Building a budget personal PC, but want to help F@H?
Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2017 4:47 am
Hello everyone
With starting grad school soon I have realized that my 7+ year old laptop rapidly seeing more issues, it's time to build a personal PC. I basically will use it for very light gaming (as I do all my gaming on PS4) and writing papers/research/etc. I have cleaned out an area to use as my study area so I can now have a desktop again (first time in over 9 years, I still have my old desktop someplace).
Cousin of mine has a desktop with a Intel i5 3330 chip in it, 8GB DDR3 RAM, and a crappy GPU. I was considering getting a GTX 1050 as it would meet my gaming requirements (mainly World of Tanks which I used to run on just a lowly 8600GT).
I figured why not do something good with my idle time and possibly even earn a few bucks while doing so? Looks like, mining CureCoin + FLDC, it would be around $1.8/day or $0.20/day by itself (pays for the electricity at least). The money is honestly just a plus.
Does this sound feasible using the CPU listed above?
With starting grad school soon I have realized that my 7+ year old laptop rapidly seeing more issues, it's time to build a personal PC. I basically will use it for very light gaming (as I do all my gaming on PS4) and writing papers/research/etc. I have cleaned out an area to use as my study area so I can now have a desktop again (first time in over 9 years, I still have my old desktop someplace).
Cousin of mine has a desktop with a Intel i5 3330 chip in it, 8GB DDR3 RAM, and a crappy GPU. I was considering getting a GTX 1050 as it would meet my gaming requirements (mainly World of Tanks which I used to run on just a lowly 8600GT).
I figured why not do something good with my idle time and possibly even earn a few bucks while doing so? Looks like, mining CureCoin + FLDC, it would be around $1.8/day or $0.20/day by itself (pays for the electricity at least). The money is honestly just a plus.
Does this sound feasible using the CPU listed above?