Hi! I'm from Indonesia and I am currently considering to build a PC for, as the title says, mostly emulation purposes. I'm not planning to emulate harder to emulate systems like the PS3 (at least not anytime soon), I mostly just play PS2 games and lower specced systems. Other than that I also would like a system that can emulate Android fairly well as I do play mobile games more. The games I play are Arknights, Punishing Gray Raven and League of Legends: Wild Rift. I do play Genshin Impact as well but it has a PC client so no need to emulate for that game. Other than that I do play some PC gaming on the side, mostly indie titles but I'd love to be able to play Apex Legends as well. All of these won't be played at 1080p resolution as my monitor isn't FHD, 900p would be ideal but I personally am comfortable with 720p as long as it's running at 60fps.
Anyway here's what I plan to build:
APU: Ryzen 3 3200g for around 150 usd
RAM: 2x8gb 3200mhz for around 100 usd
Motherboard: B450
Went with the APU route because the GPU market in Indonesia is abysmal (1050 ti goes for at least 230 usd here, it's nuts). I also can't just go ahead and buy a used card simply because I have trust issues.
Alternatively I could go the intel route with:
CPU: i3 10100f for around 95 usd (I picked this with upgradability in mind. I could probably go for an older gen i5 for better performance but I'd be stuck with it)
RAM: 2x8gb 2666mhz for around 80 usd
Motherboard: B460
GPU: A humble GT 1030 2GB GDDR 5 for around 95 usd
I could go with a 750 Ti but I opted not to since I heard that nvidia won't be supporting the 700 series cards anymore. The pricing for 1030s isn't ideal but it's far more reasonable than any other options imo.
Which should I go with? Any advice is highly appreciated. TIA!
Anyway here's what I plan to build:
APU: Ryzen 3 3200g for around 150 usd
RAM: 2x8gb 3200mhz for around 100 usd
Motherboard: B450
Went with the APU route because the GPU market in Indonesia is abysmal (1050 ti goes for at least 230 usd here, it's nuts). I also can't just go ahead and buy a used card simply because I have trust issues.
Alternatively I could go the intel route with:
CPU: i3 10100f for around 95 usd (I picked this with upgradability in mind. I could probably go for an older gen i5 for better performance but I'd be stuck with it)
RAM: 2x8gb 2666mhz for around 80 usd
Motherboard: B460
GPU: A humble GT 1030 2GB GDDR 5 for around 95 usd
I could go with a 750 Ti but I opted not to since I heard that nvidia won't be supporting the 700 series cards anymore. The pricing for 1030s isn't ideal but it's far more reasonable than any other options imo.
Which should I go with? Any advice is highly appreciated. TIA!
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