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  • Yeah, you have to define affordable. For some, that’s $300, others $3000.

    Quick answer is just go to pcpartpicker.com and look at other people’s builds for your budget.

    Bang for your buck… Just go midrange AMD cpu, don’t worry about core count. Most games aren’t cpu bottlenecked like they used to be.

    Motherboard, just grab a reliable brand, don’t overspend.

    16gb ram, speed won’t matter much and it’s not that much more than 8gb.

    1tb m.2 ssd drive. You can always get more storage later

    Cheap case, good quality power supply probably 600 watt would get 90% use cases.

    Don’t forget to budget for windows or use Linux if you go that path, your monitor, mouse/keyboard, speakers or headphones.

    After all that, than buy the highest end graphics card left in your budget.







  • Gerudo@lemm.eetoLinux Gaming@lemmy.worldJust Switch Over
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    1 month ago

    I made the same statement you did a while ago about having to tweak stuff to get it to work. I just don’t have the time and patience to do it, and I got voted down for saying Linux isn’t for me. I work tech, the last thing I want to do when I get home is mess with more settings and drivers etc.

    The Linux and steamdeck forums EVERYWHERE constantly make apologies and excuses for having to tweak things to get gaming to work.

    I just want Linux to be an out of the box great gaming experience, and I would sing to the rafters it’s praise. It just isn’t, and unless developers make their stuff work for 3-5% of an install base, I just don’t see it happening. I want it to, I really do, but it’s just not for the masses.