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CodeMana

Hey! So I've almost saved up enough money to get all the parts for my PC :D But I suppose this might be a silly question, but should I wait off on buying it for the next gen consoles?

Note: I'm going to change some of the parts in the PC build. But if you want to suggest some changes, go right ahead!

Note 2: Just a small giveaway!

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Badgerized

NO. NEVER BUY A CONSOLE RIGHT WHEN IT"S RELEASED! REMEMBER THE PS3 FIASCO OR THE RED RING OF HUUBLAHJINGBLAH XBOX 360!

But, Seriously. Don't buy a console right when it's released. One, it may break.. 2 you pay 100% more the price and 3 there are always sales on new consoles every Christmas or generally every other week.

4th Computers last longer...

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Anyhoo

*Never buy a console.

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Badgerized

Or this.

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Mozendo

Consoles have good games that aren't out on PC.

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Badgerized

Somewhat True.. but now Console Game Makers are looking at PC saying... WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL THESE YEARS MY LONG LOST LOVE!

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Mozendo

True. It's a bit too early to go get a next gen console. Like in my other post I suggest buying a current gen console and play the exclusives.

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ThirdSketch

PC has good games that aren't out on consoles.

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ಠ_ಠ

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Mozendo

I never said that they didn't.

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UnusualBadger

Well in terms of the red ring microsoft didn't even fix that until their most recent 360. I've had 8 xboxs; thank god for warranties.

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kralizeh

I would get the PC. Consoles can't be upgraded and judging from their specs they are weaker than what you want to build.

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Mutso

looks fine to me, but are you really going to use all 3TB of storage?

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Badgerized

He probably has a heck of a movie collection... if you know what I mean. ;-D

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CodeMana

LOLOL, My plan was to attempt youtube. But I think I might not do it because I've got a job recently and going to college in the fall. But yea going to change the storage.

If you are all curious, I had a forum post for my PC Building

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Mozendo

Why do you have 16GB of Ram? Make it 8GB.
Why a 650w PSU if you're only going to use one GPU and why would you pay that much? Get this
Why not a i5-3750k?
WHY WHY WHY?

If I were you I'd wait or just buy a current gen console. There are some pretty amazing games and they're cheap assuming you don't own a current gen console.

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Mutso

+1 for the i5-3570K , and you can also OC it to make it even faster (seeing you have a cooler included)

also, 650W PSU is good for that, gives some space to upgrade on.

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CodeMana

16GB because some people in that thread said that 16GB will help on video editing.

650w PSU: This is going to be my first build, so Idk about the PSU .. At least it wasn't 800w like my first sugguestion ><

Um but the first sugguestion the guy helped me on was this.

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Mozendo

Well it depends on what type of video editing I guess.
Are you going to do stuff similar to what Freddiew (on youtube) does?

550w is enough. PC Part Picker says your build will only use 370w.
550 is recommended for single GPUs, 650 for dual GPUs, and 850 for triple.

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CodeMana

The plan was just for gameplay, but maybe skits in the future. But not great like Freddiew.
I also recently discovered about Dual/SLI setups, but I think I'll go with your 550w suggestion. Thank you! :]

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Mozendo

Then no you don't need 16GB. 8GB is more than enough.

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CodeMana

Then this should be fine. I'm just going to change the Case because I don't like the look of it. Q_Q haha

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Mozendo

Yup, that's better.
Now that you saved yourself about $200-300 the only suggestion I have is that you upgrade to a AMD 7970 since it's the better card, but if you don't that's fine the 670 is a great card.

Oh also buy a new mouse,keyboard, and monitor if the ones you have aren't that great.

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tr4656

I said this on SG chat, but I'll say it again.

670 for CUDA. 650 for future proofing. That Rosewill Capstone is one of the best you can get. If he really wants to save money, he could also go the XFX 650w. If he is spending that much, just go 650w.

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tr4656

Would still go 650w so you can always get another GPU in the future. If you aren't buying immediately, Haswell is out next week.

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himohillo

Unless you're doing ton of video editing and stuff, then i7 and 16gb of ram are a little overkill. Make it 8gb and i5 and you'll save some money. Go with Kingston memory and maybe consider switching your PSU to Corsair.

Buying OS

huehuehue

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tr4656

Why Corsair and Kingston? No good reason for either.

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SonofAnarchy

no rush to buy new consoles imo. they'll be overpriced and there wont be a lot of games for them early on anyway

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Closed 11 years ago by CodeMana.