Can You Build a Gaming and Coding PC With a €1,300 Budget?
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MellowCedar42
I'm looking to build a PC in Italy with a total budget of €1,300. I'll mainly use it for coding and gaming, including Minecraft with shaders and modpacks plus story-driven games at medium-to-high settings. The budget also needs to cover a monitor, keyboard, and mouse. I'd like a motherboard with built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and ideally a monitor with up to 1440p resolution and up to 180 Hz refresh rate. What kind of build would be realistic for this budget?
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The monitor, keyboard, and mouse take a significant part of the budget. Once those are included, there probably won’t be enough left for a graphics card that can make good use of 1440p at anything close to 180 FPS. A more realistic option would be a 1080p high-refresh monitor, or keeping 1440p while accepting lower refresh rates and more modest settings. If you can increase the budget or reuse some peripherals, a stronger PC becomes much more practical.
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A parts list was suggested as a starting point for the build. It uses a motherboard with wireless connectivity and targets the requested gaming and coding use cases, but the exact value depends heavily on current Italian pricing. Checking alternative retailers may also make it possible to replace the listed DDR4 memory with a 32 GB DDR5 kit at a similar price.
MellowCedar42: I found a 2×16 GB DDR5 kit for roughly the same price, so I’ll compare that option with the suggested parts list.
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MellowCedar42: That makes sense. I had seen a similar-looking setup on Amazon for around the same price, including a 1440p 180 Hz monitor, so I wasn’t sure what performance or component compromises were involved.