AdviceIs it worth buying or building my own PC?
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Yes I'm a noob and I'm getting into the world of pc gaming. I have no idea apart from the absolute basics and that's even mehhh.

My budget is like 650 max and I'm m wondering what's the best thing to do?
Also could anyway give me a link to a video on this or just explain the basics to me please.

Much appreciated
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I built my first PC about 7 months ago and I'll never look back. I'm definitely not super tech savy but I can follow a basic youtube video and they have tons of them online. You could buy a pre-built but honestly not worth the money and building it yourself is so much more worth it. Plus, when it's time to upgrade you'll know how.

I spent about $800 on my PC, monitor and MnK. Specs are as follows
Monitor
- Acer Nitro Ed240q 1080p 165hz

PC (Main Things)
- Ryzen 5 5500 CPU
- rx 6700 GPU
- Corsair 3600mhz 16gb RAM
- B450M DS3H Motherboard
- 1TB M.2 SSD

Unless you already have a PS5/Series X I would say it's worth it to spend the $650 and build a PC. Someone here could give you a good setup too but for $650 it probably won't match the performance of any current gen console. With PC though, you have so much more freedom, you can upgrade individual parts and you can multitask on it instead of only gaming.
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Sus- wrote I built my first PC about 7 months ago and I'll never look back. I'm definitely not super tech savy but I can follow a basic youtube video and they have tons of them online. You could buy a pre-built but honestly not worth the money and building it yourself is so much more worth it. Plus, when it's time to upgrade you'll know how.

I spent about $800 on my PC, monitor and MnK. Specs are as follows
Monitor
- Acer Nitro Ed240q 1080p 165hz

PC (Main Things)
- Ryzen 5 5500 CPU
- rx 6700 GPU
- Corsair 3600mhz 16gb RAM
- B450M DS3H Motherboard
- 1TB M.2 SSD

Unless you already have a PS5/Series X I would say it's worth it to spend the $650 and build a PC. Someone here could give you a good setup too but for $650 it probably won't match the performance of any current gen console. With PC though, you have so much more freedom, you can upgrade individual parts and you can multitask on it instead of only gaming.
i really appreciate the reply. The primary reason is for website building / editing but also needs to be able to play most games decently well. I have an Xbox that I use for my gaming so it's not really a huge thing
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Answer the questions here fully and properly, and we can put together a parts list for you.
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