So for xmas this year I built my teen daughter a new PC. Mainly we wanted her to be able to play with her digital pics from her Canon Rebal dslr (nothing fancy still dealing with big raw files the under powered little HP laptop she has wasn't really enough) Her grand parents bought her a new Canon photo printer this year as well. (They bought her the camera last year). Anyway after considering picking her up a new laptop, the wife and I decided instead perhaps a basic low ball desktop would make more sense.
Anyway I hit a pretty tight budget. Building her a basic little box.
AMD Ryzen 3 2200g
Asus Prime a320-k board. (I know it doesn't overclock had no intention of overclocking anything and its a decent board
8GB basic Micron DDR4 2400
adata su800 256gb SSD (board has a m.2 but got a nice deal on a su800)
Corsair CX450
Used an old case I had around.
Hit right around 400 bucks Canadian (aprox 300 US). Which seemed reasonable to us, considering a new laptop in that price range wouldn't have been better then the 3-4 year old low end HP she's been using.
Anyway she put it together (ok not much to do really still it was her first lol) She installed Manjaro in about 10 min... and spent way to long downloading wallpapers. (she is a teenager) But ya she got things updated and started grabbing software. (she has been using manjaro for about a year or so on a ancient intel core machine)
Anyway to get to the point of the thread. She logged into my steam account to grab a few games. She mostly plays games like bastion, transistor, Dust and torchlight so she installed that stuff. Of course they all run silky smooth maxed out at 1080. She plugged her machine into an older 46" sharp TV I had around. (She claimed it as her netflix screen long ago) Oh not that it matters to much but she dug out an older Pioneer reciever I had around that's got hdmi pass through on it. So she has a couple of my old hitachi floor speakers from the 80s (they where never that expensive but ya she can drive us insane now with teenage girl spotify lists)
To see what the little Vega 8 could do though we installed a few Staple games. (we'll have to do some more proton testing yet)
Borderlands 2 1080p high everything minus ambient occlusion was a nice stable 65-75 fps
Bioshock Inf 1080p high again without AO is pretty steady 50-70 fps it dips down to around 50 but mostly runs just under 60
Tomb Raider 1080p high again 60-70 fps
Fallout New Vegas this one runs via proton. 1080 high settings rock solid 60. In fact I assumed I had Vsync on... confirmed it was off and still rock solid 60. Its almost odd game seems to sit at 60. Not sure if its a proton thing or the FPS is reporting wrong or what. (although it does dip on load screens so it seems to be working fine)
Only other proton games she is running are not really worth reporting. The Lego games run great via proton again high at 1080 60fps territory... and Castle Crashers runs great. lol
Oh she also plugged her Asus Bluetooth adapter in and has been using her PS3 controllers with no issue. Next weekend I think we'll dig the old wii controllers out of the closet and see if we can't get some Dolphin going. Playing the marios and zeldas at 1080p might be fun if the Vega8 can handle it.
I uploaded a few pics. Running Gallium_HUD its a little more useful the the built in steam fps overlay. Anyway just thought I would post. I know you can throw the same machine together and run windows. Just thought I would post how smooth my daughters cheapo pc build is handling some basic lite type 1080p gaming. Haven't really had to give up to much. Yes you can't really flip some of the nice post processing stuff on, but high textures and detail settings are mostly fine. Also someone is going to mention it yes I didn't flip FXAA in borderlands 2, if I do the vega8 drops about 5-10 fps which isn't bad it is running in the 70s. Probably will turn it on next time we fire it up. (and before anyone is too brutal remember 300 bucks all in basically.... total system price was less then most of us spend on mid range CPUs lol)
Anyway I hit a pretty tight budget. Building her a basic little box.
AMD Ryzen 3 2200g
Asus Prime a320-k board. (I know it doesn't overclock had no intention of overclocking anything and its a decent board
8GB basic Micron DDR4 2400
adata su800 256gb SSD (board has a m.2 but got a nice deal on a su800)
Corsair CX450
Used an old case I had around.
Hit right around 400 bucks Canadian (aprox 300 US). Which seemed reasonable to us, considering a new laptop in that price range wouldn't have been better then the 3-4 year old low end HP she's been using.
Anyway she put it together (ok not much to do really still it was her first lol) She installed Manjaro in about 10 min... and spent way to long downloading wallpapers. (she is a teenager) But ya she got things updated and started grabbing software. (she has been using manjaro for about a year or so on a ancient intel core machine)
Anyway to get to the point of the thread. She logged into my steam account to grab a few games. She mostly plays games like bastion, transistor, Dust and torchlight so she installed that stuff. Of course they all run silky smooth maxed out at 1080. She plugged her machine into an older 46" sharp TV I had around. (She claimed it as her netflix screen long ago) Oh not that it matters to much but she dug out an older Pioneer reciever I had around that's got hdmi pass through on it. So she has a couple of my old hitachi floor speakers from the 80s (they where never that expensive but ya she can drive us insane now with teenage girl spotify lists)
To see what the little Vega 8 could do though we installed a few Staple games. (we'll have to do some more proton testing yet)
Borderlands 2 1080p high everything minus ambient occlusion was a nice stable 65-75 fps
Bioshock Inf 1080p high again without AO is pretty steady 50-70 fps it dips down to around 50 but mostly runs just under 60
Tomb Raider 1080p high again 60-70 fps
Fallout New Vegas this one runs via proton. 1080 high settings rock solid 60. In fact I assumed I had Vsync on... confirmed it was off and still rock solid 60. Its almost odd game seems to sit at 60. Not sure if its a proton thing or the FPS is reporting wrong or what. (although it does dip on load screens so it seems to be working fine)
Only other proton games she is running are not really worth reporting. The Lego games run great via proton again high at 1080 60fps territory... and Castle Crashers runs great. lol
Oh she also plugged her Asus Bluetooth adapter in and has been using her PS3 controllers with no issue. Next weekend I think we'll dig the old wii controllers out of the closet and see if we can't get some Dolphin going. Playing the marios and zeldas at 1080p might be fun if the Vega8 can handle it.
I uploaded a few pics. Running Gallium_HUD its a little more useful the the built in steam fps overlay. Anyway just thought I would post. I know you can throw the same machine together and run windows. Just thought I would post how smooth my daughters cheapo pc build is handling some basic lite type 1080p gaming. Haven't really had to give up to much. Yes you can't really flip some of the nice post processing stuff on, but high textures and detail settings are mostly fine. Also someone is going to mention it yes I didn't flip FXAA in borderlands 2, if I do the vega8 drops about 5-10 fps which isn't bad it is running in the 70s. Probably will turn it on next time we fire it up. (and before anyone is too brutal remember 300 bucks all in basically.... total system price was less then most of us spend on mid range CPUs lol)
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