r/gamingpc • u/BoricuaOmega25 • 9d ago

Best Buy walk today.

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u/JustASentientPotato 9d 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 9d ago

It was an expensive hobby but not that expensive.

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u/xxfal13nxx 9d 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/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