Building your own Gaming PC

[LaBlallin]

So, my friend really needs a new PC to play games on. He's willing to put it together himself but neither I nor him know what components are compatable, so I decided the best decision would be to come to the wonderful people of the escapist. I'm asking you to make a computer (Not including monitor) That can run a good MMORPG at highest settings and still have 40 fps in highly populated areas.

Thank you all in advance.

 

[Katana314]

I'm not sure if I'm up for the task at the moment, but you would do very well to post the question on overclock.net somewhere. Just be sure you name some sort of price range. Also, mention whether you already have certain components like a monitor you can use elsewhere.

 

[Sleekgiant]

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Follow this, thank me later

 

[LightOfDarkness]

The enthusiast is ONLY 1.5K?
HOLY SHEEET ALIENWARE GOT NUTIN ON DIS
Anyway, for highly populated areas to have a good framerate you're gonna want to go more for CPU power than GPU power (WoW is much more CPU dependent than GPU dependent)

 

[MrTub]

So, my friend really needs a new PC to play games on. He's willing to put it together himself but neither I nor him know what components are compatable, so I decided the best decision would be to come to the wonderful people of the escapist. I'm asking you to make a computer (Not including monitor) That can run a good MMORPG at highest settings and still have 40 fps in highly populated areas.

Thank you all in advance.

A budget would be really helpful =)

 

[The Lawn]

Yeah, telling us that he needs a PC with no budget is like saying you need... well something for an undisclosed amount of something else...

Well for a little over $400 you can make a pc that will run WoW (I'm assuming thats the mmorpg you're talking about) at over 40fps at high and some ultra settings.

For an entry level PC I'd recomend an Athlon II x2 250 or 255
Any motherbord with an AM2 socket, 4 ram slots and at least one PCIe x16 slot will work.
As for ram, 2 gigs of DDR2 800mhz will be fine, and it's super cheap now.
The graphics card and power supplies are the most important to not skimp on.
Since you're running a game, the GPU will be handling 90% of the tasks.
The Radeon HD 6000 series are pretty cheap and quite powerfull for the price. I would recomend XFX's 2 fan HD6850 which is a superb sup $200 card.
As for the power supply, Corsair is a great brand, and go for at least a 750 watt psu.

If you're serious about this, for 800 bucks you can get a quad core build with a lot DDR3 ram.
There really isn't much of a diferance when gaming, slightly faster when booting up and doing normal tasks. Also with a better motherboard you have the option of using 2 graphics cards in crossfire. But if you don't know what I'm talking about I do not reccomend that path.