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Tytan64
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Hello, everyone!

I try to build a very cheap PC for my cousin and I'm on a budget.

I can get a Sapphire Radeon Nitro R9 380 2GB for the same price as the Zotac GTX 960 AMP! Edition 2GB. 

Which is better?

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11 minutes ago, Tytan64 said:

Hello, everyone!

I try to build a very cheap PC for my cousin and I'm on a budget.

I can get a Sapphire Radeon Nitro R9 380 2GB for the same price as the Zotac GTX 960 AMP! Edition 2GB. 

Which is better?

You should get the R9 380, but the 4GB Version. 

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10 minutes ago, Abdul201588 said:

You should get the R9 380, but the 4GB Version. 

Well, unfortunately that's not in the budget... 

Which one will be more powerful?

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Just now, Tytan64 said:

Well, unfortunately that's not in the budget... 

Which one will be more powerful?

Ah, I see. I would go for the R9 380. 

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | CPU Cooler: Stock AMD Cooler | Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING (WI-FI) | RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 CL16 | GPU: Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB Zotac Mini | Case: K280 Case | PSU: Cooler Master B600 Power supply | SSD: 1TB  | HDDs: 1x 250GB & 1x 1TB WD Blue | Monitors: 24" Acer S240HLBID + 24" Samsung  | OS: Win 10 Pro

 

Audio: Behringer Q802USB Xenyx 8 Input Mixer |  U-PHORIA UMC204HD | Behringer XM8500 Dynamic Cardioid Vocal Microphone | Sound Blaster Audigy Fx PCI-E card.

 

Home Lab:  Lenovo ThinkCenter M82 ESXi 6.7 | Lenovo M93 Tiny Exchange 2019 | TP-LINK TL-SG1024D 24-Port Gigabit | Cisco ASA 5506 firewall  | Cisco Catalyst 3750 Gigabit Switch | Cisco 2960C-LL | HP MicroServer G8 NAS | Custom built SCCM Server.

 

 

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Ah, fuck it!

I'm just going to convince them to spend an extra of 10€ more on it to get the R9 380 with 4GB...

So far I got these parts:

AMD Athlon X4 860K Black Edition (4x 3.7GHz) 4MB Sockel FM2+

Gigabyte GA-F2A68HM-DS2 GL

8GB Kingston DDR3-1333 ValueRAM CL9 (9-9-9-27) RAM

Thermaltake Versa H15

WD Blue WD10EZEX - 1TB 7200rpm 64MB 3.5zoll SATA600

Corsair VS Series VS450 ATX 2.3 80+ aktiv PFC

Sapphire Radeon Nitro R9 380 OC 4GB GDDR5

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1 minute ago, TheRandomness said:

Have you already got that PSU @Tytan64?

Nope, all parts need to be ordered.

Do you have any suggestions for me? =)

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I'd highly recommend getting an SSD for the OS and then buying the hard drive later for mass storage

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1 hour ago, dmtben said:

I'd highly recommend getting an SSD for the OS and then buying the hard drive later for mass storage

Even though I aggree on that he has too much data in use. About 1TB might even be not enough. He likes to put videos on youtube and ofcourse keep them. His old drive failed this weekend. So he can't use it's old HDD. But thanks for mentioning =)

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1 hour ago, TheRandomness said:

Anything from Tiers 1 to 4 on this list: 

 

The PSU I've chosen is on the acceptable list aka Tier 3 :P

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The R9 380 4GB is better though if possible maybe even look into getting an AMD R9 290 or 290x on ebay if you want to go used.

 

 

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