Gaming PC hardware suggestions

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Claymore

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Hey guys,

I'm helping a friend put together a gaming PC for her son, and since I'm not much into games any more, I'm hoping some of you could suggest appropriate hardware for the games he wants to play. I'll likely buy components from Rectron. No specific budget; I'd like to give a couple options for "reasonable" and "good".

Here are the games he likes:
Modded Minecraft
Farming Simulator 19
Frostpunk
Abandon Ship
Sea of thieves
Uboot
Jurassic World Evolution
Hunt: Showdown
Ancestor's Legacy
Fallout 4

Thanks
 
You going to have to give a budget because you can play those games at low graphics or 4k ultra. The price difference between those is like 30k.
 
Claymore said:
Hey guys,

I'm helping a friend put together a gaming PC for her son, and since I'm not much into games any more, I'm hoping some of you could suggest appropriate hardware for the games he wants to play. I'll likely buy components from Rectron. No specific budget; I'd like to give a couple options for "reasonable" and "good".

Here are the games he likes:
Modded Minecraft
Farming Simulator 19
Frostpunk
Abandon Ship
Sea of thieves
Uboot
Jurassic World Evolution
Hunt: Showdown
Ancestor's Legacy
Fallout 4

Thanks
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Heya

I was very anti AMD but Intel was crazy expensive.
I bought Ryzen 1600, MSI Tomahawk Board, 2 x 8 gig (3200Mhz)(Ram speed is important for Ryzen and fps), 1080 GTX Gigabyte.
I had a SSD, Case and 550W Power Supply. This machines handles anything on pretty much max settings with good FPS.

At a bare minimum, I would look for 4-8 Cpu cores/threads, 2x8 gig ram (2400Mhz +), just above average board, 500W Power Supply or more, 1060 or above, SSD 128gig-256gig 400meg +- read/write, 2TB drive to store games on. Mid tower (not mini). Not so cheap mouse/keyboard (Ideally a Razer or something up there). A quick google on the items you pick will tell you straight away if they good or bad.

Rectron has some pretty good stuff.

Hope this helps...
 
Intel Core i3-8100 3.6GHz Quad Core R1,859.00 https://www.wootware.co.za/intel-co...m-coffee-lake-socket-lga1151-desktop-cpu.html

Asus Prime B360M-K LGA1151 Intel B360 R1,271.00 https://www.wootware.co.za/asus-prime-b360m-k-lga1151-intel-b360-matx-desktop-motherboard.html

Asus GeForce GTX 1050 Ti R3,166.00 https://www.wootware.co.za/asus-gef...-128-bit-pci-e-3-0-desktop-graphics-card.html

This is a good entry to mid range PC for gaming, add 8 to 16gb ram, psu, tower, hard drive and OS. Rectron will be cheaper but it's best to give us a budget.
 
Do you only need the box or monitor/keyboard/mouse as well. Any existing components that can be carried over in detail please.

Some form of budget would help.
 
A cheapo option is a 720p Monitor and AMD Ryzen 2200G APU think it should come under 6K for the entire build
 
Thanks everyone. No fixed budget - I think they'll take a look at the options and give a yes or no. Probably box only, I reckon.
 
Here's a thumbsuck list of components I put together. Any corrections, alternatives, suggestions?

CPU: Intel Core i5 7400 - 3.00GHz Quad Core
Motherboard: GIGABYTE B250M-D3H - B250 Express Chipset: Socket LGA1151
Graphics: GIGABYTE nVidia GeForce GTX 1050Ti OC - 4096MB GDDR5, 128-Bit Memory Bus, PCI Express 3.0
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB DDR4-2400MHz Kit (2x 8GB), Black Vengeance LPX Heatspreader
Case: Corsair SPEC 02 ATX Compact Gaming Chassis | Black
PSU: Corsair VS Series VS650 650W Power Supply
HDD: FireCuda 2TB SSHD- 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s
C: drive: Transcend SSD230S Series 256GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive
DVD: LITEON 24 Speed DVD
Mouse/keyboard: CM Storm Devastator II Gaming Keyboard and Mouse Bundle
Windows 10 Home
 
Claymore said:
Here's a thumbsuck list of components I put together. Any corrections, alternatives, suggestions?

CPU: Intel Core i5 7400 - 3.00GHz Quad Core
Motherboard: GIGABYTE B250M-D3H - B250 Express Chipset: Socket LGA1151
Graphics: GIGABYTE nVidia GeForce GTX 1050Ti OC - 4096MB GDDR5, 128-Bit Memory Bus, PCI Express 3.0
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB DDR4-2400MHz Kit (2x 8GB), Black Vengeance LPX Heatspreader
Case: Corsair SPEC 02 ATX Compact Gaming Chassis | Black
PSU: Corsair VS Series VS650 650W Power Supply
HDD: FireCuda 2TB SSHD- 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s
C: drive: Transcend SSD230S Series 256GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive
DVD: LITEON 24 Speed DVD
Mouse/keyboard: CM Storm Devastator II Gaming Keyboard and Mouse Bundle
Windows 10 Home
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Try get an i5 8400, or if you can't find that in stock, an 8500. Newer architecture and 6 cores vs 4.
Do you really need the DVD drive?
I would also rather buy a zotac 1060 mini than a gigabyte 1050 Ti. It is a MUCH better card.

Edit:
I personally would also go for a 512GB SSD and a slower 2TB HDD. You can easily move games between the drives with steam.
 
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Claymore said:
Here's a thumbsuck list of components I put together. Any corrections, alternatives, suggestions?

CPU: Intel Core i5 7400 - 3.00GHz Quad Core
Motherboard: GIGABYTE B250M-D3H - B250 Express Chipset: Socket LGA1151
Graphics: GIGABYTE nVidia GeForce GTX 1050Ti OC - 4096MB GDDR5, 128-Bit Memory Bus, PCI Express 3.0
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB DDR4-2400MHz Kit (2x 8GB), Black Vengeance LPX Heatspreader
Case: Corsair SPEC 02 ATX Compact Gaming Chassis | Black
PSU: Corsair VS Series VS650 650W Power Supply
HDD: FireCuda 2TB SSHD- 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s
C: drive: Transcend SSD230S Series 256GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive
DVD: LITEON 24 Speed DVD
Mouse/keyboard: CM Storm Devastator II Gaming Keyboard and Mouse Bundle
Windows 10 Home
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Individual prices for those components?
 
Barbarian said:
Try get an i5 8400, or if you can't find that in stock, an 8500. Newer architecture and 6 cores vs 4.
Do you really need the DVD drive?
I would also rather buy a zotac 1060 mini than a gigabyte 1050 Ti. It is a MUCH better card.

Edit:
I personally would also go for a 512GB SSD and a slower 2TB HDD. You can easily move games between the drives with steam.
Click to expand...

Thanks, I'll check those suggestions out.
 
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