[Gust Hubb]

Aptorian, on 08 September 2020 - 02:42 PM, said:

Been trying to figure out optimal pc builds I could build myself and I've come to the conclusion that it's honestly easier to just buy a PC I pick the pieces for and get it built for me instead. The amount of potential bullshit issues I was reading about was more than I care to deal with, just to save 500 USD.

With an AMD 3900x CPU and a RTX 3080 GPU and various other high end goodies I'll end up somewhere around 3500 USD, assembled, ready to use and with a 3 year warranty. Which is more or less what I was looking to spend.

Where do you go to get this done? Is there a particular supplier?

[Gust Hubb]

I am currently looking at this: https://www.amazon.c...uage=en_US&th=1 . But I really don't know the lingo, and getting the computer would be my way of making a foray into the gaming sphere. I mostly have enjoyed games like Skyrim, Minecraft, and Terraria in the past (and I miss Half-life), but I am looking to expand my horizons and want to make sure my computer won't hold me back like my current macbook.

[Mentalist]

Gust Hubb, on 11 September 2020 - 03:39 AM, said:

I am currently looking at this: https://www.amazon.c...uage=en_US&th=1 . But I really don't know the lingo, and getting the computer would be my way of making a foray into the gaming sphere. I mostly have enjoyed games like Skyrim, Minecraft, and Terraria in the past (and I miss Half-life), but I am looking to expand my horizons and want to make sure my computer won't hold me back like my current macbook.

it's a mid-range rig, comparable to what I'm currently on (except I have a more powerful CPU- Ryzen 7, which is the next one after the one included here)

It'll be fine for 1080p gaming now, and for cross-gen games; but by the time actual next gen games roll around in 2 years or so, you'd want something beefier, both CPU and GPU.

-And you'd probably need an NVME SSD drive--plus something on top of the 500GB SATA that comes with it, since that's gonna get filled up real fast if you also have your OS running off of it.

-Also 8 GB of RAM is probably not gonna be enough in the future.

so yeah, all in all, this is definitely not a "future-proof" setup.

[Aptorian]

Gust Hubb, on 11 September 2020 - 03:20 AM, said:

Aptorian, on 08 September 2020 - 02:42 PM, said:

Been trying to figure out optimal pc builds I could build myself and I've come to the conclusion that it's honestly easier to just buy a PC I pick the pieces for and get it built for me instead. The amount of potential bullshit issues I was reading about was more than I care to deal with, just to save 500 USD.

With an AMD 3900x CPU and a RTX 3080 GPU and various other high end goodies I'll end up somewhere around 3500 USD, assembled, ready to use and with a 3 year warranty. Which is more or less what I was looking to spend.

Where do you go to get this done? Is there a particular supplier?

This is in Denmark so it wouldn't help you to look up Danish builders but basically, if you google "build a pc" there should be plenty of small (and very large) businesses that specialize in giving the buyer a list of price ranges and letting you pick which parts you want, based on price and performance. The good ones I've found have a program that adds up the cost and which parts are best combined with other parts.

When you've generated that list/build you can then compare the prices they offer with prices you can find on places like pc partpicker.

The builder I found this week charges about 10-50 USD more per part than it would cost to buy the pieces myself. And then charges something like 70 USD to assemble the machine, get everything installed properly and offer a 3 year warranty.

[Mentalist]

GH, look at PC Part Picker for comparative prices.

[Gust Hubb]

Thanks both. Where in the US should I look for a builder? It sounds like i should just get a custom job since I will need to run Microsoft OS on the machine for work.

[Mentalist]

Gust Hubb, on 11 September 2020 - 02:18 PM, said:

Thanks both. Where in the US should I look for a builder? It sounds like i should just get a custom job since I will need to run Microsoft OS on the machine for work.

I typed "build custom gaming PC" into Google and got a bunch of hits. Depending on your location, you can probably find places that do assembly close by.

-pretty much everything that's storebought comes with Windows 10 pre-installed these days. Also important to note, most PCs and laptops these days no longer include DVD drives- if you're getting a custom-made rig and it doesn't come with pre-installed OS, you'll need to either buy one on a USB flash drive, or (if you go the disk route), make sure your PC has a disk drive.

I upgraded to Win 10 in December, and I had to hunt down a Win 10 DVD first, because I didn't want a license that's just gonna be tied to a single machine. Thankfully, I built my PC back in 2011, when DVD drives were still ubiquitous.