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valhalla130
13 Dark Shield Perceives the GodsRegistered User regular
13 Dark Shield Perceives the GodsRegistered User regular
I was looking at getting this..
Last time I purchased a desktop was in 2007, from Best Buy and it has held up pretty well, except for not being able to game for the last 6 years or so.
I was thinking about building one out (a friend was helping me right when the pandemic hit) but the rising price of processors stopped that. Would this be a decent machine if I want to game?
Last time I purchased a desktop was in 2007, from Best Buy and it has held up pretty well, except for not being able to game for the last 6 years or so.
I was thinking about building one out (a friend was helping me right when the pandemic hit) but the rising price of processors stopped that. Would this be a decent machine if I want to game?
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More ram and a bigger SSD are easy cheap and big improvements.
That said. I would make sure anything is a 1 tb m.2 ssd system drive and might as well have 32 gugs of 3200 ram.
Gaming cam be anything from competitive 144hz fps shooter at 4k to Civ 6. What are you aiming for and is this / what is your budget?
This is probably the top end of my budget.
And probably more Civ 6, but with the occasional foray into something a little more stressful. I would like to see what some of these games are supposed to look like that I can't play right now.
Honestly, most ahooters I will still play on my XBox. Heresy, I know.
. . .it seems you aren't at all interested in building your own rig? If you were to invest in some refresher videos you could build yourself a mighty fine strategy gaming machine for the above cost. I would click around Newegg (and Tiger Direct) to see how far your dollar is supposed to go in regards to PC components.
As for the price, well, it comes with a graphics card so presumably that's worth a lot vs. not being able to find one right now if you're building your own system.
https://kinjadeals.theinventory.com/buy-a-whole-pc-with-an-rtx-3070-built-in-for-around-the-1846286448?ks=nativestream
I would get this for the 3070 alone.
. . .of course what you're gaming at @valhalla130 matters: if you're doing 1080P you should be fine (and a 3070 might be overkill for Civ 6); if you want to bump things up eventually it would be nice to "future proof" with a 3070 rig.
ie you have nothing to play on currently, and even then I’d still search pretty hard for a prebuilt with a 30xx prior.
There are plenty of prebuilts that will include large SSDs, but HP is not one of those manufacturers.
That link does not appear to work. HP lists their 25L as sold out and the 30L as on back order. And that was after searching their site.
Edit: It was probably too good of a deal.