Celtic Heroes

Considering 92% of computers are running some form of windows... Yea... Windows wins this, sorry macintosh fans.

well, gratz on having an insanely powerful computer. macs do have less hardware for the money, but it they are optimised way better and run way better, and they will always use the best quality of harware.

i plan to build a pc not quite as powerful as yours, but still pretty insane. i would like some suggestions on how powerful of hardware i would need to do things like neverwinter battlefield and many other high performance games and be able to run them on very high if not the highest settings. that is what i would need help with.[/quote]
If you are going cheap I would recommend, intel core i5/i3 processor, western digital caviar blue 1tb hard drive, 4gb corsair vengeance RAM, any power source will do, for a CPU go for the AMD Athlon X4 750k, for a motherboard go for the MSI FM2-A75MA-E35. For a graphics apple go for a XFX radeon HD 7770 GHZ edition and for a case I would go for the NZXT source 210. This is the cheapest way to get a computer that doesnt suck. Btw if you choose the i5processor you will need 8 GB of RAM because i5 is 4 cores, meaning better performance, but you need about 2gb per core for a gaming PC. i3 with 4gb will be fine tho but if you want a bit better processing power. The i5 is the way to go. Either way this will cut you about 400-600 dollars, and a few hours to build urself.

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If you are going cheap I would recommend, intel core i5/i3 processor, western digital caviar blue 1tb hard drive, 4gb corsair vengeance RAM, any power source will do, for a CPU go for the AMD Athlon X4 750k, for a motherboard go for the MSI FM2-A75MA-E35. For a graphics apple go for a XFX radeon HD 7770 GHZ edition and for a case I would go for the NZXT source 210. This is the cheapest way to get a computer that doesnt suck. Btw if you choose the i5processor you will need 8 GB of RAM because i5 is 4 cores, meaning better performance, but you need about 2gb per core for a gaming PC. i3 with 4gb will be fine tho but if you want a bit better processing power. The i5 is the way to go. Either way this will cut you about 400-600 dollars, and a few hours to build urself.

If you don't know what you're talking about it's really not fair to give someone advice on a PC build.

There is no reason why you can't have 4GB of Ram with an i5 Processor. More cores does not necessarily mean better performance, hence why a 4GHz i5 3570k (quad-core) will out perform an FX-8350 (octa-core), despite the FX having twice as many cores. Intel i3s suck, a 3570K is the best gaming core offered by Intel. There is no reasoning behind saying you need 2GB of RAM per core. RAM is quick storage, information is loaded from the HDD/SSD to the RAM so that it can be accessed with little to no latency.

Reasons why the above recommendation sucks:
You stated 2 CPUs in your build
A 1TB HDD will be marginally cheaper than a 2 or 3 TB HDD
You said any power supply will do, then suggested a high powered apple
You didn't suggest any CPU cooler
The motherboard is incompatible with an Intel CPU
RAM is cheap, so large amounts can be used to future proof your build (4 would be good enough, anything above requires 64-bit OS)
A HD 7770 is an outdated apple and won't be able to handle medium graphics at sustainable frame rates on recent games

If you are going cheap I would recommend, intel core i5/i3 processor, western digital caviar blue 1tb hard drive, 4gb corsair vengeance RAM, any power source will do, for a CPU go for the AMD Athlon X4 750k, for a motherboard go for the MSI FM2-A75MA-E35. For a graphics apple go for a XFX radeon HD 7770 GHZ edition and for a case I would go for the NZXT source 210. This is the cheapest way to get a computer that doesnt suck. Btw if you choose the i5processor you will need 8 GB of RAM because i5 is 4 cores, meaning better performance, but you need about 2gb per core for a gaming PC. i3 with 4gb will be fine tho but if you want a bit better processing power. The i5 is the way to go. Either way this will cut you about 400-600 dollars, and a few hours to build urself.

If you don't know what you're talking about it's really not fair to give someone advice on a PC build.

There is no reason why you can't have 4GB of Ram with an i5 Processor. More cores does not necessarily mean better performance, hence why a 4GHz i5 3570k (quad-core) will out perform an FX-8350 (octa-core), despite the FX having twice as many cores. Intel i3s suck, a 3570K is the best gaming core offered by Intel. There is no reasoning behind saying you need 2GB of RAM per core. RAM is quick storage, information is loaded from the HDD/SSD to the RAM so that it can be accessed with little to no latency.

Reasons why the above recommendation sucks:
You stated 2 CPUs in your build
A 1TB HDD will be marginally cheaper than a 2 or 3 TB HDD
You said any power supply will do, then suggested a high powered apple
You didn't suggest any CPU cooler
The motherboard is incompatible with an Intel CPU
RAM is cheap, so large amounts can be used to future proof your build (4 would be good enough, anything above requires 64-bit OS)
A HD 7770 is an outdated apple and won't be able to handle medium graphics at sustainable frame rates on recent games

I stated 2 CPU types because it depends on price over performance or vice versa, and you do want 2gb to a core because otherwise you will expirience lag spikes while playing games, the lag spikes are your computer transphering the infomation on the Random Access Memory to the hard drive, and a 1 tb hard drive is all you need, 1tb is enough storage for everything you need. Anyone with more than 1tb hard drive is just showing off.

