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Is this a good setup for the price? This is somewhere in Europe. A tech shop that allows you to choose your hardware and they assemble it for you.

I mainly want to play older and indie games on it. Some video editing as well, possibly. Current rig is a crappy pre-built which overheats like crazy, practically impossible to do any gaming on it. TIA for any answers.

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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 24 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (14 children)

No.

ETA: I think you're adding an extra ≈€300-€400 just to have them build it for you. A recent post listed a better setup for ≈$600usd, and it had 32gb RAM, a 6700XT, and a 5800X (iirc).

I think they're scalping you. You'd be better off buying the parts yourself and building it. It's not hard to do; there's plenty of YouTube content about building one yourself.

[–] lapislazuli@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (13 children)

Thanks for the appraisal. Not surprised that there's some extra in that price. Building it myself is not an option because I'm clumsy to the extent that I should get it diagnosed. Getting it assembled seems to be the cheapest alternative for me. But generally speaking, is that setup good enough to run older and indie games? At least the case seems to have plenty of fans. My current setup has practically no airflow and the fans are going crazy as soon as I even as much as touch a game.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 6 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Building it myself is not an option because I'm clumsy to the extent that I should get it diagnosed.

I understand, however, if you watch some building videos beforehand and take your time, it's pretty foolproof. Most things are labeled, have a special design so they can only go into a socket in a certain direction, and several plugs only go to one place.

But if you have some legitimate disability, then I understand that this might really be the only option for you. Just don't let fear of clumsiness be the only thing stopping you. I'm sure lots in this community would be willing to give you pointers or a nudge in the right direction.

As for its viability, yes. It should be able to run some older games and less-demanding indie titles. The 5700X has PCIe4 capabilities, so you should be able to get the maximum bang for your buck from the GPU.

Do you happen to know the timings of the RAM? As long as it's C16 @ 3200-3600, you should be golden.

[–] lapislazuli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah, I don't think I want to risk damaging the components. RAM seems to be C16 at 3200.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, seems like a solid build. I think you'll be fine with that for several years.

[–] lapislazuli@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago
[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Do you know someone you could pay less than 300 to build it for you? Its about an hours work or so.

Edit: you could likely even find someone here who would sit on a video chat with you and help if you wanted. I really encourage you to give it a shot, could always say the parts were damaged on delivery instead of damaged on installation too, if thats alright with you.

[–] lapislazuli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

They're charging 100 € to build it, it seems.

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