New PC suggestion

[Groove]

A friend of mine needs a new gaming Rig.

 

Can you guys tell me what components to buy nowadays?

 

Basically i need advise on mainboard, cpu (Intel prefered), how much RAM.

 

Thanks

[Kuky]

This is my philosophy when buying PC parts:

 

CPU should be 1-2 notches lower than most expensive (right now that would mean any i7 CPU preferable the K version which is unlocked for overclocking)

 

For motherboard I like ASUS boards the most and I want one that has good cooling on the chips, lot of USB ports on the rear and no funky colors :D. lately Intel made some very good gaming boards so Intel is also good.

 

For RAM you don't really have to go very high freq but I like low latencies sticks. If you go for dual channel motherboard go for 8GB (I think 16GB is overkill), if triple channel 12GB (this is with 1366 socket which I think is not selling any more) and if quad channel go for 16GB.

 

For video card I go for top of the line card, but not dual GPU (and I don't buy every generation, I mostly skip 1 sometimes 2 generations)

Edited November 14, 2012 by Kuky
typos

[leafer]

If I had money I would buy these:

 

MSI Z77A-GD65

CORE i5 3570K

32 Gb Ram 1600 Mhz just coz I have money to burn :D

[Kuky]

If I had money I would buy these:

 

MSI Z77A-GD65

CORE i5 3570K

32 Gb Ram 1600 Mhz just coz I have money to burn :D

 

Super contradictory :D

[leafer]

Well when I had money I have money? :D Seriously eng grammar past tense is very confusing to me.

[Pyroflash]

It depends, does this friend want to use any SATA 6GB/s hardware (Will determine whether Intel or ASUS will be an appropriate mobo, there is nothing wrong with either, though I prefer a first party SATA controller rather than deal with the third party controllers ASUS packages with its boards nowadays.)? BTW, the 3570k is a good chip, though I would go with a little less RAM, probably around 16GB.