Good Specs to Build a Gaming PC (asking for a friend)
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Just so happens that in the near future I also will be looking. However, I’m looking more at a laptop as I likely will be more mobile
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I'm a BIG fan of using AMD Ryzen procs for gaming over Intel. I switched recently and I'm so much happier.
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@scottalanmiller what's the difference between AMD and Intel??
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@Supreme_Overlord said in Good Specs to Build a Gaming PC (asking for a friend):
Memory (how much?)
I think 16GB is almost always what makes sense.
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@Supreme_Overlord said in Good Specs to Build a Gaming PC (asking for a friend):
@scottalanmiller what's the difference between AMD and Intel??
Price, performance, support
Biggest thing that I've seen is Intel bakes in a software GPU into their Core chips and it seems to cause no end of issues.
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@black3dynamite said in Good Specs to Build a Gaming PC (asking for a friend):
I'm more of a gaming console user. But when it comes to building a gaming computer, I was told to for a good motherboard first. But if I was going to build a gaming computer, I would whether just buy something like HP OMEN or ASUS ROG Desktop.
I got an amazing deal on a Dell gaming machine just before Christmas for like $620.
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@scottalanmiller ahhh okay that's good to know!
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@gjacobse said in Good Specs to Build a Gaming PC (asking for a friend):
Just so happens that in the near future I also will be looking. However, I’m looking more at a laptop as I likely will be more mobile
Asus RoG is hard to beat. But we have a customer using HP and what they got was really nice.
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@Supreme_Overlord said in Good Specs to Build a Gaming PC (asking for a friend):
Graphics Card
I switched from Nvidia to AMD recently. Overall, I'm liking the Radeon experience better. Fewer support issues. But Nvidia is excellent, as well.
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@Supreme_Overlord said in Good Specs to Build a Gaming PC (asking for a friend):
Storage (is it better to run a raid?)
Not really.
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@scottalanmiller okay, didn't know if that would help with being able to perform faster. What size SSD would be good then?
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@Supreme_Overlord said in Good Specs to Build a Gaming PC (asking for a friend):
@scottalanmiller okay, didn't know if that would help with being able to perform faster. What size SSD would be good then?
You can get a 1TB one cheap, then there will be plenty of storage for all the games.
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@RojoLoco sweet!
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@RojoLoco said in Good Specs to Build a Gaming PC (asking for a friend):
@Supreme_Overlord said in Good Specs to Build a Gaming PC (asking for a friend):
@scottalanmiller okay, didn't know if that would help with being able to perform faster. What size SSD would be good then?
You can get a 1TB one cheap, then there will be plenty of storage for all the games.
Not really, lol, I mean about the storage. I'm looking at my 1TB ssd and asking myself how the hell I managed to nearly fill it. . .
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@DustinB3403 said in Good Specs to Build a Gaming PC (asking for a friend):
@RojoLoco said in Good Specs to Build a Gaming PC (asking for a friend):
@Supreme_Overlord said in Good Specs to Build a Gaming PC (asking for a friend):
@scottalanmiller okay, didn't know if that would help with being able to perform faster. What size SSD would be good then?
You can get a 1TB one cheap, then there will be plenty of storage for all the games.
Not really, lol, I mean about the storage. I'm looking at my 1TB ssd and asking myself how the hell I managed to nearly fill it. . .
Full size Blu Ray rips? Too much pr0n?
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Do they have anything at all to reuse? Case, power supply, SSD? Because sometimes you can get significantly more powerful components when you can save a few hundred on stuff like that.
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@bnrstnr said in Good Specs to Build a Gaming PC (asking for a friend):
Do they have anything at all to reuse? Case, power supply, SSD? Because sometimes you can get significantly more powerful components when you can save a few hundred on stuff like that.
Who needs a computer case? Just pizza-box that sucker and move on.
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@Supreme_Overlord said in Good Specs to Build a Gaming PC (asking for a friend):
@scottalanmiller okay, didn't know if that would help with being able to perform faster. What size SSD would be good then?
Really depends on the gamer. My game library takes about 3TB.
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@DustinB3403 said in Good Specs to Build a Gaming PC (asking for a friend):
@RojoLoco said in Good Specs to Build a Gaming PC (asking for a friend):
@Supreme_Overlord said in Good Specs to Build a Gaming PC (asking for a friend):
@scottalanmiller okay, didn't know if that would help with being able to perform faster. What size SSD would be good then?
You can get a 1TB one cheap, then there will be plenty of storage for all the games.
Not really, lol, I mean about the storage. I'm looking at my 1TB ssd and asking myself how the hell I managed to nearly fill it. . .
Goes SO fast with games. When you get games that are 50GB each, it doesn't take many to use a lot of space really quickly.
