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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!

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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yip video card is taken care of, will be my RX5700XT from my other machine that I'll upgrade.

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 2 points 4 days ago

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.