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Can you please help me pick a gaming desktop for my son that can run Monster Hunter Wilds?

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Can you please help me pick a gaming desktop for my son that can run Monster Hunter Wilds?

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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 3 days ago

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

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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.
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  Most modern games will barely run when installed on a HDD as well. Especially open world games

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