cost. I know you can wait for deals and build piece by piece but when asked for a build you're not going to do much better than that for what it is. I acquired peace by peace. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
roflpwnedz 289 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 7 minutes ago, DynamiteCop! said: It doesn't really, that's just what things cost. I know you can wait for deals and build piece by piece but when asked for a build you're not going to do much better than that for what it is. Actually, you're probably right. After adding up the estimates of some parts it would be cheaper than 800 but not by as much as I thought. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JonDnD 2,606 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 My Dell was 800 and had an I7 8700 , 1060 and 16gb ddr4 and optane memory Buy a Dell Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kaz 2,439 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 ^ buy a dell Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JonDnD 2,606 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 54 minutes ago, kaz said: ^ buy a dell 2gb 1050 LOL Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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