Hi everyone,
So I made a post awhile back and the the advice I ended up going with was hey wait for steam machine pricing and make a choice.
I want to make a decent gaming PC. I want to move away from windows. I have a reservation for a steam machine! Buts I assumed it’d be closer to $500! The reservation is for $1200 FML!
So advice part, looking to see if I can build a better machine rig for $800-1k. No expirence with Linux. Last built a PC for myself in 2007 - so let’s call that no expirence besides square hole goes into the round peg. But I understand more or less what I’m signing up for even starting from zero.
I quickly threw this together, so your price range is at least doable. This is about as cheap as I can get while still having 16GB RAM and more than 8GB VRAM.
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/7D2Zck
You might want a bigger SSD. Maybe upgrade the CPU slightly. And maybe a better mobo.
Faster version: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/rQqVFP
This is very helpful thanks!