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Kids 1st Gaming Computer

TheVirusNX
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My 10 year old wants a computer to play a few games, mostly Minecraft, Roblox, Rocket League and browser games. I have a old FX-6300, 16GB of DDR3, and a 550W psu. He needs a GPU. He mows our neighbors yard to earn some $$$. He has saved up about 80$. I was looking around for a GPU for him. Would a GT 730 2GB 128-Bit DDR3 be good enough for those games until he starts to play something needing a upgrade?

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This is a hard one... The rule of thumb really is, unless the card costs more than ~130 bucks, your just paying for something that has multiple display outputs. That said, the used market can be a great place to look for things like R9 290's, or even GTX 560's and things such as that. All of these would run circles around a GT730 which is really just a display adapter... There are A LOT of used options out there actually, so its hard to say exactly where to look.

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1 minute ago, Slottr said:

Get a used RX 570/580.

 

GT 730 is a total waste of money 

Basically this. Maybe you can do better than what I listed for 80 bucks. I personally really don't know, I don't shop that market often..... But, I may have a GTX 560 I don't need. If its for a kid... maybe I can cut ya a real good deal on it if it suits his needs. Lemme know, if so I can put it up in the forum's classifieds before you buy it obviously. <- I don't think this is against rules mods?

 

Anyways, just an idea.

Rig: i7 13700k - - Asus Z790-P Wifi - - RTX 4080 - - 4x16GB 6000MHz - - Samsung 990 Pro 2TB NVMe Boot + Main Programs - - Assorted SATA SSD's for Photo Work - - Corsair RM850x - - Sound BlasterX EA-5 - - Corsair XC8 JTC Edition - - Corsair GPU Full Cover GPU Block - - XT45 X-Flow 420 + UT60 280 rads - - EK XRES RGB PWM - - Fractal Define S2 - - Acer Predator X34 -- Logitech G502 - - Logitech G710+ - - Logitech Z5500 - - LTT Deskpad

 

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Homelab/ Media Server: Proxmox VE host - - 512 NVMe Samsung 980 RAID Z1 for VM's/Proxmox boot - - Xeon e5 2660 V4- - Supermicro X10SRF-i - - 128 GB ECC 2133 - - 10x4 TB WD Red RAID Z2 - - Corsair 750D - - Corsair RM650i - - Dell H310 6Gbps SAS HBA - - Intel RES2SC240 SAS Expander - - TreuNAS + many other VM’s

 

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