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Pre-built low end gaming machine

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Thrakazog

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A guy I went to school with ages ago is looking for some advice to buy a lower-end gaming PC. He's not comfortable with putting one together, and he's several states away. He's been looking at like Best Buy's website and places like that. Its been a few years since I put a box together so I have no idea which processors and GPUs are crappy and which ones give you good bang for the buck. He's hoping to spend $1000 or less and needs everything including a monitor, basic speakers etc. He specifically mentioned wanting to play World of Warships and Total War: Warhammer, so I dont think he is being overly ambitious.

Any advice? Especially with regards to CPU, GPU, minimum memory etc.
 
I don't have a lot of experience with pre-built stuff, but I can give you some specs to aim for.

Requirements:
6 cores or more on the CPU. Probably AMD as well with their Ryzen 3000 series, as it's better bang-for-buck than Intel's current offerings.
8 GB of RAM. More is better of course.
250GB SSD if paired with a mechanical drive, ~500GB if it'll be the only drive in the system
Decent GPU; presuming you're aiming at 1080p I would recommend an AMD 5500XT or higher, or a 1650 Super or higher from Nvidia
If he's going to be playing anything fast paced (first or third person shooters primarily) then aim for a high refresh rate monitor that supports Freesync. Note, Nvidia only supports Freesync if the monitor has Displayport and lots of lower-end monitors are HDMI only, so that's something to consider.

Something like this: https://www.newegg.com/cyberpowerpc-gamer-master-99507/p/N82E16883230519

This thing is a Ryzen 5 3600, 16 GB of RAM, 1660 Super GPU, a 480 GB SSD, and a 2TB mechanical drive. It's $870, toss in an inexpensive monitor and you'll be pretty close to that $1000 mark. Something like this would do- https://www.newegg.com/black-acer-ed242qr-abidpx-um-ue2aa-a01-23-6/p/N82E16824011162 - though I'm not a fan of the curve. It's a 24" 144hz Freesync thing. You can move up to a 27" 1080p unit for around the same cost (or less) if you ditch the 144hz support, but if the monitor is for gaming I'd prioritize the refresh rate.

Costs are more than if you built it yourself, but then again you aren't building it yourself. It's not far off the mark though.
 
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