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Computer for nephew

AethaerynAethaeryn Member RarePosts: 3,150
in Hardware
My brother in law wants to build a computer for his son.  Im giving him my 7850 gpu

Will it fit in this case.  He's  mostly wanting to play fortnight which he now plays in the switch.  Will this system work enough for 1080 medium settings?  Anything you would suggest changing?

1: Core i3-8100 3.6GHz Quad-Core - CPU - $145.99

2; PRIME B360M-A Micro ATX LGA1151 - Motherboard - $113.75

3: G.Skill - NT Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory - $95.99

4: Western Digital 1TB 7200RPM - HDD - 3.5" - $49.99

5: EM048 MicroATX Mini Tower - Other? - $86.99

6: CoolMax - 300W Micro ATX Power Supply - $30.33

7: BDR-209DBK Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer - $79.99

Wa min God! Se æx on min heafod is!

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  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,507
    Those prices seem high.  If that's not US dollars, then that would explain it.  Where are you looking to buy parts?

    The power supply is almost certainly garbage--and of the "liable to fry your system" variety.  It's not even 80 PLUS certified, which all good power supplies to release in the last decade are, and a lot of the rather bad ones, too.  It probably doesn't even have the necessary connectors to plug in your video card.

    Why do you need a Blu-Ray drive?  If he's going to watch a bunch of Blu-Ray movies on it, fine.  But otherwise, when's the last time you used an optical drive for your computer at all?  Most people would be able to free up a lot of space in the budget by dropping it.

    SSDs have gotten cheap enough that, if you don't need a ton of space, they make a lot more sense than a hard drive.  You could probably get a 250 GB SSD for about the same price as the hard drive, and it will make a huge difference to performance.  But if you actually need 1 TB of space, then that's not an option.
  • VrikaVrika Member LegendaryPosts: 7,991
    Are those prices in CAD? I'm going to assume that they're in CAD because otherwise they don't make much sense

    If they're in CAD, I'd recommend something like this:
      https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/ZHBKKB
    It's mostly built using as cheap parts as possible and I added a blu-ray drive because it seemed that your intention was to get as cheap as possible and have blu-ray drive.
     
  • centkincentkin Member RarePosts: 1,527
    Why do that when you can get this off amazon for $849.  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D5S3LZM  That is far better than what you are building.

    Gdemami
  • AethaerynAethaeryn Member RarePosts: 3,150
    They are Canadian prices and he built it using part picker.  I will share the info with him :)

    Wa min God! Se æx on min heafod is!

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