Topic: PC Gaming

I've pretty much given up on buying AAA games on PC on day one. You're much better off waiting for the inevitable patch to drop, usually with an accompanying Steam sale.

If you can hold off even longer, you might even get an even better version when it gets to Game Pass.

If you guys ever feel stupid, just remember that I had my displayport cable connected to the motherboard instead of the graphics card for a whole month.

I'm looking to build a PC, is there anything I should know before I start looking for parts?

I live in Canada btw

@Kermit1 Use PCPartPicker, it'll prevent you from accidentally picking up incompatible items.

@HotGoomba Thank you so much!!! This site is going to save soooo much time.

Good gosh building a PC is pricy...

@Kermit1 Why are you building a PC? Is it cheaper than buying one?

It's always cheaper to source your parts and build your own, than it is to buy a prebuilt PC. Then again, I've always gone for the middle.ground of using an independent PC builder (rather than dell or whatever) to make me one of their prebuilds and then modified it myself over time.

@Pizzamorg where did you get yours built? I'm in Canada but still curious about where it was built.

@ChaoticKirby Because Dell sucks and I wish the person I got the PC from could've gotten literally any other brand.

I used Alpha Sync to build my current PC. I have no idea if they operate outside of the UK though, sorry.

@Pizzamorg I think I'm gonna wait to build one anyway. These things ain't cheap and this was really only an idea, I was just looking to price things.

The other good thing about using a company like Alpha Sync or whatever equivalent is they usually offer finance. I do alright for money and probably could just buy a new PC outright, but I dunno if I wanna take that hit in one go, so taking a finance agreement for a couple of years and it doesn't seem so bad. Might allow you to squeeze out a more.expensive model too.

Prebuilts are, more often than not, garbage.

Common issues are proprietary components that you can't upgrade, mismatched CPU and GPU combinations where one bottlenecks the other, single channel and/or slow RAM that causes further bottlenecks, slow and unreliable unbranded SSDs, and PSUs with insufficient power to handle upgrades that are otherwise possible.

Even if you can find one of comparable price and spec to the PC you'd like to build you'll probably end up paying more in the long run because of these issues.

That's not to say that there isn't the occasional exception to the rule, but I'd strongly advise doing your homework before buying any of them.

@Pizzamorg @EaglyTheKawaiiShika @HotGoomba Ah, right. I see the obvious reasoning now. Thanks for showing me this, though. Corporate sucks.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika @ChaoticKirby Actually smaller pre built companies like iBuyPower and Maingear are good alternatives to building a PC.

@HotGoomba I might look into these companies. My dell laptop can barely run Google Chrome these days..

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika Maybe not HP either, I heard they underclock systems. Still better than Dell though.

@HotGoomba HP is fine for things like Chromebooks (I'm using one right now), but when it comes to desktops they're a bit funky.

Has anybody here checked out Hi-Fi Rush on Steam or Xbox yet? It just shadow dropped a few days ago, and it was developed by the team that made The Evil Within. It’s gotten extremely positive reviews so far and it looks like an awesome blend of rhythm and combat action. I’ll probably pick it up once I get through my current catalog of games.