I have a budget of $650-750 to build a gaming PC. I've never owned a gaming PC before and was wondering what you guys thought of my current build. Will it run most games on good settings? What can i do to save more $? I'm from the U.S. so if anyone wants to link me alternative parts for cheaper, please take that into consideration. Thank you. I'll take any advice.
PS: This came out to be $548.00 on pc part picker and i'm buying a separate motherboard called GIGABYTE GA-78LMT-S2 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard on newegg for $56.00 because am3+ sockets don't support ddr4 ram.
Read the sticky retard, this isn't your consumer electronics review website.
Jacob Rodriguez
I would throw more RAM, 16GB at least. Who needs an optical drive nowadays ???
I would not leave out an Original OS. Last time I rebuilt my PC i included original W10 for the first time in 15 years and the PC has been more stable than ever.
Jose Barnes
Get a used 3gen i7 laptop and mount an external graphic card via pcie.
i7 3630qm has same or better performance than the fx AMD processor
Thomas Johnson
Ddr4 ram is a meme unless you have it running on 2500mhz+
William Stewart
why the fuck FX cpu at this point? an i3 is probably better at most games (bored to look up benchmarks sorry), i'd wait for ryzen 3
Jaxon Green
(OP)
For the love of god don't get an fx cpu, and drop that 35 dollar cooler. I would spend $40 bucks extra and get a ryzen 1400 which already comes with a decent cooler.
You don't need a dvd drive either unless you still live in the fucking 90's.
Liam Carter
change the cpu to a pentium g4560 or ryzen 5 1400
Dominic Hill
Use pc part picker to see if compatible Research every component
Ian Clark
op here
I just decided i'll drop 800$ on a build. If i'm close to going big, i can spend the extra 100-200$ to make sure it's a build that's easily upgradeable and well built.
This is what i'm going with now. And yes, i will buy another 1x8gb stick of ram at ddr4 2666 once i make more money. Thanks for the tips.
I dropped the 8730 for a ryzen 5 1600 because i found out, as i am a noob, that am3+ sockets don't support ddr4 ram on the motherboard so i also upgraded from an am3+ cpu, the 8370, to an am4 socket cpu so the motherboard wud never have to be switched out until the next ryzen generation. Thanks again.
Landon Lopez
i have also upgraded my SSD from 120 gig to 240 gig as i have heard it helps a lot for open world game load times such as skyrim, fallout, rust, etc. games that i will be playing.
thx for all of the tips, i have learned a lot today about computer building and such.
Isaac Gutierrez
I have a GPU related question.
I'm considering getting RX 470 and I have a 500W power supply. Now the thing is that it's made in Croatia or some shit and it isn't 80 PLUS, will it still power this card?
Parker Miller
user, op here.
from what my friends have told me today, do NOT get an rx 470.
Carson Morgan
I can't believe someone actually made a good decision on Sup Forums
David Stewart
thanks user, i've been up for 22 hours now talking to my friends for like 6 hours trying to figure out what to do and listen to their information. they're the real heroes.
Levi Richardson
why's that?
Angel Hernandez
wait im sry user, i misread. i thought u put rx 460. my mistake, i've been up for a while and my eyes are deceiving me. i'm sure 470 is good, my apologies.
now to give u advice from what i've learned, always get 50-100 extra wattage over the amount u use just incase. u dont wanna end up frying ur pc
Brody Carter
As I've seen while Googling this shit it needs like 400-450W PSU so I guess I'm good then.
