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Logical Increments
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Chad Sexington
Chad Sexington
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Bubble181
Bubble181
I've championed it as the end-all be-all Holy Grail of What Parts To Put Together And Not Gimp My PC Build for the past 3 or 4 years.
I don't say their builds are always the absolute 100% best or anything, but at least for getting a feel of what parts go together power-wise and to avoid bottlenecks, it's awesome.
But for heaven's sake, ignore the last two or three price levels. Or if you have that much money to burn, donate some to a good cause - I can send you the account number of a great charity that provides for Belgian owls.
I don't say their builds are always the absolute 100% best or anything, but at least for getting a feel of what parts go together power-wise and to avoid bottlenecks, it's awesome.
But for heaven's sake, ignore the last two or three price levels. Or if you have that much money to burn, donate some to a good cause - I can send you the account number of a great charity that provides for Belgian owls.
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Dave
Dave
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Chad Sexington
Chad Sexington
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PatrThom
PatrThom
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Chad Sexington
Chad Sexington
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Ravenpoe
Ravenpoe
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PatrThom
PatrThom
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sixpackshaker
sixpackshaker
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PatrThom
PatrThom
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Bubble181
Bubble181
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Chad Sexington
Chad Sexington
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Bubble181
Use Logical Increments to get a basic idea of what components go together price/performancewise, so you don't end up with a CPU that's half as good as your CPU. Use pcpartpicker to make sure your choices all work together. Use tweakers or whatever price watch site you prefer (I think tomshardware also has a price watch?) to make sure you order everything from the best place.
For LI: be aware that within each level, the different options given for the same part aren't strictly ordered from worse to better, but from cheap to expensive, and that usually, they'll always try to include "different" options to accomodate opinions and taste - they'll list an AMD and an nVidia card for almost every level, unless there really isn't anything remotely equal. So within a given level, which part you pick might be up for debate, or opinion on brand ("I've never had issues with an AMD card!" said no-one ever
), or whatever. Also, don't forget to mouse-over, the text often has a bit of info indicating why they picked that particular part instead of one cheaper/better/whatever, which may help guide your decision. And whatever you decide on, no doubt some guy, this guy and another guy will offer three different opinions on what part to replace/improve/change out. 
Bubble181
My reply was refering to Patrick and why it might not be terribly useful for someone like him, while it is ueful for someone like you and me.
Use Logical Increments to get a basic idea of what components go together price/performancewise, so you don't end up with a CPU that's half as good as your CPU. Use pcpartpicker to make sure your choices all work together. Use tweakers or whatever price watch site you prefer (I think tomshardware also has a price watch?) to make sure you order everything from the best place.
For LI: be aware that within each level, the different options given for the same part aren't strictly ordered from worse to better, but from cheap to expensive, and that usually, they'll always try to include "different" options to accomodate opinions and taste - they'll list an AMD and an nVidia card for almost every level, unless there really isn't anything remotely equal. So within a given level, which part you pick might be up for debate, or opinion on brand ("I've never had issues with an AMD card!" said no-one ever
), or whatever. Also, don't forget to mouse-over, the text often has a bit of info indicating why they picked that particular part instead of one cheaper/better/whatever, which may help guide your decision. And whatever you decide on, no doubt some guy, this guy and another guy will offer three different opinions on what part to replace/improve/change out.
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Dave
Dave
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Gruebeard
Gruebeard
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PatrThom
PatrThom
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Chad Sexington
Chad Sexington