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...And I've gotten myself a bit lost to be honest. Apologies for any rookie mistakes in the following post!
I've been lurking around a bunch of sites for a while now trying to work out the best combination of performance and bargain, however due to my limited experience with the inner workings of computers it's taking far longer than I would like - in part due to my busy schedule with work (etc.) at the moment. In all this time PCS has given a very good impression and thus it's the first place I thought to seek advice.
My budget is: £800, although I could push it up a little if given good reason.
Use: This is primarily for gaming, the aim is to run Skyrim, TOR, The Witcher 2 and BF3 as close to high/max settings as possible, whilst retaining a good framerate. Is that even possible on this budget, or am I looking more at medium settings with good FPS? I've read conflicting things.
I'm looking towards making this as future proof as possible.
I would also be interested in having it set for video editing/basic filmmaking, although that isn't a priority at the moment.
I'm sorted for a monitor, keyboard and mouse. Don't have usable speakers, but have a headset so they aren't a massively important right now. Not interested in office, av software etc.
Cooling and such is a big issue for me. It's not something I know much about, despite trying to educate myself on the subject recently, but I've had issues with it previously and will almost certainly be gaming for significant periods of time on this rig; naturally I want to get the cooling/PSU side of things right to reduce any issues arising from that.
I would post a spec, but I really have read so many conflicting ideas by now that I wouldn't know where to start. I'm unsure about whether an Intel or AMD system would be better for example, if it helps i'm not confident about overclocking myself - although I may be able to get assistance should it be beneficial.
I gather that I should be sorted with 4/8GB RAM, a quad core CPU, and a single quality graphics card (possibly leaving room for SLI or Crossfire in the future) with a caviar black HDD and a 650w+ corsair PSU but again, if anyone can help by posting the best gaming spec my budget can manage it would be appreciated. I hope the info I have provided is enough?
Oh and is the NZXT Phantom case alright for this sort of build?
I've been lurking around a bunch of sites for a while now trying to work out the best combination of performance and bargain, however due to my limited experience with the inner workings of computers it's taking far longer than I would like - in part due to my busy schedule with work (etc.) at the moment. In all this time PCS has given a very good impression and thus it's the first place I thought to seek advice.
My budget is: £800, although I could push it up a little if given good reason.
Use: This is primarily for gaming, the aim is to run Skyrim, TOR, The Witcher 2 and BF3 as close to high/max settings as possible, whilst retaining a good framerate. Is that even possible on this budget, or am I looking more at medium settings with good FPS? I've read conflicting things.
I'm looking towards making this as future proof as possible.
I would also be interested in having it set for video editing/basic filmmaking, although that isn't a priority at the moment.
I'm sorted for a monitor, keyboard and mouse. Don't have usable speakers, but have a headset so they aren't a massively important right now. Not interested in office, av software etc.
Cooling and such is a big issue for me. It's not something I know much about, despite trying to educate myself on the subject recently, but I've had issues with it previously and will almost certainly be gaming for significant periods of time on this rig; naturally I want to get the cooling/PSU side of things right to reduce any issues arising from that.
I would post a spec, but I really have read so many conflicting ideas by now that I wouldn't know where to start. I'm unsure about whether an Intel or AMD system would be better for example, if it helps i'm not confident about overclocking myself - although I may be able to get assistance should it be beneficial.
I gather that I should be sorted with 4/8GB RAM, a quad core CPU, and a single quality graphics card (possibly leaving room for SLI or Crossfire in the future) with a caviar black HDD and a 650w+ corsair PSU but again, if anyone can help by posting the best gaming spec my budget can manage it would be appreciated. I hope the info I have provided is enough?
Oh and is the NZXT Phantom case alright for this sort of build?