A little more than a year ago, I built my first PC, which I am now typing this blog post on. I had designed it to be able to play games, but not be overly expensive, and after a lot of deliberation and watching hardware reviews, I settled on the AMD Ryzen 3 2200G as my CPU. The driving force for this decision was it's affordability- It was less than a hundred dollars, but with that hundred dollars, you not only get a low-to-mid tier CPU, but a low-to-mid tier GPU as well. With the money I saved, I could use it as a starting point for upgrading the PC later. Looking back on how I got all the parts for christmas, my dad asking me a few weeks earlier "Are you sure you want this CPU?", I do wish I had gone for something like the Ryzen 5 or better. But, I can't complain- I saved a ton of money myself, thanks to my parents, and I have a perfectly fine PC, even with it's caveats.
First and foremost, I only used the CPU's integrated for a while before upgrading to a beefy graphics card- the RX 590 Red Devil. Even without that, the CPU can run games like Dark Souls 3, Enter the Gungeon, and even newer games like Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice on middling settings. It may be slow, but it can still handle some big games, even Cave Story somehow, with all of it's intense graphics. But in all seriousness, the AMD Ryzen 3 CPU is a fine piece of hardware- I wouldn't be looking for an upgrade if it wasn't becoming outdated so quickly. A quick note to the one person out there reading this that's also looking to build their first PC- your first build doesn't need to be flashy or massive. It can be, but my tiny Ryzen 3 CPU has been doing just fine so far, and while it's not exactly a nine-core Intel Processor, it can play plenty of games just fine.
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AuthorHi! I'm Thomas MacDougall, a sophomore at DSA. Here you can check out my thoughts and recent activities. Please note that the views and opinions expressed in this blog are solely those of the author and do not represent those of Durham School of the Arts or Durham Public Schools. Archives
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