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Nathanael D. Striker

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Alright folks, I'm in the market for building a Desktop PC. Why? Because I'd like something a bit more powerful than the Macbook Pro I have for schoolwork and gaming. My Macbook Pro does alright with schoolwork, but the gaming part struggles past the N64 era, and that's a shame because I'd really want to play the PSP/GC/Wii roms that I have as well as PC games in the future. My budget is $500-600, but I already have a 1TB 5400rpm Hard Drive for use, so that should help divert some money towards other parts. I plan on using my 22in TV as the monitor (if that's even possible) and I already have a mouse. As this is the first time I've done this sort of thing, can I get some help please?

 

And to please Dad, feel free to discuss PC building and the benefits of it in general.

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Ok so if you've never built a PC before I suggest you start off with a tower that has a lot of room on the inside while still being well optimized, this way you don't have to struggle with building everything from scratch while still being able to switch out parts and update it as needed. My friend and I recently did this, and all we really changed out was the fan, added a graphics card so it could run at 60 fps or above. I also suggest getting a nice Ram update if you'll use it for gaming, but honestly we didn't do that because we figured we'd build something better down the line anyways and if you have a decent graphics card it kinda compensates for the ram. 

 

Honestly it's kinda like adult legos, and we did everything through YouTube video tutorials! 

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Ok so if you've never built a PC before I suggest you start off with a tower that has a lot of room on the inside while still being well optimized, this way you don't have to struggle with building everything from scratch while still being able to switch out parts and update it as needed. My friend and I recently did this, and all we really changed out was the fan, added a graphics card so it could run at 60 fps or above. I also suggest getting a nice Ram update if you'll use it for gaming, but honestly we didn't do that because we figured we'd build something better down the line anyways and if you have a decent graphics card it kinda compensates for the ram. 

 

Honestly it's kinda like adult legos, and we did everything through YouTube video tutorials! 

 

First of all, glad to see you Rapid. Long time, no see. Second, that's what I've been reading from the bit of research I've had. Some of the "best" builds for certain price points don't seem to require many parts to get working: tower, motherboard, ram, graphics card, processor, and hard drive being the main things for the build. And the tower in those builds appear to be friendly for first timers. I do plan on putting Linux on it as I don't want to dedicate money to buying Windows 10 (my only copy of Windows 10 was an OEM License upgrade when it was a free upgrade from Windows 8.1, so I can't transfer it over), so ideas on a good Linux for my uses (only Linux I have experience with in Linux Mint) would also be appreciated. And before anyone asks, I already have a wifi adapter (thank goodness I got it on sale), so I'm covered on the wifi front.

 

Also, it appears my budget may force me to go with AMD Ryzen chips. How are they? Anyway, thank you Rapid.

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Also, it appears my budget may force me to go with AMD Ryzen chips. How are they? Anyway, thank you Rapid.

 

Honestly, I'm not too informed on that front. I've never used an AMD Ryzen and at best I'm a beginner when it comes to this stuff as well, so my advice would be to maybe try finding a tower with a built in graphics card that's already pretty good. I'm not sure if you have "Fry's" where you're at but it's a really good electronics store here in Georgia that always has some good deals going on; if you don't have that particular store tho I would check out the sales sections at tech stores, you could run across an older gen graphics card and those can be just as good and half the price as the next gen stuff out there. We got our graphics card like that and it was for about $150 which is a really good price for that stuff. 

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Honestly, I'm not too informed on that front. I've never used an AMD Ryzen and at best I'm a beginner when it comes to this stuff as well, so my advice would be to maybe try finding a tower with a built in graphics card that's already pretty good. I'm not sure if you have "Fry's" where you're at but it's a really good electronics store here in Georgia that always has some good deals going on; if you don't have that particular store tho I would check out the sales sections at tech stores, you could run across an older gen graphics card and those can be just as good and half the price as the next gen stuff out there. We got our graphics card like that and it was for about $150 which is a really good price for that stuff. 

 

AMD Ryzen would essentially be the cheaper option to the Intel processors. Though given an unexpected financial issue, it appears my PC Building is on hold indefinitely. Shame.

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If youre not comfortable buying your own parts I would recommend going to your nearest PC store and talking to some one there. I built my PC for about 1000$ total and thats including my first GPU that I shorting out.Tell them what you want and your budget and they should help you out. Most part supply sites have sales on everything so shop around first before you buy. There's nothing wrong with buying used as long as the parts are in good shape. Just be aware of compatibility issues. I have no experience with Linux so I can't comment there.

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The AMD Ryzens are on par with Intel's processors, for the most part. My little brother uses a Ryzen 5, of some sort, in his build. The only true difference from what I can understand between AMD and Intel is the amount of Motherboards available to each company. Speaking of Motherboards...

 

I'm not trying to insult your knowledge on computers, but do go with a full tower as you'll be able to throw any size ATX Motherboard into them suckers. However, the smaller you go the less options you'll get in throwing in bigger parts. Personally if you want a professionals "help" on this all LinusTechTips  is a very great source to look at. I even built my first PC running GTA V with this dudes guides.

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