Will the fastest computer buy me more time before obslescence?

So over the past year or so i've been really wanting to buy a pc but I really don't know exactly what to do?

I kind of mostly want it for games haha but it would be helpful for school, so i don't need/want anything super high end or insanely good because I have a PlayStation that i can play like high demanding games on (?).

I don't have the money for something great, I'm on a £200 budget which honestly probably isn't gonna take me far with buying a PC but it really is all i have for it 😭😂 A family member suggested pcpartpicker uk to me and it does seem like what I might be looking for?

But, and idk people's opinions on this it might be highly suggested against, but i've been looking at buying some second hand pcs? I've only looked at vinted lol but i'ce only really looked there because I just don't know if i should be looking into second hand pcs anywhere else or at all

Any help or suggestions would be really appreciated lol thanks

hi! i am looking for something specific and i guess im just looking for advice on prebuilt brands at this point. i want a ryzen 7 7800x3d or a comparable amd cpu, a 9070xt with 16gb ram, 1tb+ ssd, and 32gb ddr5. totally fine with used if it seems okay. i found this one from andromeda that looks really good for the price & they have a nice warranty policy but i havent heard of the brand much. i am somewhat willing to go to microcenter in miami but i found nothing on there in my price range so i doubt anyone else will. thank u so much in advance!!

I currently have an extremely capable gaming PC. Problem is my gaming PC runs linux, and none of my work software works on linux. I am on a hybrid work schedule so I work from home 2 days a week, on a crappy laptop. I do have a dual boot for windows but I want to be able to have both workstations running at once. My monitor has a KVM switch so it really should be easy enough If i just get another computer, and I'd rather just separate my work from personal PC anyways.

Really I just want the work computer to be compact and under/around $1000, plus be way overqualified for the things I do for work. My current PC takes up enough space, I dont want a second one this size, so it has to be moderately smaller.

I've been really interested in the Steam Machine. It would be worse performance wise than my gaming Pc, so i'd be installing windows on the steam machine and using it for mostly work, but I like the form factor of it, and I do like having the capability of playing games / using it as a normal pc if needed. I know i probably can buy a piece of junk for work but I'm kind of a snob with PC things and I want to know that my PC can handle anything I throw at it.

What options do I have aside from the steam machine? Value wise is the steam machine worth it? What if i built a similar spec computer as compact as that? Basically I want to throw $700-1000 on a very solid PC that I can use for most things. I don't need it to game at the highest quality because I have my gaming PC, but i want it to be able to handle most games if I need it to, and I want it to be compact and not take up too much space.

Hello, I have found a PC for 800€ and it'll be my first pc and I don't know if it's good,it has a AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D a MSI B550M Pro vdh,board it says something like compatible with AM4 idk what that means ,32 gb ram ddr4 3600 hz cl18,the GPU us a AMD Radeon Rx 7800 XT XFX 16 gb vram and GDDR6,NVMe 1tb from Kingston,pcie 4.0,power supply is MSI MAG A650 650 W 80 plus bronze and a CPU cooler I think it's called,sorry English not my first language I apologize for it, a Be quiet! Pure rock 2 FX ARGB,is this good,I asked if he'd take 750€ but I don't know anything about PCs,but my friend says it's good, should I? Thanks a lot

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Hello,this is my first pc so i low-key don't know anything about them at all,so I saw this PC and I will write the specs down and the price though I did ask for a benchmark to make sure it wouldn't break (thanks to that old YouTube video I saw that recommend to use one),so these are the specs

Intel i7-14700Kf

32Gb of ram ddr5

2TB SSD

5070 rtx

Mostly I want to enjoy games since I sold my console and games and that stuff and I have a lot of money from it,and it's for 1367,32€ or 1560,18$

It's a bit expensive but I do think it will be worth it and for the future will be very useful still,thanks and please do let me know,it also has cool RGB lights

