3 ms·
"Economically viable" isn't very glamorous these days. Or difficult. You can pick up a used i5-3xxx or 4xxx system with 8GB of RAM real cheap. If you get one
by ansible 7y ago
"Economically viable" isn't very glamorous these days. Or difficult.
You can pick up a used i5-3xxx or 4xxx system with 8GB of RAM real cheap. If you get one that has at least a 300W power supply, you can then put in a GTX 1660 or similar and do quite well with most games. Max settings @ 1080p for some older games, and still decently playable at decent quality for the newer ones. And all for $300 USD or less.
I just put an RX 580 with 8GB of video RAM into my old i5-3570S system. The card was just $135 at Microcenter, because it was open-box.
- dwild 7y ago> The card was just $135 at Microcenter, because it was open-box. Even then you'll need 27 months (2 years and 3 months) before being more cost effective than Geforce Now. That's considering that you are on a desktop though with a CPU powerful enough. Personally I started doing cloud gaming mostly because I was on a netbook at school (I liked the form factor and the battery life was quite nice versus most laptop). At first on OnLive, then on LiquidSky, and since a year ago, on Geforce Now. I don't believe the service will stay at 5$/month though, both service I used shutdown because they weren't viable and they were in the 10$ range. LiquidSky was supposed to come back, but they missed multiple release date now and with the release of GeForce Now, I have no hope. Shadow seems more viable at 25$/month, which makes your solution much more cost effective.
- ansible 7y agoShadow recently dropped their price to $13 USD a month for a year contract. The $34 USD / month for month-to-month is still pretty steep.