New Gaming PC

Fnoskar786 · November 30, 2017

Not entirely sure what to get, haven't done really anything with computers in the past 4 years.

My current rig (FX-6300/Radeon HD 7870) is decent but some games have a hard time keeping up.

Skyrim I have to put on medium/high for it to run decently smooth; even then there are frame dips

Basically, just looking to build a cheap computer than can run skyrim, league of legends, and black ops III on max settings for around $500 or so. I don't need anything else, just the computer

TheSLSAMG · November 30, 2017

I would recommend building the following:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 1200 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor ($99.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Team - Elite Plus 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($84.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 3GB GAMING Video Card ($204.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair - CX (2017) 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $499.94
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-11-29 20:59 EST-0500

And using your current HDD and case. You can downgrade the GPU to a GTX 1050 Ti and get an SSD as well, but that's up to you. If you can find an RX 470/80 or RX 570/80 for the same price, I'd jump on that. Higher speed memory is generally recommended with Ryzen, but the memory market is completely screwed right now and 2400MHz will do. If you can bear it out with your current GPU until you have more money to upgrade (the current GPU should be okay for now), you could get a hyperthreaded Ryzen 5 1400, another 8GB RAM and an SSD. Reusing your current PSU is not necessarily out of the question, but given it's age I'm not sure if it's suitable for a current-gen platform.

If you can't reuse some of what you have now, it's a really tight squeeze that involves the following:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 1200 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor ($99.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Team - Elite Plus 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($84.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($41.89 @ SuperBiiz)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB ACX 2.0 Video Card ($151.89 @ B&H)
Case: Rosewill - FBM-X1 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($19.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA - 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($38.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $497.72
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-11-29 21:00 EST-0500

jwh_ · November 30, 2017

Just now, TheSLSAMG said:

I would recommend building the following:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 1200 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor ($99.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Team - Elite Plus 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($84.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 3GB GAMING Video Card ($204.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair - CXM 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($54.42 @ Amazon)
Total: $504.37
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-11-29 20:52 EST-0500

And using your current HDD and case. You can downgrade the GPU to a GTX 1050 Ti and get an SSD as well, but that's up to you. If you can find an RX 470/80 or RX 570/80 for the same price, I'd jump on that.