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Myth96
By Myth96
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Budget (including currency): 1000

Country: usa

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming

Other details A buddy of mine wants to get into gaming he's using a potato at the moment he gave me a 1000 budget to figure somthing out but I'm trying to see if I can go ahead and get him on the DDR5 platform but keep getting stuck being a few over budget any ideas

 

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Why exactly do you wan't him to go ddr5? The current price to performance ratio is kind of a joke, and not budget friendly at all.

You can get a way better machine with DDR4, the motherboards are cheaper and the ram can cost 100 dollars less, that money would be better allocated towards a better GPU/CPU which would make much more sense for the usecase.

 

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@Alinzis correct. On that budget you cannot push for the best.  You have to settle for marginally older tech that your friend probably won't notice. No rgb, either. 

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