15 Year Old Rig - Now time for a NEW build (AM5 7600/x)

Subliminal Aura · Tuesday at 08:49

No GPU ? Not judging you but what kinda parent are you :cry:

(j/k)

Mind you being 15 surely (s)he is going through GCSEs ?

My son is coming up to 15 and has completely stopped gaming on his PC on his own accord :eek:

He's on my old 3060

pastymuncher · Tuesday at 09:55

I wouldn't go down the APU route if gaming is going to be a large part of what you do on the pc. The only way a 8700g hits GTX1650 performance is by running at 720p and upscaling that to 1080p and it's only in a few games with settings set to low. Most games will have it struggling at 1080p with anything but low details and that won't make for a pleasant gaming experience. While onboard graphics have come a long way and AMD's APU's are way ahead of Intel's they have a long way to go before they are suitable for mainstream gaming. For a office or general purpose pc they are fine bordering on overkill as a standard cpu's onboard graphics would be enough for that type of use. APU's are in a strange position, too powerful for a office/internet pc yet not powerful enough for 1080p gaming with details turned up.

Journey · Tuesday at 09:59

Might as well just get something like a Minisforum UM790 Pro, tiny, does what a APU will do, and will be better than a 1050, and they ~£500 with 32GB RAM and 1TB SSD.

RoryVonCory · Tuesday at 19:07

Subliminal Aura said:
No GPU ? Not judging you but what kinda parent are you (j/k)

Mind you being 15 surely (s)he is going through GCSEs ?

My son is coming up to 15 and has completely stopped gaming on his PC on his own accord He's on my old 3060

Haha sorry for clarity I meant my rig is nearly 15 years old! Haha

pastymuncher said:
I wouldn't go down the APU route if gaming is going to be a large part of what you do on the pc. The only way a 8700g hits GTX1650 performance is by running at 720p and upscaling that to 1080p and it's only in a few games with settings set to low. Most games will have it struggling at 1080p with anything but low details and that won't make for a pleasant gaming experience. While onboard graphics have come a long way and AMD's APU's are way ahead of Intel's they have a long way to go before they are suitable for mainstream gaming. For a office or general purpose pc they are fine bordering on overkill as a standard cpu's onboard graphics would be enough for that type of use. APU's are in a strange position, too powerful for a office/internet pc yet not powerful enough for 1080p gaming with details turned up.

Gaming will be 20% of what I do I reckon and if I don't will be older games at 1080p max but I hear your points! Thanks!

Journey said:
Might as well just get something like a Minisforum UM790 Pro, tiny, does what a APU will do, and will be better than a 1050, and they ~£500 with 32GB RAM and 1TB SSD.

Yes quite right right. I did investigate these but I need one last build in my life before I migrate to something like this when I'm older (and less wiser!) haha