Srobertson1956
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I am ready to take the plunge and upgrade from my all in one old iMac to a dedicated (mostly) PC, the Alienware Aurora R16:
Intel® Core™ i7 14700FWindows 11 HomeNVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4070 SUPER 12GB GDDR6X16 GB DDR51 TB, M.2, PCIe NVMe, SSD ( I may also upgrade to one SSD drive and one storage drive). (I may go to the model with the RTX 4060 that is about $400 cheaper).
However, I need to also purchase a monitor. In order to interface properly with my new computer are there some minimum specs I should be looking at to get the full benefit of my new hardware? I am not a gamer and do not plan on using this for other games so I do not need curved screens and other bells and whistles I assume are not necessary for just viewing Trainz. I would also like to keep the monitor relatively inexpensive (around $200) if extra stuff is not needed. Dell has this 25” model for $209:
Dell 25 Gaming Monitor - G2524H - 24.5" monitor with up to 280Hz overclocked refresh rate on a Fast IPS panel for a smooth gaming experience. Resolution / Refresh Rate Full HD (1080p) 1920 × 1080 at 280 Hz, Adaptive Sync, VESA Adaptive-Sync, NVIDIA G-SYNC . Is this GOOD ENOUGH?
Regarding the twin drives, is there anything that I need to do to take advantage of this opportunity, or will the program recognize each and know where to place the boot up program versus just storing data in the other drive.
This is all a bit new to me since I have been a Mac user for so long. Thanks for your advice.
Intel® Core™ i7 14700FWindows 11 HomeNVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4070 SUPER 12GB GDDR6X16 GB DDR51 TB, M.2, PCIe NVMe, SSD ( I may also upgrade to one SSD drive and one storage drive). (I may go to the model with the RTX 4060 that is about $400 cheaper).
However, I need to also purchase a monitor. In order to interface properly with my new computer are there some minimum specs I should be looking at to get the full benefit of my new hardware? I am not a gamer and do not plan on using this for other games so I do not need curved screens and other bells and whistles I assume are not necessary for just viewing Trainz. I would also like to keep the monitor relatively inexpensive (around $200) if extra stuff is not needed. Dell has this 25” model for $209:
Dell 25 Gaming Monitor - G2524H - 24.5" monitor with up to 280Hz overclocked refresh rate on a Fast IPS panel for a smooth gaming experience. Resolution / Refresh Rate Full HD (1080p) 1920 × 1080 at 280 Hz, Adaptive Sync, VESA Adaptive-Sync, NVIDIA G-SYNC . Is this GOOD ENOUGH?
Regarding the twin drives, is there anything that I need to do to take advantage of this opportunity, or will the program recognize each and know where to place the boot up program versus just storing data in the other drive.
This is all a bit new to me since I have been a Mac user for so long. Thanks for your advice.