How much should someone spend on building a gaming PC in your opinion?

How much should someone spend on building a gaming PC in your opinion?

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if you don't have at least 12 gigabytes of ram power you shouldn't be building a computer

If you are a casual gamer, then building a PC is a mistake.
Just get a console and play games there, and if you really wanna experience the advantages of PCs like modding or whatever games are exclusive, just buy a 400$ pre-built or a laptop

>ram power
lmao

At least 1200.

I’m thinking of spending some of the trumpbux on a laptop that can pay classic wow and emulators. What’s a good price point?

for a laptop i wouldnt go under 200, but not over 500
everything over 500 is a fucking heat box that will die out in 20 seconds

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At least $800, not including a monitor and peripherals

spend the same you would for a console nowadays, around 400 to 500 is fair enough to get into PC, the thing is though, you need some parts to be lying around to make it worth it, for instance, a monitor or TV
you can get a ryzen 5 2600 and a modest GTX 960 with around 8 gbs of ram. You should be able to get everything to run at the bare minimum (any new release that is) and test old games (a.k.a. pirate everything to experience)

>No 12 meg pipe

Never gonna make it

did amd fix their driver issues? if so get 5700 XT
i'd stretch for a 3700x too desu

At least post the full post, it's much funnier.

500 is enough? Realistically how good would a $500 laptop be? I barely play PC games outside of Warcraft 3 and WoW.

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they're about the same price if i want one that has decent cooling

You could probably run some decent games. Just go searching for a good laptop and get a look at its specs

My total was ~$1330 for all the pc parts, monitor, a desk, keyboard, mouse, mousepad.

For 1080@60fps planning to upgrade incrementally starting in 2 years or so.

Looking back this seems too good to be real.

5700 XT outperformed 2060 super by almost 5-10% though, unless you care about NVenc or something

max of 1500, this should last you like 5 years before spending another 1500

Is water cooling worth it bros

unless you really like the look of watercooling more not really

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I regret buying a 1070 instead of a 1080ti. It was more than enough, but then I got VR, and a 4K monitor, and found some new games that are particularly demanding...

Same with memory. I started with 16GB but that started to not cut it for a lot of things. So if I bought a new PC, I'd go a bit more all out. Probably 2K at least.

Maybe $500-600
there's nothing new coming out that would require better hardware that that and then you can enhance old games on emulator easily, too.

No. Either you get an AIO and you underperform compared to a similarly priced air cooler, or you get a custom loop and spend tons of money on diminishing returns. The only practical use case for water cooling is in a small form factor case that can fit a 140 mm rad but not a regular air cooler.

It is a terrible time right now to build a PC. The subsidised console hardware that comes out in November will provide an infinitely better power/price ratio than any homebrewed PC.

Screencap this. It's the facts, whether you like it or not.

It's always like that. You get to save money on games though. Even if you don't pirate Steam and GoG have much better prices and sales than consoles do, not to mention shady grey market stuff like G2A or something.

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Depends entirely on the target resolution and framerate.

I miss the days of $600