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Advice for a newbie on a kinda budget (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml
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Hi everyone,

So I made a post awhile back and the the advice I ended up going with was hey wait for steam machine pricing and make a choice.

I want to make a decent gaming PC. I want to move away from windows. I have a reservation for a steam machine! Buts I assumed it'd be closer to $500! The reservation is for $1200 FML!

So advice part, looking to see if I can build a better machine rig for $800-1k. No expirence with Linux. Last built a PC for myself in 2007 - so let's call that no expirence besides square hole goes into the round peg. But I understand more or less what I'm signing up for even starting from zero.

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[–] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

I quickly threw this together, so your price range is at least doable. This is about as cheap as I can get while still having 16GB RAM and more than 8GB VRAM.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/7D2Zck

You might want a bigger SSD. Maybe upgrade the CPU slightly. And maybe a better mobo.

Faster version: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/rQqVFP

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