I haven’t built a gaming PC for over fifteen years; I defected to PlayStation in '08 when the constant upgrading got too expensive to really justify, but now I’m looking to come crawling back.

I am finding it easy enough to find build ideas for very capable (and expensive) machines but I am that out of touch with “what’s good” that I no longer have any idea of what would be “good enough” (to play most modern games at “high” settings and at 60fps).

Basically, I would like help in avoiding an attempt at going back to my old ways and building some kind of pie in the sky setup like this:

CPU AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D

CPU fan NZXT Kraken 360 RGB

MB Asus Prime X670E-Pro WiFi 6E

GPU Gigabyte Aero GeForce RTX 4090 24GB

RAM G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB Series 64GB DDR5-6000

SSD Samsung 990 Pro 2TB

PSU Corsair RM1000x Shift 1000 W

Perhaps the could serve as a starting point - what could you cut from the above build and what would you substitute?

  • LoamImprovement@beehaw.org
    6·
    9 months ago

    But I’d say that’s because there’s been an oddly big jump in system requirements, recently.

    Because devs don’t optimize for PC and get away with it by listing absurd minimum requirements.

      • C4d@beehaw.orgOP
        1·
        9 months ago

        You used to need to upgrade … every year or two

        That’s what took me out of PC gaming; that and a price increase (possibly crypto related, possibly financial crash related).

          • C4d@beehaw.orgOP
            1·
            9 months ago

            Things have changed a lot.

            And you’re probably right about the crypto thing; if my defection had happened in ‘10 - ‘11 due to price increases that would have been more crypto and less financial crisis. Memory blurs a little.