Online Deals for Cyber Monday on Gaming PCs
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Every six months my sister in law goes through this exercise of shopping for a gaming PC, then deciding not to buy one because by the time that they go to do it the current holiday is over and it is six months before anyone will have time to game again. So it is that time again. She bought some Steam games last night, so maybe it will happen this time. The Steam library grows slowly even though they've never had a machine on which to play the games.
They are looking for an entry level, pre-built gaming machine that will play most modern games well, run Windows 10 and be on a budget. They are hoping to find something decent on the Black Friday or Cyber Monday online sales. Anyone know of anything that looks good? I'd guess that they really want to be around $600 but would spend a little more if it really mattered.
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At that price, I'd find a local person who as a favour would put together an AMD system for them.
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Just took a look at cyberpowerpc.com, and didn't find anything decent for under $700, anything else sacrificed to much of something for my liking. Doesn't mean someone else won't find something there for less that they find acceptable.
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Here are ones that she is looking at...
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I'm not a gamer at all so bear with me. Do all games get loaded in to RAM where it doesn't matter that these machines don't have SSDs? In the CAD world, it made machines 30% faster to put a SSD in them.
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@scottalanmiller said in Online Deals for Cyber Monday on Gaming PCs:
Out of those 3, that's the first one is the one I'd currently choose. Intel CPU just outperform AMD in almost every way currently, and that's a decent GPU.
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@Mike-Davis said in Online Deals for Cyber Monday on Gaming PCs:
I'm not a gamer at all so bear with me. Do all games get loaded in to RAM where it doesn't matter that these machines don't have SSDs? In the CAD world, it made machines 30% faster to put a SSD in them.
No but portions do. SSD will reduce load time between scenes but not affect gameplay.
