I am not a tech savvy person - and my son needs a new gaming desktop that can run Monster Hunter Wilds. Could you please help me figure out if either of these two options will work? Option 1 is significantly cheaper, so I’m holding my fingers crossed for that one.

Thank you all in advance!

Specs for Monster Hunter Wilds:

  • CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-11600K or Intel® Core™ i5-12400 or AMD - Ryzen™ 5 3600X or AMD Ryzen™ 5 5500
  • RAM: 16 GB
  • VIDEO CARD: NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 2070 Super(VRAM 8GB) or NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 4060(VRAM 8GB) or AMD Radeon™ RX - 6700XT(VRAM 12GB)
  • DEDICATED VIDEO RAM: 8 GB (AMD 12GB)
  • PIXEL SHADER: 6.0
  • VERTEX SHADER: 6.0
  • FREE DISK SPACE: 140 GB

OPTION 1:

OPTION 2:

    • Owl@mander.xyz
      3·
      3 days ago

      Please, don’t buy an extra HDD, buy an SSD. The difference is that an HDD has a physical spinning disc inside of it (picture yourself a CD) while an SSD doesn’t rely on physical moving components like that, which makes them literally 10 or more times faster. If you have an old computer that is slow it’s very likely that it has an HDD and swapping it out for an SSD would make it feel new. Do not fall into the “HDDs are a bit cheaper” trap, it’s not worth it especially with those two machines

      • impudentmortal@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 days ago

        It’s been a long time since I’ve upgraded the storage on my PC so I am surprised at how much cheaper SSDs have gotten. The fact that a 4TB WD Black SSD is only $100 more than the HDD one is pretty crazy to me. With that in mind, if OP is willing to spend more money, than the SSD is definitely the way to go.

        One thing to note, however, is that Option 1 only has expansions for 3.5" storage (i.e. HDDs). So if OP does decide to go with Option 1, they’ll have to take the 1TB SSD it comes with and replace it with whatever they buy, rather than adding additional storage. Option 2, however, only has m.2 expandable storage so using only SSDs for that computer would be a lot easier.