Want to build budget rig for younger sister

[gorobei]

Ok so I may need to factor in the cost of a small external drive so she can move her stuff over, pretty much like I used to do.

i generally advise against trying to move an existing install to a new build. a clean fresh os install is the cheapest performance upgrade, if most of her files are media(song, video, images) then you can probably get away with flayed's suggestion. if her school software needs registry entries then you/she will need the installers. game save files and configs will also need to be transferred over if they arent stored online.

 

[z1ggy]

Sounds like this may be less of a surprise than I was hoping to make it. Too many unknowns which effect what things to buy/what processes to undertake.

So far she doesn't know this is happening, I've just been asking her to give her current computer specs to me, what kind of games she now plays, etc. I don't see her very much - Only a few times per year.

As far as buying the windows key as suggested above... All my windows installs I have used a "fresh copy" on a brand new drive. I can probably find a Windows OS floating around somewhere from prior builds. So can I get the OS to install just from some old copy, then register her PC with a new key?

 

[Flayed]

Yes I think so. You can also download the win 10 installer and use that.

 

[brownstone]

Plug for the FS/FT section and possible finding some gently used parts...

 

[VirtualLarry]

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Free HP EX900 250GB M.2 PCI-E NVMe SSD, with purchase of a Ryzen R5 1600 CPU @ Newegg, currently priced at $149.99. (So roughly, $100 for CPU, $50 for SSD, a pretty fair deal.)

I'd jump on that, personally. I'd grab one myself, and probably still will, if they have that sale still on Mon., but but then they'll probably be sold out of one or the other. I just bought another 1600 last week, when they dropped to $119.99 @ Newegg (no free gift, sadly).

My main rig(s) have had the Ryzen R5 1600 for a couple of years, and they perform really well, for the money. Maybe not the absolute highest FPS, for high-FPS 1080P gaming (for that, you'd want Intel), but overall, I don't do a lot of gaming these days, and for productivity and mining/DC, it's great. 65W too, stays pretty cool with stock heatsink. (These come with 95W heatsinks with a copper core, a nice little thank-you from AMD, to allow overclocking quite a bit on the stock heatsink.)