How is this build?

[Cole_9]

So here is the build I did pics are below. The Pentium is a G4400 cuz the kid I built this for was only going to be playing garry's mod and minecraft, so no gpu was added too keep to their budget of $350. There was no room in the budget for both an ssd and hdd so we went with the larger capacity hdd for now.

The kid is not me btw.

 

[Cole_9]

for some reason my pics wont post. here is the build
EVGA 430W 80+ white PSU
Intel Pentium G4400
Deepcool Gamermax 200T CPU cooler
WD Blue Hard Drive

 

[constantine_99]

for some reason my pics wont post. here is the build
EVGA 430W 80+ white PSU
Intel Pentium G4400
Deepcool Gamermax 200T CPU cooler
WD Blue Hard Drive

with integrated GPU, u can't crank the settings high / put some heavy mods on both of the games, but they should work just fine. if he kid is planning on modding the minecraft though (with texture mod especially), i suggest u do include a discrete graphic card

 

[VileAngle]

How much RAM are we talking here?

The definite bottleneck, assuming you have sufficient RAM, will be the iGPU. Although they've gotten a lot better over the years, they still won't compare to most dedicated GPUs.

However, since Minecraft is CPU-bound and I believe Garry's Mod is pretty light in general (I could be wrong, never played it!) you might be alright with the iGPU. Minecraft will actually probably be held back by the CPU.

It's a good build for light gaming and general use. If you could milk the budget a bit, and could get a G4560 instead, you'd get the 2 extra threads which would be nice.

 

[Cole_9]

for some reason my pics wont post. here is the build
EVGA 430W 80+ white PSU
Intel Pentium G4400
Deepcool Gamermax 200T CPU cooler
WD Blue Hard Drive

with integrated GPU, u can't crank the settings high / put some heavy mods on both of the games, but they should work just fine. if he kid is planning on modding the minecraft though (with texture mod especially), i suggest u do include a discrete graphic card

Yeah. He told me the next thing he is going to save up for is a new GPU. I told him that since he is planning on playing newer games in the future (We built the system based on what he needed right now) I would recommend either a 4 gb rx 560 or gtx 1050 TI.

 

[Cole_9]

How much RAM are we talking here?

The definite bottleneck, assuming you have sufficient RAM, will be the iGPU. Although they've gotten a lot better over the years, they still won't compare to most dedicated GPUs.

However, since Minecraft is CPU-bound and I believe Garry's Mod is pretty light in general (I could be wrong, never played it!) you might be alright with the iGPU. Minecraft will actually probably be held back by the CPU.

It's a good build for light gaming and general use. If you could milk the budget a bit, and could get a G4560 instead, you'd get the 2 extra threads which would be nice.

Well I got 8 gb crucial ddr4 memory running in dual chanell.

 

[constantine_99]

for some reason my pics wont post. here is the build
EVGA 430W 80+ white PSU
Intel Pentium G4400
Deepcool Gamermax 200T CPU cooler
WD Blue Hard Drive

with integrated GPU, u can't crank the settings high / put some heavy mods on both of the games, but they should work just fine. if he kid is planning on modding the minecraft though (with texture mod especially), i suggest u do include a discrete graphic card

Yeah. He told me the next thing he is going to save up for is a new GPU. I told him that since he is planning on playing newer games in the future (We built the system based on what he needed right now) I would recommend either a 4 gb rx 560 or gtx 1050 TI.

Better go with the GTX 1050ti, it's simply better
BTW, get the g4560 instead if u can, it supports hyperthreading which means it can rival i3, at almost half of the price...

 

[Cole_9]

for some reason my pics wont post. here is the build
EVGA 430W 80+ white PSU
Intel Pentium G4400
Deepcool Gamermax 200T CPU cooler
WD Blue Hard Drive

with integrated GPU, u can't crank the settings high / put some heavy mods on both of the games, but they should work just fine. if he kid is planning on modding the minecraft though (with texture mod especially), i suggest u do include a discrete graphic card

Yeah. He told me the next thing he is going to save up for is a new GPU. I told him that since he is planning on playing newer games in the future (We built the system based on what he needed right now) I would recommend either a 4 gb rx 560 or gtx 1050 TI.

Better go with the GTX 1050ti, it's simply better
BTW, get the g4560 instead if u can, it supports hyperthreading which means it can rival i3, at almost half of the price...

Yes I know what hyperthreading is. but we already built the thing. I'm just asking what you guys thought of it.Thanks anyways!

 

[constantine_99]

for some reason my pics wont post. here is the build
EVGA 430W 80+ white PSU
Intel Pentium G4400
Deepcool Gamermax 200T CPU cooler
WD Blue Hard Drive

with integrated GPU, u can't crank the settings high / put some heavy mods on both of the games, but they should work just fine. if he kid is planning on modding the minecraft though (with texture mod especially), i suggest u do include a discrete graphic card

Yeah. He told me the next thing he is going to save up for is a new GPU. I told him that since he is planning on playing newer games in the future (We built the system based on what he needed right now) I would recommend either a 4 gb rx 560 or gtx 1050 TI.

Better go with the GTX 1050ti, it's simply better
BTW, get the g4560 instead if u can, it supports hyperthreading which means it can rival i3, at almost half of the price...

Yes I know what hyperthreading is. but we already built the thing. I'm just asking what you guys thought of it.Thanks anyways!

sure, come back anytime if u need any more help
also please choose one of the answer as the best solution so the thread can be deemed solved

 

[Cole_9]

So due to all this cryptocurrency bs going on, the gtx 1050 ti was now to expensive for them, so we went with the next best option, being a Radeon RX 560 4gb GDDR5 GPU.