PC advice needed :)

[Dobby]

I'm getting a new PC next month with some birthday money, and I'm stuck, I can't decide between a max of 64GB mobo, or a 32GB, what would you reccomend? I've heard that 8GB is more than enough, there's mobo's available with a max of 16GB RAM, I'm planning on doing some recording minus the lag on games like DayZ, CoD and Battlfield, so yeah, advice gogo

[Hobo]

I have 8GB of RAM and it's plenty for what I use. If you need more than 8GB, 16GB is more than enough.

[Dobby]

Thanks Hobo I've now decided on a 16GB mobo!

#Hobo2013

[Terrorista310]

The much, the better.

[Ethan]

I have 8GB of RAM and it's plenty for what I use. If you need more than 8GB, 16GB is more than enough.

no wonder why you cant afford anything, you spent it on that

[bazingashane0]

What socket cpu are you getting and what's your budget ?

[Nate]

What socket cpu are you getting and what's your budget ?

And are you buying the PC or building it?

[Dr_dog]

Dont do smashons and buy AMD crap CPUs.Including your budget might help to determine parts instead of saying 'I need PC for this and this'. We could look you for a most expensive i7/Xeon, 96GB of ram, 2x 216GB SSDs in raid 1, and lets say 3 Radeon 7970s.

8GB is good amount for you. What kind of recording you would do? As i livestreamed few times recently i noticed i capped my 8GB quickly and so did the CPU. But i guess you just record videos and upload them somewhere. I would personally get motherboard with minium of max ram of 32GB just to futureproof the build. Who knows if you want to add another 8GB kit and maybe bit more later. you would cap the board limitations quickly.

For your use as you mentioned you would like to play battlefield, cods, and some DayZ. I would go for i7 8GB ram, either two radeon 7770 or  single 7870. Atleast here you can get 2 7770s for price of 7870.
Dont cheap out on power supplies! Get a proper good known brand with reliable components so it wont fry out your whole build when comes a little surge or it overheats.

[Dobby]

Well I've already got the primary build sorted, there's a topic somewhere , i would have an i7 but, from what i can tell, it just has better encoding abilities, I'm a patient guy, so I'm not too bothered if it takes a while to encode something, or render a video. I'm going for this sort of build, and if you don't agree say so, but please don't gimme links, my phones awful as it is >.< Damn sky turned off my interwebs.

AMD 5800K CPU
8GB RAM to start off with
Motherboard, I haven't decided yet, as the topic suggests.
The HD's I've got a 200GB SATA drive that I'm using until I buy a 1TB external for games, then I'm having a SSD for bootup
Win7 64 bit (which edition?)
Some corsair PSU
Not too sure on the GPU yet, but initially I'm gonna use the in built gpu to play games, until I save for a nice high end sort of thing, but high end enough that i don't bottleneck
Case: In win buc 101 (think its the name)

[droctogonapus]

amd 5800k is an APU which has the gpu built in the cpu

[Dobby]

Correct

[Dr_dog]

you wont do much gaming with integrated GPU.

[DJ_Smashon]

Dont do smashons and buy AMD crap CPUs.

[Dobby]

Could i ask why? the video I've seen on Youtube, the APU seems to be able to play BF3 quite well, and its recording it too, not a slight bit of lag. As I've said, I don't have internet at home so i can't find it but if you do some searching seach: "AMD 5800K BF3" or something, off the top of my head the cpu seems good

[Dr_dog]

If i looked at correct CPU the GPU is piece of shit inside it. You will get a lot better performance with external one.
It uses Radeon HD 7660 chip which pretty low end. Also the GPU core speed is fairly slow.