Building a pc for college.

Wing126

Well, as the title says i'm building a pc for college. I was accepted into the Computing in Games Development course in DKIT and i need a new PC for that. I want to build it from scratch too and i'd like if it was able to run some games at the highest setting like BF3 and Skyrim and the likes. So if anyone could help and list some parts that would make a pc good enough for my course that would be great! Thanks in advance for the help. If you need any more info let me know.

trev179

if you have a look through this forum you can see builds for your needs on various budgets

deconduo

Heya wing

Could you give a budget? Also do you need Windows, monitor, or anything else? Or is it just the tower.

Wing126

deconduo wrote: »

Heya wing

Could you give a budget? Also do you need Windows, monitor, or anything else? Or is it just the tower.

Hey decon

Reasonable budget, maximum would be a grand i'd say. I need everything lol.

deconduo

I would go with something like this:

Total build cost: €931.39 + €30 shipping
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit (SB-Version) €74.51
Intel Core i5-2500K Box, LGA1155 €175.58
Club 3D Radeon 6950 2048MB, AMD Radeon HD 6950, PCI-Express €215.24
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1000GB, SATA II (HD103SJ) €45.14
8GB-Kit G.Skill RipJaws-X PC3-10667U CL9 €38.13
Samsung SH-222AB bare schwarz SATA €16.55
Samsung SyncMaster B2430L €140.80
FRACTAL DESIGN Gehäuse DEFINE R3 Silver Arrow €89.75
ASRock P67 Pro3 (B3), Sockel 1155, ATX €83.63
Super-Flower Amazon 80Plus 550W €52.06

Couple of notes: Thats the German version of windows, its cheaper than the English one but you need to download the English version from here and burn it to a DVD.

If you need a mouse/keyboard I left a bit of space in the budget for it. However don't get a keyboard from them as it will have a german layout.

If you are willing to stretch the budget a small bit I would recommend upping the motherboard and PSU so you could add a second 6950 for crossfire later on down the line:

http://www4.hardwareversand.de/articledetail.jsp?aid=39875&agid=1629
http://www4.hardwareversand.de/articledetail.jsp?aid=43134&agid=1601

massy086

to save money i would spend less on the case and get win 7 from software4students 45 euro and with the saving get a monitor with hdmi port

Wing126

deconduo wrote: »

I would go with something like this:

Total build cost: €931.39 + €30 shipping
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit (SB-Version) €74.51
Intel Core i5-2500K Box, LGA1155 €175.58
Club 3D Radeon 6950 2048MB, AMD Radeon HD 6950, PCI-Express €215.24
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1000GB, SATA II (HD103SJ) €45.14
8GB-Kit G.Skill RipJaws-X PC3-10667U CL9 €38.13
Samsung SH-222AB bare schwarz SATA €16.55
Samsung SyncMaster B2430L €140.80
FRACTAL DESIGN Gehäuse DEFINE R3 Silver Arrow €89.75
ASRock P67 Pro3 (B3), Sockel 1155, ATX €83.63
Super-Flower Amazon 80Plus 550W €52.06

Couple of notes: Thats the German version of windows, its cheaper than the English one but you need to download the English version from here and burn it to a DVD.

If you need a mouse/keyboard I left a bit of space in the budget for it. However don't get a keyboard from them as it will have a german layout.

If you are willing to stretch the budget a small bit I would recommend upping the motherboard and PSU so you could add a second 6950 for crossfire later on down the line:

http://www4.hardwareversand.de/articledetail.jsp?aid=39875&agid=1629
http://www4.hardwareversand.de/articledetail.jsp?aid=43134&agid=1601

What would the benefits of crossfire be?
And about the windows, what is the download? Just a torrent of windows 7 english that i can use the product code on?


Everything else seems fine, i may decide to use my tv as the monitor to save a little money though. My tv is a syncmaster aswell. So thanks for the help

Wing126

massy086 wrote: »

to save money i would spend less on the case and get win 7 from software4students 45 euro and with the saving get a monitor with hdmi port

I was thinking of using my current tv as the monitor yeah.

Is softwareforstudents not only upgrades? Can i use them on a fresh install?

deconduo

Wing126 wrote: »

What would the benefits of crossfire be?
And about the windows, what is the download? Just a torrent of windows 7 english that i can use the product code on?


Everything else seems fine, i may decide to use my tv as the monitor to save a little money though. My tv is a syncmaster aswell. So thanks for the help

Crossfire is basically using 2 graphics cards at the same time. It will usually give you almost double the performance of a single card. It works out cheaper than buying a single card with the same performance as well.

The windows is a direct download of the ISO file. You just need to burn it to a DVD and use the license key you get from the German version.

You can use the softwareforstudents as a fresh install, just google how to

Wing126

I think i'll go for that then.

Right, i think i'll go with the softwareforstudents version in that case.

Thanks for the help decon, massy and trev.

I look forward to building this PC

frozenfrozen

Wing126 wrote: »

I was thinking of using my current tv as the monitor yeah.

Is softwareforstudents not only upgrades? Can i use them on a fresh install?

**It will work as a fresh install**


Do a fresh install with the upgrade disk which will end up being a 30 day trial, but you can install again over that and it will be the full version.

Wing126

I just read that online myself yeah. Thanks anyway

Unregistered.

Wing126 wrote: »

...Games Development course in DKIT and i need a new PC for that...

Really?

Wing126

Unregistered. wrote: »

Really?

Which part? Doing the course or needing a new pc?
To both it's yes. I'm currently using a 3 year old mac. Need a better graphics card, cpu and a bigger hd. Not to mention, i want some games to play aswell. So new pc.

If it's the course, i know nothing wrong with it...

Unregistered.

Wing126 wrote: »

Which part? Doing the course or needing a new pc?
To both it's yes. I'm currently using a 3 year old mac. Need a better graphics card, cpu and a bigger hd. Not to mention, i want some games to play aswell. So new pc.

I meant needing the pc for the course. No harm in upgrading for the sake of it, however make no illusions that you have to upgrade for this course your are starting, what you have now would be fine.
Best of look with it anyway.

Wing126

Unregistered. wrote: »

I meant needing the pc for the course. No harm in upgrading for the sake of it, however make no illusions that you have to upgrade for this course your are starting, what you have now would be fine.
Best of look with it anyway.

Oh okay. Well i do need a new computer regardless of the course, but i may aswell have it for the course too. Sorry if i seemed like i was snapping at you or anything.