Redwolf

Is that for the editor or for the quickbattle selector?

To put it plainly: with the exception of the graphics card this is a PC commonly found in a landfill. Would be better to find something on Craigslist and put in a newer graphics card.

HP desktops get quite a bit of bashing from reviewers. I mean they don't even say which processor is in there, so that should disqualify instantly.

"Intel® UHD Graphics 620 (i5) Intel® UHD Graphics 620 (i7)" That'll be an uphill battle.

Well, another disadvantage of the HP desktop is that it might have a nonstandard power supply.

Try to bid on this sucker: https://www.ebay.com/itm/145090857954?hash=item21c816cbe2:g:dEQAAOSwT5RkZu58&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwPBReQsX74Acf%2FEkOjgxy7gMWd093XqUAgvdIDvrEC%2F%2F0gQ%2F04Fvs7kh%2BGCXDXkzENL1DaVKjv7qnJ6tPlO4271uEuoNvQ2VnFpzK3eCWlElyLxhswWnAGOmW0CTpluiSVwF9yYz4Zmyl2t3lKo0mfVuXGsT%2BsuLfh0m%2F9OO1SXQYaavp21ccjlO2laRHTBTDCZz%2F9z4FAnVqWMCe4YJMmlF3ZnSwDLUd3ZRG%2BhcK%2BvTf6YaX%2Bx5vUCs1CVHlxhL5Q%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR4KvptmKYg

That is obsolete enough that you should be able to pick that processor generation out of the recycling somewhere. Ebay is full of them sub $100. And the SSD capacity is extremely low. I mean it will run CM allright, but I don't see that it is a good offer.

Definitely have to go used here. Aim for high single core speed and graphics chip. I have a Dell G5 with i7-8750H and 1050 Ti which runs CM OK. The trackpad is trash, though.

QB selection and editor are occasionally out of sync wrt specific unit availability.

A html version that you can link into the middle of would be useful, too.

If you have a standard PC now you could look into putting a better graphics card, maybe requiring a better PSU. And your heatsink on the CPU could probably use new thermal paste, if that is the one making noise you could replace the whole heatsink with a quality unit. And old RAM is cheap, so why not?

While I am at it, here is a positive review on a HP gaming desktop. But the stupid review doesn't mention with a single word what format the PSU is or what wattage. Useless review. https://www.tomsguide.com/reviews/hp-omen-30l-gaming-desktop

LOL build

My ex-wife once bought a random Dell which not only had a non-standard-format PSU but also an unreliable PSU. And everybody else had the same problem so Ebay prices for the PSU shot up. Most expensive and wimpiest PC ever. The technical data presented to you pre-purchase is not sufficient to judge issues like this. You will have to resort to reviews on the web. But that is not popular content, most reviews are for parts to make your own. If you are near a Microcenter that might be your best best. They assemble a PC from parts you buy there for IIRC $120-150. And you get to choose all the cool parts. Assembling it yourself is annoying if the thing happens not to boot. Is it the CPU, the board, the RAM or the PSU? You have no parts to cross-check with.

The problem with buying a HP/Dell/Lenovo is that the power supply has the right power output. You want the option to pump more power later to change your graphics card to a more powerful one when they are cheaper. This is very bad if the power supply is not standard format. Buying a HP/Dell/Lenovo with a powerful card in the first place is relatively more expensive than their smaller boxes. So in summary, get a HP that has standard part dimensions for power supply and everything else. GPU wise, for CM you want NVidia. CPU wise, AMD has a bit of trouble with running 4 sticks of memory and right now new BIOSes come down on you like an avalanche. But if you get a 12th/13th gen Intel than you need Windows 11.

Forget about the Coax adapter if you are willing to put an Ethernet cable from the computer to the router. It was just a distracting post, unless you happen to have coax in the walls (rare). A good first thing to post about your computer is whether you have an Ethernet port already. We don't even know whether it is a desktop or a laptop, that makes it a little thin on the forensics we work off.

It's not. While there are newer APIs that doesn't invalidate OpenGL. For example, all the Linux and Mac drivers do it perfectly, including the AMD ones. It is just AMD's Windows folks that went lazy mode.

I wonder why NVidia users don't get out-of-VRAM errors. It would be good to establish how much VRAM is being taken in the working case. I can't help, no AMD card under Windows here.

You told us nothing about your computer, so we can't really help. You only need that adapter if you have coax cabling in the walls.

Word. @BFCElvis

Anything wireless sucks. Use an Ethernet cable.

It would be funny if we later found out that ChatGPT is programmed to buy all games, plays them and gathers the content to answer questions. In CM's case it would also learn a lot about OOBs.

You do. But you need to make it reproducible with a CMx2 demo so that AMD folks can run it.

Can you prove that?

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