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[Rogue Arnold]

Looking at 2 Prebuilt options and wondering what would be better.

Ryzen 3600 CPU, Nvidia GeForce 3070 GPU

 

Ryzen 5600 CPU, Nvidia GeForce 3060 GPU

 

[Freakwise]

Is the price and other part of the pc is same like size of ssd/ram, nvme/sata?

 

[Downkey]

8 minutes ago, Rogue Arnold said:

Looking at 2 Prebuilt options and wondering what would be better.

Ryzen 3600 CPU, Nvidia GeForce 3070 GPU

 

Ryzen 5600 CPU, Nvidia GeForce 3060 GPU

 

What are the prices of the systems? What are the full specs of both systems? (include the case and PSU)
What are you using this PC for? If gaming, what games?

[Corniator]

One is a better CPU with a worse GPU, and the other is a better GPU with a worse CPU. It really depends on what you will do with your computer.

 

If you are doing gaming, in 95% of cases it would be option number 1, with the 3070.

[Rogue Arnold]

HP Omen PC

Secs are basically the same they just don't have any 5000 CPU build with a 3070.

No heavy gaming. Play some xbox games, minecraft Java, COD occasionally.

 

5600X, 16gb ddr-3200, 512gb nvme, Nvidia 3060 - $1,809.99

 

3700X, 16gb ddr-3200, 512gb nvme, Nvidia 3070- $2159.99

[Corniator]

The PC you are buying is really overkill for those things. That's fine, you know best, if you want these rigs they are absolutely great systems. Unless you have some funky way to play those games at 8k or something, both of those setups will absolutely destroy those games (in a good way). 

 

Option 1 - it is a little easier to upgrade the GPU than the CPU. This means that in 5 years when this PC might not be able to run every game at highest settings anymore, you could buy a better GPU and the CPU will still hold up.

 

Option 2 - is more balanced and will remain relevant for longer.

 

If the price would be the same, I would definitely go for option 2. But the 300$ difference makes me lean more towards the first option. Especially because you should not see any difference in performance between these 2 systems, since they are both waaay to strong for the games you are running.

[Rogue Arnold]

2 hours ago, Corniator said:

The PC you are buying is really overkill for those things. That's fine, you know best, if you want these rigs they are absolutely great systems. Unless you have some funky way to play those games at 8k or something, both of those setups will absolutely destroy those games (in a good way). 

 

Option 1 - it is a little easier to upgrade the GPU than the CPU. This means that in 5 years when this PC might not be able to run every game at highest settings anymore, you could buy a better GPU and the CPU will still hold up.

 

Option 2 - is more balanced and will remain relevant for longer.

 

If the price would be the same, I would definitely go for option 2. But the 300$ difference makes me lean more towards the first option. Especially because you should not see any difference in performance between these 2 systems, since they are both waaay to strong for the games you are running.

Alternate option is Alienware Aurora 

 

5800 CPU, 16GB ddr4-3200, 512GB nvme, Nvidia 3070 - $1,980.00

 

[Corniator]

4 hours ago, Rogue Arnold said:

Alternate option is Alienware Aurora 

 

5800 CPU, 16GB ddr4-3200, 512GB nvme, Nvidia 3070 - $1,980.00

 

 

From these three builds this one looks like it is the best option. The difference between these the computers you listed really is rather small, for your intended use. They will all perform their job excellently for many years. Because the difference is so small it is difficult to say which one is exactly the better one, since it can depend on the brand of individual components and such things, which the manufacturers usually don't disclose.
 

Because the performance difference between them is so small, other factors can be considered when buying. Who has the better customer support? Which computer looks better to you and fits your desk setup better? etc.

 

Bottom line is, these are all excellent machines with slight differences here and there, but it is difficult to say that one is better than the other, because none of the differences will be noticeable to you.

 

If I had to pick one I would pick the alienware.