My birthday is coming up next month, and by the looks of it, along with my at home party with school friends, my mom is planning something BIG.  My family is known to gift huge cash presents, and I want to spend the cash on a great gaming computer .  I'm limiting my purchase price at $1500-2000 (2000 is kind of steep with me becoming of age to drive now so I should really be buying a car.)  Anyway, I'd like to know some suggestions as to what PC build I should make, and what site has the best deals, while still being able to custom build a pc.  Also, would buying a laptop be a dumb idea?

Thank you for your help in advance.

http://www.amazon.com/Intel-i7-3820-Quad-Core-Processor-Cache/dp/B006YM9JSW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1371617951&sr=8-1&keywords=i7+processor

http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Extreme-Desktop-Motherboard-BOXDX79TO/dp/B006A0M9C6/ref=pd_sim_pc_3

http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Vengeance-Desktop-Memory-CMZ16GX3M2A1600C10/dp/B006EWUO22/ref=pd_sim_pc_6

http://www.amazon.com/Guardian-Black-Steel-Chassis-921RB-BL/dp/B004351H9G/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1371618078&sr=1-1&keywords=computer+case

 

this is the one i would use

 

http://www.amazon.com/Intel-i7-3820-Quad-Core-Processor-Cache/dp/B006YM9JSW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1371617951&sr=8-1&keywords=i7+processor

http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Extreme-Desktop-Motherboard-BOXDX79TO/dp/B006A0M9C6/ref=pd_sim_pc_3

http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Vengeance-Desktop-Memory-CMZ16GX3M2A1600C10/dp/B006EWUO22/ref=pd_sim_pc_6

http://www.amazon.com/Guardian-Black-Steel-Chassis-921RB-BL/dp/B004351H9G/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1371618078&sr=1-1&keywords=computer+case

 

this is the one i would use

 

Looks great! Now for a graphics card, water cooling, and fans. I'm sure that I am forgetting more lol.

If you're going to spend $1500 buy an 8 core proccesor. Use Newegg.com to build your computer. Very good deals and for $1500 you can get the top end stuff for just about everything.

If you're going to spend $1500 buy an 8 core proccesor. Use Newegg.com to build your computer. Very good deals and for $1500 you can get the top end stuff for just about everything.

this is also a very good idea

First of all, you don't need a water cooling system and an 8-core processor unless you're going to be running programs that contains a high amount of CPU usage and your usual CPU fan can't handle it. Second of all, there are better Intel i7 4-core processors than AMD 8-core processors. Just because there's more cores does not mean that it is better. Thirdly, you need to post what type of stuff you're going to be doing with this computer, such as gaming, video editing/rendering, game creating, etc. You shouldn't spend ALL of you money all at once. I would save some money just in case.

Edited June 19, 201312 yr by Spear

First of all, you don't need a water cooling system and an 8-core processor unless you're going to be running programs that contains a high amount of CPU usage and your usual CPU fan can't handle it. Second of all, there are better Intel i7 4-core processors than AMD 8-core processors. Just because there's more cores does not mean that it is better. Thirdly, you need to post what type of stuff you're going to be doing with this computer, such as gaming, video editing/rendering, game creating, etc. You shouldn't spend ALL of you money all at once. I would save some money just in case.

 

This man knows what he is talking about.

 

But yes, it all depends on what you are going to do with it, same as the cooling. My PC has 3 external fans, not too noisy, but once my room gets on high temp (during summer mostly) the CPU fan starts going at it like crazy so I turn all fans up to the max.

Unless your room gets pretty hot, a watercooler isn't really neccesary and that can save you loads of money.

I was being lazy when I typed up this post, I meant to include things like this...

My room stays pretty cool in the summer, at it's hottest 80 degrees Fahrenheit, (which is very rare.)  I can leave my current desktop [Dell Optiplex 745 slim] on all day on which I play games like Garry's Mod because It can't run too many other games.

As for better games, I enjoy almost any game, I play Physics based games, and very high graphics based games like far cry, and all Crisis games.

With video making and editing, I am mediocre at it, but do own a copy of Sony Vegas, Adobe Photoshop, and Fraps, and I would like to be able to run a game, and fraps with little to no lag.

With all of this, I hope to be able to bot in the background.

I'm not sure if this matters, but in the next few years I would like to try my hand at C++, C+, Java, and lua coding.

