Bought a new computer - 2023 edition

I bought my previous PC back in early 2019, before the pandemic. This year I played several games on release, and some of them resulted in stuttering gameplay (e.g. Act III of Baldur's Gate 3), or me having to play on "medium" graphics settings to get a good framerate. So I decided that it was maybe time for a new PC. This is what I got:

The new computer came with Windows 11. Which was actually one reason I upgraded, because my previous PC had informed me that I couldn't update from Windows 10 to 11 due to insufficient hardware. Another upgrade reason was that my previous boot SSD at 1 TB was a bit small to install my Steam and Game Pass games, and now with 2 TB that should work better. I already tried one Game Pass game, The Lamplighter's League, and was delighted that it had cloud save, and I didn't lose my save game in the transition.

As usual I ran a 3DMark graphics benchmark to see how much faster the new computer is, although it has to be said that the program, or at least the Fire Strike benchmark I am using, is pretty outdated by now. Anyway, the 2019 PC had a benchmark of 20,087 and the new PC scores nearly twice as much at 39,158. I could have gotten a ASRock Radeon RX 7900 XTX Phantom Gaming OC, RX7900XTX PG 24GO, 24GB GDDR6 graphics card from AMD instead, but it would have been nearly twice as expensive. I think the Nvidia RTX 4070 should be fast enough for my purposes now, and if necessary I can replace it in a few years.
- posted by Tobold @ 5:48 PM Permanent Link