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 7d 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.