I don't know anything about gaming. The last time I regularly played video games was on my Atari. Yes, a million years ago.
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Basic question: I'd like to get into gaming. What's better a console or a gaming PC? My PC is super old so I have to buy a new PC anyway.
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I'm considering buying a renewed PC from Amazon. From what little I know - it seems like a good deal. If I buy something like a renewed Dell XPS 8940 for - I dunno up to $1,500 is that good enough for gaming? I'd prefer a boring PC case.
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What's the minimum I'd need to spend to get a gaming PC that plays most games?
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What are common mistakes people make when buying a gaming PC?
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Can most games be torrented?
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What's easier to torrent? Games for consoles or PC games? Ideally torrents will be my gaming store.
I'm giving myself until the end of the month to buy a new PC. So it's time for me to decide.
Amazon example...
Dell XPS 8940 Tower Desktop PC)
There are two PC setups on the page. Both are $1,000. Here are the specs for one of them.
[Edit: It's missing a useful graphics cad. I know I'll need the best graphics card possible because without that I'm buying a brand new car with a puny, nearly useless engine.]
10th Gen Octa-core Intel i7-10700 2.9GHz Processor
32GB DDR4 Memory
512GB PCIe M.2 SSD +1TB SATA 7200 RPM HDD
DVD-RW Drive
Windows 10 w/ Accessories (Renewed)
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I'm not interested in building one. I'd screw something up. It's just the way I am.
Definitely consider building it yourself. Seriously, it's not that hard and will save you SO much money. I know you said you wouldn't, but seriously, you should consider it.
I built my first one about 5 years ago for about £850 without any experience in pc building. Just followed videos. It took me about a day to build. All I knew prior to this was basically what a fan does. NVIDIA graphics cards will give you least hassle is what I found out. 'Building' is literally just buying all the parts and plugging wires between the parts. Many of the wires have different shaped ends that will only fit in a specific hole so it's even more obvious. If you wanted tips on building a pc I'm sure this website would inundate you with valuable knowledge if you asked.
My specs at the time were beating prebuilts up to like the £1600 mark. Maybe that's changed due to graphics card prices going up so much over the last few years, but yeah, there's big money to be saved. Plus, you can add bits and bobs as you please.
My PC is still going strong to this day, still plays all the new games, even if I have to turn the graphics down sometimes. It plays everything up to like 2018 I'd say on maximum graphics with frames per second in the hundreds if I want.
Well that really isn't true, but the PC gaming community can be very elitist :)
But yes, building it yourself isn't that hard. And it is hard to destroy something, but not impossible.
Just personally, I started with AMD but switched to NVIDIA because some games like R6 siege didnt work with AMD at the time.
I got my PC at the fucky time where pre-builts were cheaper with the same gpu I was looking at so I bit the bullet and got a pre-built. I'm actually really happy with it, I have less issues with it than the previous PC I built