As it's been a while i think it's time for a new computer for me, Does anyone have a suggestion of one? i want something reliable and powerful, Nothing over $2000(USD)
Some ideas towards the upper class with best value Spoiler: 1000 PowerColor Radeon R9 290 PCS+ Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 ASRock H97 Pro 4 Crucial Ballistix 8GB 1600 be quiet! System Power 7 450W Seagate Barracuda 1TB Spoiler: 1200 Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 Gaming G1 Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 ASRock H97 Pro 4 Crucial Ballistix 8GB 1600 be quiet! Straight Power E10-CM 500W (hdd) Seagate Barracuda 1TB and or (ssd) Crucial MX100 256GB Spoiler: 1800 specifically for overlocking Inno3D iChill GeForce GTX 980 HerculeZ X4 Air Boss Intel I7 4790K Gigabyte G1 Sniper Z97 Team Group Vulcan Red 16GB 2400 be quiet! Straight Power E10-CM 500W (hdd) Seagate Barracuda 2TB and or (ssd) Crucial MX100 256GB everything more is a waste of money unless you want to play across multiple screens or +1440p. (running sli would cause micro lags, adding a dedicated physX card that can keep up (and not building a bottleneck) would go into the direction of a titan or another 970/980..) there are streamers putting 3 or even 4 980's in one computer, but honestly why render on the same machine if you can simply setup a second without affecting the performance of the main system. Housing (silenced) Fractal Design Define R4 Black Pearl Nanoxia Deep Silence 3 NZXT H440 (no drive slots, external needed) CPU-Cooler Non-OC Thermalright True Spirit 120 M (BW) Rev.A (100700558) EKL Alpenföhn Brocken ECO (84000000106) Thermalright HR-02 Macho Rev. A (BW) OC Raijintek Nemesis (0R100001) be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3 (BK019)Noctua NH-D14 Drive Samsung SH-224DB schwarz, SATA, bulk
This case is really awesome. I've used it in 2 builds since I heard of it. Sturdy and easy to hide cables and such. I've seen only 1 other company that did better at the cable hiding stuff which is corsair (My opinion) but I wouldn't recommend it if you aren't gonna make HUGE setups or do watercooling (which again is not needed at all). Just my 2 cents
try an ROG laptop, it's powerful and under 2k, i used it to simultaneously run TF2 minecraft and serveal google chrome tabs, which takes like 3million ram
I have my eye's on this ASUS ROG GL551 series GL551JM-DH71 Gaming Laptop Intel Core i7 4710HQ (2.50GHz) 16GB Memory 1TB HDD None SSD NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M 2GB 15.6" Windows 8.1 64-Bit - Newegg.com
I do all those on less than 8 GB As for the ROG. They are nice to have as a gamer with the color sheme and "extra" stuff they add but the items are usually aimed at overclocking and such. All those items are overpriced, so don't get convinced that it's "the best thing" and always look at the hard data of it.
i've USED one, .-. and i've asked people about their laptops and it's performance, one guy who i know well told me that he doesn't like his aleinware, and for a laptop, an ROG is one of the most powerful you can get for about 1k dollars.
That laptop is 15 inch. I'm just telling you. Gaming on 17 inch compared to 15 is very diffrent. If you're totally fine with that it's ok. Just warning you in case you haven't seen that. Doesn't change the fact they are overpriced. I didn't tell you they weren't good, I even said: And most people will never need or will do overclocking.
ik, but it's actually been going down in price for awhile, what is ACTUALLY overpriced is printer ink and razer blades
If you like to build it yourself I would stick to what slind posted. The way of storing data is up to you though(ssd/hard drive). I included both in my builds but again this is personal. The biggest tip I can give is that you take a piece of paper and write down everything your pc has to be able to do. Afterwards when chosing which parts to use, use that paper and don't deviate from it to much. There are a lot of wonderous things you will find on forums that may seem like "the best thing to add" but in the end they just make the pc more expensive. (last thing I post here before bob posts again, seems like chugga and I took it over...)
What I need: Able to run 2+ instances of minecraft & stream & record for youtube. Budget left: 2k What I have: Case, harddrives, psu, ram And.... go!
booker, i already listed one that i did almost the exact same thing on, an instance of FTB ultimate, an instance of TF2 (running on high quality no less) 10s of goggle chrome tabs, and costs around 2k, or build your own
Streaming doesn't realy compare to tf2 and chrome... streaming >>>> tf2 and chrome. I'd say use slinds tip. His knowledge about this is probably >>>>>>>>>>>> mine + chugga + ... Personally I use nvidia shadowplay for recording (yes computer ppl I do...) I kind of like that software.
Overlocking and laptop, are you joking? If you do you don't win and only loose the warrenty. For clarification notebooks cost at least 3 times as much as a good value desktop with similar performance. They are noisy when running games, graphics card and CPU often get down locked as they can't be cooled enough over time. The graphics card can't be upgraded once every 1-2 years. In most cases the keyboards are spongy (non mechanical) the monitor is 0815, basic desktop monitors have deeper color depth. Notebooks should really only be used if the mobility is essential and gaming ones only if the battery life time, weight and stability/robust doesn't matter. I prefer a good value desktop + robust and cheap notebook with a good keyboard and battery life time of +10 hours instead of 2 hours..
