What's the most convenient/cheapest way for light gaming (TF2, some other free fps and retro games), working and doing random stuff on the pc (like listening to music and watching videos) ? Building a pc or buying a pre-built tower? I would buy a separate screen at any rate. I already own an Asus laptop, but I'm planning to use it just for work at school in the future. I'm looking for a more solid desktop setup.
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>>55458905
Can you help me now, senpai?
Yep yep
>>55458829
>tf2
you don't need a powerful pc to run that, it all depends on your budgetm but you can build a solid machine for 1000$, just get a i5 skylake and a rx 480(nor reference cooler) and some ddr4 ram, don't need more than 8g desu, you can spend extra $ for 16 if you so please. for psu 550W is probably enough, just don't get a sketchy chinsese brand. case whatever you want.
>>55460855
>you don't need a powerful pc to run that
Yeah, but TF2 is quite heavy on the CPU, then I'm looking for something more resistent. My laptop gets hot after a couple of hours of gaming and fps drops get more frequent.
> 1000$ machine
It's probably a bit too powerful and expensive for my needs, I don't know. I was checking the specs of some tower desktops from Dell anad Asus which costed less than 700€ and they got my attention (various usb ports, i5 3.5 GHz, 8 Gb RAM, DDR4, Windows 10 pre-installed ecc.ecc.). Are pre-built tower desktops bad? I don't think that I can build an efficient pc from scratch. For my games I think that I really don't need an additional video card, a good integrated card would be better. I tried running YF2 on the Nvidia GT635M pre-built in my laptop and it ran horribly.
>>55459233
From the sound of it, all the games you want to play will work for GNU/Linux. If you never used linux, xubuntu is perfect for beginners. That is if your hardware is compatible with GNU/Linux, which is should be if it's modern.
Well OP, I just build my PC with the following
>16gb ddr3 1866 tested
>r7 250
>cx430m
>1tb hdd
>nxzt source 210
>212 evo
>z97 pc mate 1150 socket mobo
>intel g3258 dual core
Came out around 500 dollars. If I'm reading your post right, you're like me in that you just want something fast and capable of light gaming, I would recommend the same thing then.
Of course I was big into gaming before, but I don't enjoy it as much, I just want a few games to run and also have a dual monitor setup.
>>55461820
It's a nice idea, but I'd rather not have compatibility issues. Do TF2 or other Steam free fps run well on Xubuntu? If I get a tower desktop having Windows 10 on it, is Xubuntu easy to install on that?
Get a cheap 1tb HDD, any Intel i5 past sandybridge, cheap mobo, 8gb ram, and as much as you can on graphics card
>>55461940
>>55461855
Ok thanks. What if I would love to run these ganes on a 1080p screen? Should I take other screen in consideration?
>>55461965
Sorry I mistyped. I meant if I should take other things in consideration in case I want to run games on a 1080p screen.
>>55458829
who
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enchanter?
>>55461855
you overpaid for that rig.
source: I have a g3258 @ 4.5ghz, more storage and a better gpu at $375.
>>55461875
Xubuntu is Ubuntu with the XFCE Desktop Environment. And yes, TF2 along with other valve games have a GNU/Linux port. Check out the list of GNU/Linux games for steam.
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?os=linux
>>55458829
>TF2
If you want new and power efficient machine look at G4500 or i3-6100, GA-H110M, 8Gb and 100w picopsu kit. This hd530 iGPU is pretty decent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9-a5NCHuTU
>>55462173
>Xubuntu is Ubuntu with the XFCE Desktop Environment.
Ok, but is it easy to install on a Windows 10 machine? Or is there a guide for installing it?
Thanks for the link.
>>55462505
Thank you, I'll check it out. Should I be fine if I got a pre-built tower desktop having that machine then?
>>55461940
Is it really recommendable to get a graphic card for playing TF2 and other Steam fps games? For what I know CPU is the most crucial part for them.
>>55462138
>>55461855
Thank you for the recommendations.
>>55458829
>dem feets
>>55461776
Prebuilds are not bad, but if you want to save a little money (with deals these days, savings will be variable), build yourself is a better customization option. If you search locally, you could probably find a case for $10-30. Cheapest I've seen at most places start at $40. And if you watch your bottleneck, you have a better variety CPU/GPU matches.
Putting her dirty ass feet on public seating. Disgusting.
>>55465737
You mean her delicious ass feet on public seating. Fantastic.
>>55458829
why asians have such nice feet? male and female
>>55464514
>:P
>>55466126
Not reading through this whole shit but I didn't want to see op drop $1k for this. I'm using a laptop I found in a dumpster with a first gen i3 for general purpose shit. Any modern desktop CPU will do the job. What you want to do is just put a little research in and google benchmarks for a more modern game you might be interested in(say WoW:WoD for example, i doubt youll find tf2 benchmarks) and just pick the lowest acceptable graphics card. Maybe something like a AMD 880k/rx 460(when it comes out), some cheapo ddr3 and a 1tb drive. Case is totally personal preference, get one of those $40 corsair PSUs.
>>55458829
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>>55468285
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>>55468191
Ok thanks. Actually money isn't a problem to me, what I don't want though is to spend too much money on a ridiculously powerful rig which would be wasted for the kinds of activities I do each day. TF2 and Fistful of Frags aside, the only things I do is writing documents with LibreOffice, listening to music and surf the internet. That's why I was thinking about a pre-built tower, because I thought that building a new pc from scratch would be more expensive and probably too far away from my needs (I'm also unexperienced in that and frankly I don't want to create a mess). I'm basically looking for a more stable, a more resistent and a more efficient setup than my laptop. A guy suggested me to install Xubuntu, I wonder if that could be a solution to make my present laptop more stable and functional.
>>55469342
I just built a 400 dollar rig for a friend g3258 and gtx 950. 350 fps in league. I went cheap reliable new egg and it was still over kill.
