Cheapest gaming computer

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Used parts aren't always as cheap as they should be - so it's very difficult to make any concrete recommendations.  In fact I would say be very careful you don't overpay as there seems to be people charging ridiculous prices for older CPU's and motherboards etc. on eBay - to the point I can't believe anyone buys them at that price ($400 for a Ryzen 3600??).  Things like a used Ryzen 5 2600 or 3600 should be fairly easy to find cheap on the used market and are still relevant.  Also things like Core i3-10100's - perfectly capable of running games and available quite cheap.  Motherboards if you buy new at least you get some sort of warranty, while you're pretty much on your own with a used one.  It might be worth checking Amazon Warehouse Deals etc.

Hey, i have an old GPU RX 570 4gb. What pc parts would be cheapest to handle, i mean literally cheapest and comparable, to play video games 60fps no matter graphics quality. I am searching for it because of my small budget and gpu. I am not going to buy a brand new parts! so feel free and provide me with the cheapest used parts, that i can find in a marketplace. Thank you.

WHAT game(s)?  Your post is far too vague to make any guess.  The minimum requirements for Fallout 4 would make your GPU a bare minimum while a recent game like X4 or Cyberpunk won't be pleasant on anything less than 8GB of VRAM and 16GB of system RAM.

Take the recommended hardware requirements for the most demanding game you intend to play and that's your minimum hardware requirements for roughly 60 FPS.  Also that laptop spinning rust drive is going to make your loading screen experience several times longer than even the cheapest SATA SSD -  even on SATA 2 connections - though I recommend no less than SATA 3 boards for any SATA attached SSD.  Which I wouldn't recommend either - WD makes cheap but they aren't reliable - they practice a lot of bait-and-switch tactics.  New product releases have reasonably reliable and performant components, but when they get the reviews done, they switch to slow and unreliable replacement components that are only reliable in how fast they'll fail (see especially the Blue SSDs and the SA510 in particular which has a particularly bad reputation).  Also don't buy used, nor cheap generic/no-name PSUs.  It's the component most likely to fail in any given computer.  This, along with your data storage device, should not be the component you skimp on because you WILL regret it.  Take the base power requirements for you system components (CPU & GPU especially), add a healthy margin for spike power draw, and that's the rating you need for your PSU.  IIRC back in that era I was doing just fine at around a 500W PSU (which is actually the peak draw rating, not the average draw).

Edited by h_b_s, 24 December 2023 - 03:28 PM.

I am sorry, Gaming and cheap systems should not be in the same sentence.

I'm with Porthos on this one.

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