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Posted 17 June 2015 - 10:50 PM
Hi guys,
it has been a long time since I have not started a topic.
If you had 1000 euros (~1120$), what PC would you build.
What CPU? Motherboard? GPU? Cooler?
How much RAM? Storage (HDD vs SSD)?
The PC should run Minecraft and nearly anything else I throw at it.
Do not include Windows is the price since I will use linux.
Just compile a quick list with prices if possible.
I am eager to hear your recomendations.
Thank you and cheers.
I forgot monitor.
And SLI/Crossfire vs not this stuff.
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Posted 18 June 2015 - 01:56 AM
Hmm… I've never built a PC, so I choose those products I liked the most / had a good impression.
Do I have to add links to the products? Meh, if someone doesn't like the links, I'll remove them.
Also a note: I'm not advertising. I'm just too frickin' lazy to search images from other sources
Also, I don't think they ship outside HungaryAlso, almost everything is more expensive in Hungary than everywhere else (at least compared to other countries in Europe)Also, I should stop this chainSo, total budget at the current time is 313272Ft (HUF, Hungarian Forint) (this is equal to 1k€)
- Motherboard: EVGA Z87 FTW 141-HW-E877-KR 64 122 Ft
- I liked it because it has FTW in its name :lol:/>
- Seriously, I liked it, because it looks cool, it has so many slots, that I can't use them all, and it has 8! SATA connectors! (somewhere in a parallel universe, because I can't see them)
- CPU: koráj i7 4790K 99 395 Ft
- Pronounce as /core i/, but say it really fast
- Y u need more than 4 cores if it's faster than Sanic? It's good for KVM'ing Win8 under Slacky (that's how I call Slackware) :P/>
- RAM1: Kingston 2x4GB DDR3 1333MHz HyperX Fury Blue 20 406 Ft
- It would be great if I could chose this in Linux as the main RAM-cards :P/>
- Also, it looks cool :D/>
- RAM2: Kingston 2x4GB DDR3 2400MHz HX324C11T3K2/8 22 522 Ft
- It would be great if I could allocate/mount this in Linux as RAMDISK
- GPU: "Asus"? Nvidia Geforce GTX 750 GTX750-PHOC-2GD5 37 471 Ft
- Because Nvidia's drivers don't suck. *cough*AMD*cough*
- HDD: Western Digital 1TB WD10EZEX 15 072 Ft
- Because lol, it's a WD Blue! I have currently a 250G one. Even my old XP PC had a 40G one :P/>
- Power: Be quiet! 600W System Power S7 BN145 26 149 Ft
- Idk, I just saw this, and I chose this because it had a good impression in the naming and in the design. I hope it's quiet as the name says :P/>
- Also, I don't think I'll need more power than 0.6k WATs :P/>
- Case: Sharkoon VS3-V 4044951013340 9 415 Ft
- Because it's green :P/>
- And it looks cool
- AND IT HAS A FRICKIN FLOPPY HOLE!
- Cooler: Artic Alpine 11 Plus 2 186 Ft
- Idk. I chose this. Period.
- Disk: Pioneer DVR-221BK DVD-RW SATA OEM 5 061 Ft
- It's a Pioneer. Dad loves this brand. It can also burn DVDs (to hell)
- Monitor: I'll stick with my ol' trusty HP 74 :3 I hate CRT monitors. I wanna buy a Benq GL955A. This crappy Samsung thingy I have is not so good. It's missing 6cols'o'pixels from being 16:9 (it's 1360x768). And it does not support 1280x720.
- Keyboard: I'll stick with my ye' olde keyboard. It's missing ALL the labels from the keys :P/> At least I learned how to type blind :lol:/>
- Mouse: I have a Trust GXT14, and I never plan changing it.
- OS: the OS is obviously Slacky (Slackware) with recompiled kernel with KVM support enabled for faster VMs
All this things cost in total
301 799FtWe have 11 473Ft left, that's 36.6231805 Euros (thx Google), so I could finally get a legit copy of Minecraft
Note: WHYYYYY?
You have posted a message with more emoticons than this community allows. Please reduce the number of emoticons you've added to the messageEdited on 18 June 2015 - 01:18 AM
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Posted 18 June 2015 - 05:54 AM
Thank you very much! :)/>
I am also waiting for other suggestions.
