Need advice on a new desktop pc - stupidly decided to ask GOT...

[Nightman]

Used Mini Mac M1, 16GB/1TB

24 month warranty with CeX.

£720.

Pair with any of the Dell Ultrasharp range of monitors.

 

[Dylan]

Had to get some miniPC's for a thing at work and they were all great. Laptops haven't really tested personally but seeing good reviews.

Happy to see competition in all honesty.

Have had bad experiences with AMD's and I'm still on the fence about GPUs they have, but happy with the CPU for sure/so far.

I am rocking a 6700XT and i love the thing. Sure, when it released it lost out to the 3070 performance wise, but over the 2 years, with the driver updates and the fact it has 12GB VRAM, it has aged exceedingly well, actually moving past the 3070 and scratching the heels of the 3070Ti in the perf charts.

For CPU's I had a 3600, upgraded to a 5600 and am so very happy with it (the 3600 went into one of the kids machines). And for the $ to perf charts, AMD are every bit as good as Intel, but with the x3D chip line, they have also taken the outright performance crown (and all while using significantly less power than the top of the line Intel chips)

 

[Dylan]

Suppose things have moved on in the last 20 years.

That they have. Handheld PC's are really a viable thing now, even more so with the technologies like DLSS/FSR and frame generation coming to the fore.

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

Cuz it's not that difficult anymore, as you can tell by the 2016 in the title like if anything, Goat started with the gaming

I don't game nearly as much these days; no idea what the monster is nowadays; you're lucky I didn't cite Unreal (the original).

 

[Bedfordblue]

hoo dat?

The Architect (Matrix films) sat in a room watching everything

 

[Rita_Poon]

hoo dat?

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

The Architect (Matrix films) sat in a room watching everything

Sounds like my wife

 

[DualityNSNO]

I don't game nearly as much these days; no idea what the monster is nowadays; you're lucky I didn't cite Unreal (the original).

Google "new AAA games" and it's usually any of those, as there's no regulation so they just do whatever they want, sadly.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Sounds like my wife

 

[davep]

Don't be afraid to browse AMD - price to performance is much better than i7/i9s imho, and they can save you a few quid. I'm a recent/current gen AMD convert and have had absolutely no issues so far.

Also as @Goat said - more RAM will be what you need.

Are AMD a good bang-for-your-buck option again now? Haven't used them in years.

 

[DualityNSNO]

Are AMD a good bang-for-your-buck option again now? Haven't used them in years.

Ye, very much so. The benchmark @Goat posted a few pages back pretty much sums it up - good performance for less money. Even their highest tiers are a good bit lower than the direct competition from intel, and the "budget" part is imho entirely AMD nowadays.

 

[davep]

Ye, very much so. The benchmark @Goat posted a few pages back pretty much sums it up - good performance for less money. Even their highest tiers are a good bit lower than the direct competition from intel, and the "budget" part is imho entirely AMD nowadays.

This is my jam.

 

[DualityNSNO]

This is my jam.

Just take care of cooling - the newer gen ones tend to run quite hot so need a decent cooler to run well. Nothing out of this world really, and the stock ones work for most normal use cases, but just as a heads up I suppose.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Right,now I have destroyed everyone in the DCL thread coffee I have another question....

I have somehow now ended up with two Dell pcs (don't ask).

Which would you keep?
Inspiron: Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 14700 (33 MB cache, 20 Cores, 28 threads, up to 5.4 GHz)VATOperating System Windows 11 Pro,VATGraphics Intel(R) UHD Graphics 770 with shared graphics memory SRMemory 16GB DDR5, 1x16GB, at 4400 MT/s VATStorage 1TB M.2 PCIe

or

Dell Precision 3260 Intel Core i7 12700 64GB RAM, 1TB SSD,Win 11 Pro Workstation

 

[Rita_Poon]

Right,now I have destroyed everyone in the DCL thread coffee I have another question....

I have somehow now ended up with two Dell pcs (don't ask).

Which would you keep?
Inspiron: Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 14700 (33 MB cache, 20 Cores, 28 threads, up to 5.4 GHz)VATOperating System Windows 11 Pro,VATGraphics Intel(R) UHD Graphics 770 with shared graphics memory SRMemory 16GB DDR5, 1x16GB, at 4400 MT/s VATStorage 1TB M.2 PCIe

or

Dell Precision 3260 Intel Core i7 12700 64GB RAM, 1TB SSD,Win 11 Pro Workstation

How many Ram slots does the mobo on cpu 1 have? 16gb aint so much these days so you'll end up buying at least another module to take advantage of the quickened ram bus. The first at least appears to be slightly more futureproofed. 60-70 tiles at a time?