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I’ll mostly be using it for gaming as opposed to work as I’ll continue using my laptop for that since I login remotely from there to another computer anyway so my work isn’t even technically done on my laptop now anyway. But I’m sure I’ll end up using it for other things now and again.

All very good points I plan to ask someone more tech oriented than me in person so they can explain it well (hard to do sometimes in written format) so I appreciate everything. And budget is 2k. And I have a strong tendency for both, which is the main reason I haven’t just bought a pre-built...

I didn’t even notice that about the novo, I got a little impatient with trying to come up with a rough idea and just went through Newegg’s build feature and thought it would tell me if something was incompatible but I guess not. I’ll look into that more. My max budget is 2k and the monitor has...

I am not. I set everything up on Newegg’s builder thing and I swear I’d read somewhere that it could alert me if things weren’t compatible but perhaps that’s incorrect. I’ll have to look into that more as well so thank you for pointing that out. I am very much a noob here and this is the exact...

Im in the US and my budget i was going for would be under 2k. My monitor resolution is: 1920 x 1080 Resolution 165Hz Refresh Rate

Thanks for the reply. Storage is one of those things I feel I always get wrong. I’m sure it’s fair to say getting more storage wouldn’t be a bad idea but I don’t really know much about how much storage I could conceivably need in the future. As of now, I doubt I’d need much as I don’t game much...

I’ve gone back and forth over the years about getting a PC for gaming and have mostly ever played The Sims and could do so fairly well on my Mac and wasn’t a huge gamer. Lately I’ve gotten A LOT more into it, delving into console pretty heavily with the PS5 but am also interested in expanding...