budget AMD gaming build

I am thinking about building a PC for my 10 year old son for Christmas. He is starting to show an interest, but I don't want to spend very much just incase he doesn't really stay interested. I built an AMD build for my oldest when he was 9 and he used the crap out of it for 8 years before building his own for the first time last year when he was 18. I would really like to stay at $700 including monitor.

Thoughts on this build?

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/yRLWkL

bossman150 said:

I am thinking about building a PC for my 10 year old son for Christmas. He is starting to show an interest, but I don't want to spend very much just incase he doesn't really stay interested. I built an AMD build for my oldest when he was 9 and he used the crap out of it for 8 years before building his own for the first time last year when he was 18. I would really like to stay at $700 including monitor.

Thoughts on this build?

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/yRLWkL

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That setup works for me, though get a Samsung 850 Evo 250g for the same price and watch for rebates on it, I've seen them as low as 69.99. Get a HD as well such as this, if he's anything like my 12 year old he'll be wanting to record his gaming and you will not have enough storage with the SSD alone. I would also go with this Psu, not that you need anything close to 650w but for $39.99 the XFX is a much better platform made by Seasonic. Here is the review if you care to read it. Oh and these sticks are a bit less expensive for faster ram.

Thanks, I changed the SSD and memory. I am a diehard Corsair guy when it comes to PSU's, I have never put anything but Corsair in my builds and have never had a fail, even after 6+ years. However I think I probably would have tried that XFX due to the review if it wasn't for the MIR, I hate them and usually avoid making purchases based on them. They take ages to get your $$ back and half the time I forget to do the paperwork. I did change to a 550w partially modular corsair though, I discovered the one I picked was also a MIR one.

Edit: I will also add an HDD later on should he start really enjoying the PC.

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Hmm wow, this is a lot of laptop for $760!


I really don't like the idea of a 10 year old having a laptop that he can take anywhere (and drop easily) but man he would love it. Have to really think about what to do here....

bossman150 said:

Thanks, I changed the SSD and memory. I am a diehard Corsair guy when it comes to PSU's, I have never put anything but Corsair in my builds and have never had a fail, even after 6+ years. However I think I probably would have tried that XFX due to the review if it wasn't for the MIR, I hate them and usually avoid making purchases based on them. They take ages to get your $$ back and half the time I forget to do the paperwork. I did change to a 550w partially modular corsair though, I discovered the one I picked was also a MIR one.

Edit: I will also add an HDD later on should he start really enjoying the PC.

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Link to the updated build? Mandrake has you going in the right direction.

Oops,

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/bossman150/saved/K74LrH

Cut some cash, this would be solid:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/D9tm99

Ha, just for giggles I looked up my last AMD build I did for my oldest back in 2006. He was using this to play WOW up until a little over a year ago lol, though I think I upgraded the GPU a couple years after I built it and added more RAM:

Order #47397832
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