Budget friendly desktop recommendations

I know it’s a stretch when trying to get something better but also save money. We learned that upgrading our 17yr olds laptop last year for his coding class. But we were just upgrading one computer not 8. 

We’re a family of 7 plus we use a separate desktop as our server. We currently have HP and they work fine but the upgrade options are limited and there’s still a couple not running on full memory because you can’t find it. 

We LOVE to play Modded Minecraft, we run our own private server and play. 17yr old and 6yr old have discussed becoming content creators. Those two also play Roblox and Five Nights at Freddie’s. Plus other members of the house play World of Warcraft & Fortnite and some Steam games. 

We don’t have to go with the high intensity graphics because we usually turn them down in the game setting anyways (personally I can’t see HD or even 3D at the theater with the glasses, it’s a bummer). So We’re more focused on processing and memory. And it has to have Ethernet ports. We noticed a lot of new laptops don’t offer this. But our house is networked. And I’m sorry but things run better plugged in. 

Any recommendations? That aren’t $2,000 each LOL 

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  • You can get a Legion i5 with a newer 16gb intel processor and a 1660 nvidia card  between $550-$650 when Lenovo runs sales or flash deals and can upgrade the ram to 32gb if needed later. I have extremely bad experiences with HP. I have had 2 different HP laptops not last even a year each so I stopped buying their products over 10 years ago. I would look into either Lenovo or Dell.

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  • You can get a Legion i5 with a newer 16gb intel processor and a 1660 nvidia card  between $550-$650 when Lenovo runs sales or flash deals and can upgrade the ram to 32gb if needed later. I have extremely bad experiences with HP. I have had 2 different HP laptops not last even a year each so I stopped buying their products over 10 years ago. I would look into either Lenovo or Dell.

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