Let's do another "help me buy a gaming PC" thread

Too bad, but the G446 is a badass machine. 14th gen processor, DDR5 RAM, double the storage. It’s still a damn good deal.

Just think of it as getting that first big upgrade up front. :wink:

Mrs Cad wanted her computer upgraded for Christmas. Strangely her Haswell (4th Gen) i5 is starting to run a bit slow. She has the old CoolerMaster HAF 932 so airflow not a problem. I waited for Newegg’s Black Friday sale and for under $800 I got
12700K Alder Lake
ASRock Z790 PG Lightning
2 X 16GB DDR5 G.SKILL Ripjaws S5
Sapphire Pulse XT 6700 12GB DDR6 VRAM

Next upgrade will be to take her 2TB harddrive and trade it for an M.2 SSD. I’ll probably replace the fans eventually before they wear out and maybe an AIO cooler - haven’t decided yet.

Not this weekend. The station I need is among those to be closed for maintenance and that store still has a $1620 open box.

We went out to Fairfax for lunch and a G446; my SO doesn’t like Maryland. Getting it set up took a couple of hours; all it would do was light up at first.

I’ll have to get a network hub so both computers can be wired. The new box randomly disconnects from the Wi-Fi even though the cable modem is almost directly above the computers.

Steam and Logitech are installed; haven’t done anything else yet.

As expected, Starfield runs much smoother; I wasn’t ready for how much smoother, though. It’s almost like a completely different game.

That and RimWorld are the only games on it so far. My RW is so heavily-modded that the elapsed time between loading the game and being able to play takes over 45 minutes on my old computer. I’m hoping the faster system will significantly reduce load time with all those mods enabled.

Eventually, all my VR stuff will be on the 446. Not much point in doing that until my gaming area can spread out; it’s currently sharing space with my office area and both are squeezed into one side of the dining room.