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Budget (including currency): Cheap as possible

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: lots of YouTube, Playing games like Minecraft, World of Warcraft, Apex Legends and games like that

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

Right now I have:

CPU: AMD FX - 6300

GPU: AMD Radeon R9 280

RAM: Kingston HyperX Savage 8G (2x4GB) 1600MHz

SSD: PNY 120G

HDD: 500G

MOBO:  MSI ATX DDR3 2133 970 Gamming

Power: Corsair CX600M

Monitors: 2 of them 1080p

I been wanting to update my PC cause its been running slow and I build it 5 years ago and not done anything with it since. I also got back into WOW and want to get it ready for Shadowlands coming out soon. Want to keep it as cheap as possible reusing as many part as I can with in reason.

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Honestly....no. Your whole system is going to give you trouble. Aside from perhaps your storage, though that HDD is likely quite slow.

You're best off waiting for Black Friday, and doing a complete rebuild. See if you can get deals on last gen Ryzen processors, grab some RAM...you can reuse the GPU but it's pretty old at this point.

CPU: Ryzen 9 5900 Cooler: EVGA CLC280 Motherboard: Gigabyte B550i Pro AX RAM: Kingston Hyper X 32GB 3200mhz

Storage: WD 750 SE 500GB, WD 730 SE 1TB GPU: Gigabyte GTX 1050 PSU: Corsair SF750 Case: Streacom DA2

Monitor: LG 27GL83B Mouse: Razer Basilisk V2 Keyboard: G.Skill KM780 Cherry MX Red Speakers: Mackie CR5BT

 

MiniPC - Sold for $100 Profit

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CPU: Intel i3 4160 Cooler: Integrated Motherboard: Integrated

RAM: G.Skill RipJaws 16GB DDR3 Storage: Transcend MSA370 128GB GPU: Intel 4400 Graphics

PSU: Integrated Case: Shuttle XPC Slim

Monitor: LG 29WK500 Mouse: G.Skill MX780 Keyboard: G.Skill KM780 Cherry MX Red

 

Budget Rig 1 - Sold For $750 Profit

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CPU: Intel i5 7600k Cooler: CryOrig H7 Motherboard: MSI Z270 M5

RAM: Crucial LPX 16GB DDR4 Storage: Intel S3510 800GB GPU: Nvidia GTX 980

PSU: Corsair CX650M Case: EVGA DG73

Monitor: LG 29WK500 Mouse: G.Skill MX780 Keyboard: G.Skill KM780 Cherry MX Red

 

OG Gaming Rig - Gone

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CPU: Intel i5 4690k Cooler: Corsair H100i V2 Motherboard: MSI Z97i AC ITX

RAM: Crucial Ballistix 16GB DDR3 Storage: Kingston Fury 240GB GPU: Asus Strix GTX 970

PSU: Thermaltake TR2 Case: Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ITX

Monitor: Dell P2214H x2 Mouse: Logitech MX Master Keyboard: G.Skill KM780 Cherry MX Red

 

 

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