Poll of the Day > Any PC-heads around?

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Let's say I'm in the market for a desktop. The last one I had was somewhat around 10 years ago and was a decent build... at the time. I'm basically wondering, well, the assumption is always that building one yourself is the way to go money / performance wise. But maybe there could also be a decent one I could just buy for the convenience, I don't know.

It wouldn't have to be some amazing top dollar PC. I don't really want a laptop. Just something I could mainly do some decent Unity development with.

Any suggestions? Doing a payment plan may actually be preferable. I don't remember if you can do that on Newegg.

I'm asking cause I don't know what's good and decent for the price these days, but I'll do my own research if that's what it comes to.

There hasn't been any significant leaps in technology in the last 10 years or so...

You can get a pre-built on sale, replace the PSU (prebuilts have crap PSU) and GPU and modernize the RAM and you're typically good to go
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Lokarin posted...

There hasn't been any significant leaps in technology in the last 10 years or so...

You can get a pre-built on sale, replace the PSU (prebuilts have crap PSU) and GPU and modernize the RAM and you're typically good to go

This may be the way to go, hadn't thought about it that way. Thanks for the suggestion.

I recommend using pcpartpicker.com to price things out and find example builds.
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ya, if you want to do VR or multimonitor you'll need more power
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i'm a unity developer and my PC at work is like, old i7-860 Dell Vostro tower with a radeon 6800 series and an SSD inside. works for me.

this would probably be the cheapest way to get a passable desktop, just buy a dell optiplex i7 or something and stick whatever video card inside that the shitty PSU/mobo can support. also an SSD and at least 16gb RAM is nice to have for Unity/Visual Studio.

but I make a 2d mobile game so YMMV. depends what kind of games you want to make.