Hi friends,
Currently playing on a laptop that… let’s just say it has difficulty. (Raiding with an operable framerate right now just isn’t happening).
Budgeting to upgrade to desktop soon, currently looking at options like PCPartPicker’s “Modest Intel” and “Modest AMD Gaming Builds,” and on the pre-built side places like CyberPowerPC.
Wouldn’t be my first rodeo building a PC from scratch, but it’s been years - and (shocker?) it looks like it may even be cheaper/better bang for my buck to go with something pre-built (short of waiting awhile for good deals on specific components). I’m told the price hikes for RAM is due to Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies? We live in a wild world, friends.
Generally leaning towards building my own, but that’s less a price point thing and more because I’m a little wary of options like CyberPowerPC.
I’m wildly open to suggestion, and the key things I want to focus on:
- This general price range $600-900 (the lower end of that, the better)
- General upgradability - happy to start modest since it doesn’t require a lot to run WoW smoothly, but AAA titles are the eventual goal.
Please advise <3
PCPartPicker part list: ttps://pcpartpicker.com/list/zTLWhy
Price breakdown by merchant: ttps://pcpartpicker.com/list/zTLWhy/by_merchant/
CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor ($164.89 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - B450 AORUS M Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($74.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill - Aegis 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($77.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Crucial - P1 1 TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($104.99 @ Adorama)
Video Card: Gigabyte - Radeon RX 570 4 GB Gaming 4G Video Card ($119.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Cooler Master - MasterBox Q300L MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($39.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: Corsair - CX (2017) 450 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($39.88 @ OutletPC)
Total: $622.72
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-04-06 00:40 EDT-0400
Sub out the $120 RX 570 for a $280 GTX 1660 ti of your choice for better AAA gaming and higher resolution
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This is super helpful, thank you!
Open to other suggestions as well! 
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My suggestion is to go with Salgeron’s build, it’s a good build for that price point. Don’t go with cyberpower no matter what you do though, their customer service is horrendous, so is ibuypower.
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Exactly the kind of info I needed - that’s really helpful to know. What about the customer service is so horrid?
Linus did a series on some of the prebuilts.
One of them (i think Cyber) wouldn’t even help them by recommending a PC for 1500 dollars. The other wouldn’t help fix a simple issue (ram not seated properly)
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