Asus rog G15 vs Dell G5

[Burgereater20]

I'm looking at two prebuilts from best buy.

 

This asus: https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/asus-rog-strix-gaming-pc-black-amd-ryzen-5-3600x-1tb-hdd-512gb-ssd-16gb-ram-geforce-rtx-2060-super/14431177

 

Or this dell on "sale": https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/dell-g5-gaming-pc-abyss-black-intel-core-i7-10700f-1tb-ssd-16gb-ram-rtx-2060-super/14882497

 

Both at 1.7k CAD, I know they are hardly a great deal but I can't bother waiting until 2022 to build my own. 1TB SSD is nice on the dell and i already have a 2TB HDD to add although proprietary parts could be annoying. I'd also upgrade the RAM on either in a few months (both single channel I believe)

 

Which would you pick?

edit: found this with a 3060: https://www.newegg.ca/abs-ali489/p/N82E16883360084 which is also interesting

[curiousmind34]

If you are willing to pay a bit more you might want to just get a 3060ti machine, as it’s going to be significantly faster and 

https://www.newegg.ca/abs-ali475/p/N82E16883360070?Description=3060ti prebuilt&cm_re=3060ti_prebuilt-_-83-360-070-_-Product

Just looking at the spec sheet, the dell is significantly better than the asus. Dell prebuilts are generally hard to do major upgrades on. I don’t know about ASUS, but i’m pretty sure they would just use their standard b450 motherboards. 

Basically, if you are going to upgrade this PC with something other than storage/ram, you should get the asus. If you are not, you should probably get the dell since it has 8 cores and a larger ssd.

Edit: It seems the 3060ti prebuilt has went out of stock before I even finished my post, but they generally go in and out of stock on newegg and if you check twice a day you are almost guaranteed to find one at a reasonable price in less than 5 days.

[Burgereater20]

13 minutes ago, curiousmind34 said:

If you are willing to pay a bit more you might want to just get a 3060ti machine, as it’s going to be significantly faster and 

https://www.newegg.ca/abs-ali475/p/N82E16883360070?Description=3060ti prebuilt&cm_re=3060ti_prebuilt-_-83-360-070-_-Product

Just looking at the spec sheet, the dell is significantly better than the asus. Dell prebuilts are generally hard to do major upgrades on. I don’t know about ASUS, but i’m pretty sure they would just use their standard b450 motherboards. 

Basically, if you are going to upgrade this PC with something other than storage/ram, you should get the asus. If you are not, you should probably get the dell since it has 8 cores and a larger ssd.

Edit: It seems the 3060ti prebuilt has went out of stock before I even finished my post, but they generally go in and out of stock on newegg and if you check twice a day you are almost guaranteed to find one at a reasonable price in less than 5 days.

I forgot to mention, I was already stretching my budget pretty far for the 1.7K .. was initially going to pick up something with a 1660 super but decided to extend my budget a bit

 

I doubt I'll throw many upgrades on it though so it seems like I'll go with the Dell, I just want decent framerates on 1080p on AAA games

[curiousmind34]

7 minutes ago, Burgereater20 said:

I forgot to mention, I was already stretching my budget pretty far for the 1.7K .. was initially going to pick up something with a 1660 super but decided to extend my budget a bit

 

I doubt I'll throw many upgrades on it though so it seems like I'll go with the Dell, I just want decent framerates on 1080p on AAA games

1660 super systems seem to be going around 500 less for a 512gb ssd and 8gb of ram (which you should definitely upgrade if you get 8gb of ram)

https://www.newegg.ca/msi-codex-r-10si-015ca/p/N82E16883152659?Description=1660 super prebuilt&cm_re=1660_super prebuilt-_-83-152-659-_-Product

might be worth taking a look at since the 2060 is not that much faster (20%), as most of what you gain are features like dlss and ray tracing, not too much of traditional rasterization performance

[Burgereater20]

10 minutes ago, curiousmind34 said:

1660 super systems seem to be going around 500 less for a 512gb ssd and 8gb of ram (which you should definitely upgrade if you get 8gb of ram)

https://www.newegg.ca/msi-codex-r-10si-015ca/p/N82E16883152659?Description=1660 super prebuilt&cm_re=1660_super prebuilt-_-83-152-659-_-Product

might be worth taking a look at since the 2060 is not that much faster (20%), as most of what you gain are features like dlss and ray tracing, not too much of traditional rasterization performance

I'll consider that.. is an i5 a big downgrade for gaming?

 

Looks like that MSI also has better cooling

[curiousmind34]

For gaming, not really. It's similar (granted a bit slower) than the cpu in the asus prebuilt you linked earlier