- Joined
- Apr 24, 2008
- Location
- San Antonio, TX
Hi friends!
It's been a long time since I have had the opporunity to make a new build, and now here I am again. My last build was an AthlonXP rig back in 2001. That rig served me for a good 8 years (lost possession of it during hardship). After getting back on my feet, I have been using laptops out of neccessity. I am now in the market to build a new rig, and having been on the fringes for so long, I'm needing some info on building a really good mid-range rig.
Here's what I'm looking for in components:
CPU: Ryzen ~$200 (looking to do a bit of OC, might use a liquid cooling solution)
Cooling: HS/F vs a liquid cooling system (always open for suggestions on budget-priced liquid cooling solutions) also would love to have paste suggestions...last one I used was AS5. Anyone still seeing a need for lapping heatsinks?
Mobo: Best one to go with the CPU recommended (want to support up to 32GB RAM)
Graphics: Radeon best bang for buck prefereably want to be as high on bitrate & RAM while still staying around $300 (it was not promising when browsing through newegg)
RAM: 16 or 32GB paired (not too worried about timings
PSU: recommended power rating to properly power components, modular cabling
Case: windowed recommendations welcome, would really not care to spend over $75 for a case, though.
SSD: 1TB preferred, longest lasting that can fit within my budget.
I would prefer to spend $600 - $800, but I'm placing a max hard stop at $1000
I expect this rig to be a combination of work/light gaming/twitch streaming rig. I will be using external hardware for A/V processing, but will be some encoding to push it to OBS. Planning on a W10/F32 dual boot.
Also looking for a good online merchant to ship to San Antonio, TX. Last build was done through Newegg, not sure if they are still as good as they once were.
Z
It's been a long time since I have had the opporunity to make a new build, and now here I am again. My last build was an AthlonXP rig back in 2001. That rig served me for a good 8 years (lost possession of it during hardship). After getting back on my feet, I have been using laptops out of neccessity. I am now in the market to build a new rig, and having been on the fringes for so long, I'm needing some info on building a really good mid-range rig.
Here's what I'm looking for in components:
CPU: Ryzen ~$200 (looking to do a bit of OC, might use a liquid cooling solution)
Cooling: HS/F vs a liquid cooling system (always open for suggestions on budget-priced liquid cooling solutions) also would love to have paste suggestions...last one I used was AS5. Anyone still seeing a need for lapping heatsinks?
Mobo: Best one to go with the CPU recommended (want to support up to 32GB RAM)
Graphics: Radeon best bang for buck prefereably want to be as high on bitrate & RAM while still staying around $300 (it was not promising when browsing through newegg)
RAM: 16 or 32GB paired (not too worried about timings
PSU: recommended power rating to properly power components, modular cabling
Case: windowed recommendations welcome, would really not care to spend over $75 for a case, though.
SSD: 1TB preferred, longest lasting that can fit within my budget.
I would prefer to spend $600 - $800, but I'm placing a max hard stop at $1000
I expect this rig to be a combination of work/light gaming/twitch streaming rig. I will be using external hardware for A/V processing, but will be some encoding to push it to OBS. Planning on a W10/F32 dual boot.
Also looking for a good online merchant to ship to San Antonio, TX. Last build was done through Newegg, not sure if they are still as good as they once were.
Z
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