Need help finding a new pc please!

[Friggan]

Appreciate the help, I am bookmarking and comparing the ones you have linked. The Alienware I got was a pretty good deal, local place open box so I got it for 400.00 , so its has done well for what it is

[Welsper59]

$868 with a GTX1070 included is actually a damned good deal considering that the card itself runs a little North of $400 on its own. Personally I'm running 2 GTX970s because I'm pushing 4K, but thinking of upgrading to a 1080 because SLI has been a major issue.

The only upsides of the system I posted versus this one is that the ASUS comes pre-aasembled with Win 10 installed and a 1TB drive. The SSD is nice to have, but I prefer to use those only as system drives and have standard HDDs for the games due to the size of the games as well as reducing the amount of writes to the SSD which prolongs their lifespan.

Agreed, in hindsight lol. The only downside though is that with my link, the mobo is a 2.0 PCI-E board. So the 1070 would be bottlenecked some, which is why I also mention the RX480 option (3.0 too, but not as bad of cost). Was just keeping it simple, as far as providing an example of what to look for. Definitely is nice to have a singular card, rather than XFire or SLI lol. I'm not much into 4K gaming, so I can't comment much on my GTX 1080 use in that area.

Your retail link is definitely a good example. Retail is very much an option these days, assuming you don't go for big name stuff like Alienware or small form factor cases. The OS alone makes that a worthwhile option sometimes lol. I just question the quality of the parts used. Likewise, I figure if OP is building one, can just reuse whatever the storage device is as a secondary in the new one.

[Malzian]

Agreed, in hindsight lol. The only downside though is that with my link, the mobo is a 2.0 PCI-E board. So the 1070 would be bottlenecked some, which is why I also mention the RX480 option (3.0 too, but not as bad of cost). Was just keeping it simple, as far as providing an example of what to look for. Definitely is nice to have a singular card, rather than XFire or SLI lol. I'm not much into 4K gaming, so I can't comment much on my GTX 1080 use in that area.

Your retail link is definitely a good example. Retail is very much an option these days, assuming you don't go for big name stuff like Alienware or small form factor cases. The OS alone makes that a worthwhile option sometimes lol. I just question the quality of the parts used. Likewise, I figure if OP is building one, can just reuse whatever the storage device is as a secondary in the new one.

Oh I agree that buying a retail build is generally not going to get you the best quality, I personally hand-built my own PC and have been upgrading parts as need-be. But for someone who isn't savy enough to piece the system together themselves, retail is really the best way to start. Honestly, the only hairy part of hand-building is seating the CPU, but with the Intel sockets that's not even so bad, especially since the heat sinks all come pre-applied with the thermo paste.