Newegg's new gaming PC finder wants to make buying a PC easier and it does. Sort of

pcgamer.com:

Newegg has just announced a new tool on the PC hardware store for recommending a prebuilt gaming PC to its customers based on a selection of today's top games. It sounds like a neat idea, but is its recommendation engine up to standard? In some ways, it does a decent enough job giving potential buyers a ballpark idea of what to buy, though I wouldn't rush to the checkout off its recommendations alone.

The Gaming PC Finder lives on Newegg's homepage(opens in new tab), and it works like this: you enter your target resolution (1080p, 2K, 4K), select up to four games from a collection of popular picks, and then hit 'view results'.

You'll then be shown three PC recommendations: starter, mainstream, and enthusiast.

The starter PC is, you guessed it, a more entry-level machine. So you're looking at a low-end modern CPU and probably an RTX 3060(opens in new tab), but maybe something lower. Then there's the mainstream PC, which has a more powerful CPU and an RTX 3060 Ti(opens in new tab) or RTX 3070(opens in new tab). And finally, the enthusiast PC, which tends to come with a high-end CPU and an RTX 3080 Ti(opens in new tab), or something around that mark.

That's the rough idea, anyways. The PCs it ultimately recommends depend on the games you pick and appear to be based on the sales at Newegg at the time, so results may vary. This is where it slips up most, in fact. It's great that the Finder will show you PCs that are on offer at the moment, but it's not quite clever enough to sniff out the best deal for every scenario.

Here's an example from a search I carried out earlier. I chose four fairly low-rent games as my go-to titles: Apex Legends, League of Legends, World of Warcraft, and Valorant. Mostly titles that run pretty well