June 19, 2017 - 5:42am — kiwara
Alright so I'm thinking of getting a new computer as my reliable clunker is starting to cause more and more problems and I was kind of hoping some gamers or computer savvy people here would be able to help me understand what the hell type of computer I should even be looking for.
I need a lot of memory and is preferably fast. Preferably a desktop. I keep looking at gamers because I think of them as having the best of both worlds- fast performance and a lot of memory. My current computer is an older Lenovo, and it's been honestly one of the best computers I've had. Minimal problems over it's life with the exception of right now. It's not a gamer though. It does the best it can, within reason, but it's not a gamer. I'm not a hard core pc gamer either, but I do play some games, whatever games my computer can handle and I'd like to not lose them. I'd play more pc games if my comp could handle it too.
Basically... are gamers good all around. Can they be a general workhorse or are they just for games? I need a multipurpose, reliable machine and the more I'm looking at brands and all those techy-specs terms the more I'm glossing over and going into some sort of panic attack. I've been looking at Asus, looking at Lenovos, alienware even though they're out of my price range. I'll consider anything, mostly I just need help understanding what I should be looking at. What's good and what's not good when it comes down to graphics cards and...most of that other stuff that's all letters and numbers.
Edit: Preferably a PC too. The last several months I've been looking at macs and for what I need they're just too expensive and don't play nice with the programs I use for work and school.
Edit 2: Any sort of help in making sense of this is super appreciated! Research is sort of fruitless and whatnot. A thousand thank yous in advance for help and for even clicking on this. I'm sort of losing my mind.
I could possibly help out a
Can you maybe link a few PCs you've been looking at and I might be able to help from there? I actually built my own rig, so talking about prebuilts isn't as easy without having somewhere to go from. |D
I was also looking at
I don't really have a 'I was looking at this specific computer' sort of thing. I kind of look at the brands...lol. I kind of know just enough to spit out a few computer words and make someone think I know what I'm talking about. I was looking at Lenovos. Newer versions of ThinkCentre's or whatever they're called, as that's what this machine is. I was looking at Asus too, but I have no experience with them. Basically whatever brand has a "gamer" that has all the newer pc stuff and within a reasonable price range.
If you know anyone IRL who
ordering the parts would be pretty easy, you could honestly just google search new rigs until you find one in your price range. i'm too tired to look for it atm but there's a subreddit specifically for sharing computer builds
That's kinda out of the way, of course. It'd probably be the most satisfactory if you're going for a desktop that's all around reliable, though. I've always shopped around on Microcenter or Newegg for computers/parts, but recently, Microcenter seems to have better deals.
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I have some peeps who might
Building your own is a good
This is the list of parts I used actually. (A couple of things no longer have prices listed since I did it over 2 years ago.) It might go over your head like you said, but if you really wanted to try having a computer built, this is the site to use to make sure all the parts are compatible.
But yea, like Wendigo suggested, looking for a shop or someone else to build one might be better. It's going to cost more than doing it yourself, but it could still end up cheaper than a really good prebuilt system. And without the ton of programs prebuilts have installed that we all end up removing when we buy them anyway. ='D
Oh wow, that's actually not
There are a lot more "good"