[takumiyamamoto]

Buy your own parts and build it yourself its so much easier! And also full tower is HUMONGOUS. Mid tower is like your normal computer height. Full tower is NOT worth the extra weight and space.

 

[takumiyamamoto]

yeah i couldnt do that, not because i dont know how but my hands tremble really bad.

Its alright! Computer parts are actually really sturdy and aren't broken easily.

 

[takumiyamamoto]

Also I would not go with AMD. I could help you come up with a wonderful and a more powerful rig if you'd like.

 

[takumiyamamoto]

really im just looking to run fallout 3 and Fallout NV, however i dont want it to become a complete waste. I want it to be decent enough to run other games in the future like Fallout 4

I got you.

What's your budget.

What do you need? (Like do you have a monitor keyboard mouse windows, etc?)

USA or Canada or what?

 

[takumiyamamoto]

My best piece of advice is to go to anandtech.com and create a account and post in general hardware. I am a frequent poster there under the name of t_yamamoto

It is a wonderful place. They give amazing advice. Lehtv and mfeen will give the best advice on your build. They will help you find anything you need and help you step by step.

 

[takumiyamamoto]

Yeah, go with mid tower case. Get one that you like and one that fits well with the motherboard.

I think the build you have right now is decent enough. If you are on a budget, I would go with AMD. The only thing that is going to slow your computer down is the hard drive. If you want to upgrade anything, get a SSD.

1000 with everything can get you a very nice Intel build.

 

[takumiyamamoto]

A full tower case is usually unneeded unless you have an extended mobo and extra video cards. Mid-tower works for even high end gaming builds.

I only recommend Intel if you have $1000 or more to spend on the build, otherwise it's not really all that worth the cost.

With a PSU, don't worry so much about getting massive wattage as just a good brand that won't crap out on you, a quick look shows you'd be more than fine on 400 W. I suggest Seasonic for the brand. Modular is nice if you find it, too.

If you're doing gaming I wouldn't recommend anything below a Radeon 6870.

Well even with less than 1G, you can build a new budget build with an i3

 

[takumiyamamoto]

with that amount of cash you can built a decent gaming computer. i was looking at fallout recommended specification and its not really demanding.

intel i5 3350p 3.1ghz cpu
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116782

asrock z75 pro3 motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157304

g.skill ripjaws x series 8GB 1333 ddr3 ram
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231440

xfx core edition 7850 1gb gpu
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150642

seagate barracuda 1tb harddrive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148697

seasonic s12ii 520w psu
http://secure.newegg.com/Shopping/ShoppingCart.aspx?Submit=view

asus vs229h 21" 1080p 5ms
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236205

win7/8 64bit = 99$

872$ before taxes, with the remaining cash get a case and M/K of your preference? if you go the AMD route you can save some money

That's actually really nice but I would change that P processor to maybe an i5 3450 and downgrade the motherboard to a h77 or b75 based one. Also exchange the HDD for an ssd and just throw in your old HDD.

Get a full tower case, get the brand new Corsair 900D.
It's one of the best cases available.

Utter waste of money.

You can get an AMD processor with similar amounts of power for cheaper.

Besides, your processor isn't going to be your bottleneck. I build gaming machines with sandy bridge pentiums and get away with it. Your video card is the limiting factor here.

 

[takumiyamamoto]

for right now im only gonna need 1. Later on though i do plan on getting another and running them in Crossfire or SLI. I was actually customizing a nice 8 core AMD build i'll post it a little bit later to see what you guys think. Thank you all that has helped I cant wait

Amd is poop

 

[takumiyamamoto]

Ands its not even 8 real cores.

 

[takumiyamamoto]

Most video games don't use more than two cores (for instance, starcraft 2), so getting a better processor is just a waste of money.

True, I agree having an SSD would be a GREAT addition, much better than a quad core. If I had to choose quad or ssd, I would choose ssd