My son (12) needs and wishes for Christmas a new PC. He does so less with games except Minecraft and one or the other simulation game like Omsi or Virtual Rides. He looks a lot more youtube and starts slowly with some video editing. The first for what he needs the thing. Now the question, new or used? I have selected the following offers:
AMD Ryzen 3 2200G 4x 3.5GHz
8GB DDR4 RAM PC-2400
AMD Radeon Vega 8 graphic
1TB S-ATA3 hard drive
7.1 Sound / Gigabit LAN
New, 36 months warranty, 280 euro. Or something like this:
Dell Optiplex 990
Intel Core i5 2500
4GB RAM
Graphic on board
500GB S-ATA3 hard drive
Used, 99 euro, 1 year warranty
I would be willing to take some money in the hand to build a better graphics card and increase the RAM, question only worth it?
https://hardwarerat.de/...aming-pcs/
Here are usable for a fair price
The first does not sound bad, but an SSD would be fine.
The second may not fit the specs, would you have a link to the offer?
Video editing and computer games need the same hardware. Therefore, everything GamingPC is suitable for.
I think with a small Ryzen, rather the 2400g because hyperthreading, you are certainly not wrong, but an SSD I would treat your son already. Since it saves a lot of time, especially in the video store.
The graphics card, I would save me for another opportunity, since the budget in my eyes, first better invested in the other hardware.
I imagine the system like this:
Ryzen 3 2400g / 3400g (same silicon)
b450 motherboard
8GB DDR4 3000Mhz +
500GB SSD
BeQuiet 400Watt power supply
Any case
Since you come out without operating at about 380 euro.
https://www.mindfactory.de/...76c39745b6
For a birthday, Easter or whatever, he can then get a graphics card and the whole thing is of course always assembled with dad.
Since second offer looks strange. To my knowledge, the Vega 8 graphics chip is built exclusively in Ryzen CPUs (e.g., 2200G and 3200G). Therefore, it is not actually possible to find this graphics chip in a system with Intel CPU.
In general, I would rather recommend the first system, it is more expensive, but more future-proof, that is, you can later even better CPUs reinsetzen. If he wants more power then you do not have to buy a new PC. Get a Ryzen 3700X and a good graphics card, and he has a really solid calculator.
But you should pay attention to the following things:
It should always be installed at least 2 RAM bars, even if it is only 8 GB (ie 2x4 GB instead of 1x8 GB), only then the RAM runs in dual-channel at full speed. With budget PCs, however, often only a RAM bar is installed, which unnecessarily slows down the PC.
There should be no A320 motherboard used.
The system should have an SSD hard drive, operating a system with only a classic (HDD) hard disk is outdated.
However, you can't expect much from this computer, games will only run on the lowest settings, videos will take a long time to export, with longer video projects could be scarce 8 GB of RAM, and the work in the video editing program is slowed down in places by the computer.
My personal recommendation:
I would recommend a system with a Ryzen 2400G or 3400G, as well as RAM with at least 2800 MHz, which would increase the performance in many ways again.
Yes, he is only 12 years old, but I think that when children start showing interest in media production, it should be promoted. If you really get involved early on, it can make things a lot easier in school and university. So, just when he's not just using it for daddling, I'd see that the pc is reasonably usable. For 280 euro, you get only a simple office PC, but video editing and gaming are actually two of the most power-hungry use cases. It helps every bit of performance, but you should at least have a solid foundation, and I think that's not the case with a 2200G. Just the fact that 2400G and 3400G have simultaneous multithreading makes them faster to export in videos. So I think it would not be wrong to invest a little bit more. As I said, the AM4 platform is relatively future-proof, so you will not have to spend too much money in the near future.
Have for my children (12 and 9 years) synonymous 2 PC purchased.
HP 8200 per 68 euro.
The i5-2500 are enough for everything they play… Minecraft, Sims4 etc.
Would take the Dell.
RAM on 8GB. 20 euro
SSD 256GB 30 euro / SSD 120GB 17 euro.
GT 1030 80 euro or used RX460 60-70 euro.
Are then about 200 - 230 euro for a stable system. Dell lasts forever (mostly).
There's no Dell with Vega 8 and i5-2500, there's something wrong.
I've been prescribed, the I5 has no Vega 8 but ne graphic on board but he did not let me correct it.
I've been prescribed, the I5 has no Vega 8 but ne graphic on board but he did not let me correct it.
