computers are confusing. people who understand them enter

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Originally Posted by Diode

i5 is good enough - i7s are for post processing, 3d rendering, audio encoding, etc.

SSDs are so much faster than traditional hard drives it's stupid. they are exponentially quicker.

no standard computer has 16GB of RAM. 8GB is more than enough in most instances outside of, say, a massive modded skyrim install.

4GB or 3GB VRAM is starting to become the standard for loading extremely high texture packs.

yes, build out.

please help yo.

can you link something that would be ideal?

consider that post processing, audio encoding, and massively modding skyrim are in my wheelhouse, even tho im not sure i know what two of those things are, they just sound like stuff i do. "post processing/mixing, audio encoding/bouncing tracks"

i say that my computer does all that fine, cuz it does, but if there is something better obviously that would be doper.

i also have that stupid fact/quote that might be made up, about how computers are just exponentially getting better and i'd hate to drop a stack on something thats gonna be archaic in 2 years