I'm not very experienced with PCs but I'm looking to get into gaming, especially CS2. I found a freshly built gaming PC on Facebook Marketplace and I'm curious if the price makes sense. Here are the details: it has a Ryzen 5 2600 CPU, an RTX 2060 GPU, 16GB of DDR4 3200MHz RAM, a 1TB NVMe SSD, and a 750W NZXT PSU in an NZXT H510 case. It has been benchmarked and is ready to use with Windows 11. The seller is asking $700 CAD firm. What do you all think? Is this a good deal?
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I have a similar setup, and honestly, this price would’ve been fair maybe three years ago. Honestly, I wouldn't pay more than $400-$500 for it.
Thanks for the quick replies, everyone! I think I'll just do a bit more research and consider building my own PC instead!
For a used setup, this seems pretty high. Given the current GPU prices, if you were to part it out, you might end up with a better deal. I feel like you could get a better system in 2025 with something like an R7 2700 and more RAM.
Honestly, I don't think this is a good deal at all. The Ryzen 5 2600 and RTX 2060 are pretty outdated components. It feels more like they're trying to inflate the price just because it looks nice, with RGB and all that. You could get better performance for the money if you look around.
This is a dated PC, and while you might hit around 140 FPS on CS2 with everything on low, that's not stellar. Also, there's no way it's getting 70 FPS on Cyberpunk 2077 in Ultra settings without using DLSS or similar, which would look pretty bad at 1080p.
If you check the right places and are willing to invest an extra $100 or $200, you can definitely score a much better setup.