Budget Build Advice

[autoapprentice]

Hello, and happy new year!

I am building a budget PC for my sister-in-law. She needs a new computer for law school, and would like it to be able to play Minecraft for my niece. I was looking at the Ryzen 5 5600G for $129 and no discrete graphics, or a Ryzen 5 3600 for $89 and throwing in my old MSI RTX 1650 Ventus XS OC 4GB. I was thinking the 5600G would be the most future proof, and easiest when it comes to updates and software since I won't always be around to make sure drivers are up to date.

Any comments appreciated! Thank you!

 

[skyactiv]

A desktop for college?

 

[autoapprentice]

A desktop for college?

that's what she wants, yes.

 

[autoapprentice]

that's what she wants, yes.

It's online law school...

 

[Propflux01]

I would go with the 5600, and a MB with an H520M chipset, 16GB RAM. This would be enough for her schooling, and enough for a vanilla-type Minecraft game ability as well. I am taking it you're trying to keep the build under 800-ish, and you may already have the ancillaries, such as PSU and case?

 

[Bottom_Feeder]

My vote is for a Beelink SER5 mini PC.

Beelink Mini PC SER5 equiped with AMD Ryzen 5 5560U(up to 4GHz) 6C/12T, pre-in Windows 11,16GB DDR4 RAM 500GB NVME SSD,4K output of Triple-Display via HDMI+DP+Type-C, Mini Gaming Office mini desktop Computer

Newest Beelink mini PC use Ryzen 5 5560U(6C/12T,up to 4.0GHZ) CPU which allow you to have a fluid use for desktop, work with design apps and even with some demanding 3D game. designed with metal case. Inside configurated16GB RAM+500GB SSD M.2NVMe 2280.

www.bee-link.com

Or an M2 Mac Mini, but those are back up to $600 after the holiday sales.

 

[Pepperjunkie]

I think either option is fine.

 

[goingplacesanddoingstuff]

5600G hands down and skip the graphics card. Integrated is fine. I bet if you look you can find 32gb of ddr4 for sale cheap as people are upgrading to ddr5.

 

[goingplacesanddoingstuff]

My vote is for a Beelink SER5 mini PC.

Beelink Mini PC SER5 equiped with AMD Ryzen 5 5560U(up to 4GHz) 6C/12T, pre-in Windows 11,16GB DDR4 RAM 500GB NVME SSD,4K output of Triple-Display via HDMI+DP+Type-C, Mini Gaming Office mini desktop Computer

Newest Beelink mini PC use Ryzen 5 5560U(6C/12T,up to 4.0GHZ) CPU which allow you to have a fluid use for desktop, work with design apps and even with some demanding 3D game. designed with metal case. Inside configurated16GB RAM+500GB SSD M.2NVMe 2280.

www.bee-link.com

Or an M2 Mac Mini, but those are back up to $600 after the holiday sales.

Chinese company, not Taiwanese, if that matters to people.