Seniors corner

[Ducky610]

hi im a senior who is ready to get back into pc gaming. Its been a long while since I have done pc gaming, but being from the original gaming era I think its time to get back to it. But boy is all the new tech overwellming. Could us some help with what to buy, building myself or prebuild.

this is my plan- i want to creat a role playing group in star citizen. I have to play this game, its amazing!

I have been a big gamer since it all started, Im retired with a lot time to fill, in elite dangerous im elite x2.

 

ps i think this might be a good topic for your youtube chanel (Seniors courner) or something to that affect.

thank you for your videos have watched all of them as well as other links.

Ducky610

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3 minutes ago, Ducky610 said:

hi im a senior who is ready to get back into pc gaming. Its been a long while since I have done pc gaming, but being from the original gaming era I think its time to get back to it. But boy is all the new tech overwellming. Could us some help with what to buy, building myself or prebuild.

this is my plan- i want to creat a role playing group in star citizen. I have to play this game, its amazing!

I have been a big gamer since it all started, Im retired with a lot time to fill, in elite dangerous im elite x2.

 

ps i think this might be a good topic for your youtube chanel (Seniors courner) or something to that affect.

thank you for your videos have watched all of them as well as other links.

Ducky610

Welcome to the forum!

 

Do you have a budget in mind?

[Ducky610]

1500.00 for pc the rest is for monitor and streaming set up 

 

 

[Ducky610]

Sorry thats canadian 

North Vancouver, BC

[emcee2]

As a semi-retired, semi-senior myself, I bid you welcome.

 

I just build my first PC ever last week... and I come from 30+ years behind a Mac. So if I can do it, so can you.

 

I didn't build mine for gaming, more to once again have a top tier graphic workstation. Turns out they overlap quite a bit.

 

I'm running what I call my 'crappy' temp GPU. Its better then I expected but I'm going to have to hold off exploring 4K video editing until hell thaws out and I can pick up an MSRP 3080. This is also going to effect how my PC runs as a gamer. Which is sad as I've become quite interested in Red Dead Redemption 2.

 

Since GPUs are hard to find or hard to afford, you'll need to start out with how your going to deal with that, then fill in the blanks around it.

 

Last major video game I played was Myst 1.  

 

 

What specs / price range are you looking at?

 

 

[IkeaGnome]

Graphics cards are very hard to get right now. This should do fine with Star Citizen, I think, and leave $500 CAD for a GPU. If you can find a 6600xt, 6700xt, 3060 or 3060ti at a good price it'll fit into that extra $500 left. I went with no RGB. I personally don't like it and just assumed you didn't want a lot of lights either. Motherboard BIOS would need updated to use that CPU, but that can be done with a USB stick following these directions. PSU is a lot more than you'd need for an APU build but would hold up really well with a graphics card down the line as long as it's not a 3080 or 6900xt. 16 gigs of RAM may or may not be enough depending on how Star Citizen handles RAM. With the graphics being built into the CPU, you'd also be using RAM for that. You could step up to 32 gigs if you're worried, but when you get a GPU you'll probably never really need 32 gb so I went with 16 to save a little bit more money. That case is a little expensive, but is very good. If you don't want a full ATX case, we could look at doing something a little bit smaller. 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G 3.9 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($329.99 @ Amazon Canada) 
Motherboard: MSI MPG B550 GAMING PLUS ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($169.99 @ Canada Computers) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory  ($104.99 @ Best Buy Canada) 
Storage: Samsung 980 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($174.75 @ Vuugo) 
Case: Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower Case  ($117.25 @ Vuugo) 
Power Supply: Corsair RMx (2018) 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($119.99 @ Amazon Canada) 
Case Fan: ARCTIC P12 56.3 CFM 120 mm Fan  ($24.51 @ Amazon Canada) 
Total: $1041.47
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-08-30 17:47 EDT-0400

[Ducky610]

3 hours ago, IkeaGnome said:

Graphics cards are very hard to get right now. This should do fine with Star Citizen, I think, and leave $500 CAD for a GPU. If you can find a 6600xt, 6700xt, 3060 or 3060ti at a good price it'll fit into that extra $500 left. I went with no RGB. I personally don't like it and just assumed you didn't want a lot of lights either. Motherboard BIOS would need updated to use that CPU, but that can be done with a USB stick following these directions. PSU is a lot more than you'd need for an APU build but would hold up really well with a graphics card down the line as long as it's not a 3080 or 6900xt. 16 gigs of RAM may or may not be enough depending on how Star Citizen handles RAM. With the graphics being built into the CPU, you'd also be using RAM for that. You could step up to 32 gigs if you're worried, but when you get a GPU you'll probably never really need 32 gb so I went with 16 to save a little bit more money. That case is a little expensive, but is very good. If you don't want a full ATX case, we could look at doing something a little bit smaller. 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G 3.9 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($329.99 @ Amazon Canada) 
Motherboard: MSI MPG B550 GAMING PLUS ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($169.99 @ Canada Computers) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory  ($104.99 @ Best Buy Canada) 
Storage: Samsung 980 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($174.75 @ Vuugo) 
Case: Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower Case  ($117.25 @ Vuugo) 
Power Supply: Corsair RMx (2018) 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($119.99 @ Amazon Canada) 
Case Fan: ARCTIC P12 56.3 CFM 120 mm Fan  ($24.51 @ Amazon Canada) 
Total: $1041.47
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-08-30 17:47 EDT-0400

thanks that was a lot of help

[Ducky610]

18 hours ago, emcee2 said:

As a semi-retired, semi-senior myself, I bid you welcome.

 

I just build my first PC ever last week... and I come from 30+ years behind a Mac. So if I can do it, so can you.

 

I didn't build mine for gaming, more to once again have a top tier graphic workstation. Turns out they overlap quite a bit.

 

I'm running what I call my 'crappy' temp GPU. Its better then I expected but I'm going to have to hold off exploring 4K video editing until hell thaws out and I can pick up an MSRP 3080. This is also going to effect how my PC runs as a gamer. Which is sad as I've become quite interested in Red Dead Redemption 2.

 

Since GPUs are hard to find or hard to afford, you'll need to start out with how your going to deal with that, then fill in the blanks around it.

 

Last major video game I played was Myst 1.  

 

 

What specs / price range are you looking at?

 

 

wow thanks for the reply! its really wierd but that was the last game I played as well