Build for a 3/4 yr old.

[B_T_B]

Hello all, 

 

Hope you are all well. I have built a few PC's in my time, but wanted to know what the rest of the world thinks about building a pc for a 3/4 year old that spends all the time ( and my money )  gaming on Roblox / Garrys Mod .... and thanks to that youtube channel which I really REALLY love FG... ( I'm not saying the rest) has made my life hell. 

 

SO to what am I really going on about.. .. 

My middle son already has a nice setup with a 2060 RTX and Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ATX Mid. (BTW still playing said games... GRRR. if anyone says Granny I might explode) 

 

So was looking at the old NZXT H200i so as I'm already a AMD fanboy what would be the best CPU/ microATX combo for that case and will pop in the old 1050TI and spare 650w psu and memory ... Or is there a better case out there that I haven't seen yet.  

 

Thanks for reading and hope to see what you guys think.. Or am I just being a bad Dad dumping all that old kit on them

[Tristerin]

Better than me, I just put parts together from the pile to make this for my 3.5 year old last weekend to do walking simulators in the living room lol

 

ASUS M5A99FX Pro R2.0, FX 8350, 2x Gigabyte HD 7850 2gb GPUs in crossfire, 16gb (4x4) Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600mhz, Sparkle/FSP 650w PSU, PCCOOLING 160w TDP air cooler, 60gb Patriot SSD Win 10 boot drive, 1tb WDBlack HDD, Rosewill Nautilus 1.0 case.  Logitech Wireless Keyboard and Mouse, Roku 55" 4k TV

 

 

[FloRolf]

Am I the only one wondering why a 3 y/o needs their own pc? 

I'd rather give him/her some easy programming puzzles for kids to learn programming with some fun rather than pure gaming and you tubing. 

[astranger200]

19 minutes ago, Genwyn said:

H200i is mini itx.

 

Honestly any A320 board + a Ryzen 3 1200, 8gb of ddr4 and the 1050ti. Put it in a cheap case like the Rosewill 25$ Matx cases all over Newegg.

^^ agreed with this. cheap and cheerful until they can work to buy their own, so you teach them the value of saving

[B_T_B]

@GenwynI know its mini itx I did bad typo forgive me

 

@FloRolf Trust me.. I have 3 boys .. 17 / 7/ 3 going on 4..  Because of his older brother and his amazing setup. ( 2080TI / 9900k on a TUF mobo)  and his middle bro being the same with a pc setup . Asking to play on an Ipad is the end of the world. He is a keyboard and mouse player and utterly hates touch screen.   

 

As I said they do play other games thanks to the FGTE.... not saying the rest.. Trust me I have banned them many times from watching... 

 

So all I was asking anyone had any really good experiences on a ITX mobo case !  

 

[Tristerin]

23 minutes ago, FloRolf said:

Am I the only one wondering why a 3 y/o needs their own pc? 

I'd rather give him/her some easy programming puzzles for kids to learn programming with some fun rather than pure gaming and you tubing. 

My child does all the educational stuff, and is learning how to manipulate a 3d world at 3.5 years old, and understands PCs already - life goals, technology is the future.  I didn't learn to type until like 9th grade in our educational system.  I now sit at a PC for 80% of my work day.

 

To your point however, Arduino and the like is to much at the moment for her, and having a 2 year old as well.  In the plans though

[B_T_B]

@Genwyn Thanks for mentioning I just did see Cooler Master MasterBox Q300L That fits both Itx and mini.. so I think you have just solved the problem

[Adorable Cat]

I've got a Thermaltake Core V21 and I quite like it, I'm sure there are better out there though.

[Zando_]

H200 is solid, I stuffed an R5 1600 and 980 Ti into one and it wasn't bad at all. Airflow is certainly better than the Enthoo Evolv mITX (I also have one of those). 

31 minutes ago, B_T_B said:

Or am I just being a bad Dad dumping all that old kit on them

Hah! Not at all. My main rig started with a dual core pentium and 1050 Ti, later on I got an i5 2400 as an upgrade. Still kicked serious ass in the games I played (Battlefront II 2005 and KOTOR mostly), it wasn't till I started getting into AAA games that I wanted more horsepower. A 1050 Ti is a solid starter GPU (RX 570 is better if you were to buy new though), I'd pair it with an ASRock mITX B450 board (there's only one model, ez to find) and an R5 1600 or 2600 since those are pretty cheap now. Then you can just add a GPU later on when they get older and want to play the big kid games (the R5 1600 I had with 2933Mhz RAM kept up fine with a GTX 1080, which is 2060 Super/2070 level performance). 
 

28 minutes ago, FloRolf said:

Am I the only one wondering why a 3 y/o needs their own pc? 

I'd rather give him/her some easy programming puzzles for kids to learn programming with some fun rather than pure gaming and you tubing. 

Don't forget, building the rig isn't all about the recipient. I used a friend's need for a gaming PC to build him a custom watercooled rig sporting an i7 6700K and R9 290X. Did he need that to play CS:GO? Not at all, but I found good deals on the hardware, wanted to muck around with an i7, and do a custom loop, but I didn't have space to keep the rig when it was done. Turned out to be a win-win, he got a rig that is still kicking to this day, and I got the joy of building it. 

[B_T_B]

@Adorable Cat Totally forgot about them!   Thanks for reminding me but that would then mean a purchase of another PSU..  

 

Please don't get all upset about be building a pc for a child that is 3/4 years old. Honestly you should be asking him as he is that head strong already reading and well.. gives us all a hard time.!! . So he already uses a Dell all in one that he basically is breaking as its overheating.... So I say this.  When I build this new pc .. I have an all in one Dell  touch screen  that I will give away to anyone in the UK who wants to collect it.. Im not posting it!!  It's to heavy! 

[Guest]

Get an intel nuc, he's 3 years old I don't think he can tell the difference. It's small and doesn't overheat too bad and if you really need to upgrade it has thunderbolt to attach an external GPU

[B_T_B]

Just now, Darpyface said:

Get an intel nuc, he's 3 years old I don't think he can tell the difference. It's small and doesn't overheat too bad and if you really need to upgrade it has thunderbolt to attach an external GPU

Honestly he knows. Knows that his all in one is not good enough. He has helped me build a few PC's  I just wanted to get him a case that would give him that wow factor..  I like the look of  Cooler Master MasterBox Q300L and the NZXT H200i. For a young chap he is very clued up and to be honest after checking his scalp for the number 666.. I can confirm its not there and he is just a very young boy with massive ambitions thanks to his older brothers. 

[Guest]

4 hours ago, B_T_B said:

Honestly he knows

He’s 4 years old, I don’t think he knows. A 4 year old cant even tell the difference between left and right, I think you’re projecting your love of computers onto him.

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

he deserves a gameboy