r/PcSetupAdvice

I totally hope this is the right place to ask, I'm completely new to this so I cannot understand any of the lingo but i want to start saving for a super awesome setup i just don't know what kind of PC or Monitors or anything I should be looking at. I'm super into making art which takes up a lot of space, i want to try 3D modeling/rendering, animation, music production, all kinds of things AND be able to play games and do other stuff on the side, so i need A LOT of space and for things to look good and run really well! I really do not know what to look for, if anyone can help me that would be so amazing!!

My friend wants to build a PC, should he aims for the 4060 or the 5050. And what's the correct price for them if they are second-hand. Thanks guys (maybe AMD GPUs are better but I don't know them

The last PC I built was about 15 years ago, I am so out of the loop when it comes to this stuff now. Any recommendations are greatly appreciated.

Do I build my own or just buy a pre built?

Budget- as close to 1K as possible

Thank you!

Hey everybody, I am looking to help my friend build a pc, his budget is around $1,000. He would like to mostly play Arc Raiders, Apex Legends, and Fortnite. 1080p is fine. He already has monitors, keyboard, and mouse, so just looking to spend the 1k on the pc, would love some recommendations for builds please, Thanks!

Hello, I have taken coding classes and engineering classes in highschool… but have not owned a computer 😅 my mom said she’d finally buy me one but id have to find out which computer is best
I dont want to do research cause im lazy so I came here and thought it’d be smart to ask random people.
🙏🥹 please help a random kid out
Gonna be a freshman in college and im actually cooked

Recently, i sold my old GPU and bought a 9070xt. Currently im running it with my old I7 10700f CPU. My RAM is 32gb DDR4. My friend say this is severely bottle neck my GPU and at most it would only run at 50% capacity. So What is my path of upgrading here ? I was looking at the microcenter 7500x3d combo at $300 but im not sure if it worth going for it. Or save for a $600 7800x3d combo. How much improvement am I expect to gain ? Advices are much appreciated.

i’ve been slowly upgrading my setup over the last year and realized the weakest part by far is still my chair. i spend way too many hours at my desk between gaming, work, and just being online in general, and my back is definitely starting to complain about it now.

i keep seeing steelcase chairs recommended everywhere, especially the leap and gesture, but once i started looking at prices i realized this rabbit hole gets expensive fast. i’m trying to stay somewhere around the $500 to $1200 range depending on whether buying refurbished is actually worth the risk or not.

what’s confusing me is how divided people seem once you get past the hype. some say the leap is the most comfortable long term, others swear the gesture is better for pc setups and arm positioning, and then there are people saying herman miller still clears steelcase completely. after a while every review starts sounding like an ad lol.

for people here who actually use steelcase chairs daily at their setup, which model ended up being worth it for you? and if you bought refurbished, did it still feel premium long term or did you regret not buying new?

I need to get two computer speaker setups for two Mac minis in different rooms. I should spend less than $100, <70$ even better. I usually get ~ $60 2.1 speakers with sub. But I notice that at the <$100 price point, the 2.1 setups are rated pretty low on amazon, and there is an edifier 980t 2.0 bookshelf set that look better and are higher rated.

Does anyone have any advice on what is best to get in my price range, and the tradeoffs of these 2.0s (or others) vs. 2.1?

Hello friends.

My current PC was purchased in 2021 and I've started to notice quite a bit of stuttering and lag while gaming. Figured it might be time to upgrade, it's worked pretty well but it's five years old.

Current specs:
* AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz
* AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB
* 16GB RAM
* 1TB SSD
* Windows 10

I would love to go all the way up to AMD Ryzen 9800X3 and a Radeon RX 9070 XT, but those are kinda spendy around $2300-$2400; are there lower-priced alternatives where I would see a noticeable upgrade over what I have now?

For example, Costco has a CyperPowerPC with Intel Core Ultra 5 225F and GeForce RTX 5060 for $1500. Or Skytech Azure 3 with Intel Core Ultra 7 265K + Nvidia RTX 5060 for $1600.

Also I'm currently using a 1080 monitor and would love to go up to 1440 with a GPU upgrade.

Hoping to future proof myself for at least another 5 years like my last PC.

Any tips for a good/simple build for almost exclusively downloading, multitasking and general use? Already have a Seagate 8 tb USB 3.2 . My budget is around $2500
Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated

Just finished my first PC build with a 5080 and 7800X3D, and honestly the GPU price still hurts. I could've bought 4 Xboxes for what I paid for it alone.

I've been reading that the 5080 is so pricey because of low stock and scalpers buying them up. But is this a launch thing that eventually settles down, or does this happen every time a new GPU drops?