Looking at new computers

[JET]

Hey, I am not experienced at buying many pcs at all (currently on a not so good laptop) and was wonder if any of you knew about and good computers that run CSGO well at around $650 to $750 USD or if any of you have made computers around this price and what to look for in them and preferably to be able to upgrade it in the future. Thanks for any information on this.

 

[Snipeye]

Go with an AMD build as they will be cheaper than their Intel counterparts. The current AMD sockets will last for a few years, whereas Intel just moved to the 1151-300 series socket. Feel bad for all the recent i7-7700K purchasers, thinking they had another 2 years with their socket. With that said, here's a sample article you can look at to give you an idea of what to look for in a build with your price point (It uses an Intel CPU FYI):

http://www.pcgamer.com/build-guide-the-best-cheap-gaming-pc/

A few questions to ask: will you need to buy an OS with the build? Need a monitor, keyboard, and/or mouse? If yes, go ahead and get the Windows 10 Home 64-bit, and deduct that from your budget so you know what you got left for the rest of the build.

 

[Simon]

Go with an AMD build as they will be cheaper than their Intel counterparts. The current AMD sockets will last for a few years, whereas Intel just moved to the 1151-300 series socket. Feel bad for all the recent i7-7700K purchasers, thinking they had another 2 years with their socket. With that said, here's a sample article you can look at to give you an idea of what to look for in a build with your price point (It uses an Intel CPU FYI):

http://www.pcgamer.com/build-guide-the-best-cheap-gaming-pc/

A few questions to ask: will you need to buy an OS with the build? Need a monitor, keyboard, and/or mouse? If yes, go ahead and get the Windows 10 Home 64-bit, and deduct that from your budget so you know what you got left for the rest of the build.

This. You can do a fair bit in that price range with some upgradability. If you need a mouse/keyboard/monitor and all that though, I do suggest maybe giving it a few months to save up a few more dollars. For a "good" gaming computer the target range is about $1000, I find. Sometimes easier to spend a bit more now and less down the road

 

[WaSe]

Although I can't offer you too much information, I have found a few good things to get recently. A 1050-TI, the graphics card itself has gone "old" and therefore dropped in price significantly. However, the 1050-TI is still a good graphics card, if you're not playing to try to run VR. I've been using it in my computer and I run cs 150-300+ fps and GTA (a heavier game) 55-75 fps.
If you're going for a cheaper build I would go for an I5-7300k CPU. It just becomes "older" and I believe that it's just as good as an I7-7700 if you're not rendering or making video/pictures. If you want something that may last a little bit longer, and want to spend extra in the CPU range, just get an I7-7700k.
My last tip is getting a hard drive. Personally, I would get an External HHD hard drive and an internal SSD hard drive. The future of hard drives is with SSDs, so it's a good idea to put them in there, and then you can download thing a lot faster. Over Black Friday/Cyber Monday, I saw 3 TBs HDD going for $70.
I think that one of the problems you would have with you're set up is that you want to buy a "gaming" pc for $650-750. Sadly, that isn't very realistic judging by the fact that you would have to buy a mouse, headset, PC tower/case, monitor.
For I would just suggest getting a good pre-built gaming laptop. I have one, and I have found that you can get away with upgrading it down the line because it's a pre-built all you would need, is laptop "made" parts.

~WaSe