Hardware Recommendations

This page aims to make buying recommendations for problematic hardware.

PLEASE NOTE: Old or unavailable hardware is to be removed, and the list should be short. Best case would be one device that is good, cheap, and available in all countries. If this doesn't exist, there may be different recommendations for different countries and/or different price categories. Every price is to be provided with a date in the form YYYY-MM-DD. Mentioned devices should have great out-of-the-box experience. If there are no devices with great out-of-the-box experience available, there might also be devices mentioned that require as little tweaking as possible. Tweaking steps are to be mentioned in these cases.

You may find a more extensive list of hardware that is known to work here.

GPUs

Just buy AMD, and you will be fine. If you buy old GPUs, look for Vulkan support.

Bluetooth Headphones

Noise Cancelling Over Ear

• Premium: Sony WH-1000XM4 | EU | 250€ | 2022-03-10
• Good value:
• Cheap:

Headsets

• Premium:
• Good value: Logitech G933 | US | 29$ | 2022-03-10
• Cheap:

Mainboard

Mainboards usually just work for most features. Sometimes, features like fan control, Bluetooth, or WiFi are not supported out of the box. All devices in this category should have full support. RGB support is desirable, but not necessary. If you don't need any of this, just buy whatever you want.

AMD

AM4

MSI Tomahawk Arctic B350

Hardware with RGB support

Keyboard:

Mouse:

Mainboard:

• AMD
  • AM3:
  • AM4:
• Intel

RAM:

• DDR4:

Fan:

Not Problematic

If you don't need RGB, just buy whatever you want in the following categories:

• CPU
• RAM
• Keyboard

• Mouse (just configure the DPI once on Windows, for example in a VM)