Building A SFF For 10 yr old - Mostly Fortnight/Roblox

[mlhm5]

Space is a consideration so thought about a Realan H-60 case with a PicoPsu 160 PSU, an AMD Ryzen 2400G, ASRock - B450 mini itx. Simple but probably good enough for a 10 year old.

Any other suggestions?

 

[f2bnp]

My suggestion is to make sure to use two sticks of RAM instead of one. Dual channel is a must for these chips, both for CPU performance and most importantly for the iGPU to really shine.
If possible avoid 2133MHz and 2400MHz and aim for 3000 or 3200, unless you get a really good deal.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I don't know what a RealLan case looks like offhand, but I've got a DeskMini (from ASRock), it's around the size of a Brix unit, slightly taller to accommodate an Intel stock fan, but it has a G4600, 16GB of DDR4-2400 (DC).. and a 120GB SATA6G SSD, listed in my FS thread.

I have no idea if a G4600's HD630 iGPU can play Roblox, I highly doubt that it can play Fortnight at any decent resolution. (Might play it at 720P?)

If It can make your life easier or cheaper, PM me about it, thanks.

Other than that, the 2400G is a great APU, although I've not tried it on an ITX mobo.

I'm looking forward to the 200GE / 220GE / 240GE Athlon variants, unsure if their cut-down Vega iGPUs can play Fortnight, but as browser boxes, they should be superb.

 

[whm1974]

I don't know what a RealLan case looks like offhand, but I've got a DeskMini (from ASRock), it's around the size of a Brix unit, slightly taller to accommodate an Intel stock fan, but it has a G4600, 16GB of DDR4-2400 (DC).. and a 120GB SATA6G SSD, listed in my FS thread.

I have no idea if a G4600's HD630 iGPU can play Roblox, I highly doubt that it can play Fortnight at any decent resolution. (Might play it at 720P?)

If It can make your life easier or cheaper, PM me about it, thanks.

Other than that, the 2400G is a great APU, although I've not tried it on an ITX mobo.

I'm looking forward to the 200GE / 220GE / 240GE Athlon variants, unsure if their cut-down Vega iGPUs can play Fortnight, but as browser boxes, they should be superb.

Larry, the OP want to build for a 10 y/o that plays games not just a browser box. At this point I'm not sure I would buy a Pentium 4600 as the Ryzen 2200G is a much better processor for not much more.

 

[Shivansps]

HD630 can play Fortnite at 720P at low, but i would recomend going 2200G.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I've played Skyrim (vanilla vanilla) at 1080 low, on HD630, it played OK, maybe 20-30 FPS. I realize, as a twitch shooter, you need higher FPS with Fortnight.

Edit: That was on a "real" i3 CPU, an i3-6100, not on a G4560 or G4600. If that makes any difference.

 

[Shivansps]

Based on my own tests, HD630 manages to keep over 30 in Fortnite... most of the time is around 40fps. it is playable, but you need dual channel. But that is 720p with everything low/off.
Roblox is also playable.

2200G can do 1080P@Medium in Fortnite at 30-40fps.

And i expect 200GE to performs petty much like the HD630.

 

[whm1974]

Based on my own tests, HD630 manages to keep over 30 in Fortnite... most of the time is around 40fps. it is playable, but you need dual channel. But that is 720p with everything low/off.
Roblox is also playable.

2200G can do 1080P@Medium in Fortnite at 30-40fps.

And i expect 200GE to performs petty much like the HD630.

A good reason to avoid the 200GE if you ask me. For a SFF gaming box the 2200G/2400G APUs makes the best sense. However if you have a dGPU, then the Ryzen 2600 makes more sense. Their are SFF cases that can take a dGPU but it might be a tight fit.

 

[Shivansps]

A good reason to avoid the 200GE if you ask me. For a SFF gaming box the 2200G/2400G APUs makes the best sense. However if you have a dGPU, then the Ryzen 2600 makes more sense. Their are SFF cases that can take a dGPU but it might be a tight fit.

The 200GE will be OK for entry level 720P gaming and mainstream 1080p gaming when paired along a GTX1050/TI level dGPU, nothing more.