[REQUEST] Recommend a Custom Gaming PC?

Appletax

Appletax

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Currently have a Lenovo Legion 5 Pro.

Specs: AMD Ryzen 7 5800H (8 Cores), RTX 3070 8GB Mobile, 16GB DDR4-3200MHz Kingston ImpactX (upgraded), 2TB Samsung 980 Pro NVME (upgraded) + 512GB NVME, Windows 10 Pro.

Got lots of issues with it and am thinking about RMA'ing it and selling the replacement/fixed unit.

Don't care much about RGB. To me, RGB = more cables (UGH!!)

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Appletax said:
Was drooling over a Mac Mini + GeForce Now, but my ping (52ms hardwired) is above the recommended levels (40ms). Their nearest server is probably 5 hours away in Chicago.
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Whose nearest server? I don't understand this at all. Are you saying "I have bad internet so I can't get a Mac Mini?"
 
Appletax said:
If doing online sales, wonder how a return would work?
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Just like any other online purchase. That's probably the biggest thing I miss about leaving MA. They had one in Cambridge. They've got a local outfit around here but nothing like Microcenter.

I'd not bother with the Macmini. That's a lot of money to spend on something that you can't change. When they first came out I pushed them as bottom dollar servers which worked very well. Until I started seeing a lot of HD failures. So stopped at that point. It was a great idea but poorly implemented.
 
Really hard to know what to recommend to you. You've listed just about every type of computer configuration out there.

Questions:

Is this your only computer?
What are your needs (gaming, what type of games, what kind of work, describe in layman's terms, not techie terms)?
 
Hello. Sorry but the Technibble forums are for professional computer maintenance technicians only and we do not provide technical support here. Suggest you try Bleeping Computer. Thank you.

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Geeze awful expensive motherboard you got there. Think you would have picked a AIO liquid cooler instead of a $120 (yikes) air cooler. You might as well do 32GB as a minimum while ram is "cheap". Get a $200 board and now you can double your ram.
 
mikeroq said:
Hello. Sorry but the Technibble forums are for professional computer maintenance technicians only and we do not provide technical support here. Suggest you try Bleeping Computer. Thank you.

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Geeze awful expensive motherboard you got there. Think you would have picked a AIO liquid cooler instead of a $120 (yikes) air cooler. You might as well do 32GB as a minimum while ram is "cheap". Get a $200 board and now you can double your ram.
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The mobo does a lot of stuff so I figured it’s good to go premium, although it has a lot of features I wont use.

Thought about AIO CPU cooler. Maybe something from Corsair.

32GB is super overkill for me.
 
Porthos said:
Like an SSD, once you have that much ram you don't go back only forward.
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Sorry, but I have to disagree. Although all of the latest versions of Windows will maximize use of RAM, "how much" amounts to "maximized" depends very, very much on exactly what you're doing.

If you're an average home or office user that's web browsing, emailing, and processing Office documents you are never going to come close to exploiting 32GB of RAM in any meaningful sense.

Excess RAM is a dead asset. The best way to figure out whether more RAM is a good thing for a given user or not is to look in the logs that track usage of what they already have. Most I know with 16GB don't come close to using all of it at any given moment in time at all frequently. And when you have 32GB, and aren't using more than half of it except once in a very blue moon, you can (and, if you're looking to minimize expense, should) pare down what's on-board when you get your next machine.
 
britechguy said:
Sorry, but I have to disagree. Although all of the latest versions of Windows will maximize use of RAM, "how much" amounts to "maximized" depends very, very much on exactly what you're doing.

If you're an average home or office user that's web browsing, emailing, and processing Office documents you are never going to come close to exploiting 32GB of RAM in any meaningful sense.

Excess RAM is a dead asset. The best way to figure out whether more RAM is a good thing for a given user or not is to look in the logs that track usage of what they already have. Most I know with 16GB don't come close to using all of it at any given moment in time at all frequently. And when you have 32GB, and aren't using more than half of it except once in a very blue moon, you can (and, if you're looking to minimize expense, should) pare down what's on-board when you get your next machine.
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I had 32GB in my last system. Now I have 16GB. No issues. Most of the time I’m using like 7GB or so. When gaming, I’ve hit around 11GB. Haven’t used a virtual machine in years. And I don’t work with videos.
 
Appletax said:
I had 32GB in my last system. Now I have 16GB. No issues. Most of the time I’m using like 7GB or so. When gaming, I’ve hit around 11GB. Haven’t used a virtual machine in years. And I don’t work with videos.
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And there's a perfect example of precisely what I was trying to describe. More is not necessarily better. Having a massive excess of RAM is akin to owning a 50 room house and only actually using 3 rooms every day and maybe 5 rooms when "you have houseguests." Those 45 never-used rooms are a grand waste of money and resources.
 
OS takes about 3.5 GB of RAM, I have 16GB Installed which is a sweet spot for me personally. It amuses me when people have 64GB of RAM when all they do is Gaming. Sure if one is doing high end video editing, well yes of course.

@Appletax a 2070 GFX Card would suffice, does me and I play everything on Ultra.
 
Right now I have 20 browser windows open, 5 Office documents open, My remote tool open waiting for a callback, a messaging program open so I like ram.
Forgot a music player as well.
I am close to 16 gigs.

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I don't think building a custom gaming PC is in the cards right now due to GPU shortage, which could last into next year (maybe...)

You won't catch me paying $1,400 for a 3080 (which is what I want as I used to have a 1080 Ti).

Hopefully, next year, the DDR5 prices will plummet, too.

Sold my 2014 gaming PC last year for $1,350. Probably worth way more once the GPU shortage hit.

Had: Intel Core i7-4700K, EVGA 1080 Ti FTW3, Asus Formula mobo (so overkill), 32GB G.SKILL DDR3 Trident X 2400MHz, 250GB Samsung 840 Pro, SeaSonic Platinum 750 Watt PSU, lots of Noctua fans.

Probably stick with the Lenovo Legion 5 Pro until next year. Would like the new 2022 model (3070 Ti, better cooling). Would prefer the Legion 7 as the build quality is better and it has a glass touchpad. Maybe get an Intel version. So sick of the AMD CPU Metrics Server crashing this laptop.
 
You could still build a computer and just use a lower end GPU to get you by until you can snag a good for a decent price. That's probably what I would do since you seem to have so much trouble with your laptop. Just for reference I have a Legion 5 w/ Ryzen and I've had no problems. Even when n&p. I was running the factory Windows 10, upgraded to Windows 11 as an insider, had some issues with Windows 11 so nuked and went back to 10. Currently dual booting Win 10 and Ubuntu. I really wanted the Legion 5 Pro but it was barely announced when I was looking and no info on when release would happen. Funny same thing happened when I bought a ThinkPad X1 Tablet Gen 2. Gen 3 was right around the corner but it was "coming soon" so I just bought the Gen 2. Then like a month later the Gen 3 came out.
 
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