#New PC or Upgrade Help

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subtle jungle
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Hey, I’ve had my pc for a few years now.
Current Specs -
• I3-8100
•GTX 1050
• 8GB DDR3
•1TB HDD

I’m mainly a console gamer but I would like to play modern titles that are at least 1080p 60fps and some emulators like PCSX2 & RPCS3.

My budget for a full pc build is $1000
Any recommendations on this or is it better to upgrade and save money?

supple chasm
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i run it at 1440p on a laptop

subtle jungle
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I was looking at getting a build that would consist of.
Ryzen 7 5700G
RTX 3060
16GB DDR4
1TB NVME.

supple chasm
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if u can, build ur own pc

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more value

subtle jungle
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What would you suggest if you had a budget of $1000

supple chasm
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should be way faster than that prebuilt

subtle jungle
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Thanks, I’ve just been looking at YouTube videos but I didn’t know I could get DDR5 instead.

ancient axle
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like not a laptop?

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you can do a lot of upgrades that would go a long way to making your present machine suck a lot less

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boot SSD for one. HDD for windows is trash, going to make any computer feel slow

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the 8100 doesn't support DDR3, it's a DDR4 system. Check your specs.

supple chasm
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they wanna use rpcs3

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that requires an upgrade

ancient axle
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not really? 8th gen boards ran 9th gen chips

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like a $100 i7 8700 would do pretty alright with this iirc

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9900 for sure

supple chasm
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loses against the r5 7600 afaik

ancient axle
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well yeah

supple chasm
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9900/9700 might work acc, could get a better gpu asw

ancient axle
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but the 7600 costs like $100-200 more than those chips AND requires a new board and RAM

supple chasm
ancient axle
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that's the advantage to upgrading your old shit with some used parts, you save money. obviously it's not as fast but yesterday's high end is often competitive with today's midrange

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yeah i7 8700 for $100, cheap Boot SSD for like $30, another 8GB DDR3 stick to enable dual channel for ~$10-20... a $200 RX 6650XT and you've got a modern gaming rig for like a quarter the price of buying a whole new one

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@subtle jungle