- Mar 11, 2018
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Hi. I´m trying to put together a first PC for my 9 year old son. Since I´m in Brazil, everything either costs a fortune or is cr*p. It's also 20 years since I built a PC, so a lot has changed. Can anyone out there give my proposed build a once over and tell me if it´s okay or not? Of course I expect my son to be using it to further his education, however I have to be more realistic - he will of course just want to play games on it...
I have someone bringing me 2 sticks of 4Gb DDR4 2400 memory from Germany, so that´s the memory I´m working with. I also went mad the other day and bought a budget Rio Toro CR480 ATX case and a not-so-budget EVGA 500B psu.
The big question is what am I going to put inside? I’ve spent hours on the internet tracking down motherboards and CPUs here, and I´ve realised first of all that I just can´t afford a separate graphics card right now (but I´d like to be able to add one in later), so I finally came up with an AS Rock B250M-HDV board (R$352/US$110) and a G4560 processor (R$270/US$85) – total approx. R$620/US$300.
The only other things I´m adding are a bog-standard keyboard and mouse, a Sandisk 240Gb SSD someone gave me, an old 22” AOC monitor I have lying around, and a DVD writer.
In your opinion, what can I expect from it? Or rather - what is my Minecraft-mad 8 year old going to think of it over the next year or two before we inevitably have to buy the next kit? Is there an alternative configuration with better bang for my buck? I can stretch my budget a little – maybe +30% - for the right board/cpu combination.
Thanks for any help!
I have someone bringing me 2 sticks of 4Gb DDR4 2400 memory from Germany, so that´s the memory I´m working with. I also went mad the other day and bought a budget Rio Toro CR480 ATX case and a not-so-budget EVGA 500B psu.
The big question is what am I going to put inside? I’ve spent hours on the internet tracking down motherboards and CPUs here, and I´ve realised first of all that I just can´t afford a separate graphics card right now (but I´d like to be able to add one in later), so I finally came up with an AS Rock B250M-HDV board (R$352/US$110) and a G4560 processor (R$270/US$85) – total approx. R$620/US$300.
The only other things I´m adding are a bog-standard keyboard and mouse, a Sandisk 240Gb SSD someone gave me, an old 22” AOC monitor I have lying around, and a DVD writer.
In your opinion, what can I expect from it? Or rather - what is my Minecraft-mad 8 year old going to think of it over the next year or two before we inevitably have to buy the next kit? Is there an alternative configuration with better bang for my buck? I can stretch my budget a little – maybe +30% - for the right board/cpu combination.
Thanks for any help!
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