Hi, it's been almost exactly 5 years since my last build, and it's basically falling apart so that means it's time for me to dig back into the hardware/rig building game. I generally like to do a whole new build every 5 years or so, so I'm happy with how this one has lasted.
Per the sticky, here are the answers to the questions to help narrow down choices/recommendations:
Per the sticky, here are the answers to the questions to help narrow down choices/recommendations:
- I work remotely as a part owner in an IT consultancy, as such I do a TON of virtualization (locally in addition to cloud based stuff), and I want to be able to play the latest/greatest games when I have spare time (not that often these days, but I like having the option available).
- Budget for just the PC is about $2000, although I could probably justify going up to $2500 if necessary and it makes sense. As I'm not counting the monitor in the figures I just listed, I see the high end gaming monitors start around $1000+, so that will be a separate purchase (although recommendations there are also welcome).
- Will likely be buying all my stuff online from US vendors (I live in the US), NewEgg/Amazon, etc etc. I'll likely wait until Black Friday once I know exactly what components I'm going to purchase, and see if I can get some deals since we're almost in November anyway.
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- No brand preference, just want the best performance I can get for the $$, although historically I've stuck with Intel for processors, but graphics cards I usually go with whatever the latest and greatest is at the time and have jumped back and forth between all the major players.
- Not intending to use any current parts except external USB drives for storage. Current internal hard drive is a Samsung SSD 840 Pro 250GB drive which was hot back in 2012 when I bought it, I'm sure today's drives blow this away so I most likely won't reuse it unless maybe a secondary drive, but even then it's pretty small from a storage standpoint, especially for late 2017.
- No plans to overclock, I want high end stuff that performs without having to tweak a whole lot, when I was younger and had more time than budget I was more into this sort of thing.
- Resolution, I'd like it to be capable of whatever the top end games/cards run at these days, I'm sure there is a sweet spot (just don't know what it is) for the more demanding modern games, so I want something capable of running them.
- Plan is to buy all the parts on/around Black Friday, and build it as soon as I get the parts, so about a month from now give or take.
- Will need a Windows 10 pro license, everything else, Office 365/etc I charge through my company so nothing else to buy right now.