Pour one out for our brother in arms whose wife just gave him permission to build a second gaming PC ;)
Not in this economy. Ram alone will require a second mortgage.
Aye. Time for a dock and a second monitor.
Buy a used Optiplex.
Gets you an acceptable case, mobo, CPU, RAM, and probably SSD for about $200. Add a used 3050/3060/4060 GPU and an upgraded PSU.
It’s not gonna knock your socks off, but it gets you going without over-spending and you can carry some of that forward when you upgrade later.
May I suggest an AMD card instead? Even on the second market, they're typically better bang-for-buck
You absolutely may. Intel is valid too.
I'd plug a live raccoon into my computer before an Nvidia card.
It would cause fewer issues on Linux, too.
Yeah, raccoon support was merged into the kernel back in 5.2.
I've been extremely satisfied both with the 9070XT that replaced my old RTX 3080, and the Arc A310 in my media server. Both have worked flawlessly, and with Optiscaler, native DLSS/FSR/XeSS support doesn't really matter anymore, you can just use whatever regardless of your hardware, and add FG if you want to anything.
i was going to recommend this; a couple that loves doing something together is bound to be much more rewarding than the cost of one of these machines.
I was thinking of buying (her) a 9070xt, taking the 6800xt from the big PC and making an egpu for the legion go. But then again the legion go is still keeping up 1080p/60 on medium with all games, so I'll just keep playing for now. I might get a 1080p monitor though.
If anyone wants to use my wife to play games with on my computer just let me know as long as I can watch and hold her hand while she plays
Gonna be hard to WASD and mouse holding your hand, friend. Maybe get used to just watching, no interacting.
Her hands won't be full all of the time.
No man, you can play with us! Me and your wife go adventuring and you can follow us with a cart to carry the materials
Does your wife’s boyfriend get the office?
If anyone wants to use my wife to play games with on my computer just let me know as long as I can watch and hold her hand while she plays
yea
Better make her a sandwich while you're out there.
Better reassert dominance, get her to craft a sandwich in the game
Play with her! If you've got a Steam Deck as the handheld, Valheim runs well on it and can multiplayer too.
Pretty sure that's what OP is doing, as they mention the Deck along with a kitchen chair.
looks like a legion, not a deck
Thats what I did. Put it on a dock on the tv and attached a wireless keyboard and mouse too. Good to go.
Hot
Wife's name is showing in the water bottle fyi
Haha yep my wife's name is Jessica. Please do not download her.
How weird, my wife's name is also Jessica.
That’s just what she named her water bottle
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Honest question? Should I buy valhall while it’s on sale or wait for it to be closer to done
I'm personally waiting for the 1.0 / Deep North update to go back to playing it. But even when I stopped playing because of just getting bored with it, 2 years ago according to Steam, it's a good game already with complete mechanics. And there are quality of life mods you can add on top of the configs you can do in the base game when setting up a world.
Even solo, as someone that usually gets bored with open world survival games, it has enough draw for me to have 1 - 2 hours gaming sessions for a month straight.
It was 9.99 on steam so I just went for it this morning. Thanks for the recommendation though!
Yeah just get it now! The map is randomly generated but the new biome updates populate in the undiscovered areas of your own game. Once the game is full released you can just pick up where you last left.
Its a very complete game and great value
I got Valheim before they added the mistlands and it was still a more complete and full game than anything a AAA studio has made this decade. Grab it on sale, get your friends, your family, your pets a copy. Frankly, comming from someone who will pirate everything, I will gladly pay full price a second time for the quality of work they've put in.
Playing it with my friends was one of the things that kept me sane during lockdown. It's an incredible game. Decently fun single player too, but it really shines when playing with other people.
I really liked mining and foraging, so I'd go out and build super barebones outposts in various biomes, occasionally bringing back a heckton of ore for new weapons and tools. I also liked being the first one to get dibs on a new pickaxe when the new tier of tools was unlocked
Same! For me it was the outposts and buildings. By the time we stopped playing I'd paved half our discovered area with roads, built way stations so you could sleep while traveling, and had a base and dock on every important island or biome.
My crowning achievement was called The Sky Vault. I'd lifted 4 pillars to the maximum terrain hight on a tiny plains island, then built a building supported by them that could only be accessed via portal. There I had a long table and thrones for each of us and a collection of all the treasures, cool trophies, and artifacts from out time in play. Covered the room in piles of gold, little chests, cool weapons that we didn't end up using. The finishing touch was that the gate to our settlement stood between two of the pillars, so you got to walk under it get into the town.
I bought it ages ago and am now waiting for it to be done before I pick it back up again. But I'm getting the urge to pick it back up anyway, sailing out into a storm to go serpent hunting is such a vibe!
It's worth now. The release version was already worth the price, and it's only gotten better since then.
Yes, I bought it 4 years ago and haven't stopped playing it. SkAAL brutentogen
Is the desktop Linux too? Because if not then really she's the one getting cucked.
OP isn’t using a Steam Deck.
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