DOOM BREAK: Has anyone ever built their own PC?

sold out =(

Nvidia and Intel are both overpriced.

Don't get me wrong, 4 or 5 years ago they were it.

But now you're paying a huge premium for miniscule gains.

Rich mans gaming.

AMD is the working mans, or womans, choice. This is more pronounced with cpus than video cards. With cpus you're talking 95% gaming ability and 110% multicore ability for 65% of the price. How could you not choose this?

And any mid price gpu in the $300-$500 range is gonna rock n roll.

Mobo's aren't expensive. The one I want is about 200 bucks

AMD's are about 50 bucks cheaper now. They are also hard to come across =/

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Liar.

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Even the 1600 series can game quite well.

I downloaded Windows 10 1903 off of Microsoft's own site for free over a year ago. I paid roughly ten dollars for a legit Windows 10 Product Key from someone on eBay. So you are simply wasting alot of money for what is a practically free Windows OS.

2500 is my budget. I want a beefier PC for streaming and gaming at the same time. I have an alienware at the moment and its a laptop. I am tired of lagging and dropping frames when I try to stream. I would have to turn down my settings as well. I can't play COD because it lags like crazy.

But, I think its a good PC. For some reason half of my RAM get used up from chrome alone.

Like others have said, just buy a used card for now. It's really not a good time to build a new PC. If you can wait then maybe things might be better later in the year, but who knows.
And stop using chrome. It's a memory hog and it spies on you. Use brave browser instead.

In freaking 1993. It was a 386 DX. That mother f-er could do ms paint and calculator at the same time!

I have come to find out that 16GBs of RAM is the bare minimum for modern gaming. Seeing how beautiful the graphics are for most of the modern Call of Duty games are I reckon 16 GBs of RAM is good enough. Having 32 or more GBs of RAM is not stupid if your motherboard can handle that much RAM. If you are doing image editing, and/or video editing 32 GBs of RAM, from what I have heard on the Internet here and there over the years, is usually not enough RAM. Crazy, eh? I remember when having 16GBs of RAM was considered massive overkill long ago. It would seem that 64GBs or even 128 GBs of RAM is the new sweet spot for video and/or image editing these days.

I remember the computer in my Math class in my Middle School over a couple of decades ago, it was a 486 Pentium. It ran on Windows 3.1. It could do MS Paint, have the Calculator open, AND play Ski-Free! All at once!

Didn’t know they sold graphics cards.

Thank you! Will do.

I paid $3000 for my 386dx 33mhz cpu, 4mb ram don't remember hard drive size

I have not been to my nearest Fry's Electronics in over a year. They had their "Going Out of Business" look for many months back then. Only because they were going to some sort of different business model, or so some of their employees told me back then. I got tired of going there looking for stuff only to find out they barely had anything to sell.

Back then I had literally about three grand in my wallet to spend on building me a top tier or at least a high end gaming rig. Turned out I had to buy much of the stuff I wanted off of Amazon. Newegg and Tigerdirect, both of their prices and availability of the stuff I wanted were almost identical while Amazon's prices were somewhat higher but had plenty of what I wanted in stock.

If things are still set up approximately how they were at the Fry's Electronics in Dallas, TX on Northwest Highway the graphics cards are in the back just past the new PC sales floor.

If you do not mind the possible heartache of failed business ventures here, OP, try Craigslist:

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When I still actively sold stuff on Craigslist some people were POSes and stood me up. Craigslist can still be a great way to privately sell and/or buy stuff.

The way I bought and sold stuff on Craigslist years ago, OP, was simple. Start out with whatever communications method is suitable for whoever you are trying to initiate a business contact with. Craigslist has gotten pretty good at keeping your private information private while allowing you to up to directly contacting your attempted business contact. Under ALL circumstances use only cash for all transactions. Preferably meet in a public location such a Wal-Mart parking lot. This way should things go south such as an attempted robbery at least one individual and/or camera should bear witness and help the cops in arresting whoever screwed you. Negotiate the final sales price. Your honor as a private business man or woman is at stake at all times, after all. Unless if you have had previous experience with the buyer or seller in question NEVER EVER meet up at night and/or in a secluded area. Specifically, if you have had prior positive experience(s) with said private seller or buyer.

For me, since I typically got to our agreed-upon-destinations sooner than my buyers would I would sometimes wind up think about my wasting my time and/or alot of other intensely negative things. The business deals would go down easy peasy. The single greatest things about Craigslist business deals are getting out of the house for a while and NO sales taxes! Really, no taxes whatsoever.