Meteor_of_War
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My 13 year old son has been gaming on an old PC for a while now and at the start of the school year I told him to work hard and if he gets straight A's all year I'd build him a new PC. Welp, he's almost to the end of the year and yep he's so far got straight A's and high honors and looking like its going to continue on his last report card.
For the past couple years he's been using an old office PC from my wife's work that has I believe an i3-4330, GT 1030, and 8GB of RAM. Here's what I'm looking to build for him:
CPU - Ryzen 5600 - $176
Motherboard (one of these) -
GB B550 gaming X V2 - $130
ASUS Prime B550-PLUS - $135
MSI B550-A PRO - $140
Memory -
DDR4 16GB (2x 8GB) - $70-$80 (haven't picked brand yet)
Hard drive -
1TB Crucial P2 M.2 - $91
GPU -
EVGA RTX 3060 XC BLACK GAMING 12GB - $400
Power Supply -
EVGA SuperNOVA 750W 80+ Gold - $75
OS -
Windows 10 PRO - $22 (I'll find from some online key site)
Case -
Will likely let him choose one
Other stuff like monitor and peripherals he has already. He'll be using my old DELL 27" 1440p display for now.
Going by current prices looks like it will cost me approximately $1100 or so. Cherry on top of it is I will have him build it himself, with me guiding him of course.
For the past couple years he's been using an old office PC from my wife's work that has I believe an i3-4330, GT 1030, and 8GB of RAM. Here's what I'm looking to build for him:
CPU - Ryzen 5600 - $176
Motherboard (one of these) -
GB B550 gaming X V2 - $130
ASUS Prime B550-PLUS - $135
MSI B550-A PRO - $140
Memory -
DDR4 16GB (2x 8GB) - $70-$80 (haven't picked brand yet)
Hard drive -
1TB Crucial P2 M.2 - $91
GPU -
EVGA RTX 3060 XC BLACK GAMING 12GB - $400
Power Supply -
EVGA SuperNOVA 750W 80+ Gold - $75
OS -
Windows 10 PRO - $22 (I'll find from some online key site)
Case -
Will likely let him choose one
Other stuff like monitor and peripherals he has already. He'll be using my old DELL 27" 1440p display for now.
Going by current prices looks like it will cost me approximately $1100 or so. Cherry on top of it is I will have him build it himself, with me guiding him of course.