Thinking of buying a new desktop, recomendations?

It's fine buying a new computer today. If you want Windows 11 (which is a free upgrade later this year) you'll need TPM 2.0 and secure boot, which almost all motherboards from the last 2-3 years already have. Windows 10 will get support for another 5 ish years. GPUs are the only difficult to find component right now, but they're extremely plentiful in pre-builts (even 3080s) if you want to spend that much money. For once I'd say buy a prebuilt, but be ready to fork over more money. This is advice for USA also, not sure about other countries

HP has decent ones, I'd start there. Avoid Dell. Also if you live in California and a few other states you might be prevented from buying high-end prebuilts because of some kind of garbage energy savings law that makes no sense and has no basis in reality, but such is life

Heya op, you might want to post topics like this into the off-topic section of the forums.

Like this it will most likely get deleted or moved.

now is an absolutely *HORRIBLE* time to buy a PC.

component prices are through the roof, with no changes in sight until late 2022.
seriously consider purchasing used/refurb if your system is on its last legs, otherwise hold out until the chip shortages are over.

to give you an idea how bad things are, im typically who my friends come to, to build PCs for them.

a year and a half ago i built my brother a machine without a video card (he reused a 1080 that was still fine) total price was apprix ~$1100 for a decent i7 10th gen K series processor, and appropriate Z series chipsets, etc.

roughly the *same* machine last month for another friend, same motherboard maker, just one model newer, same ram/case/power/coolers/etc and the price for the same stuff was ~$1700, and a CRAPPY 1660 REFURB video card was over $420. this is the same card i was looking at two years ago at ~$250, NEW.


if you can wait, wait!

For CPU I would strongly reccomend a AMD 3600 or 5600x (depending on your budget). There are stronger processors around, but price/performance wise, I think those two are the best. I got a 3600 myself and I'm very satisfied with it.

Then I would reccomend to buy a nvme SSD (128gb or more if your budget allows that) so that you can install the OS the game on it. This will give you a huge boost in boot time as well as ingame loading tmes. As "datagrave" (pictures, music and stuff) add a HDD, since they are way cheaper and the access times doesn't really matter here.

Now to the Elefant Terible, GPU: Here you got a really bad timing. Especially they are gone trough the roof pricewise. My personal reccomendation here would be getting something "cheaper" and maybe play only on medium settings for now, and then upgrade to a more potent GPU once the prices lower again. I got a AMD RX 580 and as long as I don't set everything on max, the game runs fine.

If you want to buy a new one right now, do yourself as well as the others here a big favour and don't buy at the scalpers with their arbitage prices. Every card bought from them by inpatient persons encourages them, to continue and keep the prices high.

true the 3600 was a price/performance killer

TBH, readring your replies made me wonder..

This is my spec:
Device name LAPTOP-SU26JNS2
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz 2.81 GHz
Installed RAM 12.0 GB (11.9 GB usable)
Device ID F82C7E8A-BE69-41C4-BB56-CE20E4E2B188
Product ID 00325-96170-18750-AAOEM
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Pen and touch No pen or touch input is available for this display

NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1050 with 10GB Ram

Should that be sufficient to run the game smoothly..?

a gtx with 10gb ram? jesus thats overkill of ram for that gpu

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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.

This is a stupid advice here.

Windows 11 is coming and it wont support older hardware (older means 5+ years old hardware.).

If you buy any AMD Ryzen Series you will be fine and of the new Intel series you will be fine.

Any of the 20 or 30 series GPUs you will be fine.


Go ahead and buy what you need.

Building your own is actually priced completely out of relevance if you want a GPU with at least a RTX 3080 or better.

I just bought an alienware R10 with a Ryzen 7 + 3080 in it. Because I couldn't build a PC with those specs for that price, and I even got a decent warranty on the rig as well.

Used to be, I get the same parts or better than Alienware for $500-$1000 cheaper by building my own. Thanks to GPU prices, the Alienware is now cheaper.

Used to be, $1000 in the hardware excluding the GPU. And then put $500-$700 in the GPU and you had something solid for around $1500-$1700, excluding the OS. That's what I'd be able to build a RTX 3080 rig for, if I could buy them at $700 MSRP. That's still enough budget for a good case, good CPU cooler, and 1TB NVMe SSD drive, and 32GBs of ram. You could go budget CPU, air cooling, 16GBs of ram, 500GB SSD + 1TB 7200RPM drive, budget case, and knock the price down further, spend $800 vs $1000 on non-GPU parts.

Fuck gaming. You can buy a YZ250 and have much more fum. I rarely play video games. only if I bored like now on a Sunday night after everyone asleep and things are closed.

Hey if you ever grow into living life instead of vicarious pursuits then fishing is fun too but thats like a boat which gets 2-5 MPG. a dirtbike gets 60.