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GPU prices are stupid high

helped my son build a gaming computer over the winter. We went AMD for the CPU and Nvidia 3060ti.

My last build was about eight years ago. I lean heavily toward AMD processers and graphics.

I can usually hold a build to less than $1200. You can get components which were state of the art 18 months ago, and would have cost $10,000 then.

But, I don't do combat flight sims, or attack sub sims anymore. 99% of what I do on the computer today is done on an Asus Tuff Gaming laptop.
Rather than build a new system, I think my next project will be new operating systems on the old desk top. Win XP Pro, and Linux on a dual boot system.

Gaming is much improved on Linux now. I don't do that, so I can't vouch for how good it is. But there are thousands of verified games using the Steam add-in. If you set up a dual-boot with Win and Linux, you may soon wipe out the Win half.

For games, I might recommend trying Pop! as your Linux distro.

Lol and here I was dreading windoz 7 so I went experimenting with Linux and never looked back.

I used to leave a couple of systems running all the time until like you I had one catch on fire while I was home, I no longer leave any running if I'm not home.

The system I have in the loading room is an I7, 16 gig of ram, SSD boot drive, and Ubuntu 18.04 is up and ready inside of 12 seconds so no need to leave it run.

Glad it wasn't any worse.

#geekontheloose

Despite Rocky's commentary on the horror which is Windows, I've had Win11 running on a couple of spare laptops and its just a continuation of Win10. We use MS at work and its too much of a pain to run Linux in parallel. I have run Mint and its fine as well. Just easier at the moment to stick with Windows since I'm working in it all day every day.

There more expensive and have a lot of stuff hidden from the user, but macs are pretty good. The are just like a Linux machine but have software like a Windows machine.

Hope it all works out, not sure i know enough to attempt to build a system.

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Only read the thread to see what I could pick up.
There were words understood, and a bunch of Charley Brown's teacher.
Wish I understood this stuff, but another rabbit hole? No!

Thanks Rocky. The system in mind already has two HDDs divided into five partitions plus an SSD for boot and often accessed programs. It would be easy to make it dual boot

My idea of gaming is far from typical. I absolutely will not do online stuff. My Software is all DOS based, written for Win 95/98.

Titles like Janes 688i, Dangerous Waters, Falcon IV, Janes USAF, Janes IAF, Janes F 15.

No, I really was not pretending to be a pilot. But WAS very interested to learn about the capability of various weapons systems and data links, as they are modeled by Janes.

In six months I will be retired and thought I might see if I can rekindle the interest in these titles. There is not really anything coming from the publishers which is comparable today.

Most people using this software on modern systems run it in an emulator. I have not attempted to set up an emulator. Nor do I know how Linux will play with DOS software. Perhaps an emulator will run in Linux.

I have lots to learn.

The easiest way to learn about home computer tech, and available hard/software is to pick up and read the PC Gamer mags. I do so for about six months each time I contemplate a new PC. That will tell one what has become available in the market.

I shop Newegg.com

I'll I know is that superman can beat up Spiderman. That's were my geek knowledge ends.

Bb

AMD 5600X water cooled.

Radeon 6700XT 12GB.

Gaming machines are VERY high-end, with capabilities way WAY beyond what the average home user really needs. Let's face it, most home users use a computer solely to access the internet and maybe do a letter or spreadsheet or two. For those people neither Windows nor MAC with all their bloatware and tracking are not only excessive but undesirable.

If you are work-at-home engineer or such, you may be required to use Windows and a bunch of proprietary (expensive) software. So Linux may not work for you. But for the rest of us, we can load almost any Linux distribution and hardly know the difference from Windows. Except that Linux doesn't crash, doesn't kidnap your machine to do updates, and has totally free software.