Build or Buy?
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What would suggest today for a gaming PC?
Budget is £700 for just the box. Also any recommendations on specs, daughter wants to play Minecraft, Sub Nautica, Fortnite.
(But i want to be able to play Counter Strike, Modern Warefare (not fussed running at Ultra detail settings)
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I want to do this as well - but I would also like to run a miner a bit like - was it Joel? - who recently picked up a new gaming machine?
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@hobbit666 said in Build or Buy?:
What would suggest today for a gaming PC?
Budget is £700 for just the box. Also any recommendations on specs, daughter wants to play Minecraft, Sub Nautica, Fortnite.
(But i want to be able to play Counter Strike, Modern Warefare (not fussed running at Ultra detail settings) )The only way to easily get any sort of graphics card right now is to buy a pre-built. I haven't even looked at prices in months because the market is so crazy right now.
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@travisdh1 said in Build or Buy?:
The only way to easily get any sort of graphics card right now is to buy a pre-built. I haven't even looked at prices in months because the market is so crazy right now.
Yeah this is what I'm finding. I've used sites to get a config then looked at buying the parts separate, as i thought it would be good to get her to build it too
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@hobbit666 said in Build or Buy?:
@travisdh1 said in Build or Buy?:
The only way to easily get any sort of graphics card right now is to buy a pre-built. I haven't even looked at prices in months because the market is so crazy right now.
Yeah this is what I'm finding. I've used sites to get a config then looked at buying the parts separate, as i thought it would be good to get her to build it too
but just can't find the GTX cards.Great idea, just a bad time to be in the market for computer parts.
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@travisdh1 said in Build or Buy?:
just a bad time to be in the market for computer parts.
Just graphics cards.
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@travisdh1 said in Build or Buy?:
@hobbit666 said in Build or Buy?:
What would suggest today for a gaming PC?
Budget is £700 for just the box. Also any recommendations on specs, daughter wants to play Minecraft, Sub Nautica, Fortnite.
(But i want to be able to play Counter Strike, Modern Warefare (not fussed running at Ultra detail settings) )The only way to easily get any sort of graphics card right now is to buy a pre-built. I haven't even looked at prices in months because the market is so crazy right now.
St. Louis Microcenter has people camping out on Tuesday mornings (delivery day)
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Not sure to wait till closer to xmas and see if prices come down and stock available.
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@jaredbusch said in Build or Buy?:
@travisdh1 said in Build or Buy?:
just a bad time to be in the market for computer parts.
Just graphics cards.
Certain AMD Ryzen processors are impossible to find at retail right now as well.
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@travisdh1 said in Build or Buy?:
@hobbit666 said in Build or Buy?:
What would suggest today for a gaming PC?
Budget is £700 for just the box. Also any recommendations on specs, daughter wants to play Minecraft, Sub Nautica, Fortnite.
(But i want to be able to play Counter Strike, Modern Warefare (not fussed running at Ultra detail settings) )The only way to easily get any sort of graphics card right now is to buy a pre-built. I haven't even looked at prices in months because the market is so crazy right now.
Yeah that's what I did and I'm mining with while not gaming. I received my PC on April 17th and I've already made over $400 back mining in less than a month.
Which is why there is no GPUs right now. You could nearly have it paid off by Christmas instead of start looking at Christmas. Of. Course the mining payout depends on alot of factors, but even if you get only $100 a month, you have half your investment back in a year.
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I paid $3k for pre built with 3090.
If you are worried about just ROI, you can get one with 3080 for around $2200-2500. You'll get your money back faster that way.
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@irj said in Build or Buy?:
Yeah that's what I did and I'm mining with while not gaming. I received my PC on April 17th and I've already made over $400 back mining in less than a month.
Which is why there is no GPUs right now. You could nearly have it paid off by Christmas instead of start looking at Christmas. Of. Course the mining payout depends on alot of factors, but even if you get only $100 a month, you have half your investment back in a year.
What you using for the mining. Been very very long time since I looked at it
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@hobbit666 said in Build or Buy?:
@irj said in Build or Buy?:
Yeah that's what I did and I'm mining with while not gaming. I received my PC on April 17th and I've already made over $400 back mining in less than a month.
Which is why there is no GPUs right now. You could nearly have it paid off by Christmas instead of start looking at Christmas. Of. Course the mining payout depends on alot of factors, but even if you get only $100 a month, you have half your investment back in a year.
What you using for the mining. Been very very long time since I looked at it
RTX 3090 and Nicehash
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@hobbit666 said in Build or Buy?:
What would suggest today for a gaming PC?
Budget is £700 for just the box. Also any recommendations on specs, daughter wants to play Minecraft, Sub Nautica, Fortnite.
