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:
- Intel Core Ultra 7 265F (1.8GHz) Processor
- 32GB DDR5-5600 RAM
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Dual Graphics Card
- 1TB PCIe M.2 NVMe Gen4 SSD
- Link: https://www.microcenter.com/product/699104/asus-rog-g700-(2025)-g700tf-ds766ti-gaming-pc
OPTION 2:
- AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D (4.2GHz) Processor
- PRO B650-VC WiFi III Motherboard
- 32GB DDR5-6000 RAM
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Graphics Card
- 2TB M.2 NVMe Gen4 SSD
- Link: https://www.microcenter.com/product/692344/msi-aegis-zs2-c7nvp-1446us-gaming-pc
Option 1 will work for a while. The only thing you will need for the near-ish future is larger storage. Games nowadays take up so much space and 1 TB won’t last long. Would recommend buying a 2-3TB HDD while you’re at Microcenter. They may even be able to install it for you
you would not want a hard disk drive as reading data off of that will vastly slow the system performance.
A solid state drive would be recommended. . Preferably an SSD that has caching.
Most modern games will barely run when installed on a HDD as well. Especially open world games
2TB HDDs, what is this the 2010s?
Get a 1TB SSD for OS/games and 10TB HDD for media/cold storage. Neither are particularly pricey these days.
I guess 2 TB is also relatively small. However, considering that OP only mentioned one specific game their child wanted to play, I think it’s not an unreasonable amount of storage.
If their kid also wants to do things like download/edit movies, graphic arts, or other storage heavy activities then of course they could go for a larger storage. It all depends on their needs and budget.
2TB is SSD range now, is my point. Buying an HDD that small is kinda pointless. It’s massively outclassed in both speed and capacity by modern drives. It will be replaced quickly and end up being more expensive in the long run for more effort and a subpar experience.
Yeah I replied to another comment saying I’m surprised how cheap lower capacity SSDs have become. It was only like $100 more than a comparable HDD.
Got it, thanks!
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 like new. Do not fall into the “HDDs are a bit cheaper” trap, it’s not worth it especially with those two machines
Very helpful, thank you!
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.