Bugdet PC, for a kid (7yo)

[JustPeach]

Budget (including currency): 400 €

Country: Portugal 

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Minecraft (currently).

I already did a part list, I would like some feedback. I want it to be a capable pc for now and one that can easily be upgraded.

I will leave a picture of the pc parts below

 

 

[Jurrunio]

Surprisingly not bad, other than the SSD as you may be able to get something cheaper in 2.5" form factor.

[jaslion]

You want a 2x4gb config for the ram as that will give you a big performance boost.

The wd green ssds are just kinda bad and you are better of getting something else. A regular decent sata drive is plenty.

[JustPeach]

Just now, jaslion said:

You want a 2x4gb config for the ram as that will give you a big performance boost.

The wd green ssds are just kinda bad and you are better of getting something else. A regular decent sata drive is plenty.

Because of single chanell, right?  But I'm using 2x8gb of Ram, that way I can improve without being limited in the future. 2x4 is kinda limited in upgradability in the future, no?

[JustPeach]

4 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Surprisingly not bad, other than the SSD as you may be able to get something cheaper in 2.5" form factor.

Maybe that's true in your country but at least in this store, and most likely in my country, 2.5 ssd are around the same price. In fact right now excluding promotions they aren´t any cheaper ones.

[Ixionn]

5 minutes ago, Daniel Pereira said:

Because of single chanell, right?  But I'm using 2x8gb of Ram, that way I can improve without being limited in the future. 2x4 is kinda limited in upgradability in the future, no?

If you're doing 2x 8GB of ram you should be fine, that way you can easily upgrade to 32GB in the future by buying a matching set. Build looks good, 240GB should be plenty for minecraft and basic everyday programs and you can always add a bigger HDD or SSD alongside in the future. Everything looks great but it does look like your current total is around 470, you may want to stick with just one 8GB stick of ram and a slightly cheaper Ryzen CPU if you want to save money, considering unless you already have a Windows key or plan on using Linux, you will need to buy that as well.

[JustPeach]

35 minutes ago, Ixionn said:

If you're doing 2x 8GB of ram you should be fine, that way you can easily upgrade to 32GB in the future by buying a matching set. Build looks good, 240GB should be plenty for minecraft and basic everyday programs and you can always add a bigger HDD or SSD alongside in the future. Everything looks great but it does look like your current total is around 470, you may want to stick with just one 8GB stick of ram and a slightly cheaper Ryzen CPU if you want to save money, considering unless you already have a Windows key or plan on using Linux, you will need to buy that as well.

The system works just fine without windows active.

[SolarNova]

SInce u only have 1x8gb of RAM on there atm, and you have 4 dimm slots. Go with 2x4gb, u can add another 2x4gb in the future . The option to go up to 16GB is perfectly fine.

 

As others have mentioned, try get a better SSD as that one is DRAM-less.