(But i want to be able to play Counter Strike, Modern Warefare (not fussed running at Ultra detail settings) )I had pre-ordered a gaming pc on some boutique builder site, but the wait time is intense. Roughly two months-ish. While waiting on that build, I saw a rig on Newegg for $2,669 about a week ago with RTX 3080 and i7 10700KF, some budget case, and a decent Z490-P mobo with included EVGA keyboard and mouse, so I bought that right away and got it within 24 hours.
Needless to say I can run anything I've tried to play on Ultra. Overall this was the way to go considering the current market.
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@irj said in Build or Buy?:
@travisdh1 said in Build or Buy?:
@hobbit666 said in Build or Buy?:
What would suggest today for a gaming PC?
Budget is £700 for just the box. Also any recommendations on specs, daughter wants to play Minecraft, Sub Nautica, Fortnite.
(But i want to be able to play Counter Strike, Modern Warefare (not fussed running at Ultra detail settings) )The only way to easily get any sort of graphics card right now is to buy a pre-built. I haven't even looked at prices in months because the market is so crazy right now.
Yeah that's what I did and I'm mining with while not gaming. I received my PC on April 17th and I've already made over $400 back mining in less than a month.
Which is why there is no GPUs right now. You could nearly have it paid off by Christmas instead of start looking at Christmas. Of. Course the mining payout depends on alot of factors, but even if you get only $100 a month, you have half your investment back in a year.
The topic of crypto has come up with my wife and I. A co-worker of her’s and another person have been investing in crypto,.. some how one of them made $14k pretty quickly.
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@gjacobse said in Build or Buy?:
The topic of crypto has come up with my wife and I. A co-worker of her’s and another person have been investing in crypto,.. some how one of them made $14k pretty quickly.
I think you need to define investing.
Buying something hoping it will give a quick payout is gambling.
Buying something that you hope over time will appreciate in value is investing.
Gambling always pays off for someone. Never for everyone.
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@gjacobse said in Build or Buy?:
@irj said in Build or Buy?:
@travisdh1 said in Build or Buy?:
@hobbit666 said in Build or Buy?:
What would suggest today for a gaming PC?
Budget is £700 for just the box. Also any recommendations on specs, daughter wants to play Minecraft, Sub Nautica, Fortnite.
(But i want to be able to play Counter Strike, Modern Warefare (not fussed running at Ultra detail settings) )The only way to easily get any sort of graphics card right now is to buy a pre-built. I haven't even looked at prices in months because the market is so crazy right now.
Yeah that's what I did and I'm mining with while not gaming. I received my PC on April 17th and I've already made over $400 back mining in less than a month.
Which is why there is no GPUs right now. You could nearly have it paid off by Christmas instead of start looking at Christmas. Of. Course the mining payout depends on alot of factors, but even if you get only $100 a month, you have half your investment back in a year.
The topic of crypto has come up with my wife and I. A co-worker of her’s and another person have been investing in crypto,.. some how one of them made $14k pretty quickly.
There's a couple things I've learned trading crypto over the past 4 years.
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Buy low and sell high. Most importantly buy low.
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In order for people to make money. They have to sell. Last ones in take the loss. If everyone and your barber is talking about crypto. It's time to sell, not buy.
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@mr-jones said in Build or Buy?:
@hobbit666 said in Build or Buy?:
What would suggest today for a gaming PC?
Budget is £700 for just the box. Also any recommendations on specs, daughter wants to play Minecraft, Sub Nautica, Fortnite.
(But i want to be able to play Counter Strike, Modern Warefare (not fussed running at Ultra detail settings) )I had pre-ordered a gaming pc on some boutique builder site, but the wait time is intense. Roughly two months-ish. While waiting on that build, I saw a rig on Newegg for $2,669 about a week ago with RTX 3080 and i7 10700KF, some budget case, and a decent Z490-P mobo with included EVGA keyboard and mouse, so I bought that right away and got it within 24 hours.
Needless to say I can run anything I've tried to play on Ultra. Overall this was the way to go considering the current market.
Dell quoted me 3 weeks and shipped in a week. They still seem to have really reasonable turn around times
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@hobbit666 Not sure what the situation is like in the UK with the prices on GPUs but here in AUS it's pretty crazy at the moment. I was looking into a gaming PC build for my friend's son and found only Dell had a really good value deal on eBay during one of their promos: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/619439 The still available RTX 3070 are now sold for almost 2k here! And this is only an upper mid-range Nvidia GPU AFAIK.
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@taurex said in Build or Buy?:
@hobbit666 Not sure what the situation is like in the UK with the prices on GPUs but here in AUS it's pretty crazy at the moment. I was looking into a gaming PC build for my friend's son and found only Dell had a really good value deal on eBay during one of their promos: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/619439 The still available RTX 3070 are now sold for almost 2k here! And this is only an upper mid-range Nvidia GPU AFAIK.
Not great, my looking I can't find any site with half decent graphics card in stock
I've been looking at GTX 1650 to keep in budget but nothing.
So we're going to delay maybe until oct/Nov and review the build or buy options