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Posted 18 June 2015 - 05:56 AM
You might want to ast here too, it's a community dedicated to pc building.
https://m.reddit.com/r/buildapc
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Posted 18 June 2015 - 06:01 AM
You might want to ast here too, it's a community dedicated to pc building.
https://m.reddit.com/r/buildapc
Thank you. Will definately be using the site. Else, there is tomshardware.com
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Posted 18 June 2015 - 07:57 AM
If you want a gaming computer, don't buy a 750. If you want to play higher-end games or even max out games, you're going to need a much more powerful card.
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Posted 18 June 2015 - 08:31 AM
If you want a gaming computer, don't buy a 750. If you want to play higher-end games or even max out games, you're going to need a much more powerful card.
Yeah, but the budget will probably not allow much more without cutting important other stuff. I mean, 20 bucks power supply and shitty harddrive are not what you want, if you spend 1000,- € on your computer.
It really depends on his own priorities. I don't think it's of too great idea to let someone else chose the hardware for you. He should specify exactly, what he wants to do. playing minecraft and playing the latest and greatest ftb pack is a huge difference for example, that would drastically influence the choice of total ram.
Also, I'm sure that there are many many better places for this, than this Ask a Pro section. I mean, as you see the community willl help you, and it's nice to get help by people, that you are already somewhat familiar with, but I don't think that this is the greatest place, and that it belongs to a more personal place. You may ask me or/and some others in a chat room of the forums ;)/>
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Posted 18 June 2015 - 11:11 AM
If you want a gaming computer, don't buy a 750. If you want to play higher-end games or even max out games, you're going to need a much more powerful card.
–snip–
It really depends on his own priorities. I don't think it's of too great idea to let someone else chose the hardware for you. He should specify exactly, what he wants to do. playing minecraft and playing the latest and greatest ftb pack is a huge difference for example, that would drastically influence the choice of total ram.
–snip–
That's absolutely true about my choice. I chose those, because that supplies my needs (or idk how do you say it in English…). I need so much ram, because I'm using RAMDISKS right now! And it's bad that I can't use those RAMDISKs while running a Minecraft server, since I need all the ram to run that two (2G to server, and 4G to client, because "Load far" makes my FPS MUCH faster). And for the HDD… I have WD Blue, and I think it's fast enough for me. But I have 330G storage in total, and I made that full :P/> (Lol, most of them are just devtools and sooscodes :P/>), so that's why I need a 1Tb one. As for the GPU, I don't need anything fancy, just run over 60fps pls. I played non-original Minecraft with my custum hacked ATLauncher for all these years with <20fps. If I would get that much money (hey! most of the Hungarian people make that 1k€ between 1.5-4months), I would really buy all this things :P/>
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Posted 18 June 2015 - 11:16 AM
Here is my recommendation for a PC for 1037 euros
Intel core I5 4690K £179.46
Corsair Vengence 8GB 1866 £49.99
Seagate 1TB HDD £39.23
Samsung 24x DVD £9.59
EVGA 550w PSU £67.43
Gigabyte z97 LGA 1150 £61.16
Corsair Carbide 200R £49.14
Palit GTX 970 £245.96
Sandisk Pulse 128GB SSD £41.83
Total
offers a good balance between everything and should be good in any scenario such as gaming, rendering and both CPU and GPU intensive tasks
the majority of this is off scan.co.uk and ebuyer.com
Edited on 18 June 2015 - 09:18 AM
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Posted 18 June 2015 - 12:38 PM
Here is my recommendation for a PC for 1037 euros
Intel core I5 4690K £179.46
Corsair Vengence 8GB 1866 £49.99
Seagate 1TB HDD £39.23
Samsung 24x DVD £9.59
EVGA 550w PSU £67.43
Gigabyte z97 LGA 1150 £61.16
Corsair Carbide 200R £49.14
Palit GTX 970 £245.96
Sandisk Pulse 128GB SSD £41.83
Total
offers a good balance between everything and should be good in any scenario such as gaming, rendering and both CPU and GPU intensive tasks
the majority of this is off scan.co.uk and ebuyer.com
Thank you. This choice seems interesting.
As for IDT, I am not planning to chose exactly what you recommend. I just want to get a general idea.
