open to suggestions for a prebuilt mid-tier pc...

[DREW-TANg]

...as long as it's fairly upgradeable. monitor suggestions are welcome as well. shoot me some links, i haven't been in the hardware loop in about a decade.

[Carras]

budget?

[DREW-TANg]

flexible (ideally 1500 w/ monitor)

[Sunny]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6olutcuXHc - $500 budget
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh_dGts6TeQ - $750 budget
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CfP2ZcPxcU - $1000 budget
weird guy but smart lol

http://www.amazon.com/VG248QE-24-Inch-S ... us+monitor

best monitor i've owned

if you have a micro center (awesome computer store) by you, you can pick up all the supplies from there for a relatively cheap price

[Sunny]

for 1500 with a monitor u'll have a high-end computer that could be upgraded in the future

[InfamousRaider]

$1500 will get you a pretty damn good computer even if you include monitor. Personally, I would wait until g-sync comes out before I got a new monitor at this point. Definitely get one of the 144hz monitors, it makes a huge difference.

[DREW-TANg]

[DREW-TANg]

[InfamousRaider]

[Carras]

[xHikaru!]

get this one instead of the asus, nice deal and better colors
http://www.amazon.com/BenQ-XL2420TE-Per ... nq+xl240te

asus one is better if you're going for g sync though.

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[RickJames]

[DREW-TANg]

yeah rick, after looking into the VG248QE it's amazing how unanimously positive the reviews seem to be. def going with it.

going back to the youtuber sunny suggested, i was going to go with the majority of components he used for his $1000 build http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CfP2ZcPxcU . im noticing he mostly doesnt use nvidia gpus. i suppose this is the main way he saves on the bottom line of each, aside from never including things like disc drives, os, etc.

this is what he used in the build. any input regarding alterations is appreciated.

Intel Core i5-4670K CPU: http://goo.gl/HuwiVx

Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO CPU Cooler: http://goo.gl/PbyUaz

MSI Z87-G43 Motherboard: http://goo.gl/qKuPUQ

Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 Graphics Card: http://goo.gl/wvxXci

8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 RAM: http://goo.gl/ozOZbZ

120GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD: http://goo.gl/cQcfco

1TB Western Digital Caviar Black Hard Drive: http://goo.gl/sHQiQm

600W Corsair CX600 PSU: http://goo.gl/UqiqRY

Corsair 200R Case: http://goo.gl/o7uoHK

[DREW-TANg]

also, the builds in his videos usually dont feature nvidia gpus

is gsync overhyped?

[InfamousRaider]

[DREW-TANg]

[Sunny]

Processor: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... 7AodzkYAjw

Cool Master: http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?p=F ... 7AoddUgAYw

MB: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813130694

GTX 760: http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?p=E ... 7AodHXgAPQ

Ram: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820233170

SSD: http://www.rakuten.com/prod/samsung-840 ... =315041423

didnt go through all of them but newegg isnt always the best website to use

[DREW-TANg]

thanks again sunny, i too was going to go with the gtx 760 since it seems to have the best performance for the ~250 price range. i was thinking of going with the msi rather than the evga. thoughts?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814127745

[Sunny]

just found out you can can an extra 10% off of everything on newegg by typing promo code MASTERPASS so newegg might be the way to go. You need to use the masterpass method of payment(free to sign up for).

im not to sure about msi vs evga but evga has never failed me

[Rum]

Difference between EVA and MSI is their customer support, usually have the same build.

if you have a little more money to spend i'd say get an i7k since it'll be a while that anything will be better than that. But i5-4670k works out well too, the new radeon series came out too so you might wanna check that out

[DREW-TANg]

based on some temp tests i ran across certain sources claim the msi runs consistently cooler