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Ehhhh, the 3060 is not the right card for this build if it is intended primarily for gaming. Especially considering the driver-based performance improvements in the previous gen AMD cards and their relative prices. Reasonable specs for the price if you're more focused on productivity.
Ehhhh, the 3060 is not the right card for this build if it is intended primarily for gaming. Especially considering the driver-based performance improvements in the previous gen AMD cards and their relative prices. Reasonable specs for the price if you're more focused on productivity.
This Legion deal has DDR5 and a case with much better air circulation, $950 is a very good price if this build is what you need, but not so slick otherwise.
3060 is actually more stable than 3070 in recent AAA games due to higher RAM.
That is true in some ways and not at all in others. A lot of recent PC ports are making unreasonable demands on VRAM because of their lack of optimization rather than an actual need for additional texture memory. PC first games (that is to say games which were designed to run natively on PCs from the start) don't have many such issues. That said, it seems clear that we should expect PC ports to continue to suffer until publishers have a financial incentive to release products when they are finished instead of in the most potentially profitable release window.
Also, again, the alternative or upgrade to a 3060 should not be the 3070 if the desired result is raw performance. Or stability. or price. or power draw.
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Ehhhh, the 3060 is not the right card for this build if it is intended primarily for gaming. Especially considering the driver-based performance improvements in the previous gen AMD cards and their relative prices. Reasonable specs for the price if you're more focused on productivity.
Do SDers have the memory of a goldfish or what?
Under a year ago this would have been a smoking deal even at $1300, especially with all the GPU shortages in recent years.
Now it's $950 and people are sleeping on it?
If you need to throw a better card in, you can throw the 3060 right back on eBay for $300 and get takers all day long.
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Under a year ago this would have been a smoking deal even at $1300, especially with all the GPU shortages in recent years.
Now it's $950 and people are sleeping on it?
If you need to throw a better card in, you can throw the 3060 right back on eBay for $300 and get takers all day long.
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2 months ago I bought the IdeaCentre open box for $720, threw in 32G memory (DDR4) and 2TB SSD, total was ~$870:
https://slickdeals.net/f/16106632-lenovo-ideacentre-5i-desktop-intel-core-i7-12700-16gb-ddr4-512gb-s...
This Legion deal has DDR5 and a case with much better air circulation, $950 is a very good price if this build is what you need, but not so slick otherwise.
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Found the specs for this PC on the Lenovo [lenovo.com] website. Hope this helps
Power Supply
500W
Also, again, the alternative or upgrade to a 3060 should not be the 3070 if the desired result is raw performance. Or stability. or price. or power draw.
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Under a year ago this would have been a smoking deal even at $1300, especially with all the GPU shortages in recent years.
Now it's $950 and people are sleeping on it?
If you need to throw a better card in, you can throw the 3060 right back on eBay for $300 and get takers all day long.
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