I need some computer advice

[Myrany]

There is no doubt that for the next expansion I will have to replace my current PC. Problem is I haven't been PC shopping since I bought this one in early 2018. I am not a techie type and would not be up to building my own system.

I am running an old i7 with 16gb ram and a 1080ti graphics card now. And honestly it is starting to show its age with several games.

Can you guys perhaps give me some pointers on what I should be looking for in a new machine? My budget for a prebuilt is about $2000 US

[Eraden]

Mao has one suggestion. Whatever computer Myrany gets, makes sure is has SSD drive. Is godsend, especially when doings zone traversings intensive activities likes hunts trains.

[Myrany]

Mao has one suggestion. Whatever computer Myrany gets, makes sure is has SSD drive. Is godsend, especially when doings zone traversings intensive activities likes hunts trains.

Absolutely! is a 1 TB big enough?

[Eraden]

Absolutely! is a 1 TB big enough?

Is pretty bigs! Should be good for Myrany!

[Myrany]

Is pretty bigs! Should be good for Myrany!

YAY! Thank You!

[RitsukoSonoda]

Question is how high spec you're looking at.

ATM with these Black Friday Sales I'm seeing prebuilt desktops with 13th gen i7, 32GB of ram, 1TB SSD, and a GTX 4060ti down as far as $1400 USD. That should handle just about anything out now without issue.

However prices increase noticeably if you try to jump to an i9, a GTX 4080, or an NVME SSD.

Keep in mind I personally stopped paying attention to AMD CPU's and GPU's long ago because of personal experiences with both where they seem prone to overheating ranging from a CPU burning out the socket on the MB on a desktop, to a GPU on a laptop causing the MB to fully delaminate itself causing the GPU and everything around it to peel right off the board.

[Myrany]

Question is how high spec you're looking at.

ATM with these Black Friday Sales I'm seeing prebuilt desktops with 13th gen i7, 32GB of ram, 1TB SSD, and a GTX 4060ti down as far as $1400 USD. That should handle just about anything out now without issue.

However prices increase noticeably if you try to jump to an i9, a GTX 4080, or an NVME SSD.

Keep in mind I personally stopped paying attention to AMD CPU's and GPU's long ago because of personal experiences with both where they seem prone to overheating ranging from a CPU burning out the socket on the MB on a desktop, to a GPU on a laptop causing the MB to fully delaminate itself causing the GPU and everything around it to peel right off the board.

THe one I saw a bit ago was basically what you listed but it was a 4070. My worry with it was it was a company I know nothing about IBuyPower and its liquid cooled. I am old enough to remember the hell of the early liquid cooled systems leaking in the early days of them so I am VERY leary of liquid cooling particularly given I keep machines for 5+ years

My other issue is I really don't know what is current and what isnt. I remember there was some mess with the NVIDEA cards a year or 2 again where the new ones were not any better than the old ones and were self destructing to boot but I just dont remember which they were to avoid them

[Zeastria]

I dont know much about PC. but i can give you some hints/tips!:

Take a look at the games you plan to play and look at their hardware requirements;
Most games have minimum hardware reqs listed below in their info..
It will give you better pictures of how high you should set the bar..

[Myrany]

I found a recent model of the machine I have can anyone tell me if these specs work my main games are FFXIV, NMS, Subsistence and FS22

Acer - Predator Orion 5000 Gaming Desktop- Intel Core i7-13700F-32GB Memory- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti - 2TB Gen 4 SSD - Black

Its a bit out of my range but if I cut back on other things for awhile I can pull it off.

[RitsukoSonoda]

THe one I saw a bit ago was basically what you listed but it was a 4070. My worry with it was it was a company I know nothing about IBuyPower and its liquid cooled. I am old enough to remember the hell of the early liquid cooled systems leaking in the early days of them so I am VERY leary of liquid cooling particularly given I keep machines for 5+ years

My other issue is I really don't know what is current and what isnt. I remember there was some mess with the NVIDEA cards a year or 2 again where the new ones were not any better than the old ones and were self destructing to boot but I just dont remember which they were to avoid them

The one I mentioned actually came from Asus.
IBuyPower is basically a PC builder. Essentially they do the legwork buying the individual parts from manufacturers then put it together in one of their branded cases. Liquid cooling is a lot better than it was early on. The only real standout Nvidia story that comes to mind in the past couple years was an issue shortly after the launch of either the GTX4080 or GTX4090 where it was apparently melting the power cable.

Out of the 4 games you mentioned No Man's Sky is probably the heaviest hitter for resource usage once you start turning settings up.