Looking at building a gaming desktop

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Ashley2203

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Hi, I'm an intense player of Sims 4 and my desktop finally decided to not be able to handle it anymore. Im freakin out a little bit. I'm hoping someone can help me with the items I would need to build a decent gaming desktop. I would like to spend as little as possible, but up to $500 range if that's even possible. I would like to go with a nvidia 1060 as that's what I've seen is recommended by players of the games unless someone else has a different better suggestion for that part. Here's whats recommended for the game...

Intel Core i5-750 or AMD Athlon X4
CPU Speed: Info
RAM: 4 GB
OS: 64 Bit Windows 7,8, or 8.1
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 or better
Sound Card: Yes
Free Disk Space: 10 GB
 
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Building your own isn't as cost-effective as it once was, but the real benefit comes from being able to pick the exact components you want. If you don't like MSI, you can opt for ASUS instead.

The Sims 4 is a very, very easy game to run. Depending on the specification of your existing PC, it's possible that you could add one or two components and call it a day. Can you post the hardware specification of your PC?
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This would help out a lot. Also with a $500 budget a 1060 is probably out the question as it will be pretty much half your money gone on a GPU, meaning you will end up with a cheaper CPU bottlenecking the 1060.
 
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Ashley2203

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I know nothing about computers so can I salvage anything? I have a pretty base model desktop that I probably shouldn't have got in the first place. its a gateway. Is the hard drive usually reusable? It's in good shape, I just have an integrated graphics card. Also, I'm not really picky about getting the 1060 because if I'm building one I can always upgrade later. I just need something because what I have stopped working for me. Part of me just wanted to buy and not build but my husband says that it's better to build. Is this true?
 
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Building your own isn't as cost-effective as it once was, but the real benefit comes from being able to pick the exact components you want. If you don't like MSI, you can opt for ASUS instead.

The Sims 4 is a very, very easy game to run. Depending on the specification of your existing PC, it's possible that you could add one or two components and call it a day. Can you post the hardware specification of your PC?
 
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