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ThraxRyder
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Trying to help my brother with a new build. I got some knowledge on building but pretty much a greeny. He is a gamer and a streamer, with a budget of around $1,800. But prefers to save where he can. Suggestions are for sure welcome. Also, read a lot on how AMD is the go to choice, but I lack any experience with them so I went with intel.
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  • ThraxRyder
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    Also. I'll be using his current HDD and m.2, so you can ignore that bit.
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    Hello @ThraxRyder

    What kind of games will your brother be playing and at what resolution?  Is he looking to get into streaming/content creation?  Ryzen is usually the better choice for both price to performance and includes it's own heat sink.  
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  • ThraxRyder
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    He normally plays Fortnight and minecraft, also I believe some of the usual shooters. He also streams on twitch(with his old build) and will also be doing so with his new one, whatever that may be. I believe he runs at 1080p.

    Edit: As for Ryzen, I heard it good per price ratio but reliability might be a bit eh compared to Intel? And not sure if it's something easy to work with when installing or not.
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  • TSPhillipT
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    Installing Ryzen is pretty easy, and the reliability issues stem from the GPU Drivers, not the processor.  

    Here are the changes I made to this, with the Ryzen 7 3700X and a change to the B550 motherboard; https://www.microcenter.com/site/content/custom-pc-builder-intel.aspx?load=2c210964-32d9-4f0b-a5a1-37a137f0bbd0.  

    It comes with it's own RGB CPU Cooler so you save some cost there and Fortnite/Minecraft are pretty low resource heavy games so you don't need to go super hard into an Intel processor.  
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  • ThraxRyder
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    So this would be pretty sound for him to play his games and be plenty capable of streaming with no major/sizable loss in power?
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    Yep!  This build will do good for 1080p Minecraft/Fortnite and streaming.  
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  • ThraxRyder
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    Also, would be good for a capture card or will the build you suggested be fine without it? Heard a capture card can remove some strain from the cpu/gpu decoding streams.
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    Hello @ThraxRyder

    A Capture Card won't remove strain from streaming if you are playing the game on the computer.

    You can however, play the game on a console or another computer and use a capture card on a gaming PC and use a second PC to stream/encode from.  
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