ElZamo92

That sounds like malware to me...

After a small bit of research, I’ve come to the conclusion that yes, there would be a significant bottleneck, specially in relatively recent games like Battlefield 4, but if that’s all you’ve got, I’d say go for it and see if you can get a core2quad Q6600, which will be cheap since it is compatible with the same motherboard, but it’ll be enough to alleviate the bottleneck thank to its four cores.

PCPartPicker part list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/jZXBLJ CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600X 3.6GHz 6-Core Processor ($209.99 @ Amazon) Motherboard: MSI - B350M MORTAR Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($79.23 @ OutletPC) Memory: G.Skill - Sniper X 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($180.98 @ Newegg) Total: $470 just make sure that you have a way to update the BIOS, since there aren’t any mATX mobos that natively support Ryzen 2000.

I’m genuinely not that interested. My PC is fine as it is for now, specially because of the marginal improvements in performance that will most likely be revealed. The 1180 is rumoured to be barely faster than the 1080ti, which does not impress me in the slightest, specially after the two years they took to milk Pascal dry instead of developing significant improvements to the architecture. Intel’s rumored eight core CPU is out of the question for me, since I recently switched to the AM4 platform, and going back to Intel would be an expensive endeavour. The only thing I’m kind of interested in are new storage tech (one can never have too much storage), specially on the solid state side of things, and maybe developments in memory tech.

I think PC gaming is more than looks, more than higher frame rates. It's about playing games however you like. On a console there is only one set of detail level that any game can be experienced with, but on a PC you can tweak them however you like. On a console there is a set of peripherals that you must use to game and on PC you can use whatever input device you can plug into an I/O port. On consoles you can only play games that a corporation allows you to run on their console, on PC that restriction doesn't exist. You can even chose your operating system! Freedom is what PC gaming is about,

$450 seems fine to me, but that hardware is quite underwhelming.

I really don't know. Maybe it was my grandma's old Atari 2600 or my aunt's NES, but maybe it could have been Doom on my grandpa's PC. The first gaming device I had was a Nintendo 64, so I'm going to go with that,

I don't have a mic connected at all times, so I'm not worried.

I’ve never touched a PS4 (apart from the ones you see in Walmart with bolted in controlers) since most of my friends who still play on consoles have XBONEs or Switches.

I made the mistake of watching the video and reading the comments... Now I feel like I need to kill someone to calm my rage,,,

I’d say something like a nice audio system won’t become obsolete in a LONG time. The only way a speaker system becomes unusable if you physically break them which is very unlikely, and there’s people who use the same CD players from the 90s, not because they’re retro, but because they’re still quite relevant.

I'd be on the game if the damn thing even worked....

You could get a capture card with RCA inputs and record it using OBS.

These are my top picks: CPU: AMD Ryzen (more threads make your PCs look more appealing to the general public) MB: Gigabyte and Asrock (personally never had a problem with them + great bang4buck) Grapphics card: Asus (they make great variants booth AMD and Nvidia GPUs) Ram: I’ve used many brands, and the only difference I’ve noticed are the looks of the heat spreaders, but I usually buy Adata. Storage: Samsung SSDs and Hitachi hard drives. PSU: I’ve exclusively used Corsair PSUs, from very low end VS series to the high end RMi series and I haven’t had an issue in any of the dozens of PCs I’ve built for the past four years. I’d also recommend EVGA (bang4buck) and Seasonic (very good reputation). Monitors: I’ve liked my BenQ gaming monitors, but I love my non gaming Acer 4K monitor (it was only $250).

Well, Siri can have different voices. It has male and female voices with many different accents available for each, and the voice is different for every language, which is true for all speech synthesis systems.

Anything above 300W is more than enough for that setup, but I recommend you get something that’s at least 500W if you decide to add a graphics in the future. This one looks good to me: https://www.amazon.com/Cooler-Master-Bronze-certified-supply/dp/B074ZDLGM3

When the "next gen" consoles came out, I was looking to upgrade from my Xbox 360, but the new consoles where outrageously expensive in Mexico (the equivalent of $800 for the Xbone and $700 for the PS4), so I watched tons of videos on how to build a PC and when the Nvidia 900 series GPUs came out I had saved enough to afford a GTX 970, bit nothing else, so I ended with a PC with a HUGE bottleneck with a G3258 and only 4GB of RAM, but it was WAY better to what I was used to. Every game I threw at it ran at 60fps max settings, and it was GLORIOUS.

But does it solve the TONS of issues I’ve had with audio playback?

I think Asus made a prototype of a very fat laptop with a Ryzen 7 1700 and an RX 580 at CES 2017, but I don’t think it ever came out....

I’d argue it’s the Epyc 7601 with 32 cores and 64 threads @ 3.2GHz boost and 2.7GHz base.

This is not entirely accurate. The fact that a new iPhones “only” have 3GB of RAM and “only” 6 cores doesn’t mean that they are the same as another phone with 3GB of RAM and 6 cores. It’d be like saying that an AMD FX 8350 is better than an i7 4770k because it has more cores and cache. As for Macs, they have similar specs than other similarilly priced premium computers in the same matket space. It is obvious that a custom tower PC will be cheaper than an all-in-one with the same specs, and comparing their thin and lights to fat gaming laptops seems a bit unreasonable. Sure, Apple products are expensive for what they are, and they do stupid shit to their products like having a proprietary NVMe SSD interface, soldering RAM on a desktop computer or “upgrading” their 2013 Mac Mini lineup from Ivy Bridge desktop quad cores to Haswell ultra book dual cores, but they are most certainly not pure snake oil.

In my case it’s because they have GREAT customer support, their mobile devices keep getting updates for long periods of time, and most importantly they have a WAY better privacy policy than Google or Microsoft.

That would be AMAZING

I have a Ryzen based ITX machine (specs in signature), but I think you mean something like this but with decent graphics: