I’m thinking about buying a new PC in the next month or two. I don’t play a whole lot of recent games, though it’d be nice to have the option, and I think I’d probably end up with a capable GPU anyway if I want something capable of 3d rendering like Blender, and possibly fooling around with local LLMs.

Function wise, I’m thinking I want a solid CPU, and to stack it with RAM, VRAM, and storage. and I think liquid cooling might be overrated if I don’t plan to OC it. It’ll also likely be migrating to Linux in a year or two when Windows 10 finally dies, if there are hardware concerns with that.

Aesthetics wise, Mainly I am not too interested in having everything be RGB. I would also prefer plastic paneling over glass; my computer case hangs from a desk mount and in the unlikely event that it has a structural failure I’d like to be more worried about the computer hardware than picking shards out of my skin.

I’m not opposed to building something myself from parts, but I wouldn’t mind looking at builders / pre built as an option.