Help a foreigner out!!

TechnoPool

1. What is your budget? 1200e ( 1700$)

2. What will be the main purpose of the computer? Gaming, variety.

3. Do you need a copy of Windows? Yes

4. Can you use any parts from an old computer? no

5. Do you need a monitor? No

6. Do you need any of these peripherals? Keyboard

7. Are you willing to try overclocking? Yes

8. How can you pay? dosent matter

9. When are you purchasing? asap

10. If you need help building it, where are you based? Canada

multimate

Probably something like this if it's just for gaming. Save a tonne of money.

fractal r4 95
seagate 2tb 81
CORSAIR CX series CX500 $64.99
MSI Z87-G41 $99.99
Intel Core i5-4670K $258.99
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit $99.99
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO $34.99
Crucial M500 120GB $79.99
PowerColor PCS+ AXR9 270X 2GBD5 $224.99
Patriot Viper 3 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 $79.99

Grand Total:* $1,120.90

edit: some 'mail-in' rebates aswel which haven't been deducted

multimate

and maybe this for a keyboard http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823201060&cm_re=mechanical_keyboard-_-23-201-060-_-Product (65)

DERPY DERPFACE

multimate wrote: »

Probably something like this if it's just for gaming. Save a tonne of money.

fractal r4 95
seagate 2tb 81
CORSAIR CX series CX500 $64.99
MSI Z87-G41 $99.99
Intel Core i5-4670K $258.99
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit $99.99
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO $34.99
Crucial M500 120GB $79.99
(9)
1. SAPPHIRE VAPOR-X 100362VXSR Radeon R9 290 4GB 512-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 CrossFireX Support TRI-X OC (UEFI) Video Card
$469.99
Patriot Viper 3 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 $79.99
Total- around 1355

edit: some 'mail-in' rebates aswel which haven't been deducted

Changed gfx card to r9 290, much better

TechnoPool

thanks folks

frozenfrozen

Also get your windows key from reddit software swap for $10 US rather than $100

DaDerv

frozenfrozen wrote: »

Also get your windows key from reddit software swap for $10 US rather than $100

How does the Reddit software swap work? Ive seen it suggested a few times. Its clearly not legitimate?! Ive looked em up for a copy of windows 8.1, so cheap! Seems almost too good to be true......

frozenfrozen

DaDerv wrote: »

How does the Reddit software swap work? Ive seen it suggested a few times. Its clearly not legitimate?! Ive looked em up for a copy of windows 8.1, so cheap! Seems almost too good to be true......

They acquire them legally, you and I using them is legal, however them transferring ownership of the license in exchange for money is a bit of a grey area. Probably breaks their terms of service however that's not our problem, we get a legit key for $10.. Someone is eventually going to be scammed and it'll be my fault for telling everyone but you could get scammed 10 times and still be up money over buying the disk from microsoft

DaDerv

frozenfrozen wrote: »

They acquire them legally, you and I using them is legal, however them transferring ownership of the license in exchange for money is a bit of a grey area. Probably breaks their terms of service however that's not our problem, we get a legit key for $10.. Someone is eventually going to be scammed and it'll be my fault for telling everyone but you could get scammed 10 times and still be up money over buying the disk from microsoft

I'll take my chances...I'll be sweating if it comes to down to the tenth one! In the case of gaming Windows 8.1 seems to be getting the nod? Is this what you're running or what do you suggest? And after that, Standard, Pro or Enterprise? OS is obviously something I better not overlook!

frozenfrozen

DaDerv wrote: »

I'll take my chances...I'll be sweating if it comes to down to the tenth one! In the case of gaming Windows 8.1 seems to be getting the nod? Is this what you're running or what do you suggest? And after that, Standard, Pro or Enterprise? OS is obviously something I better not overlook!

Seems to be getting the nod now especially if you get the few free apps to completely get rid of the metro tile thing. I'm still using windows 7 but not out of any reason in particular, I just haven't felt the need to upgrade yet. I also paid full whack for this license so I'll get my moneys worth out of it.. it's a pity I didn't know about reddit software swap until recently..

Go for professional. All the same price on RSS, but professional is what you should get, unless you want ultimate just for fun, but I think the iso is substantially bigger because several languages come with it? That's how windows 7 worked anyway.

If I was looking for a new os now I'd be getting 8.1 professional 64 bit (same keys for 32 and 64, but just for when you're downloading the iso to install make sure its 64)

DaDerv

frozenfrozen wrote: »

Seems to be getting the nod now especially if you get the few free apps to completely get rid of the metro tile thing. I'm still using windows 7 but not out of any reason in particular, I just haven't felt the need to upgrade yet. I also paid full whack for this license so I'll get my moneys worth out of it.. it's a pity I didn't know about reddit software swap until recently..

Go for professional. All the same price on RSS, but professional is what you should get, unless you want ultimate just for fun, but I think the iso is substantially bigger because several languages come with it? That's how windows 7 worked anyway.

If I was looking for a new os now I'd be getting 8.1 professional 64 bit (same keys for 32 and 64, but just for when you're downloading the iso to install make sure its 64)

Yeah I'm running 8.1 standard on a laptop and have gotten used to it. It did take some time though but i rarely leave the desktop and can right click windows icon as the start button. Cheers for the advice though. RSS is probably the route I'll go down. Hopefully it'll free up some more funds for the hardware!