Help with building a new gaming PC

sureshkondaveet

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Hi Guys,

I need your help in choosing the hardware for the new PC am planning to buy. Below is the more info on it:


1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing.
A. Mainly for playing games and running image editing applications like Photoshop

2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is acceptable as long as it's not more than a 20% spread
A. 50,000 to 60,000 rupees

3. What country YOU will be buying YOUR parts from.
A. India

4. IF YOU have a brand preference. That means, are you an Intel-Fanboy, AMD-Fanboy, ATI-Fanboy, nVidia-Fanboy, Seagate-Fanboy, WD-Fanboy, etc.
A. I heard that Gigabit motherboards are good games. So am thinking about going for Intel processor with Gigabit MB.

5. If YOU intend on using any of YOUR current parts, and if so, what those parts are.
A. I have a Nvidia GTS 250 graphic card which I want to be using.

7. IF YOU plan on overclocking or run the system at default speeds.
A. No overclocking. Would be using at default speeds

8. What resolution will you be using?
A. 1920

9. WHEN do you plan to build it?
Note that it is usually not cost or time effective to choose your build more than a month before you actually plan to be using it.
A. In about two weeks time

X. Do you need to purchase any software to go with the system, such as Windows or Blu Ray playback software?
A. NO

I appreciate all your help.
 

Ken g6

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Based on USD equivalents, you're [thread=2192841]a mid-range system builder[/thread]. So start from there.

A GTS 250 is not great for playing any recent games. You appear to have enough of a budget to afford a better card of some kind.

Since you're not overclocking, you can easily go with a cheaper Gigabyte B75 and add a Xeon E3-1230 V2 processor for hyper-threading.
 

sureshkondaveet

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I forgot to mention above but I already have a 4GB DDR3 RAM, 2TB (1X2) Segate HDD and a Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 700W PSU.
 

mfenn

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Good! Having those extra parts will definitely help your budget go further. This build is from TheITwares, but feel free to shop around. Run any item substitutions by us first though.

i5 3550 Rs. 13100
GA-B75M-D3H Rs. 4500
G.Skill DDR3 1600 8GB Rs. 3550 - RAM is so cheap that you might as well get 8GB
MSI Radeon 7950 3GB Rs. 26200
Corsair Force 3 120GB Rs. 7050
Existing HDD
Existing PSU
NZXT Source 210 Elite Rs. 2600
Total: Rs. 57000

This is just a [BLINK]little[/BLINK] upgrade from a GTS 250.
 
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riversend

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mfenn, I think a smiley of some sort would have been more effective than the italicized "little." :p

Just sayin'.;)