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Is this a good setup for the price? This is somewhere in Europe. A tech shop that allows you to choose your hardware and they assemble it for you.

I mainly want to play older and indie games on it. Some video editing as well, possibly. Current rig is a crappy pre-built which overheats like crazy, practically impossible to do any gaming on it. TIA for any answers.

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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 24 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (14 children)

No.

ETA: I think you're adding an extra ≈€300-€400 just to have them build it for you. A recent post listed a better setup for ≈$600usd, and it had 32gb RAM, a 6700XT, and a 5800X (iirc).

I think they're scalping you. You'd be better off buying the parts yourself and building it. It's not hard to do; there's plenty of YouTube content about building one yourself.

[–] lapislazuli@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (13 children)

Thanks for the appraisal. Not surprised that there's some extra in that price. Building it myself is not an option because I'm clumsy to the extent that I should get it diagnosed. Getting it assembled seems to be the cheapest alternative for me. But generally speaking, is that setup good enough to run older and indie games? At least the case seems to have plenty of fans. My current setup has practically no airflow and the fans are going crazy as soon as I even as much as touch a game.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

See if you can find someone to build it for you on a work-for-hire type of site. There're tons of people who build their own PCs. If you can find someone who doesn't oversell their skills and is competent, I bet you could have it built for a third of that markup.

[–] lapislazuli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I just went and added all the parts to the cart and it seems they are charging around 100 € for the build. So not 300-400 € like Telorand estimated. These are Scandinavian, not US prices.

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