Boxing Day Casual Gamer Rig Build Help

grampabob

Distinguished
Jul 4, 2007
17
0
18,510
Hi, just looking for some suggestions on a build since there's some great Boxing Day special going on right now in Canada. Casual gaming like fallout 4 but used more for surfing and watching movies. Budget, well mid range I'd say. I have always used AMD in the past. I don't need an OS. Just the case and guts. I usualy have 8gigs of ram but maybe 16 gig now? Video card, I fine with either rad or nvidia Running a regular monitor at 1920x1080? I think my current VC is a 6870 radeon and a phenom 955 so a few years old for sure lol.

I'm simply not up to date on current mobo-ram-video card matchings. Do I go 6 core or the 8 core? I see DDR4 is not worth it so stay with DDR3 I guess?

Probably a WD black drive 1TB Case I dont care about LEDs etc, it's all sitting under a computer desk hidden from eye.

Thoughts would be greatly appreciated