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Shaicy
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My laptop recently broke(not ideal for gaming wasn't my first choice) and my budget is below $800 I know close to nothing about building PCs and I asked a friend to help me pick  the prebuild one and from all the ones I linked they said https://m.newegg.com/products/N82E16883230358 was the best. Could I build something similar for less or something better? 

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PCPartPicker part list:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
Type Item Price
CPU AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor $159.99 @ Amazon
Motherboard MSI - B450 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard $104.89 @ OutletPC
Memory Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory $129.99 @ Amazon
Storage Kingston - A400 120 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive $25.00 @ Amazon
Storage Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $45.65 @ OutletPC
Video Card MSI - Radeon RX 580 8 GB ARMOR OC Video Card $189.99 @ Newegg
Case NZXT - H500 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case $69.99 @ Amazon
Power Supply EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply $49.99 @ B&H
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total (before mail-in rebates) $825.49
  Mail-in rebates -$50.00
  Total $775.49
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-14 14:18 EST-0500  

Few dollars more, has an SSD, better graphics card. If you need it cheaper I can easily edit it.

 

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4 minutes ago, Shaicy said:

Could I build something similar for less or something better? 

for the most part, you can always build a more powerful pc than a prebuilt for less

PC: CPU: i5-9600k - CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 - GPU: Sapphire Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB GDDR6 - Motherboard: ASRock - Z370 Extreme4 - RAM: Team - T-Force Delta RGB 16 GB DDR4-3000 - PSU: Corsair - TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply - Case: Thermaltake - Core G21 TG

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10 minutes ago, Shaicy said:

My laptop recently broke(not ideal for gaming wasn't my first choice) and my budget is below $800 I know close to nothing about building PCs and I asked a friend to help me pick  the prebuild one and from all the ones I linked they said https://m.newegg.com/products/N82E16883230358 was the best. Could I build something similar for less or something better? 

Better performance for the same amount: 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
Type Item Price
CPU AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor $159.99 @ Amazon
Motherboard Gigabyte - B450 AORUS ELITE ATX AM4 Motherboard $84.99 @ Amazon
Memory Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory $129.99 @ Amazon
Storage Samsung - 860 Evo 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive $79.99 @ Amazon
Video Card PowerColor - Radeon RX 580 8 GB Red Devil Video Card $199.99 @ Amazon
Case Fractal Design - Focus G (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case $49.95 @ Amazon
Power Supply SeaSonic - EVO Edition 620 W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply $41.05 @ Newegg
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total (before mail-in rebates) $765.95
  Mail-in rebates -$20.00
  Total $745.95
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-14 14:26 EST-0500  

 

 

If you need more storage you can get a 1tb hard drive with a 240gb ssd

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16 minutes ago, Slottr said:

PCPartPicker part list:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
Type Item Price
CPU AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor $159.99 @ Amazon
Motherboard MSI - B450 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard $104.89 @ OutletPC
Memory Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory $129.99 @ Amazon
Storage Kingston - A400 120 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive $25.00 @ Amazon
Storage Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $45.65 @ OutletPC
Video Card MSI - Radeon RX 580 8 GB ARMOR OC Video Card $189.99 @ Newegg
Case NZXT - H500 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case $69.99 @ Amazon
Power Supply EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply $49.99 @ B&H
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total (before mail-in rebates) $825.49
  Mail-in rebates -$50.00
  Total $775.49
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-14 14:18 EST-0500  

Few dollars more, has an SSD, better graphics card. If you need it cheaper I can easily edit it.

 

Also it has 16gb instead of 8

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Thank everyone appreciate it. I'll be going with one of the options presented to me ?

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