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1pAiR0
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Feb 20, 2019
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Hey guys, resident Audiophile here stepping into the world of PC building. I don’t know much about it and I’m looking at building a desktop that would handle gaming ( Destiny 2, Anthem, Gary’s Mod, etc.), 3-D modeling software (Engineering student) and FL studio. My budget would be around $500-$600 for the components plus tower, excluding keyboard, mouse, and monitor. Any ideas what I should get? I’ve heard any processor with 3.5 GHz or higher is good. Thanks
Feb 20, 2019
Evynglai
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Feb 21, 2019
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1pAiR0Ask on linustechtips.com - they're a PC building gold mine. Usually people will submit a full PC component list from pcpartpicker and where you buy the part (with all up-to-date prices) so you won't have to check if everything is compatible (has a compatibility checker on the site). You just give them a price and a main function (i.e. gaming and modelling). Also, Linus Tech Tips has great PC building tutorials on YouTube (that's what LTT is popular for). If I remember correctly they had some videos on getting the best audio quality for a PC too... search through their videos if you have time/are interested.
Feb 21, 2019
Lainwolf
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Mar 15, 2019
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1pAiR0Wanted to answer this as a gamer who does 3D engineering (Creo). To my knowledge, buying CAD video cards is not the way you want to go if you want to also game on the same computer. Engineering CAD software and gaming software utilize different aspects of a machine. With most 3D CAD programs, you want to make sure your processor has a higher frequency and you care less about cores. My research into it showed that lower cores, higher processors are a better fit. The CAD video cards are less for graphics, but more GPU to share the load with the CPU. Games require more resources from the VRAM more GPU intensive, rather than CPU intensive. $600 could net you a mid-low tier setup imo, Most of it running into RAM which is expensive now a days. I believe the standard now is 16GB ram for most applications. CAD programs aren't as RAM intensive as many believe. Good luck and as stated below, look at LTT forms for help or other places. If you want additional help you can always reply to this and we can setup a dm.
Mar 15, 2019
1pAiR0
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Mar 15, 2019
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LainwolfHow would a Intel i7 7700k and a RX 580 8gb handle it? Also with 32GB of RAM?
Mar 15, 2019
Lainwolf
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Mar 16, 2019
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1pAiR0I think that's a good start, you can overclock the CPU later to get more clock speed out of it if you are heavy on the CAD part of it, but 4.2 is very good right out of the box. 32GB is really good and IMHO I don't think you'll need anymore for a while. Personally, I would go for something like the new Nvidia 2060 to futureproof your build, but the 580 should be good.
Mar 16, 2019
Robbikepet
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Apr 4, 2019
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Lainwolfi'm a agree with that
Apr 4, 2019
Fischemyl
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Apr 18, 2019
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1pAiR0with that budget you can't get fancy parts, but if you plan your parts accordingly, you would be able to play those games. Specs that would be good for that price range is a Ryzen 5 + 1070 or rx580 + 1080p monitor, do not buy 1440p resolution since the pc doesn't have the horsepower to run those games 60fps+ on 1440p, atleast not on highest settings.
Apr 18, 2019
woniu
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Jun 7, 2019
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1pAiR0If you don't mind, get used component! It would save you at least 30% money to upgrade other things. But stay away from used hard drives.
Jun 7, 2019
jawnTEM
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Jun 30, 2019
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1pAiR0I'd suggest going with an AMD 2400G that has fairly decent on board graphics. This will allow you to wait until you can get a decent graphics card later when you can afford more. When you consider the price of a decent card at $250, a processor at $200, Ram $100, you are already over your $500 budget and you haven't even purchased the other components like MB, PS, HD, OS, etc, yet. My one advice would be to not skimp on the MB, (which will be tied to your OS). This is the one component that most people cheap out on. I consider this the foundation of your PC and if it's not up to snuff, your whole PC will suffer. Make sure that the MB you get has all of the options that you want and need. All your other components are a fairly easy upgrade but if you need to replace your MB, it could mean a new OS, new Ram, new PS, and a new CPU. As for graphics cards, I game on a two monitor system, one at 1440 and my 480 didn't have any issue pulling that. There's a hype that you need a high-end Nvidia card just to game or do content and while it helps, it's just not necessary.
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Jun 30, 2019
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