Hi all My kid will get a gaming pc soon. I can't swallow the cost of a whole setup at the moment. I'm thinking of getting a good motherboard with a decent second hand graphics card (a colleague I trust can find me one). And over time upgrade where needed. For monitor I would be using my TV.
Is this a smart idea? We'd have a wireless mouse/keyboard and some table thing to game from the couch.
At the moment my kid is into Roblox and Minecraft, but I assume once his pc can run more; he'll play 'real' games. We are also looking to learn to program (scratch/python). Would that work on a TV?
The TV is an older model (10 years old).
Edit; Thanks everyone for the ideas and advice. We'll try the TV first. And will also look into a steamdeck. It's nice to get such positive feedback from everyone!
I played a lot of Elden Ring with a steam deck plugged into a cheap TV. I wouldn't want to play anything competitively on one, and I wouldn't want to play FPS on it like that, but overall it wasn't bad.
Get the lowest model with a microSD card and go to town for a few hundred bucks. If it's ever not enough it's pretty simple to break one open and replace the drive with a 1TB drive. I have dozens of games installed across microSD cards and shaders filled my drive. Took me about 20 minutes to replace it. Would take someone with no knowledge probably an hour.