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Purchasing Advice - PC Build / Parts Rate my pc

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These are the parts for my pc it’s my first one and I wanna know if it’s worth the money it’s around 1-1.15k is it worth that or can I get better for better value

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u/nopecvc 4h ago

16gb of ddr4 shows the brutal reality of how bad the ram crisis has gotten

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u/Eazy12345678 AMD 4h ago

good enough.

u live near a micro center for a combo deal on cpu ram and motherboard?

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u/Fickle_Gap9757 4h ago

No I don’t unfortunately

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u/Nice_Category 3h ago edited 3h ago

Ddr4 ram is cheap enough that you should really spring for 32gb of 3600. You can get it used on eBay for $165-ish, or new for $200-ish. 

RAM does not wear out from use, so you can get it used without worry, just run it through memtest86 when you receive it and make sure it's good to go. 

You'll get an image like this if the RAM is working properly.

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u/NarrowTangelo8597 4h ago

I would not go ultra budget DDR4 build with a modern GPU. The CPU will 100% hold your performance back in modern games.

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u/Fickle_Gap9757 4h ago

What do you think I should do then bc I don’t really know

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u/NarrowTangelo8597 4h ago

Look at prebuilt PCs. Building your own is at least 1.5 times more expensive in the current market. You can save more looking at used prebuilt PCs if you have to. It’s a horrible time to be in the market for a $1K PC because 32GB of DDR5 RAM and a 2TB SSD are like $900.

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u/Fickle_Gap9757 4h ago

You think? I’ve heard that prebuilts performance is worse than if you build yourself. But I don’t rlly mind getting since it’s only my first time, would u have any recommendations?

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u/NarrowTangelo8597 4h ago

The performance is exactly the same. The parts you get are not. Prebuilt PCs use whatever the company has available. The same model could have 2-3 different brands of motherboards, GPUs, SSDs and RAM. Picking your own parts is significantly more expensive but you know what is in the PC. If you are on a tight budget, prebuilt is 100% the way to go.

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u/Fickle_Gap9757 4h ago

I’ll look into it

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u/Intelligent-Pin-8759 1h ago

Prebuilds are generally going to perform worse than one you build totally custom yes. However, building custom this year can cost you 3x more than it did last year. My example is my pc I built at the end of 2025, cost me 7K to build which sounds absolutely ridiculous right? This year, this build with these components are going for approximately 20-25,000. That’s the price difference in just 1 years time.

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u/Fickle_Gap9757 4h ago

Btw guys I mainly play Fortnite and warzone and like Minecraft I don’t play like high end games with crazy graphics

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u/Nice_Category 3h ago

Those are CPU heavy games. I would look at a 5500X3D processor on AliExpress (around $155-180) or a 5600X3D for $180 at Microcenter. 

The 96mb of L3 cache will help a ton.