I want to escape consoles and finally build a gaming pc but I’ve seen the prices…

Everything is really overwhelming for me and I have no clue what I should go for and everyone is giving me differing answers so I ask you.

Is building a PC ACTUALLY cheaper than buying one?

What specs would I even need? All I wanna do is play arc raiders comfortably at high settings and play heavily modded Garry’s mod.

      • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
        42·
        9 hours ago

        Prebuilts often cut corners all over the place. Especially Walmart. Typically in the power supply, wiring, and other small things that no one looks at on a spec sheet. And the prices usually aren’t much lower. Plus building a PC is fun, educational and will help you troubleshoot inevitable issues and failures in the future.

        If you’re feeling overwhelmed, PCPartPicker has a bunch of good builds at very price points and resolutions.

        Arc Raiders is not a terribly demanding game.

      • SynonymousStoat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 hours ago

        I’m not sure if this is still true, but in the very recent past you could find better deals on DDR5 RAM when buying it in a bundle with a CPU. A lot of stores did this as a way to try to prevent scalping.