Ep. 31 - Computers and The Budget

Today, Rob dives into two topics that require consideration when upgrading your machines.  What do you want?  What do you need?  How much is it going to cost?

Items for consideration:

• Laptop vs Desktop
• Mac vs PC
• New vs Refurbished

Questions to ask yourself:

• How do you use a computer?
• Should you build a computer?
• What do you need to do so?

A message from the IT company contracted by the day job:

Hey Rob,

I like to use https://pcpartpicker.com/ to select parts for my home builds. If you make a mistake (CPU chip you selected doesn’t fix the motherboard you selected) it warns you and gives you a lot of useful info on the parts, manufacturers, warranties, power consumption and just about anything you’d want to know. They have completed builds to reference as examples and even tutorials. 

I’ve used their build guides for liquid cooled systems and I’m glad I did, saved me a lot of potential heartache.

The system I have at home for Gaming/3D printing/Model Rendering I built using the website above and it runs all my games/Rendering software on highest settings with no lag or slow frames.

Hope that helps!

How did I put together a parts list?

Want a Better PC? Try Building Your Own

• https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-build-a-pc/

Article contains a few example builds you can tweak to your liking if you want.

Parts List:

• Motherboard
• Processor
• Graphics Card
• Storage
• Memory
• Power Supply
• Case
• Operating System

Also a recent email from Hotep Jesus regarding his new computer set up for streaming:

Anyway, I bought a gaming PC dedicated to streaming because my Macbook simply couldn't handle the CPU requirements that streaming demands.

Cross referenced Hotep Jesus' computer with the suggestions in the article.

Also ran my potential computer build set up past my brother who has built computers.

He's given me some feedback on the machine I constructed which will be about $1000

As far as I can tell it will run far better than any machine you can buy for the money.

Patreon Subscribers will receive my computer building spreadsheet and cost list.