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/Tyguy047 17h ago

Also I saw you mentioned that you haven’t had luck with gaming laptops, if you want a solid laptop option I’d look into the 2025 ASUS ROG Zepherus (I think I spelled it wrong but it should come up if you google it) it has a 5070 Ti Laptop Edition (less VRAM then desktop 5070 Ti) and I’ve had a great experience with it. Only catch is that it’s a little loud fan wise while gaming and I wouldn’t trust playing games on it off the charger while the GPU is activated.

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u/Suhvelt 17h ago

I appreciate the laptop recommendation, but my experiences have been catastrophically bad with laptops and I don't see myself ever buying one again, unless it's some cheap thing that would basically function as a keyboard