For as long as you are intending to stay on Full-HD, it isn't as severe on the desktop.
-Cheap AM4 board plus a Ryzen 5600ish (no upgrade lanes to later CPUs, but the right board pick will still support the 5800x3D, which is still a high end gaming CPU due to its masses of cache).
-Cheap 2x8GB of DDR4
-SSD (Prices are falling here)
-The GPU market is completely broken and exploited by both duopolists, but the RX 6600 is still some value on the lower end for Full-HD (prior to Christmas, I saw one for 240 Euros). (Intel has the RTX 3050 and RTX 3060 8GB (be aware it's much slower than the RTX 3060 12GB), but they're not good enough for ray-tracing anyway, despite the neat marketing tag...
I'm still on my 1050ti, which 2 years ago played the EA of BG3 still reasonably well (not sure what's changed since). If it won't do anymore, I'm planning to upgrade to a RX 6600 (and undervolt it, as I don't like even entry level cards these days maxing out at 130Watts, even though they offer far more fps per Watt than my old 1050ti for sure).
Last edited by Sven_; 01/01/23 02:32 PM.
