Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Budget gaming PC (~1000€) for Christmas 2018

CPU AMD Ryzen 5 2600X AM4 Box
Motherboards Gigabyte GA-AB350-Gaming
Ram Memory Corsair DDR 4 16G (8Gx2) 2400 CL14 Vengeance LPX Red CMK16GX4M2A2400C14R
Cases Corsair Carbide 100R Mid Tower Black
Power Supplies Corsair CX450M 450W PSU 80+ Bronze Modular
SSD Drives Samsung SSD 500GB 860 EVO M.2
Video Cards Sapphire RX 580 PULSE 8G GDDR5
Software Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit

This is the most cost effective PC I could come with for people with a relatively limited budget, still allowing to play the most recent games with more than acceptable performance.

Cost could be brought further down with small impact on performance by downgrading the CPU to AMD Ryzen 5 2600 (instead of the X version), Radeon RX 570 (instead of the 580), cheaper motherboard and ram etc.
I would stick with 16GB of RAM and at least 500GB of storage. Mechanical disks (aka HDD/spinners) are best avoided as they will cause a performance hit to your PC.