Whitson GordonI ended up with a $50 Dell Optiplex 9010 housing an Intel Core i CPU, 4GB of RAM, and no exhausting drive. I added a GTX 750 Ti I received for $30 and an SSD I received at no cost from a friend who was leaving town—although let’s assume I paid $20 for the sake of a good comparison. That comes out to $100 even for my ultimate setup—though again, I’d suggest a bit extra RAM and a new PSU in case you have an extra $50 to spare. It’s worth mentioning that at the time of writing, the RTX 3070 continues to be a few weeks away from launch, and it’s in all probability going to promote out quite quick. However, AMD may even launch a new GPU shortly, so it is in all probability finest to only be patient and catch a restock.

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