I´ve been using the same laptop for 8 years but recently I managed to save up enough money for an actual PC. I´m planning on getting a PC with 8 GB of RAM and an AMD Ryzen 3 2200g, is this build good enough to play Minecraft and have Discord open? My standards are pretty low, my laptop was nearly 9 years old and it only had 4 GB of RAM.
That should be just fine if you don't plan on playing with a lot of mods. What I would be more concerned about is what GPU the laptop has as that will determine the frame rates that you get in-game (for the most part). Does the laptop have integrated graphics or a dedicated graphics card? Integrated graphics cards can be fairly weak and may not perform very well. Not all integrated graphics cards are horrible for games like Minecraft though. Cards like the Intel UHD 630 should be more than enough if you don't expect to get hundreds of frames per second.
That should be just fine if you don't plan on playing with a lot of mods. What I would be more concerned about is what GPU the laptop has as that will determine the frame rates that you get in-game (for the most part). Does the laptop have integrated graphics or a dedicated graphics card? Integrated graphics cards can be fairly weak and may not perform very well. Not all integrated graphics cards are horrible for games like Minecraft though. Cards like the Intel UHD 630 should be more than enough if you don't expect to get hundreds of frames per second.
It´s not a laptop it´s a PC with an AMD Ryzen 3 2200g, if I remember correctly it has Radeon Vega 8.
Oh, sorry. I thought you were buying another laptop, my bad. The Vega 8 is fairly similar to the Intel UHD 630 that I mentioned, so everything that I mentioned still stands. It should do just fine if you aren't worried about getting hundreds of FPS in-game. And if you do want to upgrade your PC in the future, something like a 1650 Ti is pretty cheap and will give you more than enough performance for Minecraft and basic mods.
This is more than enough for vanilla Minecraft plus discord...plus a few webpages for you to stream videos through. This is also more than enough to do roughly the same for Fabric modpacks featuring upwards of 166 mods (All of Fabric 3 has this many and I think it's the biggest one on the Fabric side currently). If you want to play with Forge modpacks, however, you are looking at packs with around 80 to 100 mods at most so you are going to be missing out on almost all the popular forge mods.
This is not enough to run shaders or hi-def resource packs, period, but you can try anyways to see if you can live with the nearly-unplayable result.
It´s not a laptop it´s a PC with an AMD Ryzen 3 2200g, if I remember correctly it has Radeon Vega 8.
The Vega 8 also shows some impressive results for an integrated graphics GPU, integrated graphics used to be rubbish but that changed when AMD began churning out powerful onboard graphics solutions. And for games like Minecraft the Vega 8 is easily enough, even with texture packs. You will run into some serious limitations with shader mods though, or running lots of different mods at once. If Alkimia keeps the render distance below 17 then I think the Ryzen 3 2200g would be fine for this game. But I would strongly recommend 8gb of RAM as the minimum to prevent background tasks interfering, it would give freedom for recording gameplay, using Discord and perhaps leaving a Google Chrome tab or 2 open in the background.
You're welcome, just make sure the RAM you've got installed is in dual channel, has the lowest CL timings and is at least running at 2400mhz. You should check out Crucial Ballistics or the Kingston HyperX models of DDR4 for example. Budget RAM would work but that is designed for basic computing tasks only, nothing fancy and the budget models of RAM don't normally come with low latencies so I can't recommend them for gaming builds.
If possible you should try to get DDR4 that is rated at 3200mhz and make sure it is set to this in the BIOS when you turn your PC on,
because your Vega 8 GPU will be fighting for bandwidth with the CPU since it doesn't have its own dedicated memory to work with.
I´ve been using the same laptop for 8 years but recently I managed to save up enough money for an actual PC. I´m planning on getting a PC with 8 GB of RAM and an AMD Ryzen 3 2200g, is this build good enough to play Minecraft and have Discord open? My standards are pretty low, my laptop was nearly 9 years old and it only had 4 GB of RAM.
That should be just fine if you don't plan on playing with a lot of mods. What I would be more concerned about is what GPU the laptop has as that will determine the frame rates that you get in-game (for the most part). Does the laptop have integrated graphics or a dedicated graphics card? Integrated graphics cards can be fairly weak and may not perform very well. Not all integrated graphics cards are horrible for games like Minecraft though. Cards like the Intel UHD 630 should be more than enough if you don't expect to get hundreds of frames per second.
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It´s not a laptop it´s a PC with an AMD Ryzen 3 2200g, if I remember correctly it has Radeon Vega 8.
Oh, sorry. I thought you were buying another laptop, my bad. The Vega 8 is fairly similar to the Intel UHD 630 that I mentioned, so everything that I mentioned still stands. It should do just fine if you aren't worried about getting hundreds of FPS in-game. And if you do want to upgrade your PC in the future, something like a 1650 Ti is pretty cheap and will give you more than enough performance for Minecraft and basic mods.
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This is more than enough for vanilla Minecraft plus discord...plus a few webpages for you to stream videos through. This is also more than enough to do roughly the same for Fabric modpacks featuring upwards of 166 mods (All of Fabric 3 has this many and I think it's the biggest one on the Fabric side currently). If you want to play with Forge modpacks, however, you are looking at packs with around 80 to 100 mods at most so you are going to be missing out on almost all the popular forge mods.
This is not enough to run shaders or hi-def resource packs, period, but you can try anyways to see if you can live with the nearly-unplayable result.
The Vega 8 also shows some impressive results for an integrated graphics GPU, integrated graphics used to be rubbish but that changed when AMD began churning out powerful onboard graphics solutions. And for games like Minecraft the Vega 8 is easily enough, even with texture packs. You will run into some serious limitations with shader mods though, or running lots of different mods at once. If Alkimia keeps the render distance below 17 then I think the Ryzen 3 2200g would be fine for this game. But I would strongly recommend 8gb of RAM as the minimum to prevent background tasks interfering, it would give freedom for recording gameplay, using Discord and perhaps leaving a Google Chrome tab or 2 open in the background.
Thanks for the help!
You're welcome, just make sure the RAM you've got installed is in dual channel, has the lowest CL timings and is at least running at 2400mhz. You should check out Crucial Ballistics or the Kingston HyperX models of DDR4 for example. Budget RAM would work but that is designed for basic computing tasks only, nothing fancy and the budget models of RAM don't normally come with low latencies so I can't recommend them for gaming builds.
If possible you should try to get DDR4 that is rated at 3200mhz and make sure it is set to this in the BIOS when you turn your PC on,
because your Vega 8 GPU will be fighting for bandwidth with the CPU since it doesn't have its own dedicated memory to work with.