PC Gaming under 1700?

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el-Capitan

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If $1500 of that was spent on hard drives, not very much.

You need to give details on what is in your system.
 
Atomic Playboy

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You can build a very good gaming PC for $1,700, especially if you're able to buy used high-end parts from last generation at a steep discount. But you're better off asking in the "General Hardware" area of the forums for specifics.
 
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if you deal hunt you can get a pretty awesome gaming computer for under 1k not including monitor(s).

one example, I just ordered a dell xps 8700 from the Dell outlet for ~$580 after tax. i7 4770, 12gb ram, 1tb hd, radeon 7570. I figure get a 120/128gb ssd for $80ish and that leaves plenty for a better video card. There's currently a radeon 7850 for $110 after rebate too if you don't want to splurge.
 
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Definitely agree with Dumac. $1700 can buy a very good gaming system -- it may even be 'too much' depending on what resolution you are trying to drive. I spent $1200 2-3 years ago for my system, which is the most I've ever spent on a PC, and it still plays current games at 1080p very well (50fps+ in most cases).
 
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I just spent about $1400 including a monitor and a copy of windows and am very happy. BF4 on ultra with almost zero issues.
 
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Fanatical Meat said:
$1200 can buy you an INSANELY good gaming PC. Plus have money left for games or prn
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prn? Off-topic, but please don't spend money to fund that industry. There's several free sources of things like that which are entirely legal, and it's been shown that there are very bad, abusive practices in certain circles which you'd indirectly be supporting.
 
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prn? Off-topic, but please don't spend money to fund that industry. There's several free sources of things like that which are entirely legal, and it's been shown that there are very bad, abusive practices in certain circles which you'd indirectly be supporting.
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:hmm:
 
destrekor

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I'll parrot others and say you can build an extremely capable rig for that money.

It all depends on what the main hardware has to support, and what you are aiming to achieve. My gaming rig cost more in order to support triple-monitor connections as well as drive a spanned resolution across all three monitors (at times, not always).

If I didn't have the resolution/display "requirement", I could have spent a little less on a more beefy GPU, as I had to go SLI, for nvidia's 500 series, and spent, I think, around $700 for GPU configuration.
Well honestly, if I didn't have to go SLI, I probably would have spent the same amount of a more beefy single GPU setup. SLI is usually smooth, but some new games are screwed up and take some time to get patched accordingly.
 
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I spent a $1,000 on a custom desktop computer back in May 2010. It to this day, can still run any game I throw at it (maybe not on full high extreme ultra details, but still pretty good).
 
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I built my system last year for way under that budget line. I7 2600K, 32 GB of memory DDR3, 256 GB SSD, 2 TB HDD, 2x6950 (in cross fire and unlocked to 6970s), 1200 watt OCZ gold PSU, Corsair h100 water cooler, and asrock P67 fatality pro mobo.

I didn't do it all at once and I got most on deals. The CPU I got from microcenter at the time for whatever cheap price it was going for. I think $200? Motherboard I got for another $150. The PSU was clearance pickup from somewhere for $80. The memory was a sale price for $110 from newegg. Western Digital clearance SSD for $150 at the time (ridiculously good price for that time for that size SSD with SATA III speeds). Regular TB drive was like $90 as well on a deal. Video cards were $200 each on a deal I think. Cooler was another $80 off a deal.

The case I had previously and have used for a few builds. It is a rocketfish full tower case (rebadged Lian li case).

So I spent like $1300 ish or so on basically the top of line built computer at that time. It still runs like a champ with anything I through at it. In another year or so, I'll probably do another build. I also have a kick ass HTPC that pretty much plays any game I through at it in 1080p resolution on my big screen TV. Not nearly as beefy as my main comp. It's a AMD X2 of some sort that I unlocked to be a quadcore . It was like a $20 CPU I bought. MSI 880G board for like $40. 16 GB of DDR3 for another $40 at the time. My older SSD 128GB drive ( I admit I paid $200 for it when I originally bought that drive, but I could have bought one at the time for like $90 then). The smaller corsair water cooler, and my older antec 850 watt psu I picked up from when compusa closed and I bought for like $20. I have it with my old 5850 (also unlocked) which I can't remember what I paid for but guessing around $200 but could have got MUCH cheaper at the time when I put together that HTPC.

That HTPC I put together at basically the same time as my main gaming computer. The main gaming computer was like $1300 as I said above and the HTPC was far less. If I included the normalized costs of the hand me down components I put into it, the cost would have been under $500.

Basically one can get a decent gaming PC for $500 pretty easy if you know how to do it. There are tons of resource information to help those that don't know how.
 
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Sounds good, well I want to surpass my last build.

my last build had a i7 3770k
and 7950 HD GPU
8GB Ram

the cpu I got for cheap via intel retail edge and I could do that again.

Any idea what kind of GPU I'm looking at to be able to run at 1440p OR 120hz either one I want to step into.
 
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Your current system sounds like it's more than adequate to handle today's titles. If the GPU can't drive the resolution you need, have you considered purchasing a second GPU and running it in Crossfire?
 
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Your current system sounds like it's more than adequate to handle today's titles. If the GPU can't drive the resolution you need, have you considered purchasing a second GPU and running it in Crossfire?
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Sold that system actually.

Got a great deal Im just looking to do another build and since cyber monday is coming around I figured its the best time to do so.
 
TridenT

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I doubt the deals will be all that fantastic. In the past few years, online deals haven't been that great. (Normally find something better during most months of the year)

For that budget though, you could easily get a i7-4770($310), some cheap 1150 mobo($90), 2x8gb DDR3 1600 ($130), AMD R9 290 ($400), 2TB HDD ($80), 250GB SSD ($170), case ($80), and spend the $440 remaining on something like a Dell U2413.

That's close to what I have. It's not bad.
 
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