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Grasshopper:
You could always do what I do and upgrade your existing desktop PC.

My PC actually dates from the late 90s. However, in reality, every single component apart from the beige case and a floppy drive I keep purely for reasons of nostalgia has been replaced multiple times.

Last time I did a major upgrade I only had to buy a new motherboard, processor, and RAM. I was able to reuse every other component apart from the graphics card. Unfortunately, it used an AGP slot which had been phased out. So, for a couple of years, I made do with the GPU built into the processor.

fallacy:

--- Quote ---Hey Howard I use https://pcpartpicker.com/ to try to track down the best deals. Just use the filters to really get it down to what you want. Plus https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/ will post some good deals if you can catch them.
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Ya PcPartPicker is a good site, it accurately shows every retailer that sells the part and the price they are currently trying to sell it for. I accidentally stumbled on that site when I did my rebuild a few months ago and was looking for i7-9700K and at the time it showed Best Buy out of all places coming in at $340 while Newegg and Amazon were $400 plus… so I bought it from Best Buy, don't think I ever bought a PC part form Best Buy before.

Howard_Casto:
I got this one:

https://www.newegg.com/msi-radeon-rx-570-rx-570-8gt-oc/p/N82E16814137521?Item=N82E16814137521

It's not a super high end card by any means, but from what I read if I want to do some real basic 4k/vr gaming (think graphics settings on low or medium) this should be adequate. Of course they put the rx 580 on sale this morning. :angry:

I've been using part picker but it became pretty clear that in this moment in time at least, all the good deals are on Newegg.com IF the part in question has free shipping. If not it's probably cheaper at staples or amazon.

I would re-use my old case, but it's a hp, meaning some of the bits are proprietary and I think it's going into my mame cab anyway. It's failing hard, but my mame cab pc is from the same generation of intel processors, so I intend to upgrade it with any salvageable parts. I'm really leaning towards the cooler master case. After seeing some pics online with a couple of 120mm led fans installed on the front it looks pretty sharp. Yeah the build quality is cheap but looks nice and hell, the front of the desktop I'm using right now (hp quad core duo) has a polished acrylic front and other than being a dust magnet it hasn't suffered from any major scratches or finger print issues over the years. I mean how often do you touch the front of your case now that optical drives are a thing of the past?

I've actually got some early 90's cases in storage but right now at least, I'm over having huge ugly beige boxes in my life. I'm saving them though since I'm sure they'll come back in fashion.

Right now I'm patiently waiting for amazon to send me my credit. Passed up some sweet looking rgb ram the other day because I couldn't figure out if rgb fusion 1.0 could control rgb ram or not. I know 2.0 can.

Yeah best buy occasionally has some decent deals but our best buy is so out of the way that I'm not getting anything there unless I can get it shipped to my home for free. It's been quite a while since I bought anything there as well.

Howard_Casto:
Here's a good one:

https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16811553031?Item=N82E16811553031&nm_mc=AFC-RAN-COM&cm_mmc=AFC-RAN-COM&utm_medium=affiliates&utm_source=afc-PCPartPicker&AFFID=2558510&AFFNAME=PCPartPicker&ACRID=1&ASID=https%3a%2f%2fpcpartpicker.com%2fproduct%2fvYp323%2fcougar-mx330-atx-mid-tower-case-mx330&ranMID=44583&ranEAID=2558510&ranSiteID=8BacdVP0GFs-w_5MaL5yLkLQSc1OJUBq9w

Better build quality but I don't know about that mesh front.

Howard_Casto:
If this wasn't backordered I'd probably buy it right now. Comes with three rgb fans which makes it the overall best value for the price range:

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/P7prxr/antec-dark-fleet-df500-rgb-atx-mid-tower-case-df500-rgb

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