I realize the irony of doing what essentially amounts to advertising on a socialist site, but I wanted to put this out there for comrades that are low on cash, but want a gaming pc. This is a pretty difficult deal to beat in terms of bang-per-buck. The only thing I it's lacking is a little bit of memory, but that can be upgraded at any time, and it'll probably play most modern games short of Crysis very well right out of the box.

Edit: This one is better, and $50 cheaper

  • Duo [any]
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    4 years ago

    https://pcpartpicker.com/list/rwcXkX

    Here's a build with equivalent specs for $515, $545 without the mail-in rebates. Reminder that building your own pc saves money and is also fun in itself. And it teaches you about the hardware so when it breaks you might know how to fix it yourself.

    • throwawaylemmy2 [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Could you match https://hexbear.net/post/52126/comment/488664 <---The Broodian's other one? I can't find a GPU that is in stock with a similar spec.

      • Duo [any]
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        4 years ago

        https://pcpartpicker.com/list/J9FRK3

        I picked mostly the same parts. For the CPU it looks like the i3-10100 is ~10% faster than the Ryzen 2600 and is $30 cheaper, but Ryzen can get better overclocks (at least the 1000 series did) and is better for tasks that use >8 cores.

    • sappho [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Also can you RMA individual parts if you buy a prebuilt? Thinking about the time my graphics card went after a year and a half, and I got a new one shipped for free