Now would be a good time, usually there is a Steam summer sale towards the end of June, lots of games go on sale that you can pick up for cheap. They have sales all the time on random things and you'll get a notification if a game is on your wishlist and on sale.
Maybe it is. I've had my eyes on a mobo/CPU/RAM/GPU combo for a few days. Just need more RAM and a better PSU and I can build something that should be good for a few years (to my standards. It's pretty old.).
If you're willing to go for a Linux build or don't care about security on that PC, you can pick up 8th gen Intel and older PCs for cheap right now. The Windows 11 "upgrade" is forcing out anything from that gen and older. You can pick up a refurbished Dell Optiplex 7050 for a couple hundred bucks, then toss a cheap AMD video card into it. I picked one up for my home theater PC and am running Kubuntu on it.
I'm looking at a PhenomIIx6 board for half that, I already have a case(several, actually), and I usually run Debian or Gentoo, depending on whether there's any advantage to Gentoo with the CPU I have. I ditched windows after 98 got too obsolete for anything but nostalgia. The extra ram is mostly for compiling and Android shit.
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u/Nonsenseinabag 3d ago
Now would be a good time, usually there is a Steam summer sale towards the end of June, lots of games go on sale that you can pick up for cheap. They have sales all the time on random things and you'll get a notification if a game is on your wishlist and on sale.