Will this PC run what you need?
Do not pay for specs you will not use. Tell us what you want to run and we check the parts against the official requirements — what falls short, and what is overkill.
Find the PC you actually need
From games to CAD and video software like AutoCAD and Premiere Pro, we check your PC against the official requirements: Not enough, Playable or Great.
Nothing specific in mind? Pick a use. We work out the PC from the official requirements of typical programs.
- Not sure →A bit of everything — documents, games, photos and videoBased on: Microsoft 365, League of Legends, VALORANT, Minecraft: Java Edition, Photoshop, Premiere Pro
- Documents & web →Excel, Word — a family PCBased on: three questions about open windows
- Light games →Popular online gamesBased on: League of Legends, VALORANT, Minecraft: Java Edition, Counter-Strike 2
- New big games →Recent high-end titlesBased on: Battlefield 6, Monster Hunter Wilds, Cyberpunk 2077, Black Myth: Wukong
- Photo & video →Editing and retouchingBased on: Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve
- CAD & drawings →Architecture, mechanical, 3DBased on: AutoCAD, Revit, SketchUp
What you get — e.g. a PC with i5-12400 · RTX 4060 · 16 GB RAM
- PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDSGreat
- AutoCADPlayable
- Premiere ProPlayable
- Unreal Engine 5Not enough · short on RAM
Tools
- Spec checker
Compare your PC with official game and program requirements, part by part.
- Spec builder
Pick games or programs and get minimum, recommended and headroom builds.
- Office PC calculator
Three taps give you an office PC spec; one Task Manager number makes it precise.
What Pick Spec does
Pick Spec started in Korea as a site for people who do not know much about PCs. Most buying advice ends with "for this budget, get this". But people rarely waste money because the budget is too small. They waste it on parts their work never uses — a graphics card in an office PC, a top-end GPU for 2D drawings.
So we start from the other end: the official requirements published by the people who make the software. Right now the checker covