Thinking of buying a new desktop, recomendations?

Hey

My laptop barly runs te game anymore, it's rly frustrating playing blurry and ticky all the time..

So i thought of buying a new PC - desktop, not laptop this time

What spec should i be looking for to run the game smoothly?

Tnx!

Bad time to buy a new machine. Windows 11 is coming out and it wont run on older hardware. Best wait until at least October.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

Bad time to buy a new machine. Windows 11 is coming out and it wont run on older hardware.

not gonna be like the free opgrade that was like win7 -> 10?

Not if your machine can't upgrade. Just something to think about. I have a pretty good rig that's about 3 years old. It wont be running 11. Don't know if that's a big deal or not until I see what 11 is going to do.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

Bad time to buy a new machine. Windows 11 is coming out and it wont run on older hardware. Best wait until at least October.

Not to mention scalpers and scalper prices on components, especially GPUs.

Don't see that going away until Crypto becomes unprofitable. Don't know if that's ever going to happen. Don't pay it. Wait for direct sales to become available.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

Don't see that going away until Crypto becomes unprofitable. Don't know if that's ever going to happen. Don't pay it. Wait for direct sales to become available.

Chip shortage is main issue right now but yeah crypto plays a part, and scalpers. There were articles last month about some teen in NJ that made a lot of money "reselling", which when you read further into it turned out to be scalping I think PS5's. I know scalpers were all over the RTX 30 series launch too.

Not a good time to buy a new computer.

Just buy pre built, there is a wait. but better if you dont know how to self build / dont want to chase down parts.

Dont overdo it, I tried to future proof with a RTX 2080 Ti 11GB when they were new, but I am still playing PC games like PoE or Witcher3 or Nioh2 that would run fine on 1/10th to 1/4 of of the power.

I would go with dependable premade brands rather than power or custom builds.

Very few games (VR mostly) need anything like the top hardware.

So if you arent a VR gamer, dont worry about it.

My machine was purchased in September 2019 and will run Windows 11 just fine. Almost anything you purchase today should be able to run Windows 11 as well.

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700 CPU @ 3.00GHz 3.00 GHz
16GB RAM
Windows 10 Pro 20H2
500GB SSD, 1TB HD (7200RRPM)
NVIDIA GeForce 2060 6GB VRAM