I would avoid building a PC right now, but if you can't, here's our best advice.

I would avoid building a PC right now, but if you can’t, here’s our best advice.

  • Lfrith ( Lfrith@lemmy.ca ) English
    15·
    9 months ago

    I lucked out deciding to get another 16 gigs of ddr4 ram to make it 32 gigs few years ago. And upgraded my am4 board to the x3d chip. AM4 been the best mobo experience I had because of the continued release of CPU generations for it compared to previous mobos.

    • Domi ( domi@lemmy.secnd.me ) English
      3·
      9 months ago

      I did the same thing.

      With how things are going that 5800X3D, a used high end workstation mainboard and some DDR4 RAM are going to carry me for a very long time.

      I’m GPU bottlenecked in 99% of cases anyway.

  • addie ( addie@feddit.uk ) English
    9·
    9 months ago

    I had 32GB of RAM in my desktop as 4x8GB; one of the sticks failed a couple of years ago, and it was cheaper to replace it with 64GB = 4x16GB than it was to get a replacement 8GB.

    That’s convenient for work purposes (in fact, I could actually do with more) but massive pointless overkill for most games. Even games which do “big loads” - Witcher 3, say - aren’t noticeably quicker from RAM cache than they are off of an NVMe drive.

  • sem ( sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ) English
    3·
    9 months ago

    Whether you’re comfortable with these no-name mini PCs is something you’ll have to decide for yourself, but that’s a fully functional PC with 32GB of DDR5, a 1TB SSD, a workable integrated GPU, and a Windows license for $500. You’d spend nearly $500 just to buy the RAM kit and the SSD with today’s component prices; for basic 1080p gaming you could do a lot worse.

    Interesting… I wonder if they’re reliable.