/r/pcmr is a fun subreddit, though. I've drifted to playing some new titles on the PS4 just because it's easier and cheaper than a 1300 upgrade on my current rig. (Motherboard, CPU, and ram...)
I've always been a PC gamer, mostly because growing up we could never afford any of the other rigs. My 1st home PC was one on loan from work until I got enough money together to buy my own. I paid just under £1K for my current box after my old one imploded due to its VAST age (7 years I think!!)... About £900-1200 is a standard purchase for my gaming machines - essentially good enough to run most of last gens games!
Hopefully I'm presently spec'd enough to play Balder's Gate 3 when it drops in price a bit... [grin]
A lot (price and performance) swings on the GPU and CPU. My problem is that when I bought my current system in 2016, I hadn't yet started getting into the nuts and bolts of PC hardware, so I didn't realize that its socket (fx-series) didn't give me any real room for upgrading like an AM3 socket would have.
I don't know much about the hardware side of things. I just buy what my gaming buddy tells me to - he's an IT professional and builds PCs and Servers for fun....
I used to work in an IT department (for a while anyway) so got to know a lot of IT guys. I'm still friends with a bunch of them and it comes in VERY handy!!
They can be kindly wizards..for my own part, I've been so badly hooked by Stardew Valley that I haven't even looked at new releases. I even ignored the steam sale and the Sims 4 expansion with horses!
Balder's Gate 3 looks like a LOT of fun (playing Divinity: Original Sin 2 ATM by the same company) but its only just out & I'm not paying £50 for it. It'll be a while until its gets down to a more reasonable price (say £35) so I doubt I'll be playing it until next Summer at the earliest.
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/r/pcmr is a fun subreddit, though. I've drifted to playing some new titles on the PS4 just because it's easier and cheaper than a 1300 upgrade on my current rig. (Motherboard, CPU, and ram...)
I've always been a PC gamer, mostly because growing up we could never afford any of the other rigs. My 1st home PC was one on loan from work until I got enough money together to buy my own. I paid just under £1K for my current box after my old one imploded due to its VAST age (7 years I think!!)... About £900-1200 is a standard purchase for my gaming machines - essentially good enough to run most of last gens games!
Hopefully I'm presently spec'd enough to play Balder's Gate 3 when it drops in price a bit... [grin]
A lot (price and performance) swings on the GPU and CPU. My problem is that when I bought my current system in 2016, I hadn't yet started getting into the nuts and bolts of PC hardware, so I didn't realize that its socket (fx-series) didn't give me any real room for upgrading like an AM3 socket would have.
I don't know much about the hardware side of things. I just buy what my gaming buddy tells me to - he's an IT professional and builds PCs and Servers for fun....
Sounds like you're in capable hands!
I used to work in an IT department (for a while anyway) so got to know a lot of IT guys. I'm still friends with a bunch of them and it comes in VERY handy!!
They can be kindly wizards..for my own part, I've been so badly hooked by Stardew Valley that I haven't even looked at new releases. I even ignored the steam sale and the Sims 4 expansion with horses!
Balder's Gate 3 looks like a LOT of fun (playing Divinity: Original Sin 2 ATM by the same company) but its only just out & I'm not paying £50 for it. It'll be a while until its gets down to a more reasonable price (say £35) so I doubt I'll be playing it until next Summer at the earliest.
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