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I'm rocking a 1060 which is roughly the same performance depending on the game, and am definitely waiting for 3rd gen. Even if it's not a huge leap in performance, 2nd gen cards will drop in price quite a lot. Hold off a few months.

OK I figured it out - you need to boot from a Windows 10 USB, select repair my computer, advanced and then restore.

OK, I did a little experimenting with Linux (er... don't ask) and I trashed my Windows 10 partition. But no problem,, because I backed up right? Yes I did! But I cannot find anywhere that lets be backup from this specific image (see attached). If I go for Windows Restore, it seems to be looking for something very different from what I have. Does anyone know how to restore from this? I've never restored from Win10 (I've been in the Mac wilderness for decades). Thanks!

Looks like a decent rig and will game well. I don't know if you considered and then dismissed AMD, but a 3600x will save you about 50 large and perform better, and the motherboard will be less expensive too. The savings could go towards re-purchasing some of the favorite games on PC that you had on console.

Given the clarification in the first comment, you could ask the question as "do you spend most of your PC time gaming". So the answer is no. I have a dedicated desktop PC that I use almost exclusively for gaming, but I use a Mac for most serious things like music composition, working, browsing LTT, accounting etc. Then there is my office PC, for office stuff.

2009, when Windows 7 was still in pre-release, was the last time I built a rig. It was an all-AMD affair, a Phenom II 955 and a 4870 - not bad for its day. Anyway, after a minor hiatus, I decided I wanted to play some of my old games again, as well as some new ones. My needs are small, as a middle-aged gamer 1080p @60fps seems positively futuristic, so I built a pretty modest rig in a small Cooler Master Lite130. Here it is: Ryzen 1700X Gigabyte GA-AB350N-Gaming Wifi EVGA nVidia GTX 1060 (6GB) 16GB Balistix RAM 500GB Samsung EVO 970 NVMe (boot disk + common apps) 2TB BarraCuda 3.5" Drive Masterliquid ML120L liquid cooling SilverStone 450W SFX PSU Some quick benchmark results (no overclocking and RAM timings all at auto): GeekBench: 4,105 / 22,212 CineBench: CPU- 1,522 / GPU- 102.17fps 3DMark Vantage Performance 42,794 (my old Phenom Rig got 8,953 for reference) 3DMark TimeSpy: 4,262 3DMark Fire Strike: 11,142 Superposition (1080P Extreme): 2,165 CPU Temps at idle are around 25 celsius and at load 65 celsius, so far no issues. Building a rig is still a pain in the neck but so much more satisfying. My first was in 1997, 21 years ago! Peace.

Star Raiders was 8KB of ROM, Donkey Kong was 16KB (those were my first games)

Hi - newbie here. I haven't posted much in tech forums for a few years, although I was on MadOnion (later Futuremark) for almost two decades until they closed the forums. I've recently got back into PC gaming, I love the Linus Tech Tips channel on YouTube. I'm a bit of a grandpa (really... my first computer was an Atari 800) but young at heart as they say. Anyhoo, hello and all that.