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The cheap way to build a decent pc is to build a mediocre pc from random old parts, and then very slowly upgrade it.
Yeah but every time I upgrade, it's mainboard, CPU and memory because it makes no sense to only replace one of it. And that's already 1/3 - 1/2 of the price
literally what I'm doing... sadly this comes at a cost, because the imbalance that a i5 7400 brings when combined with 24 gb ram and a good AMD gpu is a lot