PC gaming

[Pajo]

I got a better laptop for the same price (950), wait a bit for the prices to drop, maybe there will be a Black Friday discount

Thats my plan, to wait till Black Friday. At least small discount should be expected.

 

[compile]

I would get option 3 since it has 6gb of vram. I haven't looked to indepth in AMD laptop cpus recently as I prefer Intel, but most games are eating a lot of VRAM especially if you like playing Total War games (or similar). More vram would offload the workload from your RAM/CPU to the GPU instead.

 

[wera]

Thats my plan, to wait till Black Friday. At least small discount should be expected.

Cyber Monday might be better.

Also make sure you also get a cooling pad since a gaming laptop will most definitely be hot as fuck. Unless you are getting a monster with a water cooling capabilities, you have to prepare that using your laptop for modern gaming is almost impossible in the high summer.

 

[Pajo]

They dont do cyber monday here if i can get 50-100 euros discount, iymt would be great. The fuckers here use the black friday event without knowing the real meaning of it.

I might go with option 3 in the end. Get coolling pad and 1TB external HDD as additions to it. Should be good for the next 4 years or so.

 

[dax21]

#3 for sure. You can always expand RAM and hard drive space easily down the line, even on laptops.

 

[Pajo]

Option 3 has 2 setbacks, one ia that it has only 512 gb, so external hdd is a must. Second setback is the processor, never been fan of AMD, but since GPU is more important than CPU (not that the CPU is bad), it looks like the best option for sure.

Gonna look around some more, but for now thats the favourite. Thanks for the opinions boys.

 

[Fapuccino]

Most important thing about Black Friday is to get some deal, like a Burakku Furaidei Bunduru.

 

[Pajo]

Found another decent option:

Processor: 8th Generation Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 8300H Processor (Quad-Core, 8MB Cache, up to 4.0GHz w/ Turbo Boost)
Memory: 16GB DDR4, 2666MHz
Storage: 1TB + 256GB SSD
Display: 15.6-inch FHD (1920 x 1080) IPS Anti-Glare LED-Backlit Display
Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 video memory

This aint bad either + comes with licenced W10.

 

[crzdcolombian]

https://www.cnet.com/news/alienware...able-games-are-better-than-streaming-for-now/

Alienware shows off a Nintendo switch PC alternative looks awesome! Especially once it gets hacked and let’s you play PS4 games as well

 

[Pharaoh]

https://www.cnet.com/news/alienware...able-games-are-better-than-streaming-for-now/

Alienware shows off a Nintendo switch PC alternative looks awesome! Especially once it gets hacked and let’s you play PS4 games as well

i hope you're kidding....this looks miserably horrible

 

[Native]

This has to be the ugliest device I've ever seen. It also has to be vastly more powerful than the Switch in order to reach the same results, since it's PC games, which are not nearly as well optimized as they don't cater to one set of hardware / architecture. Making a portable device that's vastly more powerful than Switch is still hardly possible with mobile chips, at least it is if you don't want a 1200 dollar price tag.

And with a new gen of consoles looming, timing could not be worse… PC graphics are always bottlenecked by weak consoles to a certain degree, so for now this device could be able to run them rather well. But with the new consoles this limit will be set a lot higher again. Games will generally become vastly more detailed. I think you'll be setting your games to lower than low settings within a year or two on this Alienware thing. Which means you'll pay 1200 bucks for a potato. It has flop written all over it, but it's still an interesting concept and I'm curious if they'll prove me wrong. But even if they do, for me the design is just too hideous to consider buying it.

 

[crzdcolombian]

To me it looks cool. Exactly like a high end switch

But looks super bulky

a Nintendo switch that gives 1080p games as a handheld and 4K docked would be sick

Also since it’s a pc pretty sure someone will come out with a way to play all systems on it

Tho the switch sometimes runs hot, my iPad sometimes runs hot.... this thing would catch fire if it doesn’t have a good cooling system

There is this super lame Ninja turtles final fantasy type game I play when I am taking a shit on my iPhone. If I play it for more than 10 minutes my phone heats up big time. ProbleM with handhelds

 

[dax21]

Spent entire weekend (so far) playing Metro Exodus. It's excellent, I liked the first two games too but here they really made everything bigger and better. The atmosphere is on point, shooting is satisfying and weapons have that oomph feel to them. Game really pulls you in and immerses you effortlessly.

 

[Pajo]

Spent entire weekend (so far) playing Metro Exodus. It's excellent, I liked the first two games too but here they really made everything bigger and better. The atmosphere is on point, shooting is satisfying and weapons have that oomph feel to them. Game really pulls you in and immerses you effortlessly.

Havent played any of metro series. Can i play Exodus wirhout the first two games, is it continious story or just the worlds the same?

 

[dax21]

Each game continues where the previous one ended, it's a continuation, so you should definitely play previous titles first to understand the story, and more importantly, you kind of grow fond of the characters and feel attached to them.
First two games looked visually very impressive when they came out and also got REDUX (remastered) editions so they didn't age at all, no reason to skip on them.
They are linear shooters, the third one (Exodus) incorporates a bit of open world with non-linear mission objectives.

Story is also pretty good. I do recommend playing with Russian voice overs and English subtitles because English voice acting is pretty cheesy and easily the worst thing about the games. Series takes place in post-apocalyptic Russia so it kind of makes sense.

 

[brehme1989]

Need a new desktop PC and want it to be extremely capable. I guess this is the place to ask since PC gaming is usually the most demanding.

My main need is a high RAM (16GB or greater) as I now operate on a 7 year old laptop that has 12GB RAM and it's barely enough. For some reason the market has stagnated with RAM and most of the market seems to be around 8GB RAM. Also open to the All-in-One concept as it may come in handy.

Essentially what I need is any PC selling website that operates or at least ships internationally.

Amazon is my first choice but I want to have a full idea first.

 

[Candreva Crosses]

True, usually PC gaming is demanding but I wouldn't put it in the category of most demanding. What are you asking from your computer, what are you going to use it for? Impossible to find a computer specified for you within an economic range that is affordable without more information

 

[brehme1989]

Budget is up to 2,000 euros so I'm open for most options. But I see some crazy ass machines out there that sell for 4-5k which I become envious of but there's really no point. I found some machines that go for 1,500 to 2,000 but I feel I could find something cheaper with better specs online as everything is overpriced here and they don't even have the latest tech for CPU, RAM or graphics at those prices. Found several choices on Amazon so far but didn't pull the trigger as I can wait until May/June.

I multitask a lot on my PC, need to have a high RAM because I have like 10 programs running simultaneously and usually have 2 to 4 screens involved.
It's not heavy usage per se, but I want it to be powerful enough to not be lagging or becoming unresponsive.

 

[Candreva Crosses]

I'm a bit drunk right now but I think I still have some good advice to give

If you're not playing video games/editing videos on your PC I can't see why you should put extra money on a great graphic card. Graphic cards is expensive too so I think you can save alot of money just on that. I'd put most of my money on a good processor. Myself who is a multitasker uses i7 8th generation. How about hard drives? Once you go SSD you never go back

2k euro is alot of money and if you want to spend every single penny I think you can get a good all round computer that can handle most of the things.

 

[Adriano]

thinking of getting a gaming laptop, and then save up for ps5 in winter...tryna get back into gaming again

one downside of owning a mac, gotta do too much extra shit to run pc games