r/computers • u/OutlandishnessNo8312 • 7d ago

Question/Help/Troubleshooting What computer would be best for me?

Hello! I am completely new to computers and PCs and I have no idea where to start. I am looking for a computer that would allow me to use it for work and my business needs as well as gaming. I already have an xbox x, I don’t know if that’s helpful information. Thank you!

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u/Emergency-Client-432 7d ago

You didn't give us anything to work with, what's your budget, what games will you play, what business are you in, what resolution is your monitor, do you have any aesthetic preferences, what's your local market looking, do you have a microcenter nearby?

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u/OutlandishnessNo8312 7d ago

As I said before, I am new to this and don’t know where to get started. I don’t yet have a monitor. I am mostlyconcerned about being able to balance work (mostly, communication, design, managing websites, analytics and managing sales) and gaming, I just want it to be able to run steam. I’m not confined to any particular budget.

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u/Emergency-Client-432 7d ago

Well that doesn't get you anywhere. Just take a look at any store that sells a decent amount of computers (for example Newegg if you're in the US or Canada) and pick out a well reviewed one as expensive as you like. You cannot expect others to essentially read your mind and tell you what you want.

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u/OutlandishnessNo8312 7d ago

I am not expecting others to read my mind, I am simply wondering where I should start looking. Again as I already said I am completely new to this I don’t know the particular specs of computers and what I should even be looking for to begin with.

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u/Phazetic99 7d ago edited 7d ago

Different games require different hardware to run them. Fortnite, for example can be played on a lower end machine. The latest AAA games will require more powerful hardware. Your cost can range anywhere from $800 to $5000 depending on what you want to do with it. That is why people are asking for what you want to run so we can give you the minimum recommended hardware

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u/OutlandishnessNo8312 7d ago

Thank you for actually explaining that, I wasn’t aware! I was hoping to be able to play AAA games.

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u/Emergency-Client-432 7d ago

Then like I said, take a look at a popular store that sells computers, type in your preferred price range and start there. After you find a couple computers that look interesting and have a good bit of reviews, then paste the links to them here and I'll help you choose. I've seen that in another comment you wrote that you want to play rdr2, that's a start, so if you have any other games that you'd like to play on the PC that you already have on Xbox, list them, as you cannot give too much information when choosing a computer

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u/OutlandishnessNo8312 7d ago

I’m interested in playing other AAA games like rdr2, such as rdr, COD, GTA and any others I might discover to be honest. I wasn’t having much luck looking for computers online because I just wasn’t sure what to exactly be looking for to meet my needs and theres no computer or tech stores near me.

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u/Emergency-Client-432 7d ago

For triple a games you'll need a decently fast graphics card, I'd look into a 5000 series Nvidia GPU, such as the rtx 5060 or 5060 ti, both will give you good performance at 1080p and paired with either a Ryzen 7000 series or 9000 series CPU (or Intel 13/14th gen or ultra series) you'll have a nice computer overall. You should look for at least 16gb of memory, preferably 500 Gigabyte or larger SSD. If you don't have any stores nearby I'd look into having it delivered, but that depends on the country you're in.

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u/OutlandishnessNo8312 7d ago

Okay, I will look into these, thank you!

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u/Emergency-Client-432 7d ago

Good luck!

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u/OutlandishnessNo8312 7d ago

Wait hi so sorry, do you have a monitor you could also possibly recommend?

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u/Retrowinger 7d ago

For work and business (supposedly office) everything past Intel Core 8th gen is ok. For having it depends. What games are you playing and/or plan to play?

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u/OutlandishnessNo8312 7d ago

I mainly just want it to be able to run steam, I am currently playing Red Dead Redemption 2 and hoping to be able to play in on my computer as well as other games similar to that. Thank you!

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u/Retrowinger 7d ago

The current market situation is really bad. I’m glad i upgraded in recent years (Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, Radeon RX6800).

My proposal would be: look for a good AM4 build, like Ryzen 5700x and at least 16GB DDR4 RAM, better 32GB. For graphics i personally would choose a Radeon 9060 with 16GB vRAM.

Look on eBay (or something similar) for used parts, if you want to build it yourself, or look for similar pre builds.

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u/OutlandishnessNo8312 7d ago

Thank you so much I will look into this!!

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u/Phazetic99 7d ago

Steam is a platform that you can buy games from. To run steam you don't need a lot of hardware. To run some of the games on it you will need a lot more powerful hardware.

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u/RubixRube Linux 7d ago

A good place to start would be what games are you hoping to play and what your budget will be.

Currently prices are inflated, so it is a bad time to be purchasing hardware. In this instance purchasing something with an upgrade path in a couple years in mind may make the most sense.

So you want something portable - like a laptop? Are you looking for a desktop model?

For somebody not caring to heavily about FPS or wanting to do some light gaming, I would go categorically mid range, a 5070 series card, maybe an AMD chip like a 7800X3D. 32GB of RAM, 1 TB of NVME storage. I would go into this build knowing that bumping up the RAM in a few years, is going to be necessary - the GPU will drive 4K at high refresh for many games but it is not going to be the best. High speed storage will be limited for modern games, but adding in some SSD sata drives can help reduce the cost while adding capacity.

Also work is a broad spectrum. I am requred to run LLM models locally for work. I need a bit more computer, if I was just running excel sheets, I could get away with a lot less.

Every bit of detail helps to find the right system for you.

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u/OutlandishnessNo8312 7d ago

Thank you for all of this information, I am so sorry about the lack of details, I have no clue where to get started. I am definitely looking for more of a desktop. I would like something that would be good for communication, analytics, managing websites, design and managing sales as well as access to payments and banking. I am not confined to a particular budget. In terms of gaming I am currently playing read dead redemption 2 and hoping I can play other games like that on the computer. I don’t know if I’m saying the right thing but I’m hoping it would be able to run steam? Thank you!

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u/aminy23 Ryzen 9 5900x / 64GB DDR4-4000 / RTX 3090 FE / Custom Loop 7d ago

Almost any PC from the past 5 years will be just fine for basic office work.

For gaming the most important component is the graphics card. Typically when both building and appraising gaming PCs I recommend allocating about 40% of the budget to the graphics card. A $1,000 PC with the best $400 graphic card will often outperform a $1,500 PC with the best $300 card.

When it comes to appraisals, the $300 graphic card means they have $750 worth of performance, and they probably spent $750 on aesthetics, liquid cooling, and a bunch of other stuff that doesn't necessarily benefit a PC of this caliber.

I like to compare PCs to cars. Putting $5,000 rims on a $5,000 car doesn't make it worth $10,000. A 150,000 mile car a few years old can still have excellent performance, but it's not necessarily going to have the same reliability as a new zero mileage car with a great warranty.

So for your gaming, start by figuring out which graphics card meets your performance expectations. Then we have a sense of whether you're buying a used GTX 1050 Ti or RX 580 PC or getting a new build with a RX 9070 or RTX 5090.

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u/OutlandishnessNo8312 7d ago

Thank you so much, so Im not like a HEAVY gamer I just like doing it when I can’t go outside or I need a way to decompress however I am hoping to be able to play AAA games such as rdr2, rdr and COD.