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How picky are you about graphics quality and what games do you intend to run?
I have a bit of a franken-PC I've cobbled together mostly from spare parts from my wife's upgrades to her own rig and some other bits I've gotten good deals on here and there. It's got an old AMD FX-6300 CPU, and a 2060 I snagged from a friend for cheap. And as of a few months ago I hopped from windows to mint.
And I'm happily running most of what's out there. It definitely struggles with newer AAA games, I'm not a graphics snob but I do sometimes need to turn down the graphics settings lower than I'd like, some games have atrociously long loading times, etc. and I'm sure there's a couple resource-hungry games I just straight-up wouldn't be able to run
But for my standards and the games I play, I find it to be a totally acceptable gaming rig.
So if I were in your shoes I'd totally go for it. It's not always about having the most optimized powerhouse rig, it's about playing games.
Thanks for the advice, yeah that's largely my thinking, in not trying to put together a top of the line powerhouse, I'm gonna go with dropping a 3060 in it for now and play what I can play.