Going PC (and Nintendo) now, help?
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- September 17, 2020 at 10:44 pm #190675
I’ve been saying for a while online that the majority of the non-Nintendo gaming is gonna be on PC in the future. I’m currently using an old gaming rig that was lent to me by a friend, until I get one of my own.
I already have a Steam account, same name as in these forums if you wanna add me though I haven’t used it a lot lately *coughanimalcrossingcough*.
What I really need help with is finding a decent gaming PC for myself. I’m not worried about having the latest super high end graphics card, or having an expensive 1TB SSD (though it would be nice). And no, I’m not good at putting one together, I’ve had too many bad experiences installing hardware except more memory. Just a decent rig that can still run the latest games, and I’m not worried if it’s not at 4K or 1080p.
So yeah, just asking finding one and some recommendations. I’m guess what I’m looking for is one of those entry level gaming PCs. I’m not that up to date with my gaming PC knowledge, yet.
October 6, 2020 at 1:10 am #193626First of all, you should absolutely get an SSD.
Everything else is just way too slow and you WILL get a terrible experience from it if you plan on playing anything newer than 2010…You can somewhat cheap out on CPUs (mine is 5+ years old and still doing fine), you can somewhat cheap out on GPUs – both is fine since you aren’t worried about 4K.
1080p should be your go-to standard as it simply is THE standard that all games are optimized for (with over 60% of people using 1080p).But don’t cheap out on SSD. Nobody should get a new drive nowadays and make it an HDD. There is no reason for it, SSDs are reasonably priced nowadays.
One thing I’d recommend is to make sure the motherboard is somewhat recent and allows upgrading to newer CPUs & GPUs once you want to that in a few years.
I just had that problem where I upgraded my GPU, but in order to do so also had to upgrade the motherboard and ugh… that was an “adventure”.
So, yeah, make sure your motherboard could still support the latest GPU/CPU at the time of purchase, even if you don’t plan on buying those latest ones right away.October 7, 2020 at 6:35 am #193872A few months ago my PC died and after some investigation and with a limited budget i got.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 3600
RAM: 32GB DDR4 G.Skill (2x16GB) 3600Mhz Ripjaws, Running at 3000Mhz.
Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix B550-E Gaming.
SSD: Seagate FireCuda 520 1TB M.2 PCIe NVMe.
The SSD I’m very happy with, i chose this one because it wasn’t too expensive and the tests showed it maintained it’s speeds unlike cheaper SSD’s that slow down after initial peeks, there are better SSD’s if you have the money like the Samsungs I’ve heard.
My old graphics are 2 AMD RX 480, not the best cards but i can do 4k in some games but i tend to drop to 1440 or 1080 for more stable FPS.
I’m looking into the next series of Nvidia graphics but the price in Australia is just too much, $1400 for a RTX 3080…i don’t think so.
If you can wait the next series of AMD CPU’s are on the way and could be worth waiting for.
November 9, 2020 at 6:02 pm #197971A Ryzen 5 CPU and anything in the GTX 1060-1660 or RTX 2060 range is a good bet to shoot for. A 3070 if you really want to splurge. Also, I can’t personally vouch for them, but checking out the benchmarks on the new Radeon cards would be worthwhile as well.
I’d recommend getting an NVMe SSD as your main OS/game drive and maybe an additonal HDD for storing data/videos (and if you’re not planning on using it for anything but gaming, stick to SSDs, be they NVMe or SATA)
16gb of RAM is fine, but 32 would be better for future proofing.
Facebook marketplace is a decent place to find cheap components, as when someone upgrades, they will often want to ditch their old parts.
November 9, 2020 at 7:09 pm #198003Building a PC is easy peasy, as my 8 year old daughter would say, and there are so many Youtube videos now that’s the route I wold go. And I’d bet tons of people of here now and in the future would help you, also, you will be glad you did because you’ll learn how to fix things yourself!
I have plenty more to say on this, just can’t expand at the moment, but I’ll be back later.
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