Planning on building a PC for Christmas and I'm wondering what the forums...

[Space1255]

... Think what it should look like, as in what parts should I use, should I make custom parts, rethink the stuffty pun I just made that literally nobody would get, what it should look like, etc?
Also I'm totally gonna try to have it water cooled because I saw one water cooled system and it looked loving awesome.

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[Georges]

How much are you thinking you'll spend on it?

[shitlord]

yeah give us a ballpark price and we'll see what you can do

watercooling is a pretty bad idea for a first build
i would only recommend a closed loop system and thats still kind of advanced
you can do whatever you want but i would just recommend you stick with an air cooler for the first few months or first year

[Space1255]

Uh
Somewhere ranging between $200-$400, or basically the cost  for LEGOs and Nerf guns my parents used spend in every Christmas. I might go over this too though so

Also way to crush my dreams stufflord TTTTT_TTTTT
Also I'll probably be spending the most on a graphics card because I want to play Blockland with Max shaders because it looks loving BEAUTIFUL

[Georges]

Yeah, definitely not going to be water cooling for $400...

[Space1255]

forget
ok
I'll probably just steal a mini fridge or freezer and sitck it in there then
but yeah
forget.

[Bisjac]

Watercooling the cpu s a must. And costs like 60 to 100 to do so.

[Space1255]

I MIGHT be able to bump it up to 500 but idk. my brother built his own pc so im wondering if my parents would let me do the same with a similar budget to his.

[Georges]

Watercooling the cpu s a must. And costs like 60 to 100 to do so.

Yeah well when 60 to 100 is to 1/4 of your entire budget I'd say it's not that important...

Anyway, this is about the best you'll get for $400. You'll still need to figure out how to get Windows in addition to that, so...

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/NqCF23

[shitlord]

Yeah, definitely not going to be water cooling for $400...

yeah if you want a computer thats worth anything you will want to spend about 200 on just the water system alone and then 400 for the computer parts

[shitlord]

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/NqCF23

great starter system
you should buy this and work up
my first build was only 400 dollars and now its going to be 1600 once i finish upgrading the CPU
just goes to show how much you can add on over time

[espio100]

Yeah well when 60 to 100 is to 1/4 of your entire budget I'd say it's not that important...

Anyway, this is about the best you'll get for $400. You'll still need to figure out how to get Windows in addition to that, so...

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/NqCF23

Holy stuff
Thats actually a good build for the price

[shitlord]

Watercooling the cpu s a must. And costs like 60 to 100 to do so.

lets not confuse closed loops with open loops
what OP saw was prob an open loop system like this:

as far as watercooling being necessary on a closed or open loop
i disagree with you, you can get nearly the same performance from a good air cooler without the risk
if you're going to link up the ram and gpu and stuff in the same loop thats another story but just for the cpu a good air cooler can do it

[Space1255]

How DO CPUs get so overheated? Do they really do have moving parts in them or is it the amount of electricity they use that heats them up?

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