What We Use – Gaming PC Setups 2021

What gaming PC setups does everyone here have, if applicable.

Me:

A modest Dell XPS 8930 with a i7-8700, 16gb RAM and a GeForce GTX 1060. A great all around productivity and gaming PC.

Albeit, the graphics card could be upgraded to something better. That obviously wouldn’t be for a few years (supply & prices).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conversation 11 comments

  • sentinel6671

    Premium Member
    20 November, 2021 - 1:18 pm

    <p>After many, many years with Intel, I jumped ship to AMD last year. I’m on a homebrew Asus X570-E with Ryzen 3700X, 32 gb RAM an GeForce GTX 2070 Super. So far it’s an excellent all-rounder and serving me well. </p><p><br></p><p>I always figured I’d move to a Ryzen 5800X at some point, because the mobo allows for it, but we’ll see. Ripping apart the liquid cooler setup and redoing it doesn’t feel very appealing or necessary.</p>

  • SWCetacean

    Premium Member
    20 November, 2021 - 1:56 pm

    <p>I have a gaming desktop that I built that uses an MSI B450 Tomahawk mainboard, a Ryzen 7 3700X CPU (originally started with a Ryzen 7 2700, then upgraded), 16 GB DDR4-3200 RAM, and an RTX 3070 that I acquired this summer (was using a 1080 Ti before). This desktop also has an Asus PCIE WiFi card installed so that I can connect wirelessly; it’s just simpler that way based on where this thing is compared to the router.</p><p><br></p><p>While I could go to a Ryzen 5000-series CPU, I’ll probably just hold off until the next platform shift before upgrading the rest of the system.</p>

    • sentinel6671

      Premium Member
      20 November, 2021 - 3:21 pm

      <p>Wow, you found an RTX 3070! Lucky you :)</p>

  • jimchamplin

    Premium Member
    20 November, 2021 - 3:08 pm

    <p>Acer Nitro 5 notebook. AMD Ryzen 5 4600H. Switchable Radeon Vega (Integrated) graphics and GeForce GTX 1650 (4GB).</p><p><br></p><p>Runs like a dream with Windows 11. I never noticed the performance issues, honestly. I mean with all those heavy, games like Diablo 3, Star Trek Online, and HOTS I run, it would be so hard to not notice.</p>

  • JE

    20 November, 2021 - 4:16 pm

    <p>Current series HP Omen 30L desktop with i9, 64gb, 2tb ssd, 2tb hdd, nvidia 3090. The thing is a monster. Spits out max settings 4K at 150 fps.</p>

  • peterc

    Premium Member
    20 November, 2021 - 5:02 pm

    <p>Lenovo Cube C530, i7-8700 CPU 16Gb Ram Nvidia GTX1060 6GB – Fab!</p>

  • paull90

    21 November, 2021 - 5:31 am

    <p>I have a self built machine that I upgrade bit at a time.</p><p>MSI Z370-A Pro Motherboard with an Intel i5 8400</p><p>16GB 2400Mhz Ram</p><p>MSI 3070 (managed to get one at close to MSRP on Christmas Eve last year)</p><p>2TB XPG Gammix S70 NVME &amp; 4TB Seagate HDD for media storage</p><p><br></p><p>I’m getting an i7 9700K from my wife for Xmas which will fit in the existing Motherboard, I will then in the early new year upgrade to 32GB of faster memory (probably 3200Mhz)</p>

  • moruobai

    21 November, 2021 - 10:25 am

    <p>Depends on the game! </p><p><br></p><p>For modern ones I have a Dell XPS 8940 with an i7-10700, 32GB RAM, and an RTX2060. It screams.</p><p><br></p><p>For older ones from the mid to late 90s I have an IBM Aptiva running Windows 98SE with a Pentium III, 256MB RAM, and 3D Rage ATI graphics card! </p><p><br></p><p>For early to mid 90s I have an IBM PS/1 with a 486DX Overdrive (!), a luxurious 64MB RAM, Sound Blaster 16 (!), and a Diamond Speedstar! Runs on good old DOS and Windows 3.</p>

  • vladimir

    Premium Member
    21 November, 2021 - 5:45 pm

    <p>I have a self built desktop computer that I use for gaming and work form home:</p><p>ASUS ROG Maximus Hero XI, i9-9900K, 32 GB Ram, RTX 3080</p><p>3 monitors (one 4k 55inch LG TV, one 21:9 ultrawide and one 1080p)</p><p>HP G1 VR Headset</p><p>several gaming peripherals, the most notable ones are a Thrustmaster T300 Wheel, Honeycomb yoke and throttle, Virpil HOTAS</p>

  • usman

    Premium Member
    22 November, 2021 - 2:17 pm

    <p>Still running my custom Build PC from 2015 (have replaced the Mobo and GPU over the years) running the following:</p><p><br></p><p>Intel i7 5960X, 32 GB RAM and an RTX 3070 Founders (at Retail Price)</p><p>Samsung CRG9 32:9 Ultrawide Monitor</p><p>Recently got a TPM2.0 chip for it so Windows 11 would run on it (albeit in "unsupported" mode because of the CPU generation)</p><p><br></p><p>Peripherals:</p><p>Logitech G502 Lightspeed Wireless with Powerplay Mat</p><p>Corsair K65 LUX Cherry Red Switch Keyboard</p><p>Logitech G Pro Wireless Headset</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Currently fine as it is, every time something new and shiny comes out, I still look at my PC and realise it still does the job.</p>

  • justme

    Premium Member
    23 November, 2021 - 2:51 am

    <p>Built to spec a while ago, still runs well – i7-4770, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GTX1060</p>

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