Subj : Gaming (Windows) PC: build or buy?
To   : Digital Man
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Jul 16 2021 03:14 pm

  Re: Gaming (Windows) PC: build or buy?
  By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Fri Jul 16 2021 02:17 pm

 >> That PC seems fairly decent, and you're probably right that it would
 >> probably last severla years without having to upgrade.  And as far as
 >> the graphics card, are you sure it's not RTX?

 DM> Yes, that was a typo: RTX 3060Ti.

 DM> "fairly decent"? It blows all the other computers in house away! Well,
 DM> maybe not my 16-core 32GB Opteron system, but that's not a gaming system
 DM> either. 

:)  Well yeah, it's actually a pretty good looking system.

 >> If I were to build/buy a PC now, I might choose an AMD processor, as

 DM> An AMD integrated graphics CPU (or "APU" they're sometimes called) or
 DM> separate CPU and GPU? For example this HP system has a Ryzen APU:
 DM> https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08VRS732Z but I'm having trouble comparing the
 DM> GPU performance of that system against, say, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX
 DM> 3060Ti.

I was thinking separate CPU and GPU.  I was thinking an AMD processor would be a bit less expensive than an Intel processor.  Even though AMD bought ATI years ago, I was reading about AMD's integrated graphics several years ago and remember reading that although it's pretty good, it's still not as good as having a separate dedicated GPU.

The other system you posted still seems like a fairly good deal.  For about $600 more than this AMD-based system, the other one has more storage and the Nvidia RTX 3060 TI card.  If you were to buy an RTX 3060 TI card by itself, it looks like it would cost about $400 and up, depending on which brand & model you buy:
https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=100007709%20601359415

So I feel like $1600 for the other system is fair.  I suppose it would be good to research how well the AMD Radeon graphics performs.

Nightfox

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