New PC Build

ryanisfrying · May 13, 2020

Budget (including currency): $1200 USD

Country: US

Games, programs, or workloads that it will be used for: This PC will be used for gaming mostly. Games such as League of Legends, Valorant, Spellbreak, Sea of Thieves among others.

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you are upgrading from, when you are going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc.): I will be needing a new monitor, keyboard, and a headset. I am willing to buy as soon as possible. I am upgrading from a Lenovo ideapad 330S. I would like to play games 1080p a 144 fps.

ubuntu-guru · May 13, 2020

I'd have to agree. Unfortunately, I was in a situation where I had to upgrade last week, and what I originally planned to be a $1000 upgrade, has hit $1,500 and I'm not done. Pretty much because a majority of the parts I was originally looking at were sold out on places like Amazon, Newegg, BHPhoto, and a lot of the "more expensive" hardware was still left. So I had to tweak my prices and decided that I'd spend the extra, and just set myself up for another good 1-2 years and sorta future-proof. The only thing that was readily available was the Ryzen CPUs (if you're going with Ryzen instead of Intel). But after I had already dipped x2-3 my budget into the motherboard, I just opted to go Ryzen 9.

And since a lot of parts were sold out,it sort of limits what "perfect" look you're going for, and you have to settle for something that may seem a little less appealing to you. And if you're going to upgrade, you may as well buy the parts YOU want ( RGB/Color/Etc ).

ubuntu-guru · May 13, 2020

Just now, BlueScope819 said:

I've been having a similar problem, I've been trying to create some good parts lists for both my friends and myself, and I can't get accurate pricing because it's sold out everywhere. Medical masks are, in fact, more important than graphics cards. (Shocker, I know)

Yeah. I spent a good day looking at video cards. Because the two I liked were sold out, and one wasn't quoted to be back in stock until June - July, and I had already started getting the other stuff.

Overall, I found alternatives I'm happy with, but the price definitely went up from my original goal. It's just really hard building machines when 3-4 of the things you like are sold out and you have to start tweaking your preferences.

I'll wait until the US is "back to normal" before I do any additional purchases.