How to buy:

1. Find vendors that sell reasonably priced prebuilt PCs in your country.
2. Choose your price ranges, I'd recommend at least 2 price ranges. Sort by "Price Low to High".
3. Your graphics card is the most important component in any gaming PC, it has the biggest impact on performance. Always pick the PC with the fastest GPU you can afford. Check out the GPU comparison chart here.
4. When comparing PCs with GPUs of similar performance, choose the one with the stronger CPU. For single-threaded workloads like gaming, you can compare CPUs by their single-core performance using this site.
5. RAM: 16GB is recommended, 8GB still does the job. 3000Mhz RAM is recommended for AMD's CPUs, and 2666Mhz is good enough for Intel's CPUs. Don't choose the more expensive 3200Mhz RAM because 3000Mhz CL15 and 3200Mhz CL16 have the same absolute latency.

Tips:

1. Prebuilt PC brands don't really matter, they're assemblers, not manufacturers. They don't make the core components like GPUs or CPUs. They simply buy parts from the real makers (Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, XFX, ASUS, Sapphire, Gigabyte, Zotac, etc.) and put them together, just like building with Lego. A higher price usually just means a bigger profit margin for them, not a better PC.
2. Don't overspend on CPUs. Games tend to be more forgiving of older CPUs than of previous-generation GPUs, so even a CPU that's several generations old should still be okay.
3. For gaming, the GPU matters most, not the CPU. It's the main factor that determines FPS in games. Most games aren't heavily dependent on CPU power, including CPU-intensive ones (Red Dead Redemption 2 only requires an i5-2500K from 15 years ago to run).
4. At 1440p/4K Ultra settings, the demand on the GPU increases significantly, making it the primary bottleneck in gaming performance, not the CPU (GPU is used 100%, but the CPU is only used about 50%). Spending extra on a more expensive CPU usually results in minimal FPS gains and diminishing returns.
5. Stay away from terribly overpriced Cybertron, CLX SET, NZXT, MSI, Acer, MainGear, Digital Storm, and Build Redux PCs. Those companies leverage their successful marketing in order to upcharge their PCs.
6. Don't overspend on hardware, people often forget they'll need money for games too. They focus too much on the specs and forget that games themselves can be a large expense.
7. You don't need to buy Windows, you can use it for free forever without activation. Follow these steps to create installation media (USB flash drive) you can use to install Windows 11 for free: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/create-installation-media-for-windows-99a58364-8c02-206f-aa6f-40c3b507420d
8. Always update your Windows and GPU drivers to the latest version:
   • AMD Radeon graphics card drivers
   • Intel Arc graphics card drivers
   • NVIDIA graphics card drivers
9. Please don't install antivirus software. The built-in Windows Security is lightweight and really effective.

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