r/PcAdvice

Hi y'all, old man here who has ZERO pc knowledge. I am looking for a budget pc (prefer a mini) that will play 7d2d. It's the only game I play and I can't justify £700+ for a steam machine. I do have an old steam deck that I use on my TV with a dock but want something permanent.

I apologise to mods if this is a dumb question or if I'm in the wrong place.

.....oh, don't know if it makes a difference but I don't play online, just myself (and the hordes).

I was heavy into console gaming and switched to a PC about a month ago and love it! The gaming experience has been very good for me so far. I’m a Mac user and windows is so foreign for me. This pc will only be used for gaming nothing else. I’ve tried looking up videos on different settings and end up going down rabbit holes. I’ve seen some videos on debloating Windows using scripts but the comments said it screwed up some stuff to the point they had to reinstall Windows.

I see people talking about monitoring their frames dropping temperatures. I’m lost on what I should be looking at for lol. Any tips or advice you could give me that would help? Here are my specs for my prebuilt.

AMD Ryzen 7 8700F
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 8GB
16GB DDR5
1TB PCle 4.0 SSD
2 LG UltraGear IPS QHD 200hz monitors

Hey I’m new to the whole content creation scene and when I started editing anything over 5-10 minutes long my computer has a meltdown sometimes and I have to restart cause it just starts chugging and I was looking to upgrade because online said I may need 32 gb at least but I noticed it also said an intel i7 or equivalent. I have 16 gb of ram with an Intel i5 14400f cpu. I was worried the cpu isn’t strong enough and the more ram wouldn’t matter so before I blew and OUTRAGEOUS amount of money to buy at least 32 gb of ram I wanted to know if my cpu would even work with it or I just need to give up on my hopes and dreams for a long while till I can buy a new pc in the future.
Thank for your help in advance, I’ve been struggling with this for awhile and I’m scare lol

Hey guys, I just got a free PC from my friend. It has only 2 GB of ddr3 RAM. Aunt has an AMD athlon x4 in it. Is there a distro Dad would function well enough for some light web browsing such as checking emails, or watching YouTube videos?

My friend will buy 2 sticks of ram and wants to sell me his actual stick of ram

He has a 8gb DDR4 3000Mhz CL16 for sell

And the one that I have rn on my PC is 8gb DDR4-2133 CL16

Can I use both and have 16gb ram in total? My PC can only have 2133mhz but some people told me that it doesn't matter and if I have a stick of ram with more Mhz the system will automatically lower it to 2133

I am extremely new to the world of pc gaming and computers in general. As soon as I got my new laptop it had I saw 900 gbs of storage so I started downloading anything free on steam with no thought. I now want to clear up storage so I can buy games without much concern. I have currently 650 gbs about of installed apps but im super confused as to where I got them. According to the launchers I have maybe 300 gbs of games installed. I tried googling it and clearing unnecessary files but im still failing to understand where my storage went.

This is the list of installed games I have:

CS2, subnautica, rocket league, r6, world of tanks, hell let loose, escape from tarkov, arc raiders, operator, Atlantic fleet, and gta IV

A lot of games but if im not mistaken, not 650 gbs worth. I also don't know how to properly uninstall old games, so I deleted sea of thieves and the master chief collection through the xbox launcher but idk if it does it thoroughly. I really just dont know anything about anything so i'm asking how do I fix my storage.

Hey!

Does anyone have an All-in-one PC to recommend?

I am only doing light work on it but also want to be able to play Warcraft 3 and CS2 on it.

Thanks!

Currently I have a pc so ain't buying parts js to train on building a pc. So how should I train pc building skills?

saw some people talking abt clean windows install (idh a usb), bloatware, idk what else like ram bios speed thing and what not, please guide me thru this
7800x3d, 9070xt

I live in Egypt and I love pc building. I won't spend my kidney on pc parts to train pc building cause I aready have one. I want to buy t broken to take it apart at rebuild so if anything breaks won't regret losing a kidney.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/QvmBLy
I picked out some parts, the storage is from my old pc and im getting the ram, motherboard, and ram in a microcenter deal. Im open to any suggestions (I live in the US)

Currently my build is as follows:

I5-12600k
32 gb of Trident Z DDR4 Ram
Nvidia 4070 super ti 16gb
Z690 Aorus Elite AX
Deep cool AIO
1000W PSU

I really want to upgrade my CPU but in order to do that I pretty much have to upgrade everything. I found a bundle at microcenter. (https://www.microcenter.com/product/5007350/amd-ryzen-7-9800x3d,-gigabyte-b850-gaming-x-wifi6e-am5,-corsair-vengeance-rgb-32gb-ddr5-6000-kit,-computer-build-bundle) and it seems like a pretty good deal. Should I sell my current and just build a new? Buy a prebuilt?

I am just so stuck and idk what to do. Please help I’m very open to suggestions for parts and/or advice in general. thank you :3

so i use to have a pc but i gave it to my local shop to fix than i went through some unfortunate things my father died and i fully forget about it now the shop is saying they lost my Pc in storage which is fair i brung it in over a year ago, but now i need help buying a pc, i know nothing about pcs but i wanna play games like siege, rocket league, and fortnite, and watch movies but my budget is 1-1.4k if you guys can please give me some recommendations i would appreciate it so much. also if it helps im located in australia

Hello, my desktop keeps shutting off into a complete dead state. No standby light on the mobo, no passthrough power to periferals, etc. i took it to best buy (pre built, where I got it) and it worked fine for them and then it worked fine when I got home. I booted up Gotham knights and it worked fine for an hour or so then died again. the last thing I played before it shut off the first time was star trek online but only for like 15m before it shut off.

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Current specs are:

Ryzen 5 3600

Radeon RX 580

40GB ddr4 at 3k

2tb hdd

250gb SSD

Asus b550

EVGA 600 GD

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I have had this since 2021 but replaced the mobo in January of this year.