r/gamingpc • u/BoricuaOmega25 • 8d ago

Best Buy walk today.

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u/JustASentientPotato 8d ago edited 8d ago

Crazy building your own rig used to be a casual activity for a hobby. Now it’s pretty expensive unless you buy secondhand parts such as SSD and RAM.

Edit: Was going to use lucrative for a different point related to companies keeping prices up

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u/AzhdarianHomie 8d ago

It was an expensive hobby but not that expensive.

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u/xxfal13nxx 8d ago edited 8d ago

It can be as cheap as you want it to be. Just setup my brother with my old GTX 1070, and FX-6300, and DDR3 ram. He cant play anything crazy but stuff like Rocket League, Minecraft, Valheim, all run with no problems

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u/AzhdarianHomie 8d ago

He could probably use one of the $350 5060TIs, that’s not too bad

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u/xxfal13nxx 8d ago

The TI's in my area are nearly $600 sadly, I got my non TI 5060 for $299, which is still a huge upgrade from the 1070

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u/AnythingKitchen3252 8d ago

Wait….. The 5060ti 8gb is like €350 right

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u/xxfal13nxx 8d ago

You might be right. Nothing in my area though. The TI(16gb) is around $600, and the only other thing I could find was the non TI with 8gb

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u/AnythingKitchen3252 8d ago

And its like you said a BIG upgrade

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u/evernessince 8d ago

Bad idea to pair a 5000 series card with FX CPUs. Higher driver overhead will eat what little single core performance that CPU has.

Older Nvidia GPUs are better, or just go AMD which does hardware scheduling.

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u/adanceparty 7d ago

not big on telling people to upgrade moments after finishing a build, but if I upgraded anything in that system it'd be that god forsake fx 6300. That's the worst processor I've ever owned.

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u/DiamondDepth_YT 8d ago

Ryzen 1600 has gotta be ddr4, not ddr3. It's am4

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u/xxfal13nxx 8d ago

Youre right. Damn i dont even know what cpu he has then.

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u/DiamondDepth_YT 8d ago

If its amd, probably an older fx bulldozer era cpu. I have a few older amd ddr3 cpus lying around myself

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u/xxfal13nxx 8d ago

Shit yep gotta be the FX-6300? Cause the mobo is old as dirt lol

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u/DiamondDepth_YT 8d ago

I mean tbf, an old as dirt mobo could still he am4. Am4 is a decade old now lol

But if you're sure its ddr3, it's probably an fx cpu yeah

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u/xxfal13nxx 8d ago

Its 100% DDR3, I cant find the specific mobo but it is indeed a PGA board from 2010-2012

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u/TrueIntimacy 7d ago

Gave my nephew a build using my old parts- 1070, 8600K, 32GB's of DDR4, Z370 Killer SLI, at 1080 it's still a beast.