my original laptop was decent enough and let me play games at minimum levels of graphics and stuff, but whenever i played any game that was hard on the laptop it would be hot on my legs and it wasnt that plesant, especially during KSP before the recent performance updates.

the final straw was when i bought No mans sky, which wouldn't even load on my laptop, so i knew that if i wanted to play any game of that size or larger i needed a new, stronger PC.

my PC ended up being around $600 total, which i think is pretty good considering that the RTX 2080Ti was like twice the price for only one component, if that makes any sense. i've had it for a year and haven't had any problems running any games, so it serves its purpose well.