Budget: ~$800
More specific use: Path of Exile, Skyrim, Witcher 3, Divinity, etc.
Planned time until purchase: Soon
Do you need an Operating System?: No
Do you have any specific preferred components?: No
Do you need a sound or wireless card?: Wireless card
Do you want stock cooling or do you plan on overclocking?: Don't need to overclock
Do you need a monitor? mouse? keyboard?: None
Zip code/location? (Shipping costs): Lake Villa 60046

Laptop is going to shit. About time I get a proper computer. Looking for help finding something that'll let me play the above and occasionally other games smoothly and last a good while.

Will be using an older VGA monitor for now.

Hey big bird!

How would you feel about driving down to westmont to pick up a few computer parts?

This post was edited by Funion on Jan 26 2015 07:25pm

Hey, man!

That's a bit of a drive, depends on what the deal is

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/HXdRRB

You can get that if you go to the westmont microcenter...

You can get something very very similar outside of there but not as good looking imo... plus if you actually will do an MIR you will get 20$ back from your motherboard making is 79$

Pretty sure he'll get a discount for buying cpu+mobo combo from microcenter, I think $50 of or so.

That is the price WITH the discount

Smart guy

Thanks, Funion, I like that.
I think I'll make that drive. Do I need to call it in to Microcenter or can I just go there and get them?
As far as the case goes, the LED is on the fan, right? I like the case but would prefer it green rather than red. Was thinking of replacing with one of these http://pcpartpicker.com/part/cougar-case-fan-cfd12hbg
Also, I can't decide if I'll want an optical drive or not. Are those flaps on the front or covers that pop off?

This post was edited by bigbrd222 on Jan 27 2015 07:40am

They pop off and that fan looks fine.

Optical drives are oldschool

To clarify...

Those front parts pop off.. the leds are from the fan.. and your fan looks great... and yes optical drives are old school... but since you want green.. I'd go with this instead


http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Hvdk7P

The red on the other mobo would clash with the green leds from your fan


/e

Call microcenter and see if they can set those 2 parts aside for you since you will be there in XXX time... the one on long island did that for me when my wife was working in jersey city for a week and i went with her.

This post was edited by Funion on Jan 27 2015 09:45am