So, what’s your actual limit here? How much are you willing to drop? I mean, one person thinks shelling out three grand for a GPU is totally reasonable, while someone else would look at that price tag and think it's an absolute scam.
Look, you can just hit up some computer shops in Washington, D.C., and have them build the whole rig for you before shipping it straight to your door. It saves you from having to mess around with building it yourself or dealing with the headache of shipping individual parts.
Overclocking a 2400G is more than enough to handle e-sports titles like Rocket League, Overwatch, or CS:GO. If you ask me, calling this anything less than a gaming rig is just being dramatic—it's definitely not strictly an office PC.
You’re completely overlooking the cost of the graphics cards here. It's not like the price is $100 lower. If you factor in a "decent" card, say a GTX 1050ti which goes for about $500, the price gap widens to $600 pretty quickly. Obviously, the R5 1600 is the superior chip—but strictly as a CPU. If someone is dropping roughly $750 on a full tower and peripherals, it makes zero sense to settle for an R5 1600; you’d be much better off grabbing an R5 2400G, overclocking both the CPU and GPU with a decent aftermarket cooler, and walking away with a killer setup.
It’s a sad reality, but that’s just how the math works out.
Realistically, how much would a used HDD like this actually go for? Or am I just wasting my breath trying to sell it when I could just toss it into my desktop to store old phone photos, dusty past projects, and whatever else takes up space?
Honestly, I don't think swapping in a 1070 would actually bump my FPS any higher. My CPU is hitting a massive bottleneck at max settings, so that's definitely the next thing on my shopping list. For now, PUBG is holding steady at 60fps without those soul-crushing drops, and NBA 2K18 is running fine too. I'm about to download AC:Origins, so we'll see how much of a mess it is on this rig.
Samuel Castillo49 said:Don't be so gullible, man; talk is cheap. Besides, you don't just drop cash on high-end components without a warranty, an invoice, and the original packaging intact.
Look, I know that words from someone I've never met are incredibly expensive.
What I'm saying is, I actually passed on the 1070 and went with the 1060 instead.
Unfortunately, once you throw in the keyboard, we're looking at closer to 4200.
Honestly, this is the absolute lowest I could find anywhere.
So, you either stretch your budget out to 4200 right now, or you just hold off on the keyboard for a bit and grab it later once you've actually saved up those $206
And it’s not just this one card. The guy mentioned he’s got ten more GTX 1060s sitting there, and a GTX 1070 is arriving next week. Honestly, either she was used for mining or something is fundamentally broken with her. He keeps insisting everything works perfectly and that she definitely WASN'T used for mining, though I have my doubts about that second part. I can drop a phone number in a DM if anyone wants to take their chances and try their luck 🙂 . Personally, I decided to just go with the solution of switching to a weaker GPU, which is already a massive enough upgrade for my setup, plus this card is still under warranty.
Cleaned out the drivers, and now everything is running smoothly. I actually saw a 15% jump in FPS across two different games I tested.
Since my colleague was asking about the price of 😁
Anyway, I didn't end up buying the 1070 because, if you ask me, the guy seemed pretty shady. The price would have been $867. Plus, there's absolutely no warranty and no receipt to speak of. He claimed it barely saw any use, but honestly? It either got stolen or it's broken. I ended up grabbing a 1060 3gb for $140 instead. For comparison, I sold an R9 280 3gb for $10.
I’ve got a chance to snag a GTX 1070 for an insanely low price, but here’s the catch: I’m running an FX 6300 overclocked to 4.1GHz across all cores, paired with 8GB of DDR3 at 1666 MHz. My current card, an R9 280, just sold, and I'm stuck waiting on a replacement to arrive. Will this actually be an upgrade over what I had, or am I looking at a situation where performance might actually tank in certain games?
Look, I know there's going to be a massive bottleneck—believe me, I'm fully aware of that—but I'm holding out until I can jump over to a Ryzen 2 setup to see how things shake out (either an R5 1600 or maybe a newer Rx 2xxx processor along with 16GB of RAM), so for now, the FX 6300 is still the one doing the heavy lifting.
Here is how my current framerates look: NBA 2K18 hits about 45-70 fps on max settings. PUBG sits around 45-65 fps on very low settings, though I keep anti-aliasing on ultra. GTA V runs between 40-60 fps on mid-high settings.
If you can actually track down a GTX 1060, grab it. Honestly, even that might be a bit overkill for what we're doing, but having something around $1000 should probably be