I'd sell you my RX 6700 for $150 plus shipping. Only problem is I don't have paypal.My card was only used 10 months before the RX 6800 went below $400 and I grabbed one.
I'd sell you my RX 6700 for $150 plus shipping. Only problem is I don't have paypal.My card was only used 10 months before the RX 6800 went below $400 and I grabbed one.It's been a LONG time since I bought serious GPUs and the market back when I did, they had cards right around $100 or just over that would play most modern games. I recall the TOP new cards going in the $500 range, now I see $1500?!?
In any case, I was hoping I could find such a gem, around $100 for a card that will play most games acceptably, if not super high res, but that seems impossible now. It was literally back in the "Skyrim just came out days" when I bought my last serious GPU.
Anyway I just got the base components for a new system cuz right now I'm running an Core2 Duo E8400 3Ghz CPU and a GeForce GT 1030, on 16mb of DDR3. Yeah an OLD system, but I haven't gamed in years. I'm not going hardcore gamer, but I want to be able to play some titles and hopefully the upcoming Elder Scrolls releases.
My new System will start out with a Intel Core i3-13100F, quad core "Raptor Lake" 3.4GHz CPU, on 16GB of DDR5.
Anyway, my maximum budget is like hopefully $150, with an absolute ceiling of $200. In what little I understand of my research into recent GPUs in that price range, it seems to me the only real choice would be a Radeon RX 6600? I don't see much else in that range that compares, but that's why I post this. Maybe some of you have other suggestions?
Thanks.
Only way to find out is to try it, if you want to do that.This will work at stock speeds, right?
How much total budget do you have to spend on a PC?I realize that, but "sockets" or platform changes at least for intel are an every two year event or less. I'm poor, and I pushed my budget to get DDR5, knowing I don't want to upgrade for at least 2-4 years. Thing is, all I do is watch videos, browse the web, and wanna do light gaming and I'm dirt poor. I don't need the ultra power system, just on e I can afford that does what I need.
At last check, the latest AMD socket was still so new Motherboards were like $150 and up, with little in the way of refurbnished or "open box" and I just couldn't afford that.
In another year the AMD latest socket board will come down to $75 and up with plenty of refurbished and "open box" possibilities and I may upgrade then. I don't worry about platform much, just that it's close to current, and I don't upgrade on any schedule, just when I can afford to and desire to. Could be next year or maybe 5 years. I just don't know.
Anyway I got a nice open box MB, cheap memory and the CPU is a send back I guess (says "refurbished from Newegg"), so I'm guess one was bought, run briefly then returned and tested?
Anyway the whole package was about $200. No way in hell I coulda done that with an AMD setup without going back a socket generation and with DDR4, and even then $200 might have been a hard mark to hit. So weird how AMD chips have such a tiny market slice and steep price.
Used to be AMD was way more poor guy and entry level friendly. Now it's intel by a mile on affordability as far as I can tell.
Sure it will. That 13100 is a low wattage CPU.Well IDK what I'm doing here. I just needed something affordable that will do the job. Will this not work adequately?
I mean I don't overclock and I sure as well don't want to spend $80 in a heatsink.
This will work at stock speeds, right?
I can upgrade later if I should need to. I don't see why a decent CPU cooler can't be had for $30 or less.
Well the beauty of it is that I game so little, and I enjoy it when I do, but I also burn out on it, but as a result, there are TONS of older titles I can play. Anyway I'm pretty excited to start on games out just before or just after my new card came out. There's enough games in that small window of time, I don't see myself worrying about stutter too much for a while.But really a $20 Thermalright with a 120mm fan would be a better choice.
Tons of options under $20, really. And a lot of great options under $30.
That said, a decent 92mm is going to have no problems cooling that chip, it just might spin up a bit. The problem comes when the i3 is a stutter fest in some games that expect more cores, and you go to drop in a 12700k (best in socket value imo when on sale) and then you wonder if it will make the cut.
All that said, I wish you the best OP, welcome to the 2020’s