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So with a second stimulus check (hopefully) on the way (probably not until October, at this rate) and being as I'm albatross'd with a 2008 HP Pavilion b013w with an AMD E1-1200+Radeon HD 7310 graphics, I'll be in the market for a sub-$1,200 prebuilt gaming PC.
So far that means a lower-end-of-the-line Lenovo Legion Tower 5i. I have a roommate, so his $300 kick-in for the monthly expenses will let me pull down a not-too-bad-to-start-with display and speakers. Already have keyboard and mouse.
What I'm going for, general guidelines wise, is a machine that's upgradeable; no more all-in-ones, basically. If I were going to shackle myself to a non-gaming-competent all-in-one again, I'd go back to using an iMac. Which is something I mean to do, anyway, but later. For now, there's about a decade worth of PC games I missed out on, having been a Mac user at the time, and I want to finally get my hands on 'em.
Just shit that's (now) older, like Elite Dangerous, GTA V, Fallout 4, that kind of fun doo-doo; maybe Borderlands 3, and of course classics like Postal 2, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2, and all the previous Borderlands and Fallout entries.
So, general hardware specs I'm looking for:
CPU: Intel Core i5, minimum, preferably at least 9th gen
Ram: Minimum of 8Gb DDR4. Just enough oomph, to start with, that the machine won't start fiddling its own dick just because I have a web browser and email client running at the same time, lol
Storage: SSD preferred, capacity of at least 512Gb.
GPU: Nvidia, GTX 1660 Ti minimum.
I don't really need / care about fancy shit like liquid cooling, RGB case lighting, or any of that.
As far as the $1,200 cap, that applies to the desktop itself. Display, speakers, those fall outside the cap.
So far that means a lower-end-of-the-line Lenovo Legion Tower 5i. I have a roommate, so his $300 kick-in for the monthly expenses will let me pull down a not-too-bad-to-start-with display and speakers. Already have keyboard and mouse.
What I'm going for, general guidelines wise, is a machine that's upgradeable; no more all-in-ones, basically. If I were going to shackle myself to a non-gaming-competent all-in-one again, I'd go back to using an iMac. Which is something I mean to do, anyway, but later. For now, there's about a decade worth of PC games I missed out on, having been a Mac user at the time, and I want to finally get my hands on 'em.
Just shit that's (now) older, like Elite Dangerous, GTA V, Fallout 4, that kind of fun doo-doo; maybe Borderlands 3, and of course classics like Postal 2, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2, and all the previous Borderlands and Fallout entries.
So, general hardware specs I'm looking for:
CPU: Intel Core i5, minimum, preferably at least 9th gen
Ram: Minimum of 8Gb DDR4. Just enough oomph, to start with, that the machine won't start fiddling its own dick just because I have a web browser and email client running at the same time, lol
Storage: SSD preferred, capacity of at least 512Gb.
GPU: Nvidia, GTX 1660 Ti minimum.
I don't really need / care about fancy shit like liquid cooling, RGB case lighting, or any of that.
As far as the $1,200 cap, that applies to the desktop itself. Display, speakers, those fall outside the cap.
