Looking for affordable cards in this day and age

[SoupsterThePcMan]

I've been looking into building my own first PC for a while now, being recently I have spec'ed out a build that is within my price range (not including the GPU) and would like to know what would be an effective strategy for finding a good performing card, preferably being 100 to 150 dollars USD in this day and age of the ever inflating prices of GPU's.

Here's the system that I've spec'ed, exclude the case in this case as I already own one.

[Gohardgrandpa]

Swap that I3 for a i5 10400, they are cheaper than what you listed on amazon all the time

[dizmo]

Hey, welcome to the forum.

 

What made you choose these parts? I'd probably go with something different. You can get a Ryzen 3600 for a little more, which would let you save on the motherboard, and have a better all around system while probably coming in cheaper.

Never go single channel RAM.

[SupaKomputa]

9th gen is cheap because it won't be upgradeable. You'll be stuck to it.

11th gen is ready to be launched, i guess with the same pricing as 10th gen if they want to compete with Ryzen.

 

For that price you're getting a i3 where you can get an i5 10400 for less.

 

For GPU, i suggest getting a RX570 / 580 (used).

Dont buy a new gpu right now, or you'll regret it 6 months - 1 year later.

[SteveGrabowski0]

There is no reason to buy a crap i3 when i5-10400 is cheaper and way better or R5 3600 is $25 more and a bit better than the 10400. In either case the stock cooler is fine also. No reason to waste money on an aftermarket cooler with lower midrange cpus like that.

[SoupsterThePcMan]

3 hours ago, dizmo said:

Hey, welcome to the forum.

 

What made you choose these parts? I'd probably go with something different. You can get a Ryzen 3600 for a little more, which would let you save on the motherboard, and have a better all around system while probably coming in cheaper.

Never go single channel RAM.

I was specifically looking for a system that I can get into Air cooling overclocking, I was considering AMD but I have little to prior knowledge on their processing power.

[SoupsterThePcMan]

3 hours ago, Gohardgrandpa said:

Swap that I3 for a i5 10400, they are cheaper than what you listed on amazon all the time

I'm looking for overclocking capability

[SoupsterThePcMan]

1 hour ago, SteveGrabowski0 said:

There is no reason to buy a crap i3 when i5-10400 is cheaper and way better or R5 3600 is $25 more and a bit better than the 10400. In either case the stock cooler is fine also. No reason to waste money on an aftermarket cooler with lower midrange cpus like that.

This CPU doesnt come with a stock cooler and rather as I'm looking for overclocking capability.

[SteveGrabowski0]

4 hours ago, SoupsterThePcMan said:

This CPU doesnt come with a stock cooler and rather as I'm looking for overclocking capability.

Don't buy that cpu, makes no sense whatsoever to buy a 4C/4T cpu for gaming. You'd never overclock that thing to be as good as a $150 i5-10400. That cpu would have been amazing in 2011 but it's 2021.

[SteveGrabowski0]

4 hours ago, SoupsterThePcMan said:

I was specifically looking for a system that I can get into Air cooling overclocking, I was considering AMD but I have little to prior knowledge on their processing power.

For what? Overclocking a weak cpu isn't going to get you better gaming performance than just buying a decent cpu and running it at stock. This isn't the 1990s or early 2000s when you could buy cheap cpus and overclock them to be better than flagship cpus that cost twice as much.

[Mark Kaine]

Intel CPU is fine but not this one, get the 10400...

 

A400 ssd is terrible, get mx500 instead. 

 

gpu? I don't know... for that money? a 1050ti or rx 560/570 maybe? maybe a 1060.

 

if you're lucky a 970/980/ti perhaps. 

[dizmo]

15 hours ago, SoupsterThePcMan said:

I was specifically looking for a system that I can get into Air cooling overclocking, I was considering AMD but I have little to prior knowledge on their processing power.

Overclocking isn't going to overcome the lack of cores.

[Gamer4714]

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