I’m looking to get a gaming pc. I mainly want to use it for emulation of PS3 and Xbox 360 and lower. Would also use for modern gaming some too. I would like to load Bazzite onto it so I can be on Linux and use a steamdeck like interface.
I’m looking at the second hand market and I see one with these specs:
Ryzen 5 2600 Evga GeForce GTX 1660 ADATA XPG 16GB (8x2GB) 3000mhz MSI B450m pro-vdm max 500GB NVME M.2 + 1TB HDD Thermaltake 650w 80+ Bronze Coolermaster q300l v2 mATX Case
Would this PC work well with Bazzite and run PS3 games well?
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Specifically for ps3 emulation you would benefit from having as good a cpu as possible.
An R5 2600 is listed as D tier on the rpcs3 CPU tier list.
Anecdotally thats the same cpu I use in my windows media computer in my living room. I’ve tried to do ps3 emulation on it quite a bit. It’s a little hit and miss but mostly miss. I can somewhat get away with playing easy to run games but anything even remotely difficult to run is unplayably slow. And I’ve got an RTX 3060 ti in that. That GTX 1660 is not going to help things.
I would trade that GeForce GTX 1660 for a Radeon RX 6600 (these are cheap too) because NVidia doesn’t work well with gamescope (SteamOS/Bazzite big picture console mode).
Maybed I would choose another distro such as Nobara Steam-HTPC as it has NVidia ISO. I never tried it myself as I’ve ditched NVidia.
You don’t necessarily need Big Picture mode like on the Steam Deck, in fact i think your current Nvidia card might have issues with it https://docs.bazzite.gg/Handheld_and_HTPC_edition/Steam_Gaming_Mode/ You could use another distro like Fedora, install Steam and just set it to launch in Big Picture mode
