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Ah, I also forgot to mention something too, I'm going to need a 1080p monitor and a keyboard. Nothing mega fancy, super light show keyboard silliness, just a functional mechanical keyboard and a monitor that does it's job for a good price.
Ideally I'd have factored them into my £850 budget, so that limit may need to be raised to about £900~
Also, why do certain things on the PCpartpicker site not show a price? I take it they aren't just handing stuff out for free. |
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Cor, this is going to get expensive. I'll have a look into all of this stuff and hopefully will have made up my mind and ordered this stuff by next weekend. |
@swiftsabre
a couple of questions:
-are you gonna use your pc for anything else than gaming?
-do you live in a hot country?
-could you get a used 980 from a friend or why were you asking for that one?
-what parts are in your old pc?
-how much do you game?
- Probably not, can't see what else I'd be using it for, I'm no pr0 streamer
- No
- No
- None (laptop)
- Depends, I play less at the moment because playing games is mostly painful on a toaster, and it also depends on what takes my fancy, so it varies a lot, but I'd play more with a better machine |
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It's perfectly fine to create maps for a game you don't play. I make them for DoW II and haven't played that in a long while.
Do you still have a problem with this? |
I wish I had the know-how you lot did, thank you.
As for builds, I've seen the one you made above, but if say I went for a 1060 6GB, would it still work with that same build or one similar? Because I don't want to go for a similar thing that ends up not working properly. |
In that price range, you're gonna want a quad-core CPU from Intel's Skylake family, so that's either the i5-6400, 6500 or 6600. All three can easily handle all current games and COH2 will be a piece of cake. Depending on the model, that's £150-200.
For a GPU, I'd say a 980 is too expensive and it's also generally a good idea to stick to the current generation. For your budget, I'd recommend a GTX 1060 (6GB model) or RX 480 (8GB model); both start at about £230 and can handle just about any game, as long as you're not going above 1080p.
8GB of DDR4 RAM (2x4GB) should be enough for now, but you should get a motherboard with four RAM slots, so you can easily upgrade in the future.
Building yourself is totally possible - there are lots of tutorials available. It saves you money and you'll probably still do a better job than some of the guys you'd otherwise pay to do it for you.
So what would be the difference, say, between a 970 and a 1060? If a 980 is too expensive (and I looked up the prices soon after this, and yeah...) then would it be more worth going for a model from the same series of lesser performance or the one from the next series on?
And thanks btw. |
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I've decided I finally want to have a decent PC for playing games on actually able to delve into CoH 2 properly again, as the toaster I've got at the moment is bad enough, but is now showing signs of deteriorating further, so I need to ask a few things.
Firstly, I know little about specs, I know I want something pwoerful, I don't need GTX 1080 uber rigs, though something that could last a number of years without the need of many replacement parts. Not looking to get lots of new games or play any 2016 releases so far (given the disappointment that was DX MD), but possibly games like the Witcher 3.
So, I'd like some help with:
- What sort of parts will I need?
- I've considered a 980, but is it worth it?
- As it's my first desktop, can I trust myself to build it or should I go for one built by someone?
I'm looking to spend £700-£850~, though sadly Brexit has meant the rates aren't so good at the moment. |
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try Dawn of war 2 and starcraft then
*DoW II fanboi internet rage intensifies* Dawn of War II has more abilities than CoH 2 though, and more diverse ones, it's just lacking for off-maps, which seeing how CoH 2 has handled them, is a welcome thing. |
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Of all the funny and quirky hobbies out there, this is definitely one of the most interesting. |
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