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Elo Gaming
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So I had bought a laptop for work for 200$ a few years ago with a pentium in it. Just as anyone would find out, it slowed down as quick as it stopped being new. I then built my gaming PC for home and now I am thinking to make a pc for work that'll handle a little more then a pentium but not anything more than powerpoint and web browsing. This is what I came up with after doing a couple weeks of research. Since prices are so high for everything I decided to go older and save money with DDR3 and the and a AMD FM2+ socket APU and motherboard. Please tell me if this build a good or not. Thanks!

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find an old 2nd gen i5 prebuilt and get a gt 1030 instead, better performance.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Heatsink: Gelid Phantom Black GPU: Palit RTX 3060 Ti Dual RAM: Corsair DDR4 2x8GB 3000Mhz mobo: Asus X570-P case: Fractal Design Define C PSU: Superflower Leadex Gold 650W

 

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2 minutes ago, herman mcpootis said:

find an old 2nd gen i5 prebuilt and get a gt 1030 instead, better performance.

This.

 

If that doesn't work, I would advise saving up a bit and going 4th Gen i5. FM2/FM2+ is a bad platform, most of the CPUs released for it aren't good for the long term. I ran an A6-5400K that regularly ran slowly, even overclocked to 4.4Ghz. Overall, not a good platform.

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https://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-Thinkcentre-M72E-Mt-Intel-i5-3-2Ghz-6Gb-Ram-1TB-HDD/253423760903?hash=item3b013bb607:g:e2QAAOSwaJ9agdkh $102.50

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/s3YWGX/gigabyte-geforce-gt-1030-2gb-silent-low-profile-video-card-gv-n1030sl-2gl $83.98

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3 minutes ago, herman mcpootis said:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-Thinkcentre-M72E-Mt-Intel-i5-3-2Ghz-6Gb-Ram-1TB-HDD/253423760903?hash=item3b013bb607:g:e2QAAOSwaJ9agdkh $102.50

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/s3YWGX/gigabyte-geforce-gt-1030-2gb-silent-low-profile-video-card-gv-n1030sl-2gl $83.98

thanks for showing me this. I will keep it in mind if i dont find anything else because im not sure about reliability but thats a good shout. I dont think i need graphics for a work pc though

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2 minutes ago, Elo Gaming said:

thanks for showing me this. I will keep it in mind if i dont find anything else because im not sure about reliability but thats a good shout. I dont think i need graphics for a work pc though

oh you can skip the 1030 then, the iGPU should do just fine. maybe you can use the money for an SSD instead.

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3 minutes ago, herman mcpootis said:

oh you can skip the 1030 then, the iGPU should do just fine. maybe you can use the money for an SSD instead.

yeah but the nand flash shortage... Im not paying that rate for an ssd. but i was considering it

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10 minutes ago, NQSD said:

A graphics card isn't necessary so a decent CPU such as an i5 from older generations and higher would work. Although you should save up because when i attempted that for someone, it ended costing about $300.

Can I have an idea of what those parts were?

 

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17 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

This.

 

If that doesn't work, I would advise saving up a bit and going 4th Gen i5. FM2/FM2+ is a bad platform, most of the CPUs released for it aren't good for the long term. I ran an A6-5400K that regularly ran slowly, even overclocked to 4.4Ghz. Overall, not a good platform.

I wasnt that sure about that platform because i havent used it. Thanks for the advice ill try and find some parts.

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4 minutes ago, Elo Gaming said:

I wasnt that sure about that platform because i havent used it. Thanks for the advice ill try and find some parts.

Please don't use the FM2/FM2+ platform, it was a nightmare for me. It ran pretty slowly. The build I was talking that costed my friend $300 was high performing (with the FM2/FM2+ platform), but you apparently don't need as system as fast as my friend did.

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4 minutes ago, Elo Gaming said:

yeah but the nand flash shortage... Im not paying that rate for an ssd. but i was considering it

it's $80 for a 240gb MX500, for $66 for a slim S55 if you wanna cheap out. it's still okay for those prices.

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