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.
