Are These Stats Worth $250 in a Computer(Gaming)?

Uh, you guys are forgetting some crucial part of the post.

"Uncle" - there's a high chance that the second hand pc is discounted

"i7" - Super high chance that it is a 1st gen or second gen.

"Emulator" - First, those are Virtual Machines. Not emulators.
Toram will run perfectly fine even on low end potato hardware as long as you have atleast 4gb ram and nothing hogging cpu time in the background.

@Clara★
Power Consumption isn't that high for the perf now. Polaris arch is pretty efficient.
Even their new CPUs are way more efficient than Intel counterparts.

They need more ram for more chrome tabs obviously /s
But nah, it's not just for server and rendering uses. It's also for heavy multitaskers.
But 16 GB is enough for most users

@OP
Reduce the ram, hdd, and take out the gpu.
Get an RX 560. Those arenmt that expensive and will last for longer.

That i7 is probably a super old one.
If you could save more miney and wait for a little bit longer, you could build a decent gaming rig for 500-700 usd. (All brand new)

@Jbazt
Nah. i7s are poop for running multiple vms while streaming. Hell, most processors wont do it.
Probably threadripper from amd might do it.
(4 cores isn't enough for that kk)

 

I'm using 12 GB RAM on my Laptop, and I can run and multi task. Correction, but still 30 GB RAM is a waste for me. I own a High-End Custom Computer before that I built myself from scratch (meaning I look for the parts individually). What I notice is if it's truly a gaming computer, 8 GB is enough anyway for an absolute no bottleneck (but that was way back 2013-14). As long as it's 2 x 4 Dual Channel with the same mhz. Also he can buy a cheap SSD (for OS purposes) instead of putting that huge 4 TB in the budget.

 

Heavy multitasking isn't just running mutiple apps.
That person might be running VS and other stuff that consumes a lot of ram.
Also VMs are a thing for developers.
I did agree that 30GB is too much for the majority of the people though.

Also, ram doesn't have to be rated at the same frequency. It will get clocked at the freq of the ram with the lowest freq.

And yeah, a small ssd will help a lot.

Anyone can multitask. But there are others who runs heavier software
(Man, those electron based software is hard on the ram. And sometimes you need to run them alongside virtual machines and other stuff. 16GB might be enough but you want some headroom because future stuff will consume more and more ram)

I run servers and stuff btw. You don't really need lots of ram unless you have databases that use ram a lot. (redis?)
I'm pretty sure this site can run on a small VM with proper optimizations.

 

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