Best gaming PC from a store for AH3

[Banshee7]

   What's the best,  middle of the road priced Gaming PC available from a store that will work well in AH3.   Graphics,  speed,  etc.   I have a very old PC and this stuff is not in my wheelhouse.   ( Bestbuy,  Costco,  etc...)    Thanks in advance

I wish I would've known.  I would have sold you my old PC dirt cheap.  It's overkill for AH3 but doesn't meet requirements for new games.

[AKIron]

Unless your budget is restricted I'd go for what's considered a medium class "gaming" pc.

[fd ski]

are you planning on dipping your toes into VR ? That will raise requirements a bit.

[AKpizzle]

i bought a pre-built from ibuypower 2 years ago for around 850.

its got an rx 6500 xt with an i3-12100f and runs a lot of games fairly well. i do plan on upgrading to an 8gb graphics card soon, but the 12th gen processor seems to hold up pretty well since i dont run a lot of processes at once. i also limit myself to 60fps because i dont care much more for the extra frames. biggest upgrade it needed (and got) was from 8gb ram to 32gb, which only cost around 70 bucks to do.

a lot of new gaming depends on whether the game has been optimized or not. i run a new MMO on high and it works great. this card is older, but it does support a dual monitor output

[hazmatt]

i3-12100f

I wouldn't upgrade this CPU unless it's for something very specific because I upgraded from this to a 12700 and saw less then a 10 fps increase in most of the games I play. Just an FYI

[AKpizzle]

I wouldn't upgrade this CPU unless it's for something very specific because I upgraded from this to a 12700 and saw less then a 10 fps increase in most of the games I play. Just an FYI

i was looking at a i5-14600KF specifically for more cores. i do really appreciate the power a single core on this processor can put out, but i tend to run a dual monitor set up most of the time with multiple applications running at once. im going to upgrade the graphics card to something like an rx 7700 xt at the same time. and definitely going to need a bigger power supply. i have a b660m-a ac d4 motherboard for reference. ive done research, but im struggling to figure out whats the most optimal build for this mb. id also like to experience AH in VR at some point in time.

a lot of newer games coming out arent very well optimized, so my current build tends to suffer. at least the bottlenecking happens on the GPU and not the CPU, but still. id like to play with a better setting than medium.

but also, im not as savvy as id like to think i am when it comes to PC builds.

[AKIron]

Intel CPUs can suffer degraded performance in some games if left in park mode.

[GOODBYE]

I have a PC I could sell you main, I’ll just need to hook it up and see what the specs are. I haven’t used it in a couple years and only upgraded because the graphics couldn’t keep up for “squad” but ran AH just fine