Planning to make my first PC

[reidy276 2]

Hi guys,

Planning to build a PC in the next couple of months that will get me playing DayZ to a decent quality. Also would like to be able to play Battlefield 3 but more interested in Day Z.

I am a university student in my final year so money is tight. Would love to be getting between 30-40 fps.

Could any of you awesome tech people advise me on the cheapest build possible to get the game running to a nice standard. I can use my PC as a monitor so that isn't needed. Would like to have around 6-8 gb ram as a minimum.

Advice please. :D

[Charb 298]

This is the most important thing I can tell you. ensure the motherboard you are buying is a 3.0 PCI-E 16x slot. so if you are unable to spend top dollar for a high end video card, down the road in a year or two your PC will be capable of upgrading by replacing just the video card. You can get some fairly good pricing on 2.0 video cards that still have some oomph.

http://www.newegg.com/ is a great place for parts

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115090 $129 for a 3.1 GHZ dualcore, and last I checked not many games really take advantage of having multiple cores. ALSO its the same socket LGA 1155 as the new IVY core processors from intel so again, down the road you could upgrade it.

[reidy276 2]

Awesome cheers Charb :) Will be posting again when I am closer to finding out my budget, think it will only around £200-350

[rossums 2190]

Reidy, here are a few sites you should look at for parts:

www.scan.co.uk

www.ebuyer.com

www.dabs.com

www.overclockers.co.uk

www.aria.co.uk

All brilliant, trusted sites that always have good deals on.

Edited December 21, 2012 by Rossums

[reidy276 2]

awesome mate thanks very much :P if anyone fancies earning some beans it would be awesome if you could throw me a list of parts that would be suitable for my needs / budget

[reidy276 2]

any ideas? with the money i got today can make a good start on the build!

[reidy276 2]

any ideas? with the money i got today can make a good start on the build!