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Posted 18 June 2015 - 12:41 PM
If you have an old desktop, try to scavenge some parts out of it.
If there are some recycling places near your home, then it way be worth "shopping" there for an old PC to scavenge from. I managed to get an old keyboard which only had one broken key (the back slash \ ). Be warned though, some recycling places are not allowed to take stuff out (although that didn't stop the workers at mine from allowing me to have that keyboard).
Hopefully this will allow you to stretch your money.
I got a decent laptop for £300 (€418.78 according to google).
Specs on the way.I can play skyrim on medium graphics with a lot of mods (160 I think) or minecraft with about 90 mods, gets a little warm from time to time, but it does well.
Hopefully that can give you an idea of what specs you need for your PC.
Edited on 18 June 2015 - 10:50 AM
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Posted 18 June 2015 - 12:44 PM
Thanks, Lupus. Sadly I do not have an old desktop nor a PC trash place.
What do you think about Sapphire R9 290X Tri-X
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Posted 18 June 2015 - 12:55 PM
Thanks, Lupus. Sadly I do not have an old desktop nor a PC trash place.
What do you think about Sapphire R9 290X Tri-X
if you are going to buy a 200 series amd gpu i would wait for the new 300 series coming out this year as they will have a substantial performance increase from the last generation. while the 290x is a really good card its only really competes against cards like the 970 in higher resolution tests such as 1440p and above and is generally a good overclocker if you are into things like that.
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Posted 18 June 2015 - 02:13 PM
I see. Thanks
i5 or i7
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Posted 18 June 2015 - 02:18 PM
I see. Thanks
i5 or i7
for you budget i would recommend i5 and spend the excess money on a higher end GPU however it depends on the type of workloads you will be performing while 90% of the time a game will never utilise the i7 to its full potential unless they start using 8 threads. the I5 has 4 cores but doesnt have hyper threading like the I7 which has 4 cores and 4 threads there are some extra technologies which are on the i7 platform which may interest you. in conclusion the I5 is more cost effective but the i7 is more future proof. it just depends on what you want to do with it. if you require rendering capabilities or high resolution graphics editing or other intensive tasks then the i7 would be more suited.
Edited on 18 June 2015 - 12:21 PM
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Posted 18 June 2015 - 03:32 PM
Games are rarely multi-threaded (and those that do usually only have ~4 running at a time, with the rest being idle), so CPU wise, go for a high clock rate over more cores. Also, look for a large cache, the less your CPU is waiting for data from RAM, the faster it can play your game. This cache thing goes for your GPU too. Also look for a good amount of VRAM, but don't skip out on normal RAM for more VRAM.
Source: I'm a student on a game developing course.
Edited on 18 June 2015 - 01:33 PM
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Posted 18 June 2015 - 10:43 PM
I'm assuming that you probably really wouldn't care about interior looks, just performance. So I didn't through this into a single color theme, rather in fact there's a blue motherboard and red RAM lol.
Also, note that I made this using US version, because I didn't know your exact country. The price comes down to $1117. Converted that may be 1000 Euro, but PC part prices are different in different countrys, ex one ssd here may be $90 but in the UK it may be, converted from GBP, $110. So the final price in your country may be higher or lower then 1000 Euro. Some parts may not be even available there. If you can give me what country you live in, I can probably fix this if its true.
Also I'm a little suprised that seemingly no one has used pcpp yet?
PCPartPicker part list /
Price breakdown by merchantCPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($247.77 @ Amazon)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($26.98 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97M Pro4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($76.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($51.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($97.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($48.75 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 970 4GB STRIX Video Card ($319.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($40.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($44.99 @ Newegg)
Monitor: Acer H236HLbid 60Hz 23.0" Monitor ($160.73 @ B&H)
Total: $1117.06
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when availableGenerated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-18 17:34 EDT-0400Also if its really hot where you live, make sure to probably buy a few more fans or change out to a Corsair H100i or something.
Btw,
http://www.linustechtips.com is always a good place to go for computer-related questions :P/>
http://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterraceEdited on 18 June 2015 - 08:45 PM
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Posted 18 June 2015 - 10:56 PM
-snip-
Thank you a lot! Definately helped ;)/>
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Posted 19 June 2015 - 10:48 AM
I'm assuming that you probably really wouldn't care about interior looks, just performance. So I didn't through this into a single color theme, rather in fact there's a blue motherboard and red RAM lol.
