Building a Bang For Your Buck AMD Gaming Rig with Linus Tech Tips

MicroCenterOfficial

Looking to stretch your dollar as far as you can while building a gaming PC? Join Linus Tech Tips as they put together a full AMD build, designed to stretch your budget for maximum power!

https://youtu.be/emlRd643NVI

Ian

The stream may be over but still a lot of questions/answers and good information can be found on the replay of the stream! 

Jadenmmmmmm

I need a 500$ pc that can play vr (rift s/vive) that can half life alyx

Jadenmmmmmm

https://community.microcenter.com/discussion/comment/28033#Comment_28033

TSTDavey

https://community.microcenter.com/discussion/comment/28033#Comment_28033

Hello @Jadenmmmmmm and thanks for posting on the Microcenter Community Forum. For VR you'll need at the minimum 4gb of RAM, better to have 8gb of RAM and a GTX 1060 gpu. Unfortunately we don't carry any system that meets the VR minimum for $500. We have a HP omen that will meet the VR minimum for $799.99 (Sku# 115683). You may be able to build your own PC with an I3-10100 CPU, Asrock H410M motherboard, DDR4-2666 8gb stick, a 512gb sSD sata drive, Rosewell FBM-x tower, gtx 1050 GPU, and a Powerspec 650 watt 80 plus Power supply; this should get you at maybe $20-$30 over $500 ($530). The operating system (Windows 10) cost will get you for $119.99. MC can build it for $149.99 for if you don't build it yourself.

For a decent VR system, you'll need about $800-$900 (pre-built or custom build).

baseball_14

Hi, I am building a PC for the first time and I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions.

CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 3600

Motherboard - Gigabyte B450 AORUS ELITE V2

Memory - Corsair - Vengeance RGB Pro 16GB

Storage - Western Digital Blue SN550 500GB M.2 SSD

Graphics Card - EVGA RTX 3060 Ti XC Gaming 8GB

Case - Thermaltake V200 RGB ATX Tempered Glass Mid - Tower

Power Supply - EVGA SuperNOVA 650 GT 650 Watt 80+ Gold ATX Fully - Modular

Monitor - MSI - OPTIX G242 23.8" Full HD 144hz FreeSync and G-sync compatible

baseball_14

https://community.microcenter.com/discussion/comment/28557#Comment_28557

Also, my budget is $2000 for the PC the monitor can go over

Lookee

hello i looking to build a pc the use a intel for a core because the game I really only going to play is arma 3 with a lot of mods so my budgets is $1500 and need a monitor too with this build i can not get Graphics Card do to how much they cost

CPU- intel 5

JS_MC

Hello @Lookee. Welcome to the community!

If you're looking to play a game like Arma 3, you'll need a GPU. Typically, adding mods to a game with increase the demand on a systems performance.

With a budget of $1500, I'd recommend this build: https://www.microcenter.com/site/content/custom-pc-builder.aspx?load=96b96b95-04a0-449a-8cc0-7473d6725df0

It would offer you solid performance in Arma 3 and you'd be able to have a GPU while still staying within budget.

Hope this helps.