Worth buying a bundle or second hand PC to replace Haswell?

[sastusbulbas]

One of my lads has an old pc and wants to upgrade as he games online with friends and his PC is struggling.

His PC is an old Haswell i3 mini ITX build with 16gb of 2400Mhz DDR3 and a 1050ti 4gb GPU.

Two other kids have 4770k with 16gb DDR3 and 8gb GPU's from AMD, 580 and 590 but play less demanding games and no complaints as such.

I suggested ge looks at motherboard/cpu/memory bundles and later a GPU.

But he has the opportunity to get a working PC with a Ryzen 3700x with 16gb of 3200Mhz DDR4, 2tb of M.2 storage and the RTX 2060 6gb GPU. For under £500.

Any advice or suggestions please?

 

[Tetras]

a working PC with a Ryzen 3700x with 16gb of 3200Mhz DDR4, 2tb of M.2 storage and the RTX 2060 6gb GPU. For under £500.

Any advice or suggestions please?

Gaming performance would be fairly similar to the following new build, so it is not bad, but not great either:

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Intel Core i3-12100F 3.30GHz (Alder Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-6AS-IN) = £73.99
• 1 x Gigabyte B760M DS3H AX DDR4 (LGA 1700) DDR4 Micro-ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-5BZ-GI) = £109.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan Z T-Force 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (SKU: MY-0AJ-TG) = £56.00
• 1 x PowerColor Radeon RX 6600 Fighter 8GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-1AD-PC) = £179.98
• 1 x KIOXIA EXCERIA G2 2TB SSD NVME M.2 2280 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-TSH-00982) = £92.99
• 1 x Kolink Unity Meshbay Performance Midi Tower Case - Black Mesh (SKU: CA-081-KK) = £42.95
• 1 x Phanteks AMP GH 750W 80PLUS Gold ATX Power Supply Modular - Black (SKU: POW-PHK-02517) = £84.95

Total: £640.85 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

 

[Tetras]

His PC is an old Haswell i3 mini ITX build with 16gb of 2400Mhz DDR3 and a 1050ti 4gb GPU.

Two other kids have 4770k with 16gb DDR3 and 8gb GPU's from AMD, 580 and 590 but play less demanding games and no complaints as such.

You could get another 4770K and a RX 6600. If it still isn't enough then do the CPU too?

Edit: oops, double posted.

 

[Threepwood]

how much under £500, and , what games?
my old 3700 system was rock solid for gaming, with a comparable graphics card to the 2060, but with 8GB vram
for under£ 500, I say Buy it, and look for a

"RX 5700 XT 8GB" second hand, elsewhere if you want more video ram or more fps​

my 3700 with that card was hitting 120fps in PUBG, no problem​