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Looking for two recommendations. Best retro gaming stick and best gaming pc or laptop.

Posted on 4/24/24 at 8:32 pm
Posted by LSUFAN2005
Member since Aug 2004
1728 posts
Posted on 4/24/24 at 8:32 pm
Interested in a retro gaming stick. Most have bad reviews. Does anyone know a decent one?

Also looking for a solid gaming pc or laptop. Budget 1500 or less. My son wants to play games on steam like poppy playtime chapter 3.

Thanks for the help!
Posted by Richard Dangler
Huntsville, AL
Member since Dec 2015
725 posts
Posted on 4/26/24 at 1:40 am to
If you're talking about a fight stick then I can't help you there. But a joypad that is good for retro games then I'd go with 8bitdo sn30. It has a better feel than xbox or dualshock4/dualsense for me when emulating 8/16 bit era games. Plus it makes for a good switch controller.

I usually build my own PCs so I would not feel comfortable giving suggestions on a pre-built, but looking at the recommendations on the game you mention, I think you could go cheap there.

Posted by DandA
Mandevillian
Member since Jun 2018
826 posts
Posted on 4/26/24 at 11:12 am to
I can't help with the gaming stick.

As far as PC, I'm not the most technically savvy when it comes to building a PC, so I used jawa.gg and bought a pre-built mid-range gaming PC for $1500. I went to pcpartpicker website, entered in all of the components of the pre-built I bought, and it came out to $1850. Every now and then they have some good builds and deals on jawa if you have a basic idea what you're looking for.
Posted by bamabenny
Member since Nov 2009
14649 posts
Posted on 4/26/24 at 6:55 pm to
Are you looking for a prebuilt or willing to build yourself?
Posted by LSUFAN2005
Member since Aug 2004
1728 posts
Posted on 4/27/24 at 4:01 pm to
Prebuilt. I don’t have the time to do it myself. I’m looking at Best Buy and they seem to have some decent gaming laptops for 1k on sale. RTX 4700 with i7 and ddr5 16gb. Surely this would be good enough? Also the gaming stick I meant is the hdmi stick that plugs in back of tv and has thousands of old school nes snes genesis games.

Side question. Best TV to get the most out of a ps5?

Posted by bamabenny
Member since Nov 2009
14649 posts
Posted on 4/27/24 at 7:24 pm to
quote:

Side question. Best TV to get the most out of a ps5?


LG C2 or C3
Posted by LSUFAN2005
Member since Aug 2004
1728 posts
Posted on 4/28/24 at 4:41 pm to
Ended up with a MSI with really good specs. Anyone have experience with MSI?
Posted by Ace Midnight
Between sanity and madness
Member since Dec 2006
89531 posts
Posted on 4/28/24 at 9:16 pm to
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Ended up with a MSI with really good specs. Anyone have experience with MSI?


I have built with MSI MBs and video cards over the years. In my limited experience, they have been as good as ASUS and Gigabyte. Those 3 brands have always been my gold standards.

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