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From: Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Computer Build
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2024 12:35:59 -0800
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On 12/4/2024 10:59 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Dec 2024 09:37:21 +0000, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 02/12/2024 21:23, Justisaur wrote:
>>> My son expressed an interest in upgrading his computer, he's waffling
>>> though, as I told him he needs to pay for it himself.  He has the money,
>>> but doesn't want to use it.  I would pay local taxes to help out.
>>>
>>> My goal was to keep costs down, but make it at least as good as what I
>>> have now. The one he has now is a handmedown from his grands,
>>> unfortunately the case is a propriatary dell with a propriatary
>>> motherboard, a normal ATX doesn't fit in it, so I can't use it.  I may
>>> be able to use the PSU, but need to tear it apart to do so.  I'm only
>>> planning on a 500W PSU as it seems power requirements have gone down
>>> considerably.
>>
>> My not so helpfully advice is don't overthink it too much as the reality
>> is unless you do something disastrous it's going to do the job for you.
>> My last upgrade, instead of doing my customary spending ages trying to
>> decide exactly what to get I went down the I don't need a 'god like' PC
>> so let's just spend a little bit of time online looking for recommended
>> budget gaming set-ups. Did I get the best value for money, almost
>> definitely not but I also didn't waste hours upon hours of 'research'
>> just to say feck it I'll go with that which I looked at two weeks ago.
>>
>> The other problem I found is that what would seem a good place for
>> advice (real people online) turns out to be really problematic in that
>> it ranges from at worst bad advice and at best this is the system I
>> would want regardless of whether that would met your needs. Oh you want
>> a new PC for general day-to-day stuff as some light gaming. Well clearly
>> what you want is system built around a 4090!
> 
> If money is an issue and you aren't going for LATEST AND GREATEST AND
> FASTEST AND OTHER -ESTS!, you may also wish to consider the Intel Arc
> GPUs (although that may force you onto an Intel CPU). The Arc B580 is
> reportedly as fast as an Nvidia 4060 and for $250 USD that's a pretty
> good performance-to-price ratio.

Apparently $180 now, from my usual source for the performance which 
hasn't steered my wrong yet it looks to be waaaay below 4060.  More 
around a 3050, still a good price for that level of performance though.

I was mainly looking for something that would be around what I have, a 
3060 TI, the 6750 was just above that, but cost $200+ less.


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