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Could I have help building a pc?

jonajohnson3

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I only play crappy games like TF2, GMOD, and maybe rust.
With the pc I have, if you want to call it that, has 4gb ram, .521gb vram. (https://shrib.com/#XD79XriCCqJ0.H10cv_-)
And I will crash once in 2 hours (Tf2)
I don't have that big of a budget, 400$. (Not including windows)
I don't want to ask others to do stuff for me but I have no clue how to make a good gaming pc.
I have a psu that's 750w and 2 2tb hard drives.
I won't want a ssd because there expensive.
 
Solution
Assuming we can reuse your PSU & HDD's. (I can't see the link you posted as I'm at work).

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 1200 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor ($107.77 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Patriot - Viper Elite 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($59.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB Video Card ($144.44 @ Amazon)
Case: Fractal Design - Focus G (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($44.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $417.18
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-10-30...
Assuming we can reuse your PSU & HDD's. (I can't see the link you posted as I'm at work).

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 1200 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor ($107.77 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Patriot - Viper Elite 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($59.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB Video Card ($144.44 @ Amazon)
Case: Fractal Design - Focus G (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($44.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $417.18
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-10-30 09:57 EDT-0400

You can go with a cheaper case if you need to lower the price. Also you can hold off on buying Win10 for now, just download the ISO and during installation skip the part where it asks you for a key (bottom of screen) and just activate later on when you have the money.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
 
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Depending on what PSU it is and how old it is, I would only advise reusing it if it's a decent unit. Otherwise I would buy new even on a budget. You can definitely reuse the HDs for sure.