Christmas is coming, and I'm thinking a family PC is on the cards from santa.
It would need to run minecraft and Lego city undercover and that sort of thing.
I already have a spare TUF 750W bronze rated power supply (that I bought one time I was troubleshooting).
I will also probably upgrade my RX5700XT graphics card so put that in this build (suggestions welcome for a good bang for buck replacement that's good for a server running Mint and ollama (needs high VRAM) as well as used for gaming).
Everything else would be new. Suggestions for monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers too please!
Let's aim for a ballpark of $1000USD (I'll be purchasing in New Zealand).
Thanks in advance!
Thanks!
I noticed one of the comments on the CPU said the 7800x3D is a lot cheaper for only about a 10% performance difference, do you think it's worth getting the the 9800? I don't expect them to be playing any new release games with it.
Edit: Actually, locally the price difference between the two isn't that much. $800NZD vs $900NZD. Probably worth going for it.
I personally would save the money, but you said you had a thousand dollars. If you want MORE, find a compatible board with more memory slots that can run more RAM. Also, 1 TB is looking kind of small nowadays.
Ah cheers, makes sense. I'll have a think, I don't have to spend the money if it's not worth it.
I think I'll definitely go for bigger than 1TB SSD.
My build also didn't include a video card because I thought you had it taken care of. If you are adding a card, that will be a significant point to reconsider.
Yip video card is taken care of, will be my RX5700XT from my other machine that I'll upgrade.
Then I say buy what makes sense. I went with a 2 slot board for memory, 1 slot for NVME, and only a couple slots for PCIe. I'm considering upgrading anyway for ddr5, but I don't really have a compelling reason to do so other than I would like to use the system as a server.