People who love playing games , will you buy a gaming PC or build one yourself?
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i willbuy a gaming pc..coz it will be hard for me to build a pc myself…
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Building yourself will save you money , it 'll be cheaper ,still you 'll go buy it?
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I’ve never built a PC myself either but it’s far cheaper to build it yourself. You can even look on sites like Tom’s Hardware where they do sample $500, $1000, and $2000 builds. I’m sure there are plenty of do-it-yourself videos online.
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Always built everything because then you get to choose exactly what goes in there.
And not necessarily cheaper… depends how high spec you want to go with each component. A serious gaming PC will need serious cooling etc.
Never built anything insane anyway. Always just set a budget for each component and shopped accordingly.
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^ True, it becomes easier to change components this way .
I am posting Gaming PC guide for those who are a fan of playing games on PC it is a big help for them if they want to build or modify their PC.
Game loading too slowly? Building your own gaming PC could be the answer – and it doesn’t have to cost the earth.
How to build a budget gaming PC for under £350
The components
**The case
**The case
**The CPU:
**The GPU:
**The RAM
The build
How to build a budget gaming PC for under £350 | Reviews | CNET UK
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I used to build my pc myself, now dont have much time, so play on console
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Serious gamers usually build their own Gaming PCs because they incorporate “out of box” solution for optimum operation. Most major brands do not incorporate Water Cooling in even their high-end systems yet, at least not that I’ve seen.
I’ve built my PC before. Would more than likely build one again; it’s just better that way, and you get more bang for the buck.
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I wouldn’t buy a PC specifically for gaming but I’d game on a PC that I already have. I’m more after retro games when it comes to PCs anyway, so that’s usually not an issue.
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Counter Strike Source? 
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Building a pc today is stupidly easy, you literally screw a motherboard in, and everything else like video card and ram can only plug in one way.
It’s actually harder to screw up than it is to do it right.
I wouldn’t really follow any sites guides, because those reporters are usually shills, with a stick up their.
Serious cooling is relative, water-cooling isn’t needed just something cool to talk about.
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A basic gaming pc, you should use AMD for cpu as it’s better for budget, and AMD again for GPU since Nvidia is crap tbh. Only problem with AMD is to properly uninstall drivers first time you update (google for a guide) and that solves any of the driver woes they have.
It’s an uninstall issue, as the program doesn’t delete registry keys the first time, tested myself.
CPU would be $100,
motherboard atleast 70 don’t cheap out on it.
ram 30 for 8 gb.
psu 40-50 (again don’t cheap out)
case 20-40 if you’re not ocing.
video card as much as you want to spend.
A serious recomendation is that it’s better to spend $400 every 4 years, than $200 every 2 as having everything max is nice.
You need a screwdriver to build a pc, all the screws and everything comes with it.
Get an ssd if you want, and pirate windows cuz f msoft and Win 8 bs.
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edit - Overall today, best for your money is an intel 2500k cpu and a 7950/70 gpu from AMD.
Since consoles are garbage, the 7970 is already much better than ps4 and in comparisons new engines run slower on ps4 under lower settings.
So unless you are doing something like triple monitor for 1080p res, a 7970 will get you high if not max settings in games for atleast another 2-3 years when maybe you have to drop to medium.
I won’t discuss intricaices of video settings in pc games, but just dropping a bit of aa/af and you’ll likely be good up till 2017 with any high end nvidia or amd card.
edit - For example that $350 guide goes for an old intel dual core, you’d be better off with a quad just for everyday stuff so either spend a bit more for an older gen intel quad (sandy as newer is pos) or get an amd quad or octa core for same price; the video card listed is actually worse than what comes in APU aka cpu/gpu combo chips so again a POS. He wants you to pay same amount of money if not more for an intel/nvidia gpu/cpu that would deliver worse perf. in games than an AMD apu (don’t mean to sound bias, it’s better at lower price though).
Author has a bias, and has no clue what he/she is doing.
He also manages to find 4gb of ram for the same price that some 8 or even 16gb kits are (an effort) and suggests people use a known crap brand of psu (google for a good brand) so that people can have good fire graphics in their house.
Just my 2 cents, take them if you wish.
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I personally run a 7970 along with a 2500k water-cooled for military simulators such as ARMA 3, because well:
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no serious gamer would ever buy a pre assembled system
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Agreed true gamers like us will only buy components of our liking and then make a boombastic gaming pc for ownself
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Right now some old RTS and Sierra adventure games. I shop on GOG. The most recent (going by release date) game I bought was the Witcher.
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I used to always build my PC, bu stopped 5 years ago.
5 years ago Dell had a deal on a PC that was pretty great for gaming, that with the Dell discount came to less than I would be able to buy the components and operating system for.
Last year for my upgrade, I actually bought all the components, but then when I was at the check out, the store offered to build it for me for $140.
Having been through the experience too many times in life of building a PC only o have to take some defective parts back for exchange… I caved in to temptation. I bargained hard and they agreed to build the PC but not install the OS for $98.
This worked out great - while building it they called me and told me that the liquid cooling I bought was not fitting inside the case I bought. I told them to change to a bigger case - if I had tried to build it myself, I would have been inconvenienced by having to take everything out of the case again and trying to do an exchange.