I am not a tech savvy person - and my son needs a new gaming desktop that can run Monster Hunter Wilds. Could you please help me figure out if either of these two options will work? Option 1 is significantly cheaper, so I’m holding my fingers crossed for that one.
Thank you all in advance!
Specs for Monster Hunter Wilds:
- CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-11600K or Intel® Core™ i5-12400 or AMD - Ryzen™ 5 3600X or AMD Ryzen™ 5 5500
 - RAM: 16 GB
 - VIDEO CARD: NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 2070 Super(VRAM 8GB) or NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 4060(VRAM 8GB) or AMD Radeon™ RX - 6700XT(VRAM 12GB)
 - DEDICATED VIDEO RAM: 8 GB (AMD 12GB)
 - PIXEL SHADER: 6.0
 - VERTEX SHADER: 6.0
 - FREE DISK SPACE: 140 GB
 
OPTION 1:
- Intel Core Ultra 7 265F (1.8GHz) Processor
 - 32GB DDR5-5600 RAM
 - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Dual Graphics Card
 - 1TB PCIe M.2 NVMe Gen4 SSD
 - Link: https://www.microcenter.com/product/699104/asus-rog-g700-(2025)-g700tf-ds766ti-gaming-pc
 
OPTION 2:
- AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D (4.2GHz) Processor
 - PRO B650-VC WiFi III Motherboard
 - 32GB DDR5-6000 RAM
 - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Graphics Card
 - 2TB M.2 NVMe Gen4 SSD
 - Link: https://www.microcenter.com/product/692344/msi-aegis-zs2-c7nvp-1446us-gaming-pc
 


What about Sunshine/Moonlight instead? Assuming they have a good PC themselves.
I am judging a book by it’s cover here, but they said they’re not tech savvy, and asked the question in the post, so my assumption is that they themselves do not own one.