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With consoomer Friday deals quickly approaching I was wanting to either build or buy a gaming PC.

I'm not looking to spend more than 1500-2000 USD. Maybe a bit more. Not including monitor. I want something decent to pvp on when Elden ring drops.

I'm just a console nigger and I don't really know shit about building a pc.

With consoomer Friday deals quickly approaching I was wanting to either build or buy a gaming PC. I'm not looking to spend more than 1500-2000 USD. Maybe a bit more. Not including monitor. I want something decent to pvp on when Elden ring drops. I'm just a console nigger and I don't really know shit about building a pc.

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[–] • 7 pts

Never skimp on the PSU (Power Supply Unit) quality, never ever.

[–] • 2 pts

Also the motherboard, as it does a lot of power regulation. Important if you're going to run the system hard. He can probably go cheap on RAM though, and the CPU for that matter because games are mostly GPU limited these days (Dwarf Fortress excepted).

[–] • 0 pt

Depends on what you play. IDK what a Elden Ring is, but I wouldn't assume anything by it anyways. Strategy games tend to chew a lot of CPU and be poorly multi-threaded.

[–] • 0 pt

Elden Ring is a jap RPG. But yeah, Civ and Total War games are a bit more demanding on the CPU. I'm not saying buy a cheapo i3, just that a midrange CPU is plenty for most games these days. He should spend more on the graphics card than the CPU.

[–] • 4 pts

Get a rainbow 🌈 colored fan so onlookers know you are a/support faggot/s/ry

[–] [deleted] • 4 pts

Pc gamer here. Building will almost always be cheaper, and your budget is plenty. https://pcpartpicker.com/ is your best friend. Figure out if you want to go with Intel, or AMD. After that, pick your CPU, then match a decent motherboard to it. Then, GPU, ram, SSD. Finally a power supply to power all that shit. Obviously you'll need a case, but they can be had pretty cheaply, and one is more or less as good as the next. Pcpartspicker will narrow down your options to only things that are compatible as you build the system. So if you pick an intel cpu right off, it'll only show you intel motherboards, etc. And building it yourself means you can buy stuff used if you want, or shop around. I've built quite a few over the years, and wouldnt have it any other way. Or just say fuck it and buy a prebuilt, and hit the ground running.

[–] • 1 pt

This seems to be the easiest and most streamlined route to build one. Thanks

[–] [deleted] • 3 pts

Np. Use the site to mock up a build, and post it here, or in a message if you want. Then we can critique it,

[–] • 3 pts

Good luck getting a GPU if you are building a PC.

[–] [deleted] • 3 pts

That's a decent budget to build a good gaming pc.

Case - Your PC case will outlive all of your other components, so don't cheapen out. Get a tower with plenty of room and good airflow.

PSU - Some cases are sold with a PSU but they tend to be garbage. I had one of them blow up on me. Currently I have a 750w PSU and other than the case and some hard drives it has outlived all the other components. Get one from a decent brand.

Mobo - The considerations are the number and type of pcie slots, m.2 slots, and how well it handles overclocking.

CPU - When it comes to high performance gaming your CPU is always the bottleneck. You want one with the best single core performance. Right now that's Intel but AMD is catching up. For Intel get at least 8 cores at about 5ghz.

GPU - Performance usually scales linearly with the price. Get as fast of a gpu as you can afford.

Drives - Get an SSD, m.2 nvme.

RAM - Aim for 32 gb as some games can use that much. Don't go below 16 gb. As far as speed, I'm not a fan of spending too much money to get faster RAM, but you can do it to get slightly better framerates.

[–] • 0 pt

I'll try to take these suggestions to the pcpartpicker site someone else commented

[–] • 0 pt

Your PC case will outlive all of your other components, so don't cheapen out

I pulled my case out of a skip, it's the least important part of the build IMO?

everything else I agree with

I'd hate to be dropping money on a build right now, GPU prices are just so bad

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

If it was a budget build I'd recommend getting a cheap case. Since OP is willing to spend upwards of $2k on the build, I recommend a good case since he can afford it. We're not talking about a lot of money here--an extra $50 to go from a shitty case to a good case. I've had a nice Antec case for ten years that has been through two upgrades (three different motherboards) and I couldn't be happier with it.

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I seem to just repurpose my old PC's or give them away, I've got cases going back 30 years because they stopped making solid cases a long time ago.

Maybe I don't get why anyone would drop $2K on just one PC right now, I'd rather have a few hundred spare so I can upgrade again in a few years when we are out of this slump

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

I disagree on the case. OP should go for mini-ITX board and put it in a Dan A4-SFX case. Do the research from a forum and copy someone elses build for first time. I have several builds with this case.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

You didn't say why you think a smaller case like Dan A4-SFX is better for OP.

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Just depends on where you're going to put it. For a lot of people that's under a desk where it doesn't matter. A bigger case leaves more room to work and can accommodate bigger coolers if you're into that. For dexterity reasons alone, I would recommend a full size case to a first time builder. But obviously if that's going to be a problem for your space, don't do it.

[–] • 3 pts (edited )

Now is a good time to buy a graphics card. The Chinks are out of the cryptocurrency game at the moment so GPU prices are coming back down to earth.

Edit: reports of GPU availability are inaccurate. Good luck building a system. You may need to buy a pre-built system from Dell, HP, whatever, in order to get your hands on a modern graphics card.

[–] • 0 pt

Are they? I figured I'd have to run my 6 year card I to the ground because anything new is permanently out of stock.

[–] • 0 pt

That's what I read, but checking nowinstock.net shows practically no Nvidia GPUs in stock anywhere. Good thing I got my Vega 56 before ETH blew up.

[–] • 1 pt

1500-2000

You're going to spend most of that on the GPU these days. Wait for prices to come back down. Otherwise

https://www.logicalincrements.com

[–] • 1 pt (edited )

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/

With this site you can build, price, review and order all at once and it'll automatically handle chipset compatibility and power requirements as well, if it's your first build I highly recommend using it. Go for quality high star rated items, bronze level certified minimum on your power supply and motherboard.

[–] • 1 pt

I'm currently looking into pc parts for an upgrade, but the prices have been crazy for a long time.

I'm wanting to go with AMD because people mention their chip slot will be the same for quite a few generations. Problem is, I don't know enough about ryzen cpu's. I have an i5 6500 8gb of slower ram, forgot the speed, 2133?

If anyone has advice it would be appreciated. I wouldn't want to go over 250 for the cpu and don't know any good current motherboards.

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I upgraded from a similar i5 to a 3900x and the performance gain was very noticeable. It does run pretty hot though.

A 500 series AM4 board can use any of the 2-5000 Ryzen chips, though you might need to update the bios for your particular chip. Some board manufacturers make that easier than others. MSI or ASUS would be my recs. I actually spent more on the board so I didn't have faggy RGB bullshit all over it.

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Thanks for the information. I did come to the CO clusion that a ryzen 7 5000 series seems like a good fit for me. I also agree with you on the whole RGB crap, I run a red setup now but a blackout would be cool.

[–] • 0 pt

The more RGB's you put on it, the faster it will run

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

This is probably the worst time to build a gaming PC, the GPU shortage caused the prices to go sky high.

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