Building a CPU first time need help!

[Kevin92]

Hi I am building a CPU for the very first time. I only hear a advise to go to sim lim square and avoid level 1 and 2. I am building a CPU for gaming such as Dota2, counter strike and L4D and YouTube video.

My budget will be 2000 to 3000 depending on what is required.
I would like water cooling systems as I see this is something new and good.
Anyone know how shiuld I start and where or what should I take note using this budget?

 

[Aymanhero]

Rich kid jelllyyyyy

 

[shadow84]

For such games, a $1-1.2k budget is more than enough, maybe till $1.3-1.4k to include monitor, mouse, kb.

Also, by water cooling, you mean AIO cooling for cpu or those extreme levels of water cooling? Coz if its the latter, u need do loads of research. My advice is not to enter it until u are at least familar on how to self assemble your pc.

 

[Jian19]

thats a very decent budget for ur need

do u need monitor ? keyboard / mouse ?

 

[Kevin92]

For such games, a $1-1.2k budget is more than enough, maybe till $1.3-1.4k to include monitor, mouse, kb.

Also, by water cooling, you mean AIO cooling for cpu or those extreme levels of water cooling? Coz if its the latter, u need do loads of research. My advice is not to enter it until u are at least familar on how to self assemble your pc.

I will let the sim lim square people to assemble my parts, it's like 30mins and it should be done. Any shop you recommend, I heard biz gram is good.
Plus should be AIO cooling for cpu. In the later part I will post the CPU stats that another shop recommended me, priced around 2k cause I tell them 2k.

 

[Kevin92]

thats a very decent budget for ur need

do u need monitor ? keyboard / mouse ?

I do not need any kb mouse or monitor already got those from pc show.

 

[Jian19]

i5-4460 + Msi h97 gaming 3 ~ $443
G.skill ripjaws 8gb ddr3 ~ $115
Samsung evo 850 250gb ssd ~ $179
Wd blue 1tb ~ $75
Msi gtx960 gaming ~ $359
Superflower leadex 550w ~ $129
Samsung oem drive ~ $24
Fractal Design R5 ~ $159
Win8 64 oem ~ $135
Corsair h100i GTX ~ $175

$1793 buy and assemble @ pctheme ask for discount. This is more then enough for ur gaming need.

 

[ykgoh]

If you are not doing some extreme over-clocking, I don't see the need for you to have water/liquid cooling, just my 2 cents.

 

[findingfridays]

If you are not doing some extreme over-clocking, I don't see the need for you to have water/liquid cooling, just my 2 cents.

i top up another 2 cents.

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[Kevin92]

Should I upgrade to i7?

I was thinking whether I need i7 and 16gb ram. Just to additional no laggness and last longer. Hoping that I can get some advises.

 

[fatthumb]

I was thinking whether I need i7 and 16gb ram. Just to additional no laggness and last longer. Hoping that I can get some advises.

i5 sufficient for u, my usage similar to your and my 4yrs old i5 sandy bridge still more than enough. I played dota 2 and CS GO as well. i7 with hyper threading mainly useful if u do alot of encoding based on what i read. Gaming wise depends on core (both i5 and i7 hv 4 cores).

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[jedi5diah]

I was thinking whether I need i7 and 16gb ram. Just to additional no laggness and last longer. Hoping that I can get some advises.

for games like battlefield, cpu does make a significant difference. itz not a normal but can be "future proof" if you have the cash why not, same thing for ram, no harm having more but no diff to gaming performance...

 

[MoneyFace =p]

for games like battlefield, cpu does make a significant difference. itz not a normal but can be "future proof" if you have the cash why not, same thing for ram, no harm having more but no diff to gaming performance...

Rather spend the extra money on more premiun quality peripherals, headset/speaker, and monitor for overall much better gaming experience.

 

[MoneyFace =p]

I do not need any kb mouse or monitor already got those from pc show.

What peripherals and monitor have you gotten?

 

[Aymanhero]

What peripherals and monitor have you gotten?

Gonna bet 2 cents there's razer in his list

 

[MoneyFace =p]

Rather TS go for simpler system since he seems amateur, might not be able to handle maintenance of water cooling system on the long run.

 

[monikernemo]

Play Dota CS and l4D don't even need 2-3k, let alone watercooling...

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[MoneyFace =p]

Roughly $1.5K can get high end system to max most games le...

TBH those games that TS mentioned way under $1K will already suffice.

 

[monikernemo]

Yeah hahaha totally agreed

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[Goodshot]

$3000 budget ? Just get I5 + gtx 970 system u still have 1.5 k left