Budget: 2000$ cad$
More specific use (what games, what programs):D2R (8+copy's) Photoshop
Planned time until purchase: A week or Two can hold out long for better deals
Do you need an Operating System?: Yes
Do you have any specific preferred components?: Nope
Do you need a sound or wireless card?: Yes wifi and sound card
Do you want stock cooling or do you plan on overclocking?: Stock is fine no overclock
Do you need a monitor? mouse? keyboard?:Nope
Zip code/location? (Shipping costs):Canada,ont.


If need any more info or anything I can add to help plz lmk and thank you very much for the help!!

not familiar with how much d2r cpu/gpu/memory is required these days after optimization per instance.
can you tell me what your current GPU/CPU/memory is (memory just amount)

can you open d2r in whatever settings you are planning to use (lowest settings possible id imagine) with task manager resources, and while you are creating a game find the peak numbers in task manager?
gpu % usage on join and idle in town (act 2)
cpu % usage on join and what speed you get to (ghz) + in act 2 idle
memory usage on join/in-game(gb amount) + in act 2 idle
storage space usage of the game itself if you plan to run exclusive games or if you are using the same game files to run all 8 (not sure what kind of tech there is)

what OS are you currently on so i know what these limits mean

This post was edited by Candyzcanes on Jan 21 2023 11:51am

Will do, should be home in a few hours and I'll give updates

GPU Idle 0%
GPU Join 5.6%

CPU Join 86.9%
Cpu Idle 27.3

memory join 2,621.7MB
memory idle 2,378.6MB

memory 16GB
GPU GedForce GTX 1070
CPU i3-8100 @ 3.60Ghz, 3600 Mhz, 4cores

OS is windows home 10 would upgrade to 11 in the new build

Hope this helps and thank you for helping

here is my throw at it
https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/9YfhpH

where you could save money if you want to:
- change ssd to a cheaper variant, i always pick samsung because i've never had one die
- change cooler, but if you need to overclock your CPU to do the 8x d2r instances, then you will to upgrade to this tier of cooler in the build i made anyways, so i figured rather just get it now than later and save some money net
- go to a 6700xt gpu when they go on sale but the 6750 pairs better with 5800x cpu in your build
- go to a micro board but it would look hilariously small in the case in your build

You MAY have to upgrade your ram if d2r still has memory leaks past the 32gb pack in your build i made. lucky for you, you could just buy another pack of the one in the build if it turns out it's required and install them without any loss.

also pretty nice 90% of it is amazon

*build doesn't include windows 11 though*

This post was edited by Candyzcanes on Jan 22 2023 07:51am

Hello, just wanted to give a bit of a update PC is built changed just a few thing gpu mainly and power supply other then that pretty much the same easy to build and fun. Frist build ever so was fun. Only thing left to do at this point is make sure it turns on and set up windows and drivers. Thank you again

PC is build I'll give a list of parts when I'm home. For the Frist PC build wasn't bad poop myself a bit SSD calm loose and thought I broke it hahahaha.

glad it worked out