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Is getting a 4060 prebuilt in 2026 a bad idea?
(lemmy.blahaj.zone)
I'm looking at this deal for a prebuilt:
Lenovo LOQ 17IRR9 Tower PC — $749.99
- Intel Core i5-14400F (10 cores, 16 threads, up to 4.7GHz)
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 (8GB GDDR6)
- RAM 16GB DDR5
- 512GB SSD
- PSU 500W
For some context, my PC has a 1070 in it. I'm a budget conscious gamer, usually playing at 1080p. With ram prices skyrocketing and steam betting on steam machines with low vram going forwards, I feel like it's an okay deal for a guy who upgrades basically never.
It seems like a nice deal to me. Anyone want to talk me out of it?
Depending on how quickly you need a PC it might be worth waiting for the Steam PC that's not out yet and we have no idea on price or availability.
From that I can find online the steam PC will be less powerful than the desktop 4060 and probably be comparable in price to this PC. I do intend on installing Linux on this computer.
In that case I strongly suggest you look at an AMD GPU. Nvidia is usable on Linux, but not pleasant.
I haven't had trouble with Debian