Edited June 19, 201312 yr by ieat4hp

If you're going to spend $1500 like I said. Get an 8 core that's at at least 3.5ghz per core. 8gb of ram 16gb if you want not needed. With 8 cores you can do anything you want bot basically any amount of accounts as long as you have enough ram and can do many other things while doing this. Say you were to bot 6 accounts while using youtube, listenting to music or playing another game your computer will still stay cool as you will most likely not even be at 50% CPU. This is why I would buy an 8 core. Basically never works hard and will be good for future use when games become highly advanced and require more power and ram. Also I would get the best graphics card you possibly can so you also don't need to replace that for a long time.

If you're going to spend $1500 like I said. Get an 8 core that's at at least 3.5ghz per core. 8gb of ram 16gb if you want not needed. With 8 cores you can do anything you want bot basically any amount of accounts as long as you have enough ram and can do many other things while doing this. Say you were to bot 6 accounts while using youtube, listenting to music or playing another game your computer will still stay cool as you will most likely not even be at 50% CPU. This is why I would buy an 8 core. Basically never works hard and will be good for future use when games become highly advanced and require more power and ram. Also I would get the best graphics card you possibly can so you also don't need to replace that for a long time.

 

 

As I said before, most of the i7's are better than an 8-core AMD processor. Just because you have a high amount of cores doesn't mean it's the best processor, as I also said before. If I were him, I would get 12-16GB of RAM since that will be able to last him for years to come on. Since games and programs are starting to develop more, you would want to get a high-end CPU, GPU, RAM, etc. 8GB is enough as you said, but if he's wanting this computer to last him for a long time, as in 5+ years, than I would get 16GB of RAM. As for the whole CPU percentage part, my friend currently is running a 550Ti with a 2.6Ghz Quad-Core AMD processor, and runs Battlefield, iTunes, Chrome, and other programs just fine, but as I said, soon (in the next couple of years) he will end up having to upgrade that. So, my suggestion is to you is that you should get a high-end gaming PC, so it will last you for a very long time, but make sure you have money left over. When I'm home tomorrow, I'll give you a setup on Newegg that I think will fit your budget. 

If you're going to spend $1500 like I said. Get an 8 core that's at at least 3.5ghz per core. 8gb of ram 16gb if you want not needed. With 8 cores you can do anything you want bot basically any amount of accounts as long as you have enough ram and can do many other things while doing this. Say you were to bot 6 accounts while using youtube, listenting to music or playing another game your computer will still stay cool as you will most likely not even be at 50% CPU. This is why I would buy an 8 core. Basically never works hard and will be good for future use when games become highly advanced and require more power and ram. Also I would get the best graphics card you possibly can so you also don't need to replace that for a long time.

 

I can relate to this :p

 

I got an 8 core and 8gb ram, I can easily bot 3 accounts at max FPS, burning some discs, and watching youtube. While talking to people on skype at the same time. My RAM usage stays below 40%. BUT my computer does still make a lot of noisy, this is because when it is outside around 77, my room temperature can easily go to 80-85. If the temp is 82 (like today) and the sun shines.. I just gotta turn it off because my room temp WILL reach nearly 90 (All temps are Fahrenheit)

Just bought the Antec KÜHLER H20 620, and install it once it arrives, hopefully this will decrease my temp

Just make sure you get a 8 core, 8gb-16gb ram of memory. 1tb or 2tb hard drive, 120gb-240gb of hard drive, And try looking for a great NVidia card driver.

Just make sure you get a 8 core, 8gb-16gb ram of memory. 1tb or 2tb hard drive, 120gb-240gb of hard drive, And try looking for a great NVidia card driver.

 

No offense, but do you know what you're talking about?

Just make sure you get a 8 core, 8gb-16gb ram of memory. 1tb or 2tb hard drive, 120gb-240gb of hard drive, And try looking for a great NVidia card driver.

8core- Not neccessarily. A good quad core i7 would still dominate an 8 core amd.

I believe you mean a 1tb or two tb hard drive and a 120 gb to 240gb SSD?

And um maybe you meant an Nvidia graphics card?

Case:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811235038

MotherBoard:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157372

CPU:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116899

GPU:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125463

RAM:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231550

HDD:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136769

SSD:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147192

PSU:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817256071

DVD Drive:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151257

Heatsink:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103064

Total: $1101.91

Edited June 21, 201312 yr by Khanz