Been doing just fine on the open road but every now and then a dude needs new **** to brighten up his day when kicking maje ass in the underworld cracks of the global virus binge habit. Anyhoo. I needs a need rig. Looking for a workhorse not a Ferrari. Don't care what it looks like. Just needs to have the balls underneath where it counts. I need to do massive level research. I will need to have 30-40 Chrome tabs going at all times. I'm trying to be more of a spendthrift on this so I'm thinking loose budget $500. I'm thinking moderate power consumption, juiced here, leveled out here, etc. Talk to me thou geekly gaggle.
Anything you can pull from current machine. Or you'd rather keep that running? Sounds like you might have a quality graphics card that you can pull from current machine? I wouldn't bother pulling anything else, unless you have a top-end, gaming rig power supply.
Yeah, Ryzen might be worth looking at, haven't been impressed w/ gaming benchmarks but the multicore/thread performance is impressive in early benchmarks for desktop/actual work stuff (which he wants). I think another option is looking at i5 from 2 years ago w/ Heavy OC (because you can) or maybe even an i3. Then get 8-16gb ram. In my experience these newer Intel integrated video chips are great for desktop but obviously not gaming. Then get an SSD. Can't go back to non-ssd system no matter what what says... "hey guys I have an awesome system bottlenecked by a 5400 rpm drive....."
Lastly.. While a bit older.. If this comes back in stock.. Great deal and just add an SSD and reinstall OS. https://hardforum.com/threads/hp-z4...650-8gb-win-10-250gb-hdd-350-shipped.1926002/ 6 core Xeon, obviously Sandy Bridge but you can even add a gpu later and play just about any game near max. CPU market is so silly atm... GPU seems to be only super relevant change in last few years, and if you do end up needing it for rendering offload it to a gpu, cpu market is slow....even w/ new offerings vs gpu's
AMD still sucking all the power these days? Didn't realize they were even bothering any more. Ryzen looks like a decent lower-end build. I'm just not an AMD guy. Can't **** with it. Been using a Lenovo with a lower-end i7 and it handles fine but only 4GB RAM and shitty on-board graphics. I can bump it to 8GB but that isn't going to be quite enough for the punishment I'm going to be doling out. Not a PC gamer, so a 120SSD is fine to boot OS. 1TB internal is like $46 these days. I guess this will boil down to whats a decent low end GPU I can throw in this thing that will be a workhorse until I have the ability to upgrade.
You need to figure out where your bottlenecks are located: RAM, CPU, motherboard, etc. 4 GB of RAM is unacceptable: you should have upgraded to 8 GB long ago, either with a new unit or additional memory sticks. You should try that now, unless you know that RAM is not your bottleneck. If you really need a lot of RAM, remember that is cost like $5 for one hour of use on one of Amazon's 200+ GB machines.
I was recently thinking it was time for a new laptop. Decided to upgrade to SDD from HDD about a month ago. What a difference! The old laptop is humming along like it's new.
Pentium G4560 is the new budget king, I'll be putting together a build with it this weekend actually.
Going to skip a new rig and upgrade the Laptop instead. Found out I can put 16GB in it. Gonna throw in that and an SSD.
Yeah, SSD is probably one of the biggest/most meaningful upgrades I've seen in years where you actually notice/see instant results. Other than GPU upgrades, or the time I went from 4MB (yes.. Megabyte) to 8 MB ram... I can't recall a time that one part changed everything. It'll be like a new computer.
750ti is kinda the classic baseline super-low power consumption card that can actually kinda run things. It's not gonna do 4K gaming or run Witcher 3 at max settings or anything. But it'll do the job. The 1050/1050ti is the more recent version of the same concept if you want to spend just a bit more.
For $500 you are going to want to salvage as many parts as possible from your previous build. Upgrading your CPU will be the biggest hit to your budget. Because that automatically means new Mobo + New CPU + New RAM.
The 1050 ti is pretty interesting. I typically go 70/80 series but with how little I've been playing I probably could have gotten a 1050, haha. I dunno I always just like to have everything cranked, hopefully I can play a lot soon. Basically built a decent rig but haven't used it
