Building a PC with a low budget, should I wait?

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SuperSeas

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I'm a young student, only 16, and am planning to get a summer job and save up for a decent PC. With this in mind know that my budget will not be that good, I'm hoping for a $600-700, maybe less, budget but I am not sure yet. I know graphics cards and RAM prices skyrocketed, but are getting better so is it smart to just sit tight and wait or should I just buy a decent PC? If you were in my situation what would you do?

I'm used to having crappy performances (I used to play Minecraft and be happy when it reached 30 frames lol) so I am not looking for a rig that runs 1440p, 60 fps, triple A games, yet I still want something that's a notable difference from the integrated graphics I am used to. Any recommended builds?
 
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you will spend quite a bit more if you do it yourself as the oem vendors buy in bulk and you will not

oem workstations are built to a much higher standard than normal consumer systems, and their case designs/power supplies are specced to run the system with all options installed 24/7 at fairly low noise levels

as for expansion, workstations EXCEL IN EXPANSION, they will have more pci-e slots more ram slots better power supplies and also allow ECC ram

perhaps you might want to LOOK AT THE MODEL SPECS i posted (google is your friend here)

there is no way you can build a better system yourself for the same or less money
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Get an older enterprise workstation (Dell Optiplex, Lenovo ThinkCentre, etc.) with a decent processor, then pop a graphics card in it.

That's seriously the cheapest solution there is for a gaming rig. You could spend 300-400 for a very decent machine.
 
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groves.damien

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kbarizo93 is spot on with his advice a older dell/HP/Lenovo workstation is the way to go

for HP the z600/z400/ systems (look for the latest mb rev as they support more cpu's)

for dell the T5500/T3600 systems are nice

for lenovo the S30/C30 models are also similar specs as the above HP/Dell

the nice thing is CPU's and ddr3 ram is much cheaper than current motherboards using ddr4 16gb of ddr4 will set you back around 200/250 dollars for used ram 16gb of ddr3 is about 60/80 dollars the xeon 55xx/56xx lines and16xx series of cpu's are also quite affordable add a nvidia 970 card and you have a very nice system!!





 
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SuperSeas

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I've thought about going this route before, buying a prebuilt and upgrading it with a graphics card, but I am still hesitant. How reliable is it? Will it leave me room for upgrading in the future? Besides, I really am looking forward to the experience of actually building a pc so unless this is my only option, I'd prefer to actually pick out parts.

 
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groves.damien

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you will spend quite a bit more if you do it yourself as the oem vendors buy in bulk and you will not

oem workstations are built to a much higher standard than normal consumer systems, and their case designs/power supplies are specced to run the system with all options installed 24/7 at fairly low noise levels

as for expansion, workstations EXCEL IN EXPANSION, they will have more pci-e slots more ram slots better power supplies and also allow ECC ram

perhaps you might want to LOOK AT THE MODEL SPECS i posted (google is your friend here)

there is no way you can build a better system yourself for the same or less money
 
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