cheapest most bang for buck system

[LOWSPECLOWLYFE]

whats the best builds yall have seen?

[Autumn_]

Depends on budget, goals, and what someone is happy with experiencing.

There is no one size fits all.

[_I_]

right now none, due to gpu shortage and them being way overpriced

start with something like this at around $1000usd
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/4BcmK3

[Soulreaver]

Wow rx 580 for 400$ I got an 2070super for that price just 4 months ago. Prices went skyhigh very fast it seems o.O

[Illusion of Progress]

"Bang for the buck" or "Value" is usually nor really near the best, because being the best usually incurs extra costs for a number of reasons.

With GPUs, somewhere around I'd say the $250 to $350 has traditionally been the best value in the recent decade or so, but a GPU like that might be overkill for some, and inadequate for others. Faster is more expensive, but usually by a disproportionate amount. Likewise, lower is cheaper, but you may either save 5 times the cost and get 1/6th or 1/8th the performance OR it's simply too low on performance for many games (but better suited for older games, as for lighter gaming).

CPUs are even a more mixed bag, especially with multiple cores coming into the picture.

RAM is mostly just a case of getting enough, but some users may want better performing RAM too.

Storage needs vastly vary. Some need a lot of storage where SSDs are ill suited (very high cost where the performance isn't important) whereas others don't need much storage at all.

As was said, it varies based on the user. If someone has low needs, what they will be best served by is something vastly different, than, say, a video editor, which may be different than, say, an artist, which may be different than, say, a gamer, and even within these different types of users, there's different needs. For all the parts that go into a PC (including peripherals, of which some use cases might have some that others don't at all, such as a streamer or an artist), different weight is applied depending on the budget, use case, and preferences of the user(s).

[_I_]

best value (lowest price) would be to pick up a used office tower pc with an i5/i7 4xxx-7xxx
will be a locked quad core, good enough for older games
and drop in a 1060 6g or rx580 and better psu
will put it around a $500-600 build at this time, would normally be around $400 mark

[Decathect]

A55 původně napsal:

whats the best builds yall have seen?

Building would be hard currently with cpus and gpus being priced as they currently are. Best bang for your buck would honestly be a prebuilt system, as much as I hate saying that. Just be sure whatever you buy is built properly and the bios is running things like ram at the speed they advertise.

[buttmunch]

for about 300 bucks you can buy a Athlon 3000G and overclock it. Just make sure you get a board that allows overclocking the GPU of the APU. Thats what i had until i upgraded the cpu to a ryzen. It ran almost all games i played on medium settings. cheapest board to go with it that would allow gpu overclock of the apu, would be DS3H B450 gigabyte board. thats what i was using. very easy to overclock i ran gpu at 1650 1.22v, cpu at 3.9ghz i dont remember voltage. just in case you get one. did me good for a while.

[Autumn_]

NU SPEAK původně napsal:

for about 300 bucks you can buy a Athlon 3000G and overclock it. Just make sure you get a board that allows overclocking the GPU of the APU. Thats what i had until i upgraded the cpu to a ryzen. It ran almost all games i played on medium settings. cheapest board to go with it that would allow gpu overclock of the apu, would be DS3H B450 gigabyte board. thats what i was using. very easy to overclock i ran gpu at 1650 1.22v, cpu at 3.9ghz i dont remember voltage. just in case you get one. did me good for a while.

That's quite the waste of money. And old office system for ~100-200 and dropping a used GPU like a GTX 970/980/ RX 470/480/570/580 would be a much better value for money.

[_I_]

the ryzen 3xxx apus are better than earlier versions and fx/athlon apus (and intel hd/uhd igpu), but have a weaker cpu than a 4th gen i5
you can get an office build with a better cpu for around $100-200 and add the psu and 1050+

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-4690K-vs-AMD-Ryzen-3-3200G/2432vsm824486