Ram prices are more expensive but if you gotta build a PC its always worth the money. The amount of entertainment you get from it is crazy. If my PC build is 2k but because of ram prices its 3k. Thats still extremely cheap compared to other hobbies. I know people who spend that just on beer at the pub or uber eats.
If you are money tight am4 and ddr4 is still a solid combo.
I built my pc about 9 years ago, sold the GPU and upgraded 4 years ago. I can play most current games at medium graphic settings with the biggest limitation currently being my power supply of all things.
It helps that indy games are less resource intensive and that and retro gaming is where I find my fun atm but on a build that probably cost around $1800-$2000 when you factor in the updated graphics card (and fan replacement) I’d say that is a really friggen good value for a hobby.
It also helped that I built my pc while I was living in China where a number of components were cheaper.
Ram prices are more expensive but if you gotta build a PC its always worth the money. The amount of entertainment you get from it is crazy. If my PC build is 2k but because of ram prices its 3k. Thats still extremely cheap compared to other hobbies. I know people who spend that just on beer at the pub or uber eats.
If you are money tight am4 and ddr4 is still a solid combo.
I built my pc about 9 years ago, sold the GPU and upgraded 4 years ago. I can play most current games at medium graphic settings with the biggest limitation currently being my power supply of all things.
It helps that indy games are less resource intensive and that and retro gaming is where I find my fun atm but on a build that probably cost around $1800-$2000 when you factor in the updated graphics card (and fan replacement) I’d say that is a really friggen good value for a hobby.
It also helped that I built my pc while I was living in China where a number of components were cheaper.