So I'm thinking that a desktop might be a better route for me to go down - worse comes to worse I can always steal my mom's Lenovo i3 and put Traktor on there if I need to DJ (or maybe sneak Traktor on my awesome 32gb RAM i7 HP laptop for work), which is about 2-3 times a year... and I don't really travel much. I can also always upgrade a desktop or replace a busted part much easier than a laptop.
Of course, I feel I need to go through the geek right of passage and build my own, but some more questions:
-what do I do about coolant?
-what kinda graphics card is sufficient to run Witcher 3? That's probably the most tech-intensive game I'd be interested in. $500+ for a 1080 is definitely a bit too steep.
-now I don't really play graphically intensive PC games, but I am a dev and will need to run an IDE, web server, etc from my machine. I also use Photoshop, edit sound files, and warp tracks. I assume this stuff is more RAM dependent - am I better off splurging for extra RAM or processor than I am a graphics card?
I'm using pcpartpicker.com, any other recs or 'how to' guides would be nice. Gonna see if via my job I can score some stuff (MS Office, Win10) on the cheap.