Thoughts on the Dell Inspiron 3650 as a *LITE* gaming pc.

I'd say build your own.
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/k6vb3F
This build would offer much better performance, has an ssd that offers MUCH faster boot times as well as load times, has a quality psu for future upgrades, AM4 platform will be supported until at least 2020, case has enough room for another 2.5"/3.5" drive, b350 platform allows for overclocking, and the gtx 1050 ti from evga has a 90 day step up program to any higher tier gpu for the cost difference aswell as 2x+ the performance of the r9 360.

10-09-2017, 04:31 AM

TheMrDynamite Wrote: While it is good enough for what you need it to run, if you want to run anything else a year down the line it's not a good idea. Go prebuilt. Grab an i7 and 1050 ti if you have the money. If you need something more budget I can recommend the FX 6300 processor and a GTX 1050 TI GPU. Prebuilts are almost always bad and my Inspiron started to crap out year 1.

The FX series is pure trash there is absolutely no reason to buy it at this point when AM4 CPUs such as the athlon x4 950 exist for $60.
An i7, and a gtx 1050 ti isidiotic to begin with since you'll have a massive gpu bottleneck why spend $150 on your gpu, and 2x as much on your cpu.
Your gpu should always cost more than your cpu since it's the most important thing for performance.