If you are going cheap I would recommend, intel core i5/i3 processor, western digital caviar blue 1tb hard drive, 4gb corsair vengeance RAM, any power source will do, for a CPU go for the AMD Athlon X4 750k, for a motherboard go for the MSI FM2-A75MA-E35. For a graphics apple go for a XFX radeon HD 7770 GHZ edition and for a case I would go for the NZXT source 210. This is the cheapest way to get a computer that doesnt suck. Btw if you choose the i5processor you will need 8 GB of RAM because i5 is 4 cores, meaning better performance, but you need about 2gb per core for a gaming PC. i3 with 4gb will be fine tho but if you want a bit better processing power. The i5 is the way to go. Either way this will cut you about 400-600 dollars, and a few hours to build urself.

If you don't know what you're talking about it's really not fair to give someone advice on a PC build.

There is no reason why you can't have 4GB of Ram with an i5 Processor. More cores does not necessarily mean better performance, hence why a 4GHz i5 3570k (quad-core) will out perform an FX-8350 (octa-core), despite the FX having twice as many cores. Intel i3s suck, a 3570K is the best gaming core offered by Intel. There is no reasoning behind saying you need 2GB of RAM per core. RAM is quick storage, information is loaded from the HDD/SSD to the RAM so that it can be accessed with little to no latency.

Reasons why the above recommendation sucks:
You stated 2 CPUs in your build
A 1TB HDD will be marginally cheaper than a 2 or 3 TB HDD
You said any power supply will do, then suggested a high powered apple
You didn't suggest any CPU cooler
The motherboard is incompatible with an Intel CPU
RAM is cheap, so large amounts can be used to future proof your build (4 would be good enough, anything above requires 64-bit OS)
A HD 7770 is an outdated apple and won't be able to handle medium graphics at sustainable frame rates on recent games

I stated 2 CPU types because it depends on price over performance or vice versa, and you do want 2gb to a core because otherwise you will expirience lag spikes while playing games, the lag spikes are your computer transphering the infomation on the Random Access Memory to the hard drive, and a 1 tb hard drive is all you need, 1tb is enough storage for everything you need. Anyone with more than 1tb hard drive is just showing off.

Wow. Your lack of knowledge baffles me. Information does not go to RAM before the Hard drive... it goes to from the hard drive to the RAM, and yes that's 100% wrong. You emphasised the Core i5 and suggested an incompatible mother board. There is no logic behind 2GB per core.

Please address the above issues before continuing with your insanity.

If you are going cheap I would recommend, intel core i5/i3 processor, western digital caviar blue 1tb hard drive, 4gb corsair vengeance RAM, any power source will do, for a CPU go for the AMD Athlon X4 750k, for a motherboard go for the MSI FM2-A75MA-E35. For a graphics apple go for a XFX radeon HD 7770 GHZ edition and for a case I would go for the NZXT source 210. This is the cheapest way to get a computer that doesnt suck. Btw if you choose the i5processor you will need 8 GB of RAM because i5 is 4 cores, meaning better performance, but you need about 2gb per core for a gaming PC. i3 with 4gb will be fine tho but if you want a bit better processing power. The i5 is the way to go. Either way this will cut you about 400-600 dollars, and a few hours to build urself.

If you don't know what you're talking about it's really not fair to give someone advice on a PC build.

There is no reason why you can't have 4GB of Ram with an i5 Processor. More cores does not necessarily mean better performance, hence why a 4GHz i5 3570k (quad-core) will out perform an FX-8350 (octa-core), despite the FX having twice as many cores. Intel i3s suck, a 3570K is the best gaming core offered by Intel. There is no reasoning behind saying you need 2GB of RAM per core. RAM is quick storage, information is loaded from the HDD/SSD to the RAM so that it can be accessed with little to no latency.

Reasons why the above recommendation sucks:
You stated 2 CPUs in your build
A 1TB HDD will be marginally cheaper than a 2 or 3 TB HDD
You said any power supply will do, then suggested a high powered apple
You didn't suggest any CPU cooler
The motherboard is incompatible with an Intel CPU
RAM is cheap, so large amounts can be used to future proof your build (4 would be good enough, anything above requires 64-bit OS)
A HD 7770 is an outdated apple and won't be able to handle medium graphics at sustainable frame rates on recent games

Also, the motherboard is compatible as I have built this very same computer before, I have used that same graphics apple and can run battlefield 3 on medium to high settings 1080p and it runs well, of course this wont exactly be the best computer but for price, not much to complain about, also the power supply doesn't really matter, long as you don't get a crappy one then you're good and a cooler is self explanatory, you don't really need to mention that a cooler is needed, if I didn't mention a cooler because if you don't know that computers need coolers then you shouldn't be trying to build a computer, sorry less-techie people.

Also rochoh2000. A gaming computer brings with it many burdens, and stay safe, while you may think you have found a great source to get minecraft for free, what you have actually found is a file completly corrupt with malware, spyware, scareware and all sorts of stuff

Also, the motherboard is compatible as I have built this very same computer before, I have used that same graphics apple and can run battlefield 3 on medium to high settings 1080p and it runs well, of course this wont exactly be the best computer but for price, not much to complain about, also the power supply doesn't really matter, long as you don't get a crappy one then you're good and a cooler is self explanatory, you don't really need to mention that a cooler is needed, if I didn't mention a cooler because if you don't know that computers need coolers then you shouldn't be trying to build a computer, sorry less-techie people.

AMD CPUs used the FM series of socket size. The board you suggested uses FM2, an i5 uses a LGA1156 socket. This means unless you forced the CPU under the bracket, irreparably damaging the CPU, you didn't get an i5 on your build.