Home PC for 30k

Randy_Marsh

Youngling
1. What is the purpose of the computer? What all applications and games are you going to run? (Stupid answers like 'gaming' or 'office work' will not work. Be exact. Which games? Which applications? Avoid the word 'et cetera.')
Ans: General purpose (surfing+movies etc) and light gaming (basically esports games like csgo). Will add a graphics card later. Till then, a processor with decent graphics capability is required.

2. What is your overall budget? If you can extend a bit for a more balanced configuration, then mention this too.
Ans: 30k. Can extend to 35k.

3. Planning to overclock?
Ans: No

4. Which Operating System are you planning to use?
Ans: Win 10

5. How much hard drive space is needed?
Ans: Atleast 250GB SSD is needed. Already have 1TB HDD.

6. Do you want to buy a monitor? If yes, please mention which screen size and resolution do you want. If you already have a monitor and want to reuse it, again mention the size and resolution of monitor you have.
Ans: Already have a 24" 1080p monitor. So no new monitor required.

7. Which components you DON'T want to buy or which components you already have and plan on reusing?
Ans: 1TB HDD and monitor.

8. When are you planning to buy the system?
Ans: In a month's time.

9. Have you ever built a desktop before or will this be done by an assembler?
Ans: No, will be done via an assembler.

10. Where do you live? Are you buying locally? Are you open to buying stuff from online shops if you don't get locally?
Ans: Jalandhar. Open for online shops as well.

11. Anything else which you would like to say?
Ans: This is for a friend of mine. He wouldn't be gaming a lot so I was wondering if it would be better to get a 1050ti type graphics card coupled with non-igpu processor rather than getting a decent apu processor right now and add a graphics card later? Reason I ask this is because the graphics capability of processor will anyways be of no use once the graphics card is installed in the system in future.
 

nac

Aspiring Novelist
Price wise I find Ryzen 3400G would fit the budget fine. If he's not a serious gamer, probably he wouldn't look for dGPU later if he opt for 3400G. It's not as good as 1050Ti but has the best iGPU.
Else spend about 42k now and get i3 9100F and GTX 1650. CPU wise it has got good single thread performance which is good for gaming and general use case. When it comes to multi thread, 3400G scores better. But I don't think he would ever notice that in his general use or gaming.

Let him decide between these two - Ryzen 3400G for 35k vs i3 9100F + GTX 1650 for 42k

PS: Hope in a month, there would be stable BIOS available for B450 boards.
 
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