Where are the System Build Guides???

[DBissett]

One of the most helpful type of review AT has done over the years has been the system builder guides they've published from time to time. However, due to very inconsistent naming of these guides they are virtually impossible to find via any search terms I can think of, and there is no "Guides" menu choice like there used to be at one time. Different search terms bring up different guides dating back quite a few years, and I've not been able to pull up anything dated more recent than, I think, 2011. It would be really helpful if AT would put a "Guides" menu choice at the top of the homepage somewhere, maybe under Systems if not on the main menu line, that could list all guides of all types that they publish, and/or come up with a naming convention that would cause all guides to come up simply by searching for "guides". In the mean time, can someone link me to the most recent system build guides?

Thanks.

 

[mfenn]

These threads are probably what you're looking for on the forums:

Attention Low-End Gaming System Builders
Attention Mid-Range System Builders

As for guides on the main site, there is a Guides category which is linked here.

 

[Ken g6]

Also, AnandTech is doing a new thing where they have their partners create builds within certain budgets. Here's one of the first, and I think the best rig at $1,500. They may have more soon.

 

[Homerboy]

Also, AnandTech is doing a new thing where they have their partners create builds within certain budgets. Here's one of the first, and I think the best rig at $1,500. They may have more soon.

Problem with these is that their builds generally suck.

The old AT build guides were great (for the day) I used them MANY times to help build machines and/or upgrade machines -- this is going back a decade though.

 

[piasabird]

Tom's hardware does some systm builds every quarter. Sometimes I think they are on the ridiculous high end price side. One problem is that people want computers to do different things now. Some people just want to watch Internet TV and movies streaming, some people want to encode all their movies and store them on a home server, some people want to do just gaming, and some people want to do it all on one computer. Some people want 2 or more monitors or screens either for productivity or stock trading or gaming. Some want skype with a cam and a higher end microphone. Some people want photoshop and some people want to do animation or use high end video or import sound from musical instruments.

There is just so much going on now in the field of computers. Gaming is just one segment of people's computer interests.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Tom's hardware does some systm builds every quarter. Sometimes I think they are on the ridiculous high end price side. One problem is that people want computers to do different things now. Some people just want to watch Internet TV and movies streaming, some people want to encode all their movies and store them on a home server, some people want to do just gaming, and some people want to do it all on one computer. Some people want 2 or more monitors or screens either for productivity or stock trading or gaming. Some want skype with a cam and a higher end microphone. Some people want photoshop and some people want to do animation or use high end video or import sound from musical instruments.

There is just so much going on now in the field of computers. Gaming is just one segment of people's computer interests.

Pretty much. If I read one more "Oh, office tasks and photography, and you sometimes play browser games? You'll want at least a GTX 960!" thread I may puke.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

We've had threads that were, fantasy build threads before. Maybe we should make that more of a tradition.