looking for advice

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Hi, I tried to ask for advice in my country's forum but instead of helping they started making fun of my build/question so I'm asking here in the uk forum hoping that you can help me out. First of all I want to say that this my fist build (I've never built a pc before) and I'm looking for a budget-pc mostly for low demanding games in 1080p: I've found out that the gtx1650 is prob the best budget-gpu that satisfy my requirements. If you have any tips or suggestions pls let me know. Thanks in advance

Here's the build, the names are in Italian but i think you can still understand
Case
CASE MID TOWER PCS P209 ARGB
CPU
Processore Intel® Core™ i5-11400F 6 Core (2.6GHz) 12MB cache
Motherboard
GIGABYTE B560M DS3H (rev. 1.0) (LGA1200, DDR4, USB 3.2)
RAM
DDR4 Corsair VENGEANCE 3200 MHz 16 GB (2 da 8 GB)
Graphic card
NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1650 da 4 GB – HDMI
1o drive SSD M.2
PCS 256 GB PCIe SSD M.2 (fino a 3000 MB/R, 1200 MB/W)
1o Storage Unit
HDD SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" 1 TB, 6 GB/s, 7200 GIRI/MIN, CACHE 64 MB
PSU
CORSAIR 550 W CV SERIES™ CV-550
CPU cooler
Dissipatore CPU PCS FrostFlow 80 V2 Series ad alte prestazioni
OS
Windows 11 Home 64-bit [Core+] – incl. licenza singola [KK3-00027]

Prezzo: €1.004,00 IVA e consegna incluse

 

[MrWilson]

Hi there.
1000 euros isn’t a great budget unfortunately as components aren’t the cheapest right now. For purely gaming you need to be looking at upwards of 1500 euros before you’re beating out consoles. The PC above won’t give anywhere as good performance as a PS5 or Xbox series X.

 

[Simo_486]

Hi, i had a similar build with the gtx 1650. If you only want 1080p sure its fine but i was only getting 30fps on cyberpunk on 1080p medium. Ofcourse that is a vgery demanding game but for others i was mostly getting 45-60 but the vram can hinder you also on modern aaa games. If you really cant afford anymore why not go for it? you can always upgrade later which i did after 10 months after saving for a 1440p gaming card and psu.

 

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Okok thankyou both for your replies, as I said I'm just a casual gamer I don't have to do anything special with that build I play mostly Genshin and Ow2. Yeah I know that my budget is limited but I haven't considered getting a console cause I really don't like playing with pad and also I use the pc for school stuff and other things

 

[SpyderTracks]

Okok thankyou both for your replies, as I said I'm just a casual gamer I don't have to do anything special with that build I play mostly Genshin and Ow2. Yeah I know that my budget is limited but I haven't considered getting a console cause I really don't like playing with pad and also I use the pc for school stuff and other things

the way you're going about it is not good, you keep saying "I'm a casual gamer" but you're not understanding the impact of cutting so many corners. It doesn't make a blind bit of difference if you're a casual gamer or not, doesn't affect screen tearing being a bad thing that you just don't do these days or not making the PC upgradeable. You think you're paying less, but over the lifetime of the PC, you're paying substantially more, over double really as you'll never be able to upgrade and have to replace the whole pc after only a couple of years rather than the 7 - 10 years that we would consider a baseline for a well designed PC.

I won't give any further advice other than to say, either save up a little longer, or get console. Your current budget is not enough for an entry level gaming experience.

 

[Ekans2011]

This is exactly what @AleTax, @Vergaro98, @stefax and I have been trying to tell you - it's not about mocking you, but rather about acting wisely.

After that, you can do whatever you want.

 

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Well ok thx for your advice I guess, I’m still gonna buy it though. I’m not planning on upgrading any component in the future, I’m just gonna use it for 5/6 years until it dies and then buy a brand new one just like I’m doing now with my 5 years old laptop that’s my philosophies. I posted the build just to see if the psu/cooler and that kind of stuff was fine and adequate for the build since as I said I’m a newbie, but it seems this is not the right place nvm

 

[SpyderTracks]

Well ok thx for your advice I guess, I’m still gonna buy it though. I’m not planning on upgrading any component in the future, I’m just gonna use it for 5/6

I appreciate what you're saying, but it's because you don't understand how the technology works.

The first bottleneck will be the GPU, even if you were to buy a 4090, it would still be a bottleneck within 2 or 3 years. That's on a new GPU. The 1650 is 3 1/2 years old now so it's already at the point you would upgrade the card. There will be a lot of modern games that it won't be powerful enough to run in the first place.

But you're not going to be able to understand this, unfortunately, you're going to have to have the experience of wasting a lot of money rather than listening to other peoples experience.

 

[Ekans2011]

But you're not going to be able to understand this, unfortunately, you're going to have to have the experience of wasting a lot of money rather than listening to other peoples experience.

Very True !