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Building a budget gaming PC

Jul 20, 2017 11:46AM PDT

I want to build a budget gaming pc
I definitely want the pc to have the Intel Pentium G4560 and gtx 1050 ti
And 8 GB RAM
I want a 120 Gb ssd and a 1 th hard drive
Sorry for asking that much but It's really hard for my to look for all the parts
The ssd is optional
Thanx for the help

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Here's my favorite go to site for gaming PCs.
Jul 20, 2017 12:21PM PDT

Read and pick from https://www.reddit.com/r/PCMasterRace/wiki/builds

You can alter them a little for SSD but I would skip the HDD and put my money in a bigger SSD.

If you are building, are you sure you don't have some used HDD to kick into the box?

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I don't think so
Jul 20, 2017 12:26PM PDT

I only have a laptop

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My nod is to that list.
Jul 20, 2017 12:30PM PDT

You get builds tried out by thousands.

My note about SSD is to drop the HDD and get a 240 to 512GB SSD and make do for a time. I have some games, Visual Studio SQL, Office and more and have 200GB free on my 512GB SSD.

Once you go with SSD you see why.

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Build
Jul 21, 2017 12:11AM PDT

You can play around with this site and see what kind of build you come up with.
https://pcpartpicker.com/

I'll lean toward the reddit site as mentioned as all the parts are there for a build.