Building a new system

[ominous24]

Needs some suggestions here from people who keep up with new hardware.

My budget is around $2,000. I have no problem building the box myself. Looking for suggestions. Thanks in advance!

 

[dewey2461]

For $2k you should be able to build a pretty amazing system. The first question you need to ask is what kind of gaming do you plan to do?

If its fps then you want at splurge for more graphics power.

If you want to run a bot army you want to have a lot of CPU cores and a lot of ram.

 

[ominous24]

Bot army, up to 6 or 7 accounts loaded at once.

 

[n00bsgoboom]

Bot army, up to 6 or 7 accounts loaded at once.

If its just for EQ you only need a 500-700$ system for that.

 

[Nicedreamsbt]

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this is what i have

 

[mjtizzle21]

do you plan on playing any other games or just EQ?

 

[ominous24]

do you plan on playing any other games or just EQ?

With the ban stick waving around we always have to keep that option open.

 

[hoppy96pgtbs]

Mobo: MSI Z68A-GD65 (G3) USB 3.0, PCIe 3.0, SATA III
CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz Quad Core
Cooler: ZALMAN CNPS9500
Memory: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 16GB DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
GPU: MSI GTX 560+
HDD: 2X Crucial M4 CT064M4SSD2 2.5" 64GB SATA III (SSD) Raid 0 (Reliable)
Storage: 2X Samsung 1TB Raid 0
Input Devices: Logitech G500 Mouse G15 Keyboard
PS: 800-850W+ Reliable Manufacturer

My identical setup minus the Video card. I am running 2 460GTX, I recommend a single 560+ series. My CPU OC'd at 4.2 with Zalman cooler. This motherboard gives you opportunity to upgrade GPU's in the near future to PCIe 3.0, when it becomes available.

 

[Dealings]

botting 6 prob spent under 400 and that was 2 or 3 yrs ago

you dont need to dump a large chunk of cash to bot a grp

 

[neo_escabar]

spend 800 on the PC and get a really nice monitor like a dell 30inch

 

[dewey2461]

When I was boxing a lot I liked having two systems with a fast KVM switch.

Main system with tank / bard on it .
2nd system with as many bots as needed.

Found this worked very nice because I would alt tab between the two most used characters in the set and would maintain very high frame rates.

The 2nd system would have too many characters too easily alt tab between them if needed. I used WinEQ2 to set the titles to the character name so you could see which character your were switching to.

 

[Nicedreamsbt]

just get multi asus monitors i paid 289 for a 27inc lcd with display port.