New PC for Uncle/cousin

[Rydawg5143]

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
Work, Gaming (Skyrim, COD etc)
2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
$1500, yes
3) Which country do you live in? If the U.S, please tell us the state and city if possible.
Denver, Microcenter near me.
4) What exact parts do you need for that budget?
Need all!
5) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? Please be especially specific about the power supply. List make and model.
Nothing reused
6) Will you be overclocking?
No
7) What is the max resolution of your monitor? What size is it?
21" atm but probably bigger after I get machine built
8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
This month
9) What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support? USB 3.0? SATA 6Gb/s? eSATA? Onboard video (as a backup or main GPU)? UEFI? etc.
Nothing really
10) Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license? If yes, what OS? Is it 32bit or 64bit?
Yes will find win 7 pro

 

[Deleted member 88227]

So it's safe to assume this will be for 1080P gaming?

 

[Criticalhitkoala]

Uncle Cousin sounds like something here from the South!.

You should be pretty good with a Skylake i3 system combo with a geforce 970. Well within budget.

 

[Rydawg5143]

He wants an i7 and at least GTX 960. He'd rather spend money now and upgrade monitor later.

 

[mnewxcv]

the gain between i5 to i7 is going to be invisible for gaming. It just isn't worth it. Even i3 to i7 won't be a staggering difference for the most part when teamed with a solid GPU. That being said, I will put together a parts list now and see what we come up with. Question: is that really the budget, or would you rather fall a good bit short of that? That's a large budget for sure for a relatively simple machine.

 

[mnewxcv]

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/tmTtwP

there you go. Change the i5 to i7 6700k for $140 more and still within budget, though you will not see a difference in games.

edit: btw this is mATX. I didn't see a reason to get a high end board if not OCing, so it will also save some space and heat.

 

[lutjens]

I too just built my uncle a system (for Christmas) using spare parts I had kicking around (I had to buy the case, power supply and CPU cooler though).

Xeon E5-1660 under Corsair H90@4.0GHz, all voltages default.
Intel DX79SR
64GB Kingston HyperX PC3-12800 1.35V (anniversary edition)
2xSamsung 840 Pro 512GB (RAID 0)
2x Evga GTX Titan 6GB Superclocked SLi (original non-Black)
Spare Samsung DVD drive I had kicking around.
Fractal Design Define R5 ATX
Seasonic Platinum 1200W

System came together very well and more than meets his needs. He came from a Gateway i7-920 (non-overclockable), 6GB RAM, 1TB 5400 RPM hard drive, with a GeForce 285 video card, so the new machine was a considerable performance boost for him (to say the least).

 

[mnewxcv]

I too just built my uncle a system (for Christmas) using spare parts I had kicking around (I had to buy the case, power supply and CPU cooler though).

Xeon E5-1660 under Corsair H90@4.0GHz, all voltages default.
Intel DX79SR
64GB Kingston HyperX PC3-12800 1.35V (anniversary edition)
2xSamsung 840 Pro 512GB (RAID 0)
2x Evga GTX Titan 6GB Superclocked SLi (original non-Black)
Spare Samsung DVD drive I had kicking around.
Fractal Design Define R5 ATX
Seasonic Platinum 1200W

System came together very well and more than meets his needs. He came from a Gateway i7-920 (non-overclockable), 6GB RAM, 1TB 5400 RPM hard drive, with a GeForce 285 video card, so the new machine was a considerable performance boost for him (to say the least).

thats some serious stuff to have kicking around!