Oct 22, 2016

an alienwear is gonna be a lot more expensive than buying the parts that are in it and assembling it yourself
also ive never built a pc but i'm pretty sure it's literally just like legos, you just snap the parts into place and you're good to go

 

Oct 22, 2016

CPU:
Just go with Intel, for example:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117561&ignorebbr=1
It has good price-performance ratio. Also you can go with 6600 without K at the end if you don't want to overclock it.
GPU:
You should go with Nvidia GTX 1060, for example:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125879&ignorebbr=1
Same story as before: good price-performance ratio.
Memory:
Crucial is a good choice. You can choose 16GB if you don't want as much as 32GB.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820104643&ignorebbr=1
Motherboard:
It's really a preference. You can go with whatever, but it should have LGA1151 socket and be able to run 2400MHz RAM.
Example:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130892&ignorebbr=1
CPU FAN
Example:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130892&ignorebbr=1
Case:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811352057&ignorebbr=1
I have the same one. It's really good quality case. You can also choose something from Corsair, for example:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...042&cm_re=corsair_450d-_-11-139-042-_-Product
but it feels cheaper in my opinion.
Power Supply:
Semi-Modular:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139060&ignorebbr=1
Full Modular:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA85V3E25209
Hard Drive:
Same as motherboard: Choose anything you want from Seagate or Western Digital.
SSD:
If you want to have SSD (I recommend it) then Crucial have good price-performance ratio SSD's. You should pick one depending on their speed and capacity.

 

Oct 22, 2016

i have the literal top of the line imac you can buy and i dualbooted it, and for some reason i really hate it. everything on the windows partition is super slow and wonky. if you want to play games with the desktop, dualbooting a mac is the worst way to go about it.
bootcamp also f----- up my 3TB hard drive and locked it up when i tried to erase the partition, and now i have 1TB of disk space that's just unusable unless i do a factory reset and run a time machine backup to restore everything. i'd imagine that's a rare thing to happen, but it's still worth being aware of.

 

Oct 22, 2016

@Final already owns a macbook for school