Either one will work great, but the $1200 rig is where I would recommend if you can swing it. It’s the best bang for your buck, and will stay a solid gaming rig for 4-5 years, longer if you like indies:
will stay a solid gaming rig for 4-5 years, longer if you like indies
Indies are often worse because they don’t have the time to spend on optimization. Especially those made to be first-person 3D.
Sticking to 2D/light-3D games, older games (try [email protected] or [email protected] ) and games made PC first (not console first) are my tips as someone with a not-quite-gaming laptop. The last one is the hardest, but as someone who optimized games for consoles for years I can tell you optimization for PC was always the last thing on our minds: get it to run, and raise the required specs.
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What would you recommend for a 700 setup? Just processor and gpu is fine. They would be most of the budget.
I updated the above with some links. This is spec’ed solidly for around that price:
https://pcpartpicker.com/guide/dLgXsY/modest-intel-gaming-build
I personally prefer AMD to Intel at this point, but it’s a touch pricerer right now:
https://pcpartpicker.com/guide/yhwrxr/modest-amd-gaming-build
Either one will work great, but the $1200 rig is where I would recommend if you can swing it. It’s the best bang for your buck, and will stay a solid gaming rig for 4-5 years, longer if you like indies:
https://pcpartpicker.com/guide/PCWG3C/great-amd-gaming-build
Indies are often worse because they don’t have the time to spend on optimization. Especially those made to be first-person 3D.
Sticking to 2D/light-3D games, older games (try [email protected] or [email protected] ) and games made PC first (not console first) are my tips as someone with a not-quite-gaming laptop. The last one is the hardest, but as someone who optimized games for consoles for years I can tell you optimization for PC was always the last thing on our minds: get it to run, and raise the required specs.
Much appreciated, thanks