PC build with a 2k budget. Looking for expert recommendations.

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Chace

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#303011 10-Jan-2023 13:41

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I was recently blessed with a 2k budget for a pc build of my choice. I've been looking through youtube tutorials and build guides on pcpartpicker and have come up with this as my final choices.

I'm a year 9 student and the PC will be mostly dedicated to gaming and maybe a little schoolwork.

Any suggestions to my choices?

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cddt

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#3019947 11-Jan-2023 11:19

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I always recommend www.pyronic.al re questions like this. The maintainer posts regularly over on GP if you have more questions for an audience with more of a gaming bent.

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#3021217 14-Jan-2023 12:20

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newegg is fine be using them for years with no issues. if you want to make sure you are covered by the consumer guarantees act use the newegg nz site.

The NVME drive you have included doesnt have any DRAM cache and used TLC NAND

For a boot drive i would spend a little more

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#3021669 15-Jan-2023 16:42

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100% there is no value in 3600 vs 3200 memory (for the type of gaming this rig is likely to be asked to do) and yes, that $60 could be better spent on a bigger/better boot drive.

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