Budget gaming PC upgrade
by Cheng Posted on: 1/6/2025
Build Description
huge upgrade from my old r5 1600x and gtx 1060. it served me great for the past 7 years, but it's facing a lot of difficulties in recent games, so it's time to replace it. I don't have a huge budget, only around $1000 dollar. Here is what I got. For the graphics card, I could have gone with 7700xt for more performance, but I really like to get into ray tracing, so I went with rtx 4060 instead. I was able to repurpose my old AIO cooler, so that's a huge saving. and everything runs great and I am loving it.
Favorite Feature
for $1k, it's got pretty good performance. huge improvement from my old build.
AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Raphael AM5 4.7GHz 6-Core Boxed Processor - Heatsink Not Included
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$179.99
ASUS B650M-PLUS TUF Gaming WiFi AMD AM5 microATX Motherboard
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$189.99
Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Eagle Overclocked Triple Fan 8GB GDDR6 PCIe 4.0 Graphics Card
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$309.99
TeamGroup T-FORCE VULCAN 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR5-5600 PC5-44800 CL36 Dual Channel Desktop Memory Kit FLBD532G5600HC3 - Black
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$119.99
Corsair 4000D Airflow Tempered Glass ATX Mid-Tower Computer Case - Black
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$74.99
Corsair CX650M 650 Watt 80 Plus Bronze ATX Semi-Modular Power Supply
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$79.99
NZXT Kraken X53 240mm Liquid CPU Cooler
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$0.00
repurposed from my old build
Crucial P3 2TB 3D NAND Flash PCIe Gen 3 x4 NVMe M.2 Internal SSD
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$99.99