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I have been saving up money to build my own pc rather than buy a laptop, because I'm planning to replace my current laptop. It's pretty old and kinda bad performance wise. hehehe, intel i3 with 4gb of RAM, alongside with some other hiccups as in constant freezing, occasionally black screens, both USB ports being dead, and 90% of the time on boot up it just straight up forgets that wifi exists.
So far I have like a lil bit over $700 in savings. But the thing is, a lot goes into building a PC! I've never did such a thing before, and it's kind of overwhelming how much goes into doing one. First, plan what you want. Second, search. Third, buy. Fourth, build. Fifth, test. Sixth, enjoy. Sounds simple but once again, I don't know how to do any of these things.
Only idea I have so far is that I wanna make the power be comparable to a PS5 in some sort of way, that way the PC can handle whatever I want to do for a good while...but I haven't checked prices or what parts.
And things are going to be even harder with the way prices are gonna be crazy jacked for imports here in the U.S. potentially...
Any advice on such an undertaking? I hope building a PC is easier than it looks and sounds.
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enigma-tenfour
honestly a pc for 700 is already pretty good. parts for mine cost around that price, i bought a used rx 5600xt before going for a 6750xt. and it was amazon day.
am4 is good for budget builds. 700 is plenty enough for a high performing 1080p or budget 1440p build.
go AMD instead of NVIDIA for raw performance, use frame generation for the maximum frames. Intel Arc is ramping up really well, the B580 is the same as a 4060 in performance. in some games it can even out-perform the 4060ti!!
i went through the liberty of making a part picker list here: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/2P3bC8
it's a bit over budget, but its good for what its for. edit it to youre liking.
also. building a pc is easy. if you go AM4 just remember to line up both the triangle on the socket itself and the one on the cpu. if you don't it wont insert, also forcing it in will bend a pin, it should just go in smoothly.
its better to do too much thermal paste than too little
before putting everything in the case, run a test boot. (short two pins on the motherboard to boot)
the usb 3 and 24pin power cables will always be a pain to remove.
don't stress it.
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