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bigjohn888jb
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hardware

Wed Dec 04, 2019 10:56 am

Hi,
A friends son wants a new computer for gaming and video streaming. He's on a tight budget and put together the following system. They are looking for my blessing that this would be a good computer for him. I am not current with game hardware needs to "really" play these games successfully.

ASRock MicroATX Motherboard (B450M PRO4)
AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Processor
XFX Radeon RX 570 DirectX 12 RX-570P8DFD6 8GB 256-Bit DDR5 PCI Express 3.0 CrossFireX Support Video Card
8 GB of Ram
480 GB ssd.
 
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Re: hardware

Wed Dec 04, 2019 11:17 am

If the price of the RX 570 is $140, spend $20 more for the RX 580 for better performance. (Already spending over a hundred bucks. Might as well spend the $20)

https://www.amazon.com/XFX-Radeon-1386M ... 06Y66K3XD/

https://www.techspot.com/review/1780-ge ... adeon-570/

Check the average frame rate graph at the end. 580 would be more future proof for not too much more.
 
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Re: hardware

Wed Dec 04, 2019 11:36 am

Good info - thanks.

So if we upgrade the video, this would be a decent game computer?
 
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Re: hardware

Wed Dec 04, 2019 11:40 am

I moved this thread to System Builder's Anonymous.

For a tight budget, that is a reasonable list of components. The GPU has the largest impact on gaming performance, so Igor's suggestion to spend any "extra" funds there is likely to give the most performance improvement for the money spent.

8 GiB of RAM is on the light side, but adding RAM is by far the easiest hardware upgrade to make later, so skimping on memory to make an initially tight budget is forgivable. 2x8 = 16 GiB of PC4-25600 (DDR4-3200) is currently as cheap as $55, so the savings is $17 if you initially spend $38 on 8 GiB instead.
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Re: hardware

Wed Dec 04, 2019 1:02 pm

Which PSU? If you decide to go for the 580, better have a 500W PSU minimum just to be on the safe side to account for the 580's power cravings.

https://www.amazon.com/EVGA-WHITE-Warra ... B00H33SFJU

And yes, as per JAE's suggestion, 16GB ram is a good idea for a smoother computing/gaming experience.

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