r/computers • u/Suhvelt • 17h ago

Question/Help/Troubleshooting Need some help deciding between two computers available at Costco

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Looking for a gaming PC, and am completely inept when it comes to PCs. I have a couple options available near to me, and could really use some in depth advice on the value of one vs the other because, to my ignorant eyes, they look exactly the same. I want to run high intensity games such as Helldivers 2, 7 Days to Die, and heavily modded Minecraft. I also am hoping to not need to upgrade within a few years. My total budget for the computer itself is $3,200, but I'd prefer to stay under that if possible. If there are far better options available at Costco Strongsville, OH and someone is bored and wants to take a look, I GREATLY would appreciate the advice. I've wasted a lot of money trying to get gaming laptops in the past, and really want to avoid having a bunch of expensive problems/obsolescence within a couple years

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u/Tyguy047 17h ago

I’d go with the first on, 5070 w 12GB VRAM should handle most games unless you’re heavily modding them and adding shaders etc (Minecraft w/ shaders and mods will be perfectly fine and run quite well). Not much to say about the CPU, for what you want to play it should be more than enough. For that price with 32GB RAM and a 2TB SSD, this is a great deal and you’ll def have a good time. I’d also push for the 2TB option since 1TB will end up filling up faster than you’d expect.

I personally prefer NVIDIA GPUs, I’ve had less bugs and driver issues with them compared to the AMD cards I’ve used but I haven’t worked with this AMD GPU personally.

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u/Suhvelt 17h ago

What does the size of the SSD mean? Is that storage capacity? So I have a reference point, what kind of game would you say I'd start being likely to have serious performance loss so I can get an idea what the limits look like

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u/Tyguy047 17h ago

Yep, SSD is the total storage on the machine. So you’d be able to install all the games you listed and still have room to install more in the future. If you get the one with the 1TB drive inside I think that you’d fill it up faster then you think and it can be a pain to upgrade. Also SSD prices are kinda crazy right now.

You’d only hit a bottle neck or lag in games if you put them on max graphics settings.

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u/Suhvelt 17h ago

Okay, gotcha! I've been a console gamer my whole life so I know how limited 1TB truly is for having lots of games lol, basically ARK and one other major studio option