Log New build for budget gaming

M4D

Case Bender
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Feb 17, 2025
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Hi,
I’m trying to setup humble gaming sff pc that can be upgraded in future. I did build my PC decades ago, so some information is new and some is still valid. I prepared decent build in pcpartpicker


but I’m unsure if could be better in terms price/performance as I’m limited by budget (800EUR) a local market (EU - Alza.cz)

Does any masters of sff art have time to correct me before I order it? Thank you in advance! :-)
 

Gidilo

Trash Compacter
Nov 23, 2022
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with such a tight budget it's almost always better to buy used rather than new, at least when it comes to price/performance
 

HWI

Average Stuffer
Sep 6, 2022
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I think @Gidilo is correct for this budget. Obviously, I don't know what the market is like where you live, but in the US you can get used AM4 CPU/Mobo and DDR4 ram for pretty cheap these days, so definitely worth looking into that avenue. Also, what are AMD GPU prices like where you live? Here in the US you are generally going to get more bang for you buck in the lower end GPU segment going with AMD instead of NVidia.
 

M4D

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Feb 17, 2025
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I live in Prauge (Czech Republic) and mainly buying from alza.cz

This build is here is for 24000CZK (~960EUR), so I’m already over budget. When I check the same build in US, it’s around 995USD

I don’t mind the increase, but since its over it, I wonder if it could be better in terms of performance or I will just downgrade and upgrade on same mother board later in 1-2years.. after all, I still have backlog of older games that I can’t play right now, while looking forward to play some current and future games.

Currently playing on laptop, Dell Inspiron 15 (7000) with 32GB RAM (from 2016), but the GeForce GTX 960M 4GB isn’t enough.
 


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