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1 minute ago, HRR127 said:

What about buying a prebuilt one off of marketplace etc? Any recommendations on what to look for or upgrade paths? Thank you in advance ❤️

That HP Pavilion you listed isn't a good purchase if you intend on gaming.

Budget (including currency): 5000-7000 sek (hopefully towards 5000)

Country: Sweden

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: general stuff but mainly gaming, I would like to play most games (newer) at a reasonable performance level. 

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I want to buy it quite soon but could wait for up to 6-8 months. I don’t have any problems building it myself or getting it from a shop or buying used components.

 

I was thinking about buying a premade one off Facebook marketplace but don’t know what’s actually that good, I’ve seen some stuff like this. If I buy a system like this any recommendations for upgrade parts are also welcome. 


HP Pavilon system TG01-1045no

price 3500 sek

AMD ryzen 7 4700G

RTX 2060

16 GB ram

 

 

 

 

 

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Use your current gpu for now.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: *AMD Ryzen 5 5600 3.5 GHz 6-Core Processor  (kr1140.00 @ Amazon Sweden) 
Motherboard: *Gigabyte B550 EAGLE ATX AM4 Motherboard  (kr1088.44 @ Amazon Sweden) 
Memory: *Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  (kr629.00 @ Amazon Sweden) 
Storage: *Patriot P210 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (kr586.38 @ Amazon Sweden) 
Case: *Deepcool CC560 V2 ATX Mid Tower Case  (kr693.00 @ Proshop) 
Power Supply: *MSI MAG A650BN 650 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (kr656.54 @ Amazon Sweden) 
Total: kr4793.36
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
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https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-11-free-or-cheap 

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7 minutes ago, Why_Me said:

Use your current gpu for now.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: *AMD Ryzen 5 5600 3.5 GHz 6-Core Processor  (kr1140.00 @ Amazon Sweden) 
Motherboard: *Gigabyte B550 EAGLE ATX AM4 Motherboard  (kr1088.44 @ Amazon Sweden) 
Memory: *Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  (kr629.00 @ Amazon Sweden) 
Storage: *Patriot P210 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (kr586.38 @ Amazon Sweden) 
Case: *Deepcool CC560 V2 ATX Mid Tower Case  (kr693.00 @ Proshop) 
Power Supply: *MSI MAG A650BN 650 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (kr656.54 @ Amazon Sweden) 
Total: kr4793.36
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2025-06-18 12:16 CEST+0200 

 

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-11-free-or-cheap 

This doesn’t include a graphics card? Or am I just slow??

 

also I was looking for at least 8 cores for CPU sorry I didn’t specify it 😞

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Just now, HRR127 said:

This doesn’t include a graphics card? Or am I just slow??

 

also I was looking for at least 8 cores for CPU sorry I didn’t specify it 😞

Wait sorry I just saw what you wrote, I don’t have a current GPU, I have absolutely nothing, the thing I wrote in the other section was a pc I saw on marketplace which I potentially could buy! 

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7 minutes ago, HRR127 said:

Wait sorry I just saw what you wrote, I don’t have a current GPU, I have absolutely nothing, the thing I wrote in the other section was a pc I saw on marketplace which I potentially could buy! 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: *AMD Ryzen 5 5600 3.5 GHz 6-Core Processor  (kr1140.00 @ Amazon Sweden) 
Motherboard: *Gigabyte B550 EAGLE ATX AM4 Motherboard  (kr1088.44 @ Amazon Sweden) 
Memory: *Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  (kr629.00 @ Amazon Sweden) 
Storage: *Patriot P210 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (kr586.38 @ Amazon Sweden) 
Video Card: *ASRock Challenger D Radeon RX 6600 8 GB Video Card  (kr2438.00 @ Computersalg) 
Case: *Deepcool CC560 V2 ATX Mid Tower Case  (kr693.00 @ Proshop) 
Power Supply: *MSI MAG A650BN 650 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (kr656.54 @ Amazon Sweden) 
Total: kr7231.36
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2025-06-18 12:35 CEST+0200

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43 minutes ago, Why_Me said:

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: *AMD Ryzen 5 5600 3.5 GHz 6-Core Processor  (kr1140.00 @ Amazon Sweden) 
Motherboard: *Gigabyte B550 EAGLE ATX AM4 Motherboard  (kr1088.44 @ Amazon Sweden) 
Memory: *Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  (kr629.00 @ Amazon Sweden) 
Storage: *Patriot P210 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (kr586.38 @ Amazon Sweden) 
Video Card: *ASRock Challenger D Radeon RX 6600 8 GB Video Card  (kr2438.00 @ Computersalg) 
Case: *Deepcool CC560 V2 ATX Mid Tower Case  (kr693.00 @ Proshop) 
Power Supply: *MSI MAG A650BN 650 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (kr656.54 @ Amazon Sweden) 
Total: kr7231.36
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2025-06-18 12:35 CEST+0200

What about buying a prebuilt one off of marketplace etc? Any recommendations on what to look for or upgrade paths? Thank you in advance ❤️

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