Gaming + X, possibly Pre-Build

[Speakerator]

Hi Folks,

 

My girlfriends dad's PC died a few days ago - PSU died, don't know how bad the casualties are. The system has been pretty old anyways (like, struggling to play older games at 1280 x 1024 kind of old), so he wants to replace the whole thing. Since he knows that I "work with computers" (I'm a software developer..), naturaly, he came to me for advice. However, to be honest, I haven't been on top of the (mid-tier) hardware game for quite some time  - (see my own aging system below for reverence), hence I'd like some comments on what I came up with:

 

These are the boundaries:

- no more than 1000€ - though I'd love to stay below 800€, so let's make this the current limit

- some light gaming at 1080p (we'll replace his monitor while we're at it). I've seen his game library and its a bit of everything, moslty older titles though he will probably add stuff as things go along

- additionally, the usual office stuff, nothing fancy

- no overclocking, no high-refreshrate and I guess he will also not shed a tear if he has to dial back some graphics settings once in awhile - anything new will blow what he had up until now out of the water anyway.

- now the caveat: as he'd simply walk into the next best-buy (or our local equivalent) and ask the clerks there to give him something (and they would propably have some parts from last year lying around), he would like it to be prebuild.

 

Depending on the savings of building on your own I'll try to convince him to have me order the parts, build the thing and drop it off with him on my next visit, but that's not settled yet. I'll throw something together in PC Partpicker over the next few days

 

From my research so far, I think something like a i5-8400 / GTX1050TI or a Ryzen 2600 + RX 580 should be doable and suffice for what he is doing, e.g something like these two:

 

• Lenovo Idea Centre 510 - Core i5 - 8400, GTX 1050TI, 128GB SSD, 1TB HD, 8GB, incl. WIN10 ~ 799€ - Link
• HP Pavilion 595 - Ryzen 2600, RX 580, 128GB SSD, 1TB HDD, 8 GB ~ 799€ - Link

 

Anything wrong with these? Personally, I'd go with the Pavillion, since the RX580 easily beats the 1050Ti and some additional cores never hurt in the long run.

 

Any further recommendations?

 

Best,

Chris

 

[Fasauceome]

That's actually not a bad price for a prebuilts. The pavilion is way better, so you should get that one.

[.Apex.]

@Speakerator

 

i would also go with the pavilion  it's actually very well priced.

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/HYZQhy

I picked this if you're interested, basically similar to the pavilion but with a 250GB SSD instead, and much better quality of hardware obviously.

 

you can even pick a GTX 1070 for a total of 950$ ~ 820 Euro

[mxk]

@syn2112 your list in usd and when it changes to euros the price inflates a little bit

[mxk]

what @syn2112 has linked looks good. I would change to a cheaper power supply though, that would get you under the 1000 euro goal. Also, since you mentioned lighter gaming you probably won't need a ryzen 5 2600, so I scaled it down to a ryzen 5 1500x for about 20 euros less. If you want to save more, you can probably scale down the power supply just a tiny bit more and the cpu a tiny bit more to save some more money

[.Apex.]

10 minutes ago, mxk. said:

@syn2112 your list in usd and when it changes to euros the price inflates a little bit

ah yes seems to inflate because of retarded SSD and Power Supply prices.

 

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/9Mh9yX

 

here now it's fixed

[mxk]

10 minutes ago, syn2112 said:

ah yes seems to inflate because of retarded SSD and Power Supply prices.

 

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/9Mh9yX

 

here now it's fixed

now watch the prices increase because of tariffs lol

[Speakerator]

Alright folks, thanks for all the input! I forwarded himn a link to the Ryzen Prebuild, some tests and the gist of what benefits having me build it'd yield him and will let the man decide for himself.

 

Thanks again!

 

Best,

Chris