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Rampocalypse 2025-2026 Survival Guide

Buying guide

This guide is intended for anyone world wide who's trying to build on a budget for 2025/2026. It's intended to land you with hardware on a budget to hold you over for the next 2-3 years until the market hopefully normalizes after the bubble popped.

If you're, already on AM4 or 12th gen Intel with 16-32GB of DDR4 (of reasonable speed - 3200MT/s), this guide isn't for you. If GPUs don't matter to you, because you only play lightweight e-sports titles and you need top tier CPU performance, this guide isn't for you. If a friend is willing to sell you a system like the above or you can find one for a reasonable price, you should absolutely not go down this route either.

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OS install

Creating the install USB

It's recommended you do a completely clean install of Windows.

If you are on more modern hardware, it is highly recommended to go with Windows 11. Features are better, hardware scheduling is better and you'll be on a better supported platform. Do NOT use Windows 11, if you're on an unsupported system. Many anti-cheats require TPM and Secure Boot nowadays.

It is recommended to use an optimized Windows installation like ReviOS, which comes in both Windows 10 and 11 variants. If you don't care about anti-cheat and just need the utmost performance, you can try AtlasOS. Older systems benefit from such an optimized OS significantly more.