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Question for pc users! (Patreon)

Published:
2023-12-14 12:50:41
Imported:
2024-07

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Good morning everyone! I had a question for those of you who know your stuff when it comes to computers. I've mentioned it a bit a while back, but I've been saving up to get myself a decent gaming pc over the past few months. I originally wanted a Starforge pc but that's a bit out of my range at the moment. I found a place that has a pretty good deal on another brand though and wanted to know any thoughts before I decided to buy it or not. 

My intention is to not only be able to play games at decently good graphics and FPS (doesn't have to be the best but good) and can also handle video and audio editing. The one I'm considering is:

 Alienware - Aurora R16 Desktop - 13th Gen Intel Core i7 - 16GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060Ti - 1TB SSD 

I know Alienware was really good back in the day but I'm not sure how they are now since Dell took them over. Anyway, thanks for any info and I hope you all have a good day! :D

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Sir Skelington

So I honestly haven't heard great things about the big name premade pc builders, I would stay away from them if I could. The best option in my opinion to find a somewhat local pc building company that can warranty their build, but make sure they get good reviews just to make sure. The biggest thing to consider is going to be what resolution you want, because that's going to tell you what gpu you should be aiming for, The 4060ti should be more than enough for 1080p and has pretty good price vs performance, the only thing worry about is the vram, they have 8GB versions and 16GB versions. If you want 1440p then your probably going to want the 4070ti, the only thing with that is that they only have 12GB vram models. I think that all of these models should be fine for what you're using them for in terms of vram, that is unless you plan of doing 3d rendering which is a whole other story. When it comes to cpus if I'm not mistaken Intel barely comes out on top in gaming but AMD leads in most program related benchmarks, and for me those few extra frames just ain't worth it when I know AMD beats them in every other way, at least they did when I had mine built. On the ram, 16 GB should do fine and if it doesn't that's easy and relatively cheap to replace, What is in this pc is ddr5 5600 which should be what you'd want for this pc. The storage space is and m.2 ssd which those are very good and that's what I would definitely want as your primary drive for your operating system and the games you intend to play repeatedly. The only thing is it's only 1TB which sounds like a lot but trust me it goes quicker than you think, especially since every game these days is like 50 GB. The good thing is the motherboard looks to have multiple slots so you could buy another m.2 ssd and put it in yourself, if you do then I'd go for at least a 2TB and it could be slower read and write speeds since its not going to be your primary drive, even so it should still be plenty fast to transfer files from one to another. The one that popped up when I googled it looked to have a 360 aio in it which would keep your cpu pretty cool and give you more performance out of the cpu, and hopefully keep it running quieter. Just keep in mind that this does mean that your computer has water in it. Personally I've not heard of aios failing but just something you should know. From what they say it does have wifi which means that the pc itself doesn't need to be hooked up to the router directly via ethernet, although that's something I do just to have better connection. That really just depends on where you want the pc to go and if you want to move the router so that it can be connected, if that's a thing you can do. On the power supply, the 500 should be fine for this pc but if you upgrade almost anything you'd be needing a higher watt power supply, I don't really know why they went with a platinum, it's just more money for a slightly more efficient power transfer, Gold should be fine but oh well. If you want to upgrade in the future then a 750 watt should be plenty for many many years. Just don't get a cheap badly rated power supply because if it fails then it could take the whole pc with it, rare but it does happen. And if one of the previous comments is correct and the power supply is proprietary then for me that would be a deal breaker if I was wanting to upgrade parts in the future, but if not then it should do just fine in this pc. All in all if you really want this specific pc then it should do very well at 1080p and seems to be very well priced at 1200 bucks even seems cheaper than building it yourself. What I would recommend you do is keep this pc in mind but see what places you may have around you that also build pcs and see what their prices are like, most likely they will be more expensive than this pc but would be better for stuff like upgrading if that's really something you want to do. If you want some other sources of info the the youtube channel Gamers Nexus is really good, and a good website is Pc Part Picker, it's good for figuring out if stuff should work together and the price you should expect for it. Sorry for the novel of a comment but I figured it's better to be annoyed by a long read than spending a bunch of money and not being happy with it haha.

ProzXADYN

I upgraded my PC recently, did it on a wing and a prayer, so take what I say with a grain of salt because I am no expert. I can't comment for editing, but if it's built to handle videogames I don't really think you have to worry about it not being able to handle editing, I don't imagine that it would be too intensive. I can't make new lines on mobile, so this sucks for structuring. I can't really comment much more than others have on the CPU/GPU side, since I've never really gotten too deep in that rabbit hole. RAM and storage though, as others have said are not much of a priority, being that they're probably the easiest things to work with when upgrading or adding imo, but speaking from experience, you may want to get more storage, especially if you don't plan to juggle installing and uninstalling games over and over. My steam library constantly cries in agnoy 😭. The last thing I'd recommend, especially if you plan on getting a prebuilt is seeing whether it will be upgradable, because I know some aren't, or are harder to upgrade. Hope my jaw flapping can be of some assistance anywho 👍

alichuart
>>124551880

Your comment was definitely not annoying Skelly so don't think that at all. I really do appreciate all the info you gave me so thank you! :) Admittedly I'm a complete noob when it comes to computer stuff. I don't mean this to be funny, but I know it probably is to someone who knows computers: my means of "fixing" a computer up until this point is hitting it, putting it on the ground so it shuts up, or just saying f** it and getting another one lol. Despite my short patience with them I have always wanted to learn about them. One of my bucket list hobbies is building my own PC one day and actually understanding what the hell everything does. Having said that, going off what you said and a few others touched on, it seems like this PC isn't upgrade friendly- which is kind of a deal breaker for me. My intention was to buy it, play the shit out of it, and when it came time to upgrade use it as my "guinea pig" to learn. You may be right in that it's better to see if I can find a local computer shop or a place that specializes in computers specifically. At least if I have a question, I'm not asking Tom at Best Buy (no offense to Tom but I work retail too- we know the product but not really lol). I think for now I'll hold off and see what I can find after the holidays. Pickings seem to be a little slim right now so it may be better to wait until more options are available. Thanks again Skelly, I really appreciate it! ^_^

alichuart
>>124561417

Thanks so much for your comment Pro, it's much appreciated and I learned a lot from you all this morning! :) Don't worry about the structuring of your comment either, sometimes Patreon is finicky about that anyway lol. The storage is definitely something I would want to upgrade. I think Skelly said it best in that 1TB seems like a lot, but games nowadays use so many GBs that it will run out quick. That on top of art, audio, and video editing just isn't enough. Unfortunately, it seems like this specific computer isn't upgrade friendly, which is a big turn off to me. I kinda wanted to use this for learning purposes later down the road when I wanted to upgrade. For now, I think I'm going to keep looking. I learned a lot from reading comments here so thanks again for taking the time to give me some info! ^_^