My revised PC Gaming Setup

[little anchor]

My gaming setup revisited. What do you guys think of it and does my specs need upgrading?

Current Specs
Asus KO 3070 Graphics Card
32GB DDR4 Ram
Intel Core 10700KF
Windows 10
Shure MV7 Microphone
Corsair HS55 headset
Some video games you see here.
Xenogears, Tales of Destiny, and Beyond the Beyond for PS1

@wintry abyss @rotund osprey here is my post from earlier. If you have any questions about my setup please let me know.

[pseudo tapir]

Only things I’d upgrade are keyboard and mouse then maybe cpu

[little anchor]

oh my mouse is a 100 dollar alienware 610m

I think that one should be fine

I bought it 2 years ago so it might be cheaper now

[dark egret]

Cpu and Mouse are not bad

[rotund osprey]

I would get a better keyboard

[wintry abyss]

Upgrade the cpu to what, the 10900k?

[rotund osprey]

Maybe an 11900k but I don’t think it’s worth the cost to upgrade

[wintry abyss]

It’s not

Unless you really need gen 4 (which you don’t)

[pseudo tapir]

I meant if he wanted to get onto am5

[last mural]

IMO Wait until Zen 5 comes out and just replace it with that. Really cool setup.

Just the right amount of stuff in that room, for me.

[wintry abyss]

Wait till zen 5 and get zen 4 cheap

[little anchor]

Thank you 😊 been collecting games for over 16 years.

[little anchor]

Which kind do you recommend?

Im not a keyboard expert sadly

[rotund osprey]

I would recommend a good mechanical one idk much about keyboards either

[pseudo tapir]

Budget?

And what type of switches do you want
Clicky- very loud and a feel able click in the press
Tactile- clicky but sound of linear
Linear- can be any sound and is a smooth press all the way to bottom out

[wintry abyss]

tactile switches also have a bump to tell you where the actuation is

[pseudo tapir]

That’s why I said Clicky with linear sound

[hallow torrent]

I like my keyboard, I’d recommend it!

It’s a 60% the glorious GMK with linear keys.

[last mural]

I'd recommend basically any Ducky or Filco keyboard. I'm a programmer that has been using mechanical keyboards for about 14 years.

[hallow torrent]

I also would recomend the wooting.

[little anchor]

So the Ducky, Filco or Wooting keyboard. I have never heard of any of these before. @pseudo tapir budget can be somewhere around no more than 150 as I just do not have the knowledge on keyboards but willing to give something like that a try. I do not like loud keys so something quiet but good to feel buttons on the keyboard wouldnt hurt. its hard to really know for sure what I would like or want. @hallow torrent how much does those keyboards go for usually? @wintry abyss what brand of tactile keyboards do you use or recommend?

[last mural]

Cherry mx browns

[little anchor]

@last mural I think linus covered those before?

sounds farmiliar

[last mural]

He definitely has

[little anchor]

hmm so many choices

Im a bit lost but do like what Im hearing so far

[last mural]

Cherry MX browns are the type of switch that are inside these keyboards that you want, not a brand of keyboard itself usually (although cherry does or did make their own keyboards)

[little anchor]

oh okay

so its the type or material used in the keyboard itself

[last mural]

https://youtu.be/dqai0_nnTgs?si=EwdHZT7vpxTycTLh

It's the configuration of the switch and how they manufacture the switch. Brown means tactile feel but no click

[little anchor]

@last mural appreciat it. I will rewatch this again and will respond back after getting a bit more reaearch on this. thanks everyone so far as it seem like the only upgrade I really need is a keyboard. I just always used standard keyboards but never gave it much thought. My alienware mouse was the only expensive thing I did simply because a friend recommended it

That has been a solid mouse so far

@last mural I like the no click sound so that might be the way to go.

[last mural]

There's brown (minimal or no click) blue (loud click) and red and black which are linear switches which I don't recommend for typing (compared to just games)

[little anchor]

is there a middle gorund for both typing and gaming?

[last mural]

Browns

[little anchor]

okay

[last mural]

Blues would be the extra typist-y ones

[little anchor]

Ill get back to you once I finish the video @last mural. Oh the blue for the typist. Hmm seems like they really did think this stuff out

[grizzled laurel]

i would recommend getting a switch tester or something online, from a site like amazon. they can be quite expensive so i usually return them after i make my choice

something like this i would go with, or if you are just thinking of cherry switches you could get a smaller one.

i ended up going with gateron silent browns.
reasons why:
tactile, fairly quiet, cheap.

[wintry abyss]

I’m using the Logitech g910 Orion spectrum. It has romer-g tactile switches (they’re not hotswap and the keycaps are nonstandard but idc) and a bunch of “gaming features” like macro buttons and a button that disables the windows key (and anything else that you configure in ghub).

I don’t know that I’d recommend it to everyone as it’s an extremely large keyboard (in length, width, and height) but I got a renewed one on Amazon for $40 instead of the normal $70

[pseudo tapir]

I recommend a keychron v1

[hallow torrent]

about a hundred but after adding the switches that i did and the key caps that i did it was about 200

[little anchor]

Apologies everyone but I neede some time to look into these keboards.

[little anchor]

200 dollars sounds a bit mor than what I wanted to spend but I guess if I want the best of both worlds which is gaming and some typing I got to invest in it.

[hallow torrent]

Well, you don’t have to buy what I did. The keyboard and the switches I went with, would be about 150. Mine was more just because I went and bought different key caps.

@little anchor ^

[grizzled laurel]

i would recommend getting a keychron keyboard, and swapping the switches to ones you prefer. can cut the cost from 200 to about 80$+ the cost of your switches

[hallow torrent]

Yah, that would be a good choice too! @little anchor

[dark egret]

best decision you can make

[little anchor]

Appreciate that. I'll do that thanks everyone!!! 🙂

[little anchor]

Thanks for the recommendations as well. Its been really helpful

[wintry abyss]

np. happy to empty my brain of knowledge to help people 😆

[hallow torrent]

same

[little anchor]

This has all been so helpful to me. Im just happy everyone agreed that my PC setup for now is okay for a little while longer

[hallow torrent]

100% your set up is great! If I hadn't gotten the pc that I did last week id defiantly say your setup made mine look rough. That being said I finally got my first pc, and I'm glad i got the deal I did.

I was on a laptop that was connected to external displays.

[fresh pendant]

ayyy, huion gang over here too 👍

[little anchor]

Sorry for the late reply but very happy you have one as well. Do you recommend and brushes for any programs I could use for coloring characters.

[little anchor]

Very nice to hear you were able to setup with a new PC. I was rocking a old HP envy PC just 3 years ago with a 1650 graphics card. I really am glad I was able to get a new PC.

[fresh pendant]

umm i don't really use 2d programs anymore, but one of my favourite artists (suke, he does the valorant key arts and such) has his brushes for photoshop available for sale on his artstation i believe

[little anchor]

Appreciat it. Will look into it. Working on my own comic?manga atm

this is my main character

I want to color this so hope to find some good brush programs soon

[fresh pendant]

csp was good but i dont know if they still sell pepertual licenses, unfortunately

[little anchor]

thanks for the info. I am so new to all of this lol