Ok, last night I probably spent three hours on pcpartpicker going through CPU's, motherboards, and video cards; in the end I was extremely indecisive. One of the problems I kept running into is that most of these builds I find online NEVER incorporate things like an OS, they throw all the hardware at you, ignoring the other factors that increase the cost of the build.
So, i'm making this thread to get the opinion of what you would do with $600. I already have a keyboard/mouse/monitor, my current OS is OEM, so I can't transfer it (this part irritated me the most... piece of shit); i'm also excluding the option to torrent Windows.
On virtually every opinion-piece I found, the comments were filled with people pointing out flaws in the writers choice of hardware. Compatibility was another issue I found with when considering AMD or Intel. I don't care if it's Intel or AMD, i'm not someone who's going to be playing on max settings, graphics don't matter all that much to me. I care more about the longevity of the system and it performing well without having to upgrade relatively soon.
tl;dr- throw some ideas at me that you yourself would do if you had a $600 and had to pick up an OS as well, all these crap builds always exclude that part... edit: also, being able to scale up is what i'm after as well. edit2: should also point out i'll be using Windows 10, i'd use Windows 7 but certain games I play actually work better with Windows 10.
So, i'm making this thread to get the opinion of what you would do with $600. I already have a keyboard/mouse/monitor, my current OS is OEM, so I can't transfer it (this part irritated me the most... piece of shit); i'm also excluding the option to torrent Windows.
On virtually every opinion-piece I found, the comments were filled with people pointing out flaws in the writers choice of hardware. Compatibility was another issue I found with when considering AMD or Intel. I don't care if it's Intel or AMD, i'm not someone who's going to be playing on max settings, graphics don't matter all that much to me. I care more about the longevity of the system and it performing well without having to upgrade relatively soon.
tl;dr- throw some ideas at me that you yourself would do if you had a $600 and had to pick up an OS as well, all these crap builds always exclude that part... edit: also, being able to scale up is what i'm after as well. edit2: should also point out i'll be using Windows 10, i'd use Windows 7 but certain games I play actually work better with Windows 10.
