Help me create a PC

Ok a few things:

1. Please know the compatibility of stuff yourself, thats is very difficult for us to keep up with, all you want know is if they are win 7 / win 10 compatible depending on what os you want to go with.

2. pc parts are flaky if you will, once pc can last you 10 years with just a ram and gpu upgrade and another can give you headache 3 weeks after you got it.

3. If you are in a dusty environment nothing is gonna help you other then what you should be doing anyways:
Clean your pc once a week, if you do it that often it will take you literally 2 minutes.

So don't think that something has dust filter or such and that means no dust in your pc for you, thats not how its gonna be.

4. smaller your pc = warmer pc, specially on air.

5. imagine I could give you a pill that will make you think for the sake of the argument 20% faster, with no side effects and your brain will have no problems till you hit 120 years old, keep in mind we only leave to 85 on the average, in other words if this pill had any side effects they would occur way after you have passed away.

Well that is what ocing is, your cpu is running way below what it actually can, so what you want to do is look at the base speed and the max speed and come some point in between where there are no side effect for the life of the system.

The oc I recommend here are very light and will have no baring on the cpu life, lets put it this way, a 6700K cpu with oc of 4.2GHz - 4.4GHz with a good vcore and temp will last over 10 years.

6. There is no such things as a pc lasting 4 to 5 years with no problem that can max out everything for that period of time, the needs for games /software changes, your upgrade of monitor and etc will make the pc not so powerful.

Here is the best you can do, you go highend cpu now so that it will last you a good 4 to 5 years, and then every two years you upgrade the gpu so that you can max out games.

That is as close to "future proof" as one can come.

So now for your budget apollo was going to be my choice also what I need to know from you tho is if there is gonna be a monitor upgrade in the next 2 years, reason being for your current lcd of 1080p a 1070 gtx should keep your solid for two years but if you buy a monitor that is 4k next year then a 1070 might not do so great.

So any monitor upgrades?

Ok good but what I was asking for is if you are going to upgrade you monitor or not, if you are going to upgrade it, we need to know what resolution you will be looking for, your current monitor is at 1080p, is the new monitor going to be at the same res, or are you going to upgrade and go with a higher res like 1440p or 4k, if you are going to upgrade then we need to know if you are going 1440p or 4k, the gpu needs for each will be different.

For 1080p a 1060 or 1070 will do great, for 1440p we can go 1070 or 1080.

Lets figure it out a bit more for your use, for example look below at 1060/1070/1080 gtx at both 1080p and 1440p:







and then battlefield:








so As you can see for 1080p I would go 1070 to cover most games above 60fps and for the 1440p a 1080 gtx seems to cover all basis.

Edited by DST4ME - 09 Aug 2016 at 3:39pm

I will probably go with the $2500 one. I plan on upgrading my monitor sometime next year.

Thanks for your help!