Good Specs to Build a Gaming PC (asking for a friend)
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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.
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@black3dynamite yeah I usually stick with playing a console as well. I'll look into those though, so thank you
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Just so happens that in the near future I also will be looking. However, Iām 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, Iām 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.
