CuteFaceJay
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2nd hand 3090 should be plenty.
Advice: New PC for my son’s 10th birthday
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Zathalus
Member
Honestly not a bad build for the price, I'm in NL as well, are you using a specific site or store?Thanks for the advice
Gameplay Gods Bless
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This isn't 2007, these days there's no such thing as an overkill CPU thanks to all the CPU heavy issues games have these days: shader compilation stutter, traversal stutters, Ray Tracing, Path Tracing, DLSS upscaling (makes games CPU limited by reducing strain on GPU ). Back in 2007 u got a CPU, it got 60fps in games and you were set Direct X would take care of everything else, now games are way more complicated and dev mistakes using DX12 and Vulkan have big consequences on performance most of them being CPU related.
The only protection gamers have is getting the best CPU they can reasonably afford, no such thing as an overkill CPU in the stutter era.
demigod
Member
$1900 for a 5070? Where do you live? My advice, build the PC.
MrAlwaysRight
Member
looks fine for a pre-built, go for it, it's an investment into his future.
Cyborg
Member
Its via Bol.com
hououinkyouma00
Member
This is my advice as well. I don't know the situation in Europe though.
Here in the states looking at only Microcenter that build would be around $1500-1600. So you could get an upgrade to a 5070ti or a 9070XT alongside what I'm sure is a better mouse and keyboard or have money for a monitor.
Plus you could shave off some money by choosing cheaper parts where possible (I simply allocated like $150 for the case, $150 for the PSU, $100 for a SSD, and matched the rest of the parts as exactly as I could).
Hideous Snake
Gold Member
Solid build although my advice is to build it yourself. Also that 12GB VRAM is not good for the long run
Because he's a fucking legend thats why.
delirium trigger
Member
Only like 10% of steam users have more than 12 GB of vram. I think a 10 year old can survive, lol. You guys are ridiculous.
ChoosableOne
ChoosableAll
Yeah everyone has 32 gb ddr 5 ram+ryzen 7 7800 3d alongside their 8gb gpus. Kids can survive with anything. But this one doesn't want to just survive, he wants to feel the master race in his veins!!!!
iQuasarLV
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3 things I wish I knew before trusting Steam's hardware survey data
Maybe do not take that as the unskewed truth.
PeteBull
Member
Bro, when i was 10yo(early 90s) i couldnt afford any pc(back then they were super expensive and tech advanced so quickly even highend gaming pc was junk for new games after 2 years) i was just buying 4(basically all avaiable at that time in my country) pc paper magazines monthly and just reading articles/reviews/news instead, dont underestimate kid's love for gaming/pc tech, very likely its gonna last 4ever and it will be even passed down to his children(at least boys)
delirium trigger
Member
The average pc gamer has a 60 class card.
VolticArchangel
Member
OP, in order to get help online, provide necessary info on what you're looking for, exactly.
Specify which country you're from and which SI you're getting this pre-built quotation from.
That build can be made way better, if you build it yourself. Are you ready to or can you assemble a PC by yourself?
The only info we have, to help, is that you're from the EU and the budget is (+/-) €1650. What is the maximum budget that you're willing to stretch? What is the monitor is he going to play on? Is it 4K or 1440p? Depending on resolution, you can cut the 7800X3D to a lower bidget CPU and add that budget to a more faster GPU.
So, name your country, possible list of online retailers in your country for PC parts, total/maximum budget, and the monitor this rig is going be used on, to get a more accurate quote from people here (possibly even from your country).
Specify which country you're from and which SI you're getting this pre-built quotation from.
That build can be made way better, if you build it yourself. Are you ready to or can you assemble a PC by yourself?
The only info we have, to help, is that you're from the EU and the budget is (+/-) €1650. What is the maximum budget that you're willing to stretch? What is the monitor is he going to play on? Is it 4K or 1440p? Depending on resolution, you can cut the 7800X3D to a lower bidget CPU and add that budget to a more faster GPU.
So, name your country, possible list of online retailers in your country for PC parts, total/maximum budget, and the monitor this rig is going be used on, to get a more accurate quote from people here (possibly even from your country).