Think about getting a PC to play

[Axxion]

Hello all hope all is well. Can anybody recommend me a good gaming pc? Please and thank you

[Lilseph]

Where are you from? What's your budget? What games would you like to play? What resolution?

[Axxion]

US. maybe about 500-800 range. Mostly mmo. resolution doesn't matter atm

[Risu0042]

How comfortable would you be building one yourself? you can normally do better with picking your own parts as pre-builds will use lower quality parts.

[Tufelhunden]

If your not interested in building it yourself, every now and then newegg had year old gaming rigs for a great price. I normally build but right after the GTX8 Series came out I was able to grab a computer with a GTX770 in it and an i7 processor for $500. I couldn't have built it for that even though the GPU was older. So I'd start there. TBH mine is running at 1080P almost maxed I everything and still has a great framerate. So that's my suggestion.

https://m.newegg.com/products/N82E16883101536

Something like this.

[Kalam]

If you build your own, you can visit /r buildapc. The folks over there are very helpful in buying and building your pc.

[Morzy]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/cHBMtJ

[Sandpark]

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/best-ga...view-2219.html

Remember though when you skimp on older hardware, you need to upgrade sooner rather than later and some motherboards aren't compatible with some videocards and vice versa.

You could probably build a good pc for 800ish, but you would need to do your own research. It's not that hard.

As for res, high res is nice, but it isn't that huge of a difference on small screens or low texture games. Frames is way more important if you want to be on your A game. I play XIV in 120FPS and it feels like an offline game, so smooth most of the time.

[eschaton]

If you decide full HD 1080p at 60fps is good enough you won't have to spend a lot. An i5 / about 8gb / and a lower 10 series with a basic amount of vram nvidia card, combined is plenty for (Dx11) HD gaming, really. If you go over that you'll need more powerful stuff.

[Avatre]

I have a question(I'm thinking of switching from PS4 to PC...but need to build a PC first - have a friend willing to help as I've never done so before), how easy/hard is it to get a PS4(or whatever controller is compatible) to work with that? Is it just a matter of getting the right driver, and having the cords/controller?

Edit: The controller wouldn't just be for FFXIV, but for some other games as well that are capable of being played with one.