Not low end but I was for many years. I'll follow this community since I use my PC for low end games anyway lol
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2023
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Same here. After a long absence from gaming I got back into it 5 years ago. All I wanted was to play GTA5 on 1080p. I set a budget of 200€ and got a used office pc with an i5 2400 and a gtx 660ti. I had such a blast. I have since upgraded a couple of times. Now I have a ryzen 5 5600 and a rx 6800 and I need to stop upgrading now and just play more. This community is the right place to find games that have stood the test of time and can be played on almost any hardware. I want to support that.
Alrighty, I understand lol
When I upgraded my PC I gave special consideration to the power consumption of the system.
The kind of games I play do not require a 600W power source, so I went with a AMD Ryzen laptop with a 65W power brick.
It is quiet, doesn't warm up much and I can take it with me anywhere. I'm very happy with my choice.
Hey, Ryzen APUs can make for a pretty nice gaming experience! Glad you enjoy it
just running a somewhat-modified HP pre-built. 6-core AMD Ryzen 5 @ 3.8 GHz, I believe, with a Radeon RX 6400 GPU I put in since my power supply doesn't have proper connectors for any GPUs that require more power and pretty much everywhere online says not to use adaptors for that stuff. 16 GB of RAM (upgraded from 12 GB), 500 GB SSD. Haven't tried too many games with it that may actually need anything like the GPU, but what I have thrown at it runs fine.
EDIT: Just checked, my CPU runs at 3.9 GHz, not 3.8