Game developing rig

[dreckman]

So I recently started the development of my game on unreal 4. But my 7 year old PC can barely handle anything. So I want to build a new pc which can handle game development and some medium gaming. Can anyone give me some advice on what components buy with a budget of €500?

I will use second hand parts where possible to reduce costs.

[Franpadi]

i would get an rx 480 and reuse the case form that pc

also u could probably reuse the hdd

if ur ram on ur old computer is ddr3 then reuse and probably ad some more

get an fx cpu to suit ur budget

get a cheap m atx board

 

[dreckman]

20 minutes ago, Franpadi said:

i would get an rx 480 and reuse the case form that pc

also u could probably reuse the hdd

if ur ram on ur old computer is ddr3 then reuse and probably ad some more

get an fx cpu to suit ur budget

get a cheap m atx board

 

That might work, but I have 2 sticks of 2gb ddr2, a AMD phenom 2 and a PSU which I suspect of being capable of exploding everytime I turn on the pc, it is a pre build. And the hard drive can't be used by me either since it contains photos and such. We only have 1 desktop pc and a bunch of very slow and even worse laptops at our place. Which means that I can only reuse the case. 

So if I were to buy 2 sticks of 4gb ddr3 ram I would spend about €40. A decent PSU will cost about €50-80. And if I want any upgradability I can't just buy the cheapest m atx motherboard, which means I will spend between €50-100. 

That will be about €160. A Rx 480 will cost about €300. A €40 CPU won't be able to handle game development.

[Franpadi]

You are in pretty hard budget because with the rx 480 u are fine but your budget makes it impossible. Going with older gpus is no that great.

[Franpadi]

also the rx 480 will probably be 200 in the next month or 2

[Franpadi]

i would get the whole pc whitout the gpu for 500 and wait a bit for the 480

 

[Franpadi]

its the best bang for your buck right now

[dreckman]

17 hours ago, Franpadi said:

 

That may be a good idea, going with the igpu until I can afford a proper gpu. It would already be a huge improvement from my AMD phenom 2, so I should be able to get some work done.

Thanks for your help:-)

 

[Franpadi]

On 7/30/2016 at 5:03 AM, dreckman said:

That may be a good idea, going with the igpu until I can afford a proper gpu. It would already be a huge improvement from my AMD phenom 2, so I should be able to get some work done.

Thanks for your help:-)

 

there is a video from LTT about wheater budget cards are good. They are not.

[dreckman]

On 7/29/2016 at 4:22 PM, Franpadi said:

 

I know, AMD phenom 2 is the CPU in the pc. AMD Radeon hd 6700 is the current gpu, it is ancient and bad to begin with. But I didn't buy it, my father did. The igpu will outperform the current gpu I have by a long shot.