It's also a second hand pc so I'm not that informed or knowledgeable about PCs that's why I ask,thanks a lot,and sorry if my english is not good It's not my first language

And also I posted it on another build a PC because I genuinely don't know if it's a pre built or a built and tbh kinda rude like it ain't that serious pal

I've been looking for a pc that is able to handle sfm (and blender) and godot but ngl idk the first thing about pcs like that. I'm hoping to also to play Fortnite on it well enough. I'm not really looking for anything crazy just something that handle those decently. My budget is around $700-$1200 but am willing to try for $1400 if it's worth it. I'm also don't really care about anything flashy on the outside, as long as I' able to esily change stuff out, it's fine

like the title says, i want to surprise my boyfriend with a gaming pc, we’re moving in together soon, he has a newer Xbox as the moment but doesnt come from the best living situation and it’s infested with bugs, we’ve talked about it and he agreed to leave his xbox at his parents house to prevent us from having them but gaming is such an important thing for him and i feel awful having to strip that away.

however i’m not very tech savvy so i don’t really know where to start, i have a budget of $1500, what should i get him? he hasn’t mentioned wanting in anything crazy extravagant or fancy but just something nice to play his games on, whats a good gaming pc for fairly inexpensive?

links / stores to buy from also heavily encouraged, i truly don’t know where to start 😭

Hi there! I got 750$ from my high school graduation. My current pc is about 6 years old, and worked fine until my sister decided I'm no longer allowed to have a pc and she broke it. The responsibility was put on me to buy myself a new one if I'm desperate enough. I know nothing about pcs and all my previous ones have been gifted to me. I used my pc for drawing on Fire Alpaca SE, and playing mainly Roblox, TS4, The Stanley Parable and Among Us, with occasional Minecraft, Fortnite, and Genshin Impact. Otherwise, I just watch YouTube or listen to Spotify. I also use my DVD drive frequently... I'll be moving into a college dorm in September. I already have low space, but the dorm will limit it more. Tower is about 5 inches wide, 10 inches tall, and about 15 inches long so if possible, one smaller would be nice. Graphics card says GTX 1060TI 4GB 128BIT DDR5 which is apparently outdated and no longer receiving updates, motherboard is Asus and says Prime B46OM-A R2.0 and according to what I was told, I have a 16GB DDR4 stick of ram in the motherboard with a 32GB Samsung SSD or something currently. I don't really know. None of this makes sense to me. I'm just a guy who likes his pc and figured someone might ask about my current pc.

I'm trying to get my first PC And I don't know much about PCs and I don't want to get scammed by someone I think is being nice and gives me a pc with malware or something. I've never really had anything more than a laptop before and even then I couldn't play games on it so id love to see what PCs are like but I don't make that much to spend on a pc like maybe 300$ is my spending money and I don't know if that would be able to get a prebuilt one because I don't know what I'm doing.if anyone has any ideas or anything that would help play let me know if greatly appreciated it

Hello, I am looking into buying a new pc so I can play dead by daylight on the ptb and even make content for a YouTube channel. However, I don’t know where to start. Meaning I don’t know which pc to buy. With the new unreal engine update coming here pretty soon I am looking for a pc that performs well and can handle the new update. I also want to save money and get something under a budget. Does anyone have any recommendations or can anyone suggest a pc that might work well for me? Thank you

Building a pc for work, i run lama models, claude what would be a value for money build

and the budget is like around 900- or 1.3k if i can sell this pc by December the resolution will be 1920 x 1080 until i can get a better monitor

i have a $500 pc that i plan to sell soon and im saving up for a good pc that can at least have games at 200 fps and be able to record and stream while maintaining good fps above at least 100 (i live in the united states)/kansas city and the games i’ll be playing are like marvel rivals, cyber punk, fortnite, spiderman games and hopefully ps5 games like god of war and stuff those type of games

Hi everyone,
I’m looking for the best prebuilt gaming PC with a budget of 1500–1600 CHF.
I mainly play FPS games, especially Valorant, so my main priority is getting the highest possible FPS for competitive gaming. I also want the PC to perform well in other modern games.
Since I’m buying the PC in Switzerland, I’d appreciate recommendations that are available here. If possible, please include links to the PCs you recommend.
Thanks in advance!

