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PC PARTS HELP!!!

JeevanB
By JeevanB
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Budget (including currency): £450

Country: United Kingdom (UK)

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Fortnite, Minecraft and working from home tasks: e.g video calls, emails, phones

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):

 

Hi, Would Like Help Getting parts for me to build my first PC!

 

Budget At The Top of Page.

 

Purchasing From Amazon, Uprgrading from a Ryzen 5 8GB ram Laptop.

 

 

 

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£450 is not a sufficient budget. An AMD APU that will play Minecraft and Fortnite -passably- well (because you sure don't have the budget for a discrete graphics card) will eat up almost half your budget by itself. 

Corps aren't your friends. "Bottleneck calculators" are BS. Only suckers buy based on brand. It's your PC, do what makes you happy.  If your build meets your needs, you don't need anyone else to "rate" it for you. And talking about being part of a "master race" is cringe. Watch this space for further truths people need to hear.

 

 

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Depends on where you find the parts and what kind of deals you get. Certainly 450 pounds is not enough for all new, but you can score some decent deals on bundles of used parts if you're willing to take a chance on eBay. Just found a Ryzen 2200G, B450 and 16GB of G.Skill for $200 (about 350 British pounds). Of course, used parts are always a gamble.

 

OP, if it would help, I have a complete SFF Lenovo ThinkCentre M71e with either a mid-level i3 or i5 just laying around that could be a good parts donor. It has a chipset that supports some rather nice i5 / i7 upgrades also. I live in the states so shipping could be expensive and you'll almost certainly need a different PSU, but it's available if it would help. Currently runs Ubuntu and has not been used in some time, but I could check it to be sure it still runs if you are interested.

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1 hour ago, JeevanB said:

Budget (including currency): £450

Country: United Kingdom (UK)

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Fortnite, Minecraft and working from home tasks: e.g video calls, emails, phones

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):

 

Hi, Would Like Help Getting parts for me to build my first PC!

 

Budget At The Top of Page.

 

Purchasing From Amazon, Uprgrading from a Ryzen 5 8GB ram Laptop.

 

 

 

Save up more is my advice here. You aren't really getting anything better than what you have now.

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