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[SilverWizard820]

Hey guys do you know what ssd/OS drive and graphic card would be the cheapest and also it needs to for gaming as I have a gaming computer but it doesn’t have a ssd/OS drive in it. The ssd/OS drive and graphic card need to be good but at the same time cheap as I just got a job and I need the ssd/OS drive and the graphic card in Australia so it’s cheaper to ship to me as I live in Australia 

[Radium_Angel]

6 minutes ago, SilverWizard820 said:

graphic card

 

6 minutes ago, SilverWizard820 said:

cheapest

 

6 minutes ago, SilverWizard820 said:

good

Error. Segfault. Does not compute.

 

In this day and age of scarcity, ycan have cheap, or you can have good, you cannot have both.

[Middcore]

"good" and "for gaming" are meaningless, especially talking about SSD's.

 

It's virtually impossible to buy a GPU that most people would consider capable enough for gaming right now without paying inflated prices.

 

In the future please make your thread title something descriptive of the actual topic, every day people post threads with titles that are just variations of "help me pls." 

[SansVarnic]

-= Topic moved to New Builds and Planning =-

[SilverWizard820]

4 hours ago, Arika S said:

depends what you mean by "cheap". you can get SSDs for like $50 but it's not very large. how much data/how many games to you plan to install on it?

 

what is your budget for a GPU? because the cheapest, even close to decent is an RX580 which is $600.

 

otherwise, look at the used market on ebay, gumtree etc

I have found a SSD for 88$ and a hard drive for 119$ and my sister is going to give me her gpu once she gets a new one

[BahnStormer]

I realise this question was moved from another chat group, but the statement still applies: the question is meaningless without a target budget.... or some idea of the rest of the system that it will go into.

 

I would normally recommend something like a 250Gb mid-range NVME (like a Western Digital SN550 or even one of the ADATA's if money is tight).

 

This recommendation is useless if your system is so old that it doesn't have NVME support.

 

In terms of SSD's on a budget - there are a LOT out there that offer great performance for reasonable money: I've had good experiences with even the most budget Crucial branded drives and I have several Samsung 850 PRO's in old HTPC's and laptops - they're all ~5yrs old now, but still performing VERY well!

 

I would aim for >200Gb for the SSD to run the OS + game launchers... then configure the game launchers to put the game files on an older hard drive, where there is more space.

 

For the last five years, I used a 250Gb Samsung 850PRO SSD for the OS... then a 2Tb Seagate Barracuda as the games drive. TBH - that setup was FINE, but I was upgrading the motherboard and decided to start using NVME's, so last year I upgraded that to a 250Gb 970EVOplus for the OS and put the game data on a 1Tb WD SN550 (also NVME, but not as fast or as expensive!).

 

Graphics is more tricky.... and even more difficult to recommend without knowing what the system is.... In some cases you might be better off with an entire motherboard + CPU upgrade and just use the onboard Intel UHD / Ryzen Vega graphics (e.g. if you only have something like a GT710?)

 

Also need to know what the monitor is: resolution and refresh rate (or the make and model number). Ultimately we need to know if it is 1024x768 60Hz or 4k 300Hz? (or most likely somewhere in the middle)

 

For some screens, even something fairly high end like an RTX 3070 (AUD2000+) would struggle to process enough resolution fast enough to drive the screen properly.... but for the much lower spec screens, even something like a AUD200  GTX1050Ti/RX560 would be overkill.