Also, note that I made this using US version, because I didn't know your exact country. The price comes down to $1117. Converted that may be 1000 Euro, but PC part prices are different in different countrys, ex one ssd here may be $90 but in the UK it may be, converted from GBP, $110. So the final price in your country may be higher or lower then 1000 Euro. Some parts may not be even available there. If you can give me what country you live in, I can probably fix this if its true.
Also I'm a little suprised that seemingly no one has used pcpp yet?
PCPartPicker part list /
Price breakdown by merchantCPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($247.77 @ Amazon)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($26.98 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97M Pro4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($76.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($51.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($97.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($48.75 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 970 4GB STRIX Video Card ($319.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($40.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($44.99 @ Newegg)
Monitor: Acer H236HLbid 60Hz 23.0" Monitor ($160.73 @ B&H)
Total: $1117.06
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when availableGenerated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-18 17:34 EDT-0400Also if its really hot where you live, make sure to probably buy a few more fans or change out to a Corsair H100i or something.
Btw,
http://www.linustechtips.com is always a good place to go for computer-related questions :P/>
http://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace
pc parts are so cheap in the US we and everyone else in the EU have to pay 20% tax ontop of everything so that computer goes from being $1117 to $1340
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Posted 19 June 2015 - 11:06 AM
I'm assuming that you probably really wouldn't care about interior looks, just performance. So I didn't through this into a single color theme, rather in fact there's a blue motherboard and red RAM lol.
Also, note that I made this using US version, because I didn't know your exact country. The price comes down to $1117. Converted that may be 1000 Euro, but PC part prices are different in different countrys, ex one ssd here may be $90 but in the UK it may be, converted from GBP, $110. So the final price in your country may be higher or lower then 1000 Euro. Some parts may not be even available there. If you can give me what country you live in, I can probably fix this if its true.
Also I'm a little suprised that seemingly no one has used pcpp yet?
PCPartPicker part list /
Price breakdown by merchantCPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($247.77 @ Amazon)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($26.98 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97M Pro4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($76.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($51.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($97.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($48.75 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 970 4GB STRIX Video Card ($319.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($40.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($44.99 @ Newegg)
Monitor: Acer H236HLbid 60Hz 23.0" Monitor ($160.73 @ B&H)
Total: $1117.06
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when availableGenerated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-18 17:34 EDT-0400Also if its really hot where you live, make sure to probably buy a few more fans or change out to a Corsair H100i or something.
Btw,
http://www.linustechtips.com is always a good place to go for computer-related questions :P/>
http://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace
pc parts are so cheap in the US we and everyone else in the EU have to pay 20% tax ontop of everything so that computer goes from being $1117 to $1340
Lucky you're not in Australia, the price is almost always 33% or 50% higher than in the US.
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Posted 19 June 2015 - 11:41 AM
I'm assuming that you probably really wouldn't care about interior looks, just performance. So I didn't through this into a single color theme, rather in fact there's a blue motherboard and red RAM lol.
Also, note that I made this using US version, because I didn't know your exact country. The price comes down to $1117. Converted that may be 1000 Euro, but PC part prices are different in different countrys, ex one ssd here may be $90 but in the UK it may be, converted from GBP, $110. So the final price in your country may be higher or lower then 1000 Euro. Some parts may not be even available there. If you can give me what country you live in, I can probably fix this if its true.
Also I'm a little suprised that seemingly no one has used pcpp yet?
PCPartPicker part list /
Price breakdown by merchantCPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($247.77 @ Amazon)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($26.98 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97M Pro4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($76.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($51.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($97.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($48.75 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 970 4GB STRIX Video Card ($319.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($40.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($44.99 @ Newegg)
Monitor: Acer H236HLbid 60Hz 23.0" Monitor ($160.73 @ B&H)
Total: $1117.06
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when availableGenerated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-18 17:34 EDT-0400Also if its really hot where you live, make sure to probably buy a few more fans or change out to a Corsair H100i or something.
Btw,
http://www.linustechtips.com is always a good place to go for computer-related questions :P/>
http://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace
pc parts are so cheap in the US we and everyone else in the EU have to pay 20% tax ontop of everything so that computer goes from being $1117 to $1340
Lucky you're not in Australia, the price is almost always 33% or 50% higher than in the US.
