Many years ago I used to take apart and put together personal computers. However, it was not for gaming purposes.
The last machine that I ‘plug-and-play’ put together was back in 2007. I imagine a lot has changed since then.
My sons want a Windows gaming PC for this upcoming Christmas season.
Would it be more cost effective to purchase all the components and build a tower or purchase a prebuilt machine?
Also, I’m not looking for a high-end machine. Something in the middle should work fine since they aren’t hardcore gamers.
Would you, please, give me a little more information about both of those and how to track them down?
AMD’s APU, and Intel’s UHD graphics are marketing terms for integrated graphics processors. It just means that the CPU has a built-in GPU.
When purchasing components, or choosing a prebuilt system, you can simply select a CPU that has “integrated graphics”.
Even a modest graphics card will drastically out perform any integrated graphics chip, but if your sons are not playing hardcore resource intensive games then you can save a lot of money not buying a GPU. You can also always purchase a GPU later for a birthday / next Christmas to enable them to play more intensive games.
Excellent! Thanks so much.