As mentioned in a previous post, I am a gamer in a household of gamers. I have recently been enjoying Steam games, a bit of Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor to be specific (Ghost Ship Publishing have some quality games with solid game-play). With that said, I started thinking about trying to build a new machine a little bit more capable (and portable) than some of my other Batocera systems.'
I have a Polycade v1 and an Acemagician ARM5 running Batocera. They're both solid for arcade and retro, however the Acemagician struggles with some of the modern games on Steam...thus my trip down pc-builder lane.
The following is a custom build, with no graphics card, the AMD chip will work well and keep costs down. A GPU can be added, if desired, at any point. This build comes in at under $800.
| Component | Detail | Price | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPU | Not Required | $ - | - |
| PSU | Seasonic Focus GM-550, 550W 80+ | $109.99 | Amazon |
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D | $247.00 | Amazon |
| SSD | Western Digital WD_BLACK 2TB SN770 NVMe Internal Gaming SSD Solid State Drive Gen4 PCIe M.2 2280 | $131.61 | Amazon |
| Motherboard + Case Combo | Thermaltake Tower 100 +GIGABYTE A520I AC mITX AM4 | $209.99 | Amazon |
| RAM | G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series (Intel XMP) DDR4 RAM 32GB (2x16GB) 3600MT/s CL16-19-19-39 | $79.99 | Amazon |
Note: There are referral links, and the case comes in an awesome turquoise.
