Building a Gaming PC Advice Please

scaredofdebt

interstellaflyer said:

My entry level build with a basic B450 motherboard, Ryzen 3400G 16GB 3200 DDR4 RAM stands me at £450 or there abouts, Sabrent 250GB M.2 NVMe drive on the board and a 480GB Kingston SSD for storage, I was building a general use PC rather than a gaming machine.

Looks good!

To be honest I say gaming PC but I don't really run anything too high-end so a general purpose machine with a reasonable graphics card will be fine, but I am happy spending a couple of hundred more if it's future-proof for a year or two longer.

The most recent games I play are World of Warships, Train Simulator 2020 and I am looking to get F1 2020, my daughters machine (built last year for £600) runs everything at highest setting apart from Train Sim which it very nearly runs, just a bit choppy at times.

interstellaflyer

scaredofdebt said:

interstellaflyer said:

My entry level build with a basic B450 motherboard, Ryzen 3400G 16GB 3200 DDR4 RAM stands me at £450 or there abouts, Sabrent 250GB M.2 NVMe drive on the board and a 480GB Kingston SSD for storage, I was building a general use PC rather than a gaming machine.

Looks good!

To be honest I say gaming PC but I don't really run anything too high-end so a general purpose machine with a reasonable graphics card will be fine, but I am happy spending a couple of hundred more if it's future-proof for a year or two longer.

The most recent games I play are World of Warships, Train Simulator 2020 and I am looking to get F1 2020, my daughters machine (built last year for £600) runs everything at highest setting apart from Train Sim which it very nearly runs, just a bit choppy at times.

My old vs new man cave pc, case was free due to an Amazon !!!!!! up, Intel DG43GT mother board and Intel Core Duo E7600 cost £18 off Ebay, 8GB RAM , 250GB SSD for OS, an old Laptop 1TB HDD for storage, running on Linux Mint, pretty fast for internet surfing, YouTube etc and pretty quick access of photos and videos on the HDD.

Mrabs

Possibly looking into building a laptop .
Would require specs to suit business capabilities mainly high end statistics I.e R or python .
Would be open to buying pre- built , what specs should I need to satisfy the above.
Regards
Mick

Neil_Jones

Mrabs said:

Possibly looking into building a laptop .
Would require specs to suit business capabilities mainly high end statistics I.e R or python .
Would be open to buying pre- built , what specs should I need to satisfy the above.
Regards
Mick

Laptops don't work the same way as desktops, they are almost always bespoke in many ways.  Its almost always cheaper to buy a pre-made one with a brand name on it.

If you really want to do a laptop build of some sort, a Raspberry Pi might be the better way to go (just don't expect to be able to run Windows):

https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/articles/the-best-raspberry-pi-laptop-kits

interstellaflyer

Neil_Jones said:

Mrabs said:

Possibly looking into building a laptop .
Would require specs to suit business capabilities mainly high end statistics I.e R or python .
Would be open to buying pre- built , what specs should I need to satisfy the above.
Regards
Mick

Laptops don't work the same way as desktops, they are almost always bespoke in many ways.  Its almost always cheaper to buy a pre-made one with a brand name on it.

If you really want to do a laptop build of some sort, a Raspberry Pi might be the better way to go (just don't expect to be able to run Windows):

https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/articles/the-best-raspberry-pi-laptop-kits

Apparently a Pi 4 will run Windows 10

Neil_Jones

interstellaflyer said:

Neil_Jones said:

Mrabs said:

Possibly looking into building a laptop .
Would require specs to suit business capabilities mainly high end statistics I.e R or python .
Would be open to buying pre- built , what specs should I need to satisfy the above.
Regards
Mick

Laptops don't work the same way as desktops, they are almost always bespoke in many ways.  Its almost always cheaper to buy a pre-made one with a brand name on it.

If you really want to do a laptop build of some sort, a Raspberry Pi might be the better way to go (just don't expect to be able to run Windows):

https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/articles/the-best-raspberry-pi-laptop-kits

Apparently a Pi 4 will run Windows 10

It will, but there are caveats to it:

https://www.windowslatest.com/2020/07/24/install-windows-10-on-raspberry-pi/

forgotmyname

I think there have been recent reports on MS creating windows 10 fully functional on ARM processors.

Next Gen. AMD CPU's coming soon which are looking good price/performance wise.