Got a new pc with a Ryzen R5 5600G processor - cheap as chips and excellent for desktop - integrated graphics are razor sharp and as fast as butchers dog - very impressed. All brand new parts, paid less than £200 which included the case, motherboard, psu, processor, 8gb ram memory and 250gb ssd.
That does sound like a good buy. I have 4 computers (here) in my mancave,,, most of which simply sit there looking sorry for themselves, as of course I only use one at a time. Trouble is, I get bored and buy 'upgrades' for them off Lazada or Shopee, which I have fun fitting, but never actually use. lol
I was considering a Ryzen version of one of these things below but in the end stuck to Intel, the Intel i5 is fast enough for me now. This one just arrived today, it's travelling with me next week, I have 3 of these already in the Phils, this one is going upstairs in my bedroom in order to stop my son moving computers around the house all the time. PC Lenovo ThinkCentre M720Q Micro Tiny i5-8400T 8th Gen 8GB RAM 256GB SSD, Windows 11 Pro. I'll upgrade the disk to 1TB maybe 2TB and the ram to 32GB. Cost £149.99 on eBay just over 10,000 PHP equivalent and almost mint. Also smaller than the length of my hand. The little red dot at the top left of this shot (above my amplifier) is another one of two of these I have in the UK, that one has 2TB of disk and 64GB of RAM. I've got 4 working laptops in the UK as well but I only really use 2 of them these days. I like my Lenovo computers I will need to try a Ryzen processor one day though.
I have 2 Lenovo Thinkcentres. Only i3s, running Win 10, but they were a bargain, and I've upgraded to 8 gigs of ram, put in SSDs, wifi cards, etc.
Hahaha.... guilty also, though not so much upgrades as stuff I just didn't need ! Must keep off those 'toy shops'.
my current laptop is an acer aspire 3. i hate it. If i type something--and the lower part of my hand slightly touches the keyboard--it jumbles up the words. i havent a tits clue about ryzens motherfuckerboards etc--best that way. lifes too short.
So like me buying on eBay. That's good to know, I've bought a few things from Lazada, I'm about to buy a Xiaomi G10 vacuum cleaner on Lazada once I arrive and I've bought some really good computer monitors on there this last few years. Are your ThinkCentres the full size or small form factor (SFF) ones or the Tinys like mine? They're great machines at any scale!
They are SFFs. Very well put together, and I particularly like the clever and simple way the cases open for access to the innards. I've so far only had good experiences with Xiaomi phones....having bought three of them in recent years...two via Lazada.
The Tiny's are equally as clever in the way they open up, again good to know! My neice who lives and works in China speaks highly of all Xiaomi equipment!
We have three old Lenovo T460 Thinkpad laptops in the house now and one more will arrive soon for my son. All laptops bought on eBay for around £150 or less. Useful to have power supplies that are interchangeable. Great reliable machines and the backlit keyboards are very useful We have four Xiaomi Redmi phones also.
They may be good for you the T460 uses an I5-6300, it's horses for courses with this sort of thing: I buy the R5 coz it's basically a cheap gaming option for the kids which I can upgrade a bit later if I have to... but it's also a wiz for the desktop