How do you know I am not in Autralia?
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Posted 19 June 2015 - 12:11 PM
I'm assuming that you probably really wouldn't care about interior looks, just performance. So I didn't through this into a single color theme, rather in fact there's a blue motherboard and red RAM lol.
Also, note that I made this using US version, because I didn't know your exact country. The price comes down to $1117. Converted that may be 1000 Euro, but PC part prices are different in different countrys, ex one ssd here may be $90 but in the UK it may be, converted from GBP, $110. So the final price in your country may be higher or lower then 1000 Euro. Some parts may not be even available there. If you can give me what country you live in, I can probably fix this if its true.
Also I'm a little suprised that seemingly no one has used pcpp yet?
PCPartPicker part list /
Price breakdown by merchantCPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($247.77 @ Amazon)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($26.98 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97M Pro4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($76.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($51.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($97.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($48.75 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 970 4GB STRIX Video Card ($319.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($40.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($44.99 @ Newegg)
Monitor: Acer H236HLbid 60Hz 23.0" Monitor ($160.73 @ B&H)
Total: $1117.06
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when availableGenerated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-18 17:34 EDT-0400Also if its really hot where you live, make sure to probably buy a few more fans or change out to a Corsair H100i or something.
Btw,
http://www.linustechtips.com is always a good place to go for computer-related questions :P/>/>/>
http://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace
pc parts are so cheap in the US we and everyone else in the EU have to pay 20% tax ontop of everything so that computer goes from being $1117 to $1340
Lucky you're not in Australia, the price is almost always 33% or 50% higher than in the US.
How do you know I am not in Autralia?
You specified Euro's, we have dollars. :P/>/>
Edited on 19 June 2015 - 10:16 AM
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Posted 19 June 2015 - 12:41 PM
Oh, true!
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Posted 19 June 2015 - 07:18 PM
A quick word of warning, a lot of PC games are built for running on windows. (You mentions that this PC will be running Linux)
I present four options:
- Keep Linux as your only OS and have a reduced game library (With the creation of the Linux based steamOS, this is becoming less of an issue)
- Keep Linux as your only OS and install Wine (Wine is not perfect at allowing Windows programs to run on Linux, you may experience strange bugs in the game)
- Have a Windows virtual machine (You may experience reduced performance from your games due to the overhead of 2 OSs and the VM software. If you have really good hardware, this may not be an issue)
- Dual boot with windows (Have two OSs installed on the machine, but you'll have to shut one down before being able to switch to the other).
Edited on 19 June 2015 - 09:51 PM
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Posted 19 June 2015 - 08:50 PM
A quick word of warning, a lot of PC games are built for running on windows. (You mentions that this PC will be running Linux)
I present four options:
- Keep Linux as your only OS and have a reduced game library (With the creation of the Linux based steamOS, this is becoming less of an issue)
- Keep Linux as your only OS and install Winehttps://www.winehq.org/ (Wine is not perfect at allowing Windows programs to run on Linux, you may experience strange bugs in the game)
- Have a Windows virtual machine (You may experience reduced performance from your games due to the overhead of 2 OSs and the VM software. If you have really good hardware, this may not be an issue)
- Dual boot with windows (Have two OSs installed on the machine, but have to turn one off before being able to switch to the other).
And I chose option 4.
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Posted 20 June 2015 - 12:01 AM
Just had another though, there is no reason that you can't combine some of the options.
For example, dual boot with VMs on both OSs, with Wine on the Linux half.
If you want to get really fancy, you can have the VM's use the (other) real OS to boot from. (So that your VM is your other machine, the closest you can get to having both OSs running at the same time on one machine. [Side note, there is a
project which puts a Linux kernel in the windows "kernel" allowing windows to run Linux stuff])
If you find yourself enjoying Linux a lot and Windows is becoming a pain, try these:
http://www.mingw.org/ https://www.cygwin.com/ http://lifehacker.com/how-to-get-the-best-linux-features-on-windows-1569195729 While not perfect, they are useful.
Edited on 19 June 2015 - 10:10 PM
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Posted 20 June 2015 - 09:18 AM
I find Windows easier, but that is a get used to it thing.