• weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    If youcre building for gaming, personally I’d advise aganist building a high end PC however.

    Most AAA releases suck. Buggy, broken, soulless, rushed. There is no point in chasing high end hardware that can run them.

    The pre-built I’ve ordered will come with an AMD 5600G APU, sufficent for most if not all indie releases.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve found being a patient gamer really pays off. I have a relatively powerful machine but I don’t generally play any games that haven’t been out for several months to a year. By then they usually work, in my experience, pretty flawlessly. Anything I’m interested in anyway. Which are pretty exclusively single-player story-driven games.

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        1 year ago

        Fair enough, but not all of those games’ problems are technical. A lot of them just either fundamentally suck, or are technically well built but don’t offer anything truly interesting.

        I understand this is subjective; but why would I want to play Ghost of Tsushima when I could be playing Hades, Hotline Miami or Undertale?

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          1 year ago

          Oh no for sure I love a good indie game too. It’s just that if the ONLY reason someone would stay away from AAA games are due to the initial bugs and whatnot then they should try coming back after they’re fixed up a bit. But absolutely nothing wrong with not being interested and just rocking out some indie games.

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      1 year ago

      After building a PC for the first time a few years ago, I’ll never buy a pre-built desktop again (low or high end)

      The amount of corners they cut and terrible design decisions they make just so you can’t reuse the parts elsewhere are not only criminal from a consumer perspective, but an environmental one as well

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        1 year ago

        I’ve got mine through an online wizard of sorts, so I have picked almost all of the parts. And I understand your point of view but this is all I can afford at the moment, I didn’t want to try to build my own PC for the first time and somehow screw it up.

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          1 year ago

          I get your concern, I was extremely worried my first time. It’s a lot easier than you might expect though

          Still, it’s your money and your comfort. If it’s worth the extra money for a pre-built to save you peace of mind, by all means do as you will

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        1 year ago

        Love watching GamersNexus pre-built pc reviews. Check it out if you haven’t. Confirms everything you just said.