Is it possible for a 13 year old gamer to save up enough to buy the parts to build a gaming pc

[Dys]

Building your own PC is hard work if you don't know what your doing. From personal experience I made my own with the help of my Dad, which I bought all the parts for around 10 Grand(Including 1,000 on Anti-Virus's, and other acsessories).

So yes it is possible, though getting the money will be quite a pinch if you don't have a well paying income "Job".

Try blogging, I've made most of my money by doing that, (message for help if you need it).

10 grand? Sweet jesus what did you put into it (if necessary please give warning that I may drool on my keyboard so I know to retract my head)?

*edit* right old thread is old. apparently you got annoyed with the constant quotes relating to that....sorry, I didn't mean to add to it :S

That said, I am rather curious, what did you put in it to manage such an impressive price tag?

OT; yeah, it is easily possible for you to save up to buy a gaming computer with considerably more power than the current gen consoles, plus you can upgrade parts down the track if necessary (less likely than some may suggest).

 

[Baneat]

As an owner of an AMD

Go with Intel >.>

I've never known anyone to have serious issues with AMD, and £600 doesn't leave much breathing room. If you can suggest a better build, then please do.

Switch the AMD for an i5 2500/K and the equivalent motherboard for that processor. Should cost the same.

 

[MercurySteam]

As an owner of an AMD

Go with Intel >.>

I've never known anyone to have serious issues with AMD, and £600 doesn't leave much breathing room. If you can suggest a better build, then please do.

Switch the AMD for an i5 2500/K and the equivalent motherboard for that processor. Should cost the same.

An Intel Sandybridge i5 2500K [http://www.ebuyer.com/product/251596] and an MSI P67A-GD65 with B3 stepping [http://www.ebuyer.com/product/261147] would cost about an extra £70, plus the P67 chipset probably won't be able to run the Crossfire as well as AMDs 890FX chipset. Not only wil he miss out on the superior Crossfire performance of the FX chipset, he'll probably only be able to run both PCI-e 2.0 slots at dual x8 as opposed to dual x16 that he would get with the AMD setup.

He'd probably be better off getting a single Nvidia card with an Intel mobo, but he asked for a kick-ass Crossfire setup, so that's what I gave him.