Is it possible to build a respectable gaming PC with only $300-400?
Buy a PS4 and install linux
>>750915485If you're black you can just steal one from the local white incel. Your big muscles will scare him.$0 required.
>>750915485Go ask the technology board >>>/g/. All I will say is: use PC Park Picker, not Logical Increments
>>750915536>Buy a PS4 and install linuxDon't do this. It runs like shit.
No nigger, it was never good before but it's REALLY BAD right now you'd actually have to be insane to build a PC right now
you can build shitboxes capable of playing every non AAA game for jack shit by just going to computer recycling centers
rx580 8gban 8 thread cpu from the 2010sddr3helixsr dlss mod
>>750915837>rx580 8gbThat shit is like 10 years old.
Look into refurbs.
Define "respectable"
>>750915565Jokes on you I keep my gun close to my PC.
>>750915837you can do better than the 580 on that budgetprobably a 2070 or 2060 super, or their AMD equivalents
>>750915485Second hand you can maybe do $600 if you get really lucky and aim for a good PC by 10 years ago standards. That sort of thing will still run today's stuff at 1080p/30-60fps.Probably not though.
>>750915485It's a rough time for cheap hardware.
>>750916021>>750916170And it's still doing great on linux with actively supported drivers (mesa), find me a $25-50 gpu better than this.
>>750915485>Is it possible to build a respectable gaming PC with only $300-400?Not really. At that price, you barely can afford a decent cellphone, let alone a gaming pc. You can also afford a chinkheld console, which is a good deal if you are looking to emulate retro games up to gamecube
>>750916076>256GB storageThat's barely enough for Windows.
>>750915485Which shithole are you from? Even a balkanoid like me can afford a ~4K EUR PC nowadays.
>>750916282yes, and you don't need to go that cheap if the rest of the system is from the DDR3 eradid you even read what I posted
>>750915485First off for 400 right now you ain't getting a good PC brand new. If you into PCs then you can definitely get used parts and build a good PC for around 400+taxes. I suggest you get a Ryzen 5 5500, AM4 Mother Board, Radeon RX 6600, 16GB DDR4, 450-550W PSU (definitely get this one new), a cheap mid tower case (new as well), and an NVME SSD you can afford (recommend a minimum of 500GB).Now if you ain't down with PC building well save some money and raise your budget cause for 400 you will need to be crafty.
>>750916476But then you'll have to deal with a trashy prebuilt with a chink psu and a office pc with bulged caps.
>>750915565Timmy here. I'm dying for my rig. Fuck you nigger
>>750915536used PS5s are like $300
>>750915536>Buy a PS4 and install linuxDon't do this. It creates mustard gas.
>>750916764oh well thenused office PCs have always been the meta for budget builds, you're missing out on a lot if you don't want to take on a little risk
>>750916539the only actually good advice in this thread
>6 year old rtx 3080 is going for 1,200
>>750915485You might have been able to get something okay for that price a few years ago, but things are pretty fucked at the moment. I just paid 400 dollars for RAM.
>>750919456I built something like this for my Nephew a couple weeks ago as a birthday present.
>>750916539>NVME SSDalso for what it's worth, can always do an SSD with just enough room for your OS and a good selection of games, then just plan to later get a NAS HDD for bulk storage of media and anything u don't mind being slightly slower to access. I love doing this sorta setup since it lets me have a huuuuuuuuuuuuuge media collection and also archive anything i don't have room for on the main drive but think might disappear from the web.
>>750915485No, but there are lots of options for gaming on a budget. Chinkhelds. Old consoles that are easily softmodded. Old PCs with old vidya. Lots of stuff for the poors, and you'll probably be better off than me with my $6.5k goyslop machine.
>>750915485Yes, just buy a Thinkpad, if it doesn't run on that its garbage
>>750915485>Buy used jailbreakable ps5 for $300 and a 500GB nvme ssd + enclosure for around $100>comes with 8 core / 16 thread cpu>16GB of GDDR6 ram>RX 6700 equivalent GPU>put Linux on itThere you go. You have mid tier PC.
>>750915485With that kind of budget you'd probably want to look into something like a used office PC that you can upgrade with a used graphics card. I think aiming for $300-400 is going to be very restrictive though, like if you were to add another $200 on top you would likely get something way, way better. That being said prices are going utterly insane at this point so who knows, I haven't looked very recently.
>>750922628>Buy used jailbreakable ps5 for $300Good luck with that lmao. They're going for $500 minimum.
they won't be making gpus anymore and gaming will quickly turn into cloud only. just get use to it
>>750924001It won't happen Sam.
>>750915485At that price range you're probably better off asking any friends if they have old parts. I know my neighbor has money issues, but if he asked me I would probably sell him my old computer with a 3060ti for a few hundred.
>>750915485add a zero and you might
>>750915485Depends how shitty you want to go. Old Raspberry Pi models can emulate sone older consoles. But you would still need mouse, keyboard, and monitor. Probably better off with somebody's old laptop.
>>750915485>thinkcentre tiny m75q gen 2 or newer>hp elitedesk 800 with rx gpu>used thinkpad with amd ryzen vega 8 or rdna2>used acer conceptd laptop, nobody knew about these so you can find them for cheap. nothing is upgradeable but a few have okay discrete graphics.>used office PC with used gpuyou won't find anything "respectable" for less than $400usd. No matter what you do you'll have to make a few concessions.
300 for a 3060 12GB 100 for the other stuff.
>>750915485>$300-400No problem, just look for older hardware and older games. A lot can be done with decade-old used hardware.https://youtu.be/FnMoIyv7yqE
>>750915485Just buy one off facebook marketplace. I got a pre-built with a rtx 2080 for 500$ canadian on facebook marketplace
https://www.ebay.com/itm/137847344265https://www.ebay.com/itm/365929422547Use llinux done
>>750915714Ok so when will it be good?
>>750926708Damn, I didn't see the RAM, lol. Anyway, look for some second-hand modules or find another similar one.
install a custom windows 10 image with all the bloatware removedrx580 graphics cardgen 6-10 Intel CPUand a 240gb SSDyou can play most games on low-medium settings
>>750926745two more weeks
>>750915485Try Facebook Marketplace. I just popped onto my local one and 20-ish minutes away a guy is selling an alright older pre-built for $350. There's deals like that all the time on there. You could also do >>750916076 if you've got a graphics card lying around or find one with a nicer AMD cpu in it for integrated graphics.
