Help w/ building gaming rig
Hey everyone,
I need some help building a gaming rig with SC2, D3, FF14, and other high end games in the works. I've got a $2000 budget more or less. 1700-2300 or so.
Thing is, I want to possibly use or sell parts from my old PC. It has a junky motherboard because I purchased the entire PC overpriced from MDG. Yeah, I was a sucker back then and bought a Stealth for 4G. Flame away... It was 6 years ago, and the sales man said it would last 7 years. I'm glad it sort of did.
Possible salvageable parts
- 2 250GB HDDs which I'll probably turn into external backup since I need them.
- BFG GTX 260 <-- might want to sell it though, get something with more umph
- 700W power supply (recently purchased from newegg, should I use it or just sell it and buy one?)
- 2 1GB RAM, I'm not really sure of the type
- Pentium D CPU 3.4GHz
- Funky looking case, aluminum shell with blue LCD that tells you temp (going to sell, not much room)
- Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Extreme Audio (will probably give it to my cousin for free haha)
I would like to build a PC using i7 as my CPU. I'm pretty much clueless on what the best choices would be for a gaming PC with that budget. I'm looking for a good synergy between the products, and possibilities of upgrades. I've been trying to read up on it, and found that intel boards have a dead end socket? Not even sure what that means but it doesn't sound too good. There is just so much to read up on, which I will eventually, but would appreciate if someone can help me out here and possibly give me a build I can use to buy an assembled PC from NCIX.
Approx Purchase Date: Soon (within 2-4 weeks)
Budget: 1700-2300
System Usage: Gaming
Parts not required
- Power Supply, as long as i only require 700W. Otherwise I could sell the PSU.
- keyboard
- mouse
- monitor: I have a BENQ gamer monitor that was continued years ago. It's still kicking!
- speakers/headphones
Preferred Website: NCIX
Country: Canada
Part Preferences: Please advise ^_^
Overclocking: Maybe?
Monitor Resolution: 1920 x 1200
Additional Comments:
I need some help building a gaming rig with SC2, D3, FF14, and other high end games in the works. I've got a $2000 budget more or less. 1700-2300 or so.
Thing is, I want to possibly use or sell parts from my old PC. It has a junky motherboard because I purchased the entire PC overpriced from MDG. Yeah, I was a sucker back then and bought a Stealth for 4G. Flame away... It was 6 years ago, and the sales man said it would last 7 years. I'm glad it sort of did.
Possible salvageable parts
- 2 250GB HDDs which I'll probably turn into external backup since I need them.
- BFG GTX 260 <-- might want to sell it though, get something with more umph
- 700W power supply (recently purchased from newegg, should I use it or just sell it and buy one?)
- 2 1GB RAM, I'm not really sure of the type
- Pentium D CPU 3.4GHz
- Funky looking case, aluminum shell with blue LCD that tells you temp (going to sell, not much room)
- Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Extreme Audio (will probably give it to my cousin for free haha)
I would like to build a PC using i7 as my CPU. I'm pretty much clueless on what the best choices would be for a gaming PC with that budget. I'm looking for a good synergy between the products, and possibilities of upgrades. I've been trying to read up on it, and found that intel boards have a dead end socket? Not even sure what that means but it doesn't sound too good. There is just so much to read up on, which I will eventually, but would appreciate if someone can help me out here and possibly give me a build I can use to buy an assembled PC from NCIX.
Approx Purchase Date: Soon (within 2-4 weeks)
Budget: 1700-2300
System Usage: Gaming
Parts not required
- Power Supply, as long as i only require 700W. Otherwise I could sell the PSU.
- keyboard
- mouse
- monitor: I have a BENQ gamer monitor that was continued years ago. It's still kicking!
- speakers/headphones
Preferred Website: NCIX
Country: Canada
Part Preferences: Please advise ^_^
Overclocking: Maybe?
Monitor Resolution: 1920 x 1200
Additional Comments: