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.

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I was on an Intel 7700k. With Windows 10 coming to an end this year my choices were:

A) switch to gaming on Linux B) build a new pc

Given its age I picked b), getting it in January this year. 9800x3d, 32GB ram. It’s been 11 months and no regrets.

(I could have gone c) and built a new computer AND switched to Linux, but I often play non steam games and didn’t want to deal with WINE myself)

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Lutris is wonderful, they have many scripts to assist in game installs, for when you decide you are ready to take the plunge

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I play ONLY non-Steam since August and had no problems by using Heroic Launcher.

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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.

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I slept on swapping my 5800X to a 5800X3D, now I’m just kinda stuck until prices come down and I can upgrade to whatever socket AMD is on by that time.

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Almost the same as me at the start of this year, got a 5900XT and went up to 64GB of RAM for 250-300 quid

Funnily enough I did that because I was telling myself the current crop of GPUs are overpriced so I’ll try and hold on to my 3080 for a couple more years, so upgrading other parts would make sense whilst I waited.

Now it’s all overpriced!

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