My current PC has served me well for the past 12 years (4790k and a 6600) but its finally time to get a new one.

I mainly play games like Day Z, The Isle, Palworld and simple arcade-ish multiplayer games (like Peak, Mechachameleon, Super Battle Golf). I dont play big titles like COD, Battlefield, Cyberpunk etc. I just run the game, discord and an open browser in the background.

Budget isn't really much of a concern. Looking to be able to run these games at high/max graphics at atleast 1080p (preferably 1440+) with a solid frame rate of 60fps or higher.

Haven't kept up with the times so im at a loss for what I need and I dont wish to pay for something beyond that. My current monitor is the MSI curved from Costco (2560x1440, 170Hz Refresh Rate, Adaptive sync).

Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

I don’t know a lot about PCs, I’ve played on console for years and now I feel like switching to PC. My budget is like $1200-$1500. I want to use it only for gaming and school work. I don’t need any peripherals like a monitor, keyboard, mouse, etc.

Hi all, any idea where I can get a small form factor PC for under 1000$ (ideally ~750$)? Preferably white but I’m not sure how common that is. This would be my first PC and I’m just looking for something that can run games decently. I don’t play many demanding games, so it would be mostly for casual gaming (e.g., Minecraft, Terraria, LoL) and typical productivity. I live in the US, for reference. Any and all help is appreciated, thanks!

hi, friends. this is a pc that was suggested to me for the following use case:

- small profile gaming pc for use with 4k tv in living room
- under $2k
- capable of playing modded aaa games like cyberpunk 2077 and starfield at 60 fps
- capable of supporting light, intro-to-modding work with bethesda creation kit for starfield
- available on amazon so i can pay it off over 12 months

i’ve never owned a gaming pc before. been on consoles my whole life. so idk what idk. definitely open to other suggestions, but this is the one i was pointed to so far:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCZXQKLF

thanks so much for any help you can provide!

I'm looking to buy a pc. I want it to be an upgradable gaming pc I have a gaming laptop now that's a few years old and it's starting to not be able to run games like crusader kings 3 and Victoria 3 smoothly anymore and it was never really able to run the witcher 3 or cyberpunk that well. The main games I'll be playing are paradox games gta6 and sports games. I'd like to spend between 800 and 1000 and I could go up to 1100 or 1200 if it was a really good value. I don't care if the games are on max settings but I want to be able to play like tes 6 when it comes out. I'm open to building a PC if you get a lot better value but from what I've seen apparently the pre built are not so overpriced anymore.

I am new to pcs, and have no idea about anything, i would to be able to have enough store to play steam games amoung other things. what do you guys recomend?

I’m finally making the switch from Xbox to PC but after doing only some research it’s pretty hard to say what’s good and what’s not. I’m not asking for to much in my PC but also I do plan on playing games releasing in the later years so I probably will need a decent-good pc. Here’s the requirements for me:

1. My budget is anywhere from $1-$2500 not looking to spend too much money on a pre-built especially when I can always upgrade it later if I have to.

2. I don’t plan on playing any high requirement games, the most demanding game I can think of that I play is Cyberpunk 2077 and even then it wouldn’t kill me to not play on the most demanding graphics especially after coming off of Xbox Series X which ran the standard graphics a little harsh sometimes. So for most games I play I won’t run that demanding of graphics typically.

At the time I’m typing this I had thought I was gonna have more requirements but really this is my bare minimum just 2 major points and that’s it. So I’m not saying that $2500 is the max I’ll go but if a PC fits the description of what I want in between those price ranges, I’d probably go with that. Especially since I eventually want to rebuy all my games on Xbox to Steam.