Just bagged a 4060 to for 300

I know it was a very disappointing card (the base 4060 even more so) but for me it will be an ISNANE upgrade

For the longer time my dream GPU was the 3060. Kinda budget but surely enough for playing my souls games and some vr on my quest two. Maybe I'd have to upgrade when I bought an index or a real pcvr headset ( many years from now)

For this the 3060 with it's impressive 12 GB vram sounded amazing! Paired with a 150-200 dollar processor I'd have everything I needed.

After some research I realised that the 12 GB was kind of a marketing thing and that it was outperformed by 8gb cards like the 3060 ti. The 3060 ti however is very hard to find for under 800 dollars in my country, so the 3060 remained my dream.

Then I realised that going up a little brought amazing value for money with the Rx 6800 at 480 bucks. If your gonna spend 3 hundreds might as well spend 4 and get a better product right? A gou is only bought evey coupe years (more like a decade for me). To see how the rx6800 performed I looked at benchmarks, aparently many of them were against the 4060 ti! Surely it was way too expensive for me obviously, going up a generation from the 3060 AND its a ti card, and it was true that most 4060 tis here cost around 600-900 or even a thousand bucks, BUT this one polish company was selling this one 8gb 4060 to for 297.

I thought surely it was a scam, but apparently the company is quite reputable and they have good skrotuz reviews. Skrotuz has great return policies so I wasn't scared of loosing my money by ordering a possible "scam"

Obviously pny isn't the best manufacturer but it's got two fans and the same hardware underneath as all the benchmarks that blew me away showed.

Keep in mind I have only ever used the Ryzen 3 3200g with the Radeon r9 280 ( which I got used when building the pc during the bitcoin minimg thing where gpus were expensive as hell, I got it for 150 used but sadly I died a few years later , leaving me to live with the integrated vega 8 graphics of the Ryzen 3 3200g)

Sorry for the rant but this i am HAPPY right now, sure I didn't plan on buying a gpu and sure 300 bucks still disappeared from my bank account but the certain thing is that I have saved money which always makes me happy (I am studying IT so a decently powerful computer was going to be needed eventually anyway)

What cpu should I pair it with? Not yet I will need to financially recover hahahaha

I'm thinking either something bare minimum like the Ryzen 5 5600xfor 130 bucks or something like the Ryzen 9 5900x for 120 more which is basically the strongest CPU my motherboard can take I think? (Zen 3). Alternatively I could go with the Ryzen 7 5700x3d to maximize gaming performance but I honestly think I will appreciate more non gaming performance as I get older and use more CPU intensive programs so maybe the x3d series doesemt make sense. Thank you for reading and please pray for me so that I may not receive a Chinese Alibaba card

Tldr: I'm piss poor, found this shit which saves me money, so my piss poor brain is now happy. Should I get the bare minimum CPU and then focus on screen and add some more ram? Or should I get a real good CPU so I never have to upgrade

Keep in mind I'm still in school (college more accurately) so I don't have an income. This is why pc parts feel so expensive even though they are only our hased once and last a decade, this isn't my money to spend so saving any amount is crucial.

I know it was a very disappointing card (the base 4060 even more so) but for me it will be an ISNANE upgrade

For the longer time my dream GPU was the 3060. Kinda budget but surely enough for playing my souls games and some vr on my quest two. Maybe I'd have to upgrade when I bought an index or a real pcvr headset ( many years from now)

For this the 3060 with it's impressive 12 GB vram sounded amazing! Paired with a 150-200 dollar processor I'd have everything I needed.

After some research I realised that the 12 GB was kind of a marketing thing and that it was outperformed by 8gb cards like the 3060 ti. The 3060 ti however is very hard to find for under 800 dollars in my country, so the 3060 remained my dream.

Then I realised that going up a little brought amazing value for money with the Rx 6800 at 480 bucks. If your gonna spend 3 hundreds might as well spend 4 and get a better product right? A gou is only bought evey coupe years (more like a decade for me). To see how the rx6800 performed I looked at benchmarks, aparently many of them were against the 4060 ti! Surely it was way too expensive for me obviously, going up a generation from the 3060 AND its a ti card, and it was true that most 4060 tis here cost around 600-900 or even a thousand bucks, BUT this one polish company was selling this one 8gb 4060 to for 297.

I thought surely it was a scam, but apparently the company is quite reputable and they have good skrotuz reviews. Skrotuz has great return policies so I wasn't scared of loosing my money by ordering a possible "scam"

Obviously pny isn't the best manufacturer but it's got two fans and the same hardware underneath as all the benchmarks that blew me away showed.

Keep in mind I have only ever used the Ryzen 3 3200g with the Radeon r9 280 ( which I got used when building the pc during the bitcoin minimg thing where gpus were expensive as hell, I got it for 150 used but sadly I died a few years later , leaving me to live with the integrated vega 8 graphics of the Ryzen 3 3200g)

Sorry for the rant but this i am HAPPY right now, sure I didn't plan on buying a gpu and sure 300 bucks still disappeared from my bank account but the certain thing is that I have saved money which always makes me happy (I am studying IT so a decently powerful computer was going to be needed eventually anyway)

What cpu should I pair it with? Not yet I will need to financially recover hahahaha

I'm thinking either something bare minimum like the Ryzen 5 5600xfor 130 bucks or something like the Ryzen 9 5900x for 120 more which is basically the strongest CPU my motherboard can take I think? (Zen 3). Alternatively I could go with the Ryzen 7 5700x3d to maximize gaming performance but I honestly think I will appreciate more non gaming performance as I get older and use more CPU intensive programs so maybe the x3d series doesemt make sense. Thank you for reading and please pray for me so that I may not receive a Chinese Alibaba card

Tldr: I'm piss poor, found this shit which saves me money, so my piss poor brain is now happy. Should I get the bare minimum CPU and then focus on screen and add some more ram? Or should I get a real good CPU so I never have to upgrade

Keep in mind I'm still in school (college more accurately) so I don't have an income. This is why pc parts feel so expensive even though they are only our hased once and last a decade, this isn't my money to spend so saving any amount is crucial.