Hey mates,
I've decided to get back into gaming after some time off. My current PC is about 8 years old, and even back then it was budget, but somehow is hanging on for dear life. I'm based in Australia and am looking at either building or purchasing another budget rig for <$1000. I'll probably be focusing on Planetside 2, so something that can handle that on high-ish graphics with a large view distance is ideal. There are a few prebuilts that I've got an eye on, but as I've not kept up with hardware I'm needing some more reliable advice! I'm also open to building my own again, if it's really gonna save me a bit of money - I'm just lazy these days.
1st build ($790 AUD):
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1500x 4 Core 3.50GHz - 3.70GHz Processor
Motherboard: MSI B350 Pro Series
Graphics: 2x Crossfire Dual Asus Strix AMD Radeon R9 380 4GB GDDR5 OC Edition
Storage: 600GB SSD Solid State Drive
RAM: 16GB DDR4 2666MHz Ram
PSU: Antec 850W Power Supply
2nd build ($799 AUD), a compact PC:
CPU: Intel Core i7 3770K CPU - running overclocked at 4.2ghz
Motherboard: ASRock Z77e-ITX Mini ITX
Graphics: Galax Mini ITX NVidia GeForce GTX 970 4gb
Storage: 256gb Samsung mSATA SSD
RAM: 16gb G.Skill TridentX 1600mhz DDR3 RAM
PSU: Silverstone Strider 500w PSU
Cooling: Antec Kuhler 620 AIO CPU Water Cooler
3rd build ($700 AUD):
CPU: i7 4790
Motherboard: ASUS Z97-K
Graphics: ASUS GTX 750 TI OC
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB SSD, Seagate BarraCuda 1TB HDD
RAM: G.Skill 16GB DDR3-1600MHz
PSU: Corsair VS Series 550 Watt
Please let me know what you think! These are quite cheap so I don't doubt spending a couple more hundred, or even working on my own construction, may be a better idea.
I've decided to get back into gaming after some time off. My current PC is about 8 years old, and even back then it was budget, but somehow is hanging on for dear life. I'm based in Australia and am looking at either building or purchasing another budget rig for <$1000. I'll probably be focusing on Planetside 2, so something that can handle that on high-ish graphics with a large view distance is ideal. There are a few prebuilts that I've got an eye on, but as I've not kept up with hardware I'm needing some more reliable advice! I'm also open to building my own again, if it's really gonna save me a bit of money - I'm just lazy these days.
1st build ($790 AUD):
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1500x 4 Core 3.50GHz - 3.70GHz Processor
Motherboard: MSI B350 Pro Series
Graphics: 2x Crossfire Dual Asus Strix AMD Radeon R9 380 4GB GDDR5 OC Edition
Storage: 600GB SSD Solid State Drive
RAM: 16GB DDR4 2666MHz Ram
PSU: Antec 850W Power Supply
2nd build ($799 AUD), a compact PC:
CPU: Intel Core i7 3770K CPU - running overclocked at 4.2ghz
Motherboard: ASRock Z77e-ITX Mini ITX
Graphics: Galax Mini ITX NVidia GeForce GTX 970 4gb
Storage: 256gb Samsung mSATA SSD
RAM: 16gb G.Skill TridentX 1600mhz DDR3 RAM
PSU: Silverstone Strider 500w PSU
Cooling: Antec Kuhler 620 AIO CPU Water Cooler
3rd build ($700 AUD):
CPU: i7 4790
Motherboard: ASUS Z97-K
Graphics: ASUS GTX 750 TI OC
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB SSD, Seagate BarraCuda 1TB HDD
RAM: G.Skill 16GB DDR3-1600MHz
PSU: Corsair VS Series 550 Watt
Please let me know what you think! These are quite cheap so I don't doubt spending a couple more hundred, or even working on my own construction, may be a better idea.