What is the best value, out of the box PC gaming solution?
What is the best value, out of the box PC gaming solution?
I have a Steam Deck that is connected to my TV 90% of the time. I'd like to replace this with a PC that has maybe slightly higher specs than the Steam Deck. Are there any pre-built solutions that are really affordable?
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Imo your best bet is to see if you can find someone else's used gaming computer.
Roughly ~400$ gets you pretty far for hardware 3-5 years old
The energy efficiency will be much worse, so depending on how much you use it you may want to account for that and get slightly newer.
In my personal experience look start in amd's Am4 platform, as it's quite upgradable up to a 5800x3d.
But to start something like a 2700x or 3700x are solid cpus.
Equivalent Intel cpus are an option too.
As for gpus look for 1000s series nvidia 1070-1080 and onwards. Less than might be too weak.
Similar for amd. Vega 56/64, 5700xt etc.
Huh the 1080ti came out 7 years ago, so I was a bit off.