Is this a good setup for the price? This is somewhere in Europe. A tech shop that allows you to choose your hardware and they assemble it for you.
I mainly want to play older and indie games on it. Some video editing as well, possibly. Current rig is a crappy pre-built which overheats like crazy, practically impossible to do any gaming on it. TIA for any answers.
No.
ETA: I think you’re adding an extra ≈€300-€400 just to have them build it for you. A recent post listed a better setup for ≈$600usd, and it had 32gb RAM, a 6700XT, and a 5800X (iirc).
I think they’re scalping you. You’d be better off buying the parts yourself and building it. It’s not hard to do; there’s plenty of YouTube content about building one yourself.
Thanks for the appraisal. Not surprised that there’s some extra in that price. Building it myself is not an option because I’m clumsy to the extent that I should get it diagnosed. It seems to be the cheapest alternative for me. But generally speaking, is that setup good enough to run older and indie games? At least the case seems to have plenty of fans. My current setup has practically no airflow and the fans are going crazy as soon as I even as much as touch a game.
I understand, however, if you watch some building videos beforehand and take your time, it’s pretty foolproof. Most things are labeled, have a special design so they can only go into a socket in a certain direction, and several plugs only go to one place.
But if you have some legitimate disability, then I understand that this might really be the only option for you. Just don’t let fear of clumsiness be the only thing stopping you. I’m sure lots in this community would be willing to give you pointers or a nudge in the right direction.
As for its viability, yes. It should be able to run some older games and less-demanding indie titles. The 5700X has PCIe4 capabilities, so you should be able to get the maximum bang for your buck from the GPU.
Do you happen to know the timings of the RAM? As long as it’s C16 @ 3200-3600, you should be golden.
Yeah, I don’t think I want to risk damaging the components. RAM seems to be C16 at 3200.
Yeah, seems like a solid build. I think you’ll be fine with that for several years.
Thank you!
Do you know someone you could pay less than 300 to build it for you? Its about an hours work or so.
Edit: you could likely even find someone here who would sit on a video chat with you and help if you wanted. I really encourage you to give it a shot, could always say the parts were damaged on delivery instead of damaged on installation too, if thats alright with you.
They’re charging 100 € to build it, it seems.
See if you can find someone to build it for you on a work-for-hire type of site. There’re tons of people who build their own PCs. If you can find someone who doesn’t oversell their skills and is competent, I bet you could have it built for a third of that markup.
I just went and added all the parts to the cart and it seems they are charging around 100 € for the build. So not 300-400 € like Telorand estimated. These are Scandinavian, not US prices.
That’s way overkill if you just want to run old games and indie games IMO. What’s your current specs? Maybe it would be better to just spend a but upgrading your current rig and fixing the cooling issues.
Can’t upgrade my older rig, it’s an Acer pre-built and I watched a Youtube video about trying to upgrade it. Guy had to cut something out from the back to make room for the new GPU. Current specs are Geforce GTX 1080 Super and 16 GB of RAM. Runs hot and loud as all hell when I try to do some gaming on it. Regarding this new build, I also want to do some video editing, hence the higher specs.
Building a desktop in a normal sized case is not some sort of effort in dexterity. Its slow as you want it to be, as careful as you want.
It looks complicated but its basically you get the case on its side, lay the motherboard in there and screw in the like dozen screws all around, get the Power supply in its little spot turned the right way and screw that in. Everything else plugs into the motherboard, and if it needs power you plug a cable into it from the PSU (recommend modular, removable cables).
Usually ram and nvme drives get power from the board directly, stuff like CPU fans and regular fans usually plug into different pins on the motherboard.
You really should be fine with buying parts and just going off of the motherboard manual, it has a diagram showing all the pins and plugs and what goes where.
Just run your build by someone here to make sure you didnt pair something wrong but a lot of it is picking a motherboard and CPU that work together, and then picking GPU, ram, and storage. Cases have size categories so anything in the mid tower size is usually standard, mini is smaller and full is bigger. That mostly depends on how many fans and lights and such you want.
I’ll think about but I’ll probably go with having it built for me. They charge 100 € for it which is not a lot when you calculate the cost of the parts. Thanks for the input, though.
Thats fair, I based the number on someone else’s calculation so you might be right!
I had one other thought, theres a pc building simulator game, where you run a pc repair shop. It does a really good job of being real to life, might be a risk free way to see what the building stuff is about.