Ron Sancho

I am familiar with the concept.

I am shocked I can't figure this out as well. But I still cannot find how it works-- as in where the general admission seats are. All the seating charts I see show A-D as reserved.

Yes I've noticed how much the pricing and everything went up it has been difficult. I am going with the original build, have ordered everything but the Video Card and HDD. Not real tied to the price anymore, just trying to match the performance of the original build while accepting that I will be over paying.

So far I am about +120 over the original build- most of that is I overpaid for the Ryzen 2600 by about $80 it looks like. I know I've defeated the entire purpose of this endeavor, but it is what it is at this point and I think christmas is going to be lame for the kids this year so I'm trying to make this happen.

So on your Intel build, you mention the 4G Phantom Video Card...do you think that would work with the original build I had, or do I need to suck it up and get an 8G video card if I am going to do this?

Bumping as I never pulled the trigger on this build, but am doing so for Christmas, and had a few follow up questions. Not real worried about exact price anymore, given my timing several items have increased, but trying to get pretty close to this type of build. Any input is greatly appreciated. Pretty much a novice at this:

(1) Video Card. Pu's build has ASRock Radeon RX 570 8 GB Phantom Gaming D Video Card. I generally cannot find this, but am bidding on a used one on Ebay. Trying to figure out my Plan B. It looks like I can find:

(a) ASRock RX 570, but it is 4 (rather than 8) gigs, or

(b) MSI Radeon RX 580 DirectX 12 RX 580 ARMOR 8G OC 8GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card.

I am wondering if my assumption is correct: that (a) will perform less than the original build, but (b) will perform similar or perhaps better than the original build.

(2) Any HDD tips, do I just pick one that is compatible on the partspicker site?

(3) Monitor. At first we will just be going with an extra monitor from my office. What are the key specs I need to have this run as well as possible until we upgrade at a later time? Right now I am thinking it needs to have HDMI/Display port; 60hz; 1080p display; 5 ms or less response time. Have multiple options here, just need to know what specs I need to look at to decide which one is best to use.

Thanks again for all of the help!

Thanks to everyone for the help here. I am going to go with the build and we will just live and learn with the consequences. It's probably 90% for fortnite right now, if he needs more as he gets older we will have something to build on.

An 11 year old has saved $400 and is quarantined... lost his baseball season. I'm going to help him make this work. Pitching to the wife as a STEM project.

I am going to go with pu's recomendation + Windows 10 and roll with this. I am going to see how it goes and figure out how many and how large the games he needs are while waiting for the deliveries and in all likelihood will go ahead and get the 2TB HDD. Will let you know how it goes.

A few last questions:

Do I need Windows 10 Pro or is home sufficient?

Also, I'm assuming the HDD needs to be the actual hard disk drive...not a passport or similar external storage drive(?). I'm asking because I have an extra 1TB passport at my office that could possible work in the interim. He's got a birthday in August, one of the intriguing parts of this to me is he is getting to a difficult present stage and random upgrades would be a good source of ideas. It needs to work for what he wants to use if for now as well, but that is mostly fortnite and roblox, and I don't think specs are too hard to meet that.

I see these topics on here on occasion, was hoping to get some advice.

My 11 year old son has saved $400 is is trying to get a gaming PC with it. I have an extra monitor he can use, so we are talking pc, keyboard, mouse.

I was going to throw in about $100 to help him out.

Any advice on how to go about this? I know a custom build would be best but how difficult is that. I am thinking of going on E-bay and getting one there, are there other better sites for this?

I was going to have him pull what games he wants to play (is mostly fortnite, minecraft, horizon 4, call of duty (not allowed to play this yet but want the pc to last a few years), roblox, paladins and overwatch, no idea how much these cost though.

Here is an example of what is on ebay.

LINK

Any advice is greatly appreciated!!

Well that is why many people list on stub hub I guess. Don't have to water down your market with the trolls.

You are part of the problem.

Also pickup will be at my office. Buyer will know where to find me. And you are officially blacklisted as a potential buyer.

Is there still a ticket exchange? I can't find it on the links anymore.

ETA: Nevermind I see it now.

Thanks for the help, I contacted stub hub and got it figured out. Visitor Allotted tickets basically have to be shipped so they have to sell by Thursday.

Having trouble getting stub hub to accept barcodes on bama tickets I am trying to sell. Received the tix from LSU's visitor allotment.

Does anyone know if these are restricted for resale on stub hub?

TIA

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