It's time for a new gaming PC for me.
I built my gaming PC, I affectionately called the Red Storm, back in 2020. It runs Windows 10 and I’ve had a lot of fun with it over the years. Now Microsoft plans to abandon support for Windows 10 in October of 2025. Rather than upgrade my gaming PC to Windows 11, I've decided to simply unplug it from the Internet and continue gaming on it offline from now on.
After all, the danger to Windows 10 no longer having updates for security vulnerabilities comes 99% from the Internet. My previous gaming PC that runs Windows 7, you may have heard me refer to as, "The Brick of Doom", still runs happily offline to this day and remains valuable to me because it runs an old version of Microsoft Office that does not require a constant Internet connection.
Microsoft's antics with Windows 10, which they initially claimed would be the last version of Windows, but of course is not as they try to drive customers to migrate to Windows 11, have really annoyed me. Windows 11 offers no new features of any interest to me and just appears to be TPM/spyware hell, as well as an excuse to sell computers to people that already have perfectly good computers. Additionally, the constant badgering to use OneDrive, or trying to force everyone to use a Microsoft account to just be able login locally to their computers did not help my disposition towards the Windows ecosystem in general.
This is why my new gaming PC will run Linux instead of Windows. I think we're finally at a point where enough games run on Linux that I can justify having a dedicated Linux gaming PC. My new gaming PC will run Bazzite and will leverage a Radeon GPU instead of an Nvidia one. Up till now, I've always used Nvidia GPUs for my gaming PCs, but again because I'm tired of nonsense...this time from Nvidia such as overpricing their GPUs, deprecating support for 32-bit PhysX on their new RTX 50-series GPUs, or what looks to me like the pyromaniac's dream come true, the 12VHPWR connector, nothing Nvidia is offering looks appealing to me right now. This is why I chose a GPU for my new gaming PC that still has 8 pin power connectors and is much more reasonably priced, the Radeon 7900 XT.
For my Steam titles and MMORPGs I still play, my new gaming PC running Bazzite will be called the Red Hurricane. These are the specifications for the Red Hurricane, along with links to the components in case anyone wants to get one for themselves:
The Red Hurricane
- AMD Ryzen™ 9 9950X 16-Core, 32-Thread Unlocked Desktop Processor
- Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB CPU Air Cooler, 6 Heat Pipes Cpu cooler, Dual TL-C12C-S PWM Fan, Aluminium Heatsink Cover, AGHP Technology, for AMD AM4/AM5/Intel LGA1700/115X/1155/1200/1851
- GIGABYTE B850I AORUS PRO AMD AM5 LGA 1718 Motherboard, Mini-ITX, DDR5, 2X M.2, PCIe 5.0, USB-C, WIFI7, 2.5GbE LAN, EZ-Latch
- Crucial P3 Plus 2TB PCIe Gen4 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD, up to 5000MB/s - CT2000P3PSSD8
- Thermaltake Tower 200 Mini-ITX Computer Case; 2x140mm Pre-Installed CT140 Fans; Supports GPU Length Up to 380mm; CA-1X9-00S4WN-00; Bumblebee; 3 Year Warranty
- Sapphire 11323-02-20G Pulse AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT Gaming Graphics Card with 20GB GDDR6, AMD RDNA 3
- Crucial BX500 4TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5-Inch Internal SSD, up to 540MB/s - CT4000BX500SSD1, Solid State Drive
- Toshiba 20TB MG10ACA20TE SATA 600GB 20in1 HDD
The 2tb drive is for the operating system, the 4tb is for the games to be installed on, and the 20tb drive is for game video recordings. I look forward to putting this new PC together and making new gaming videos with it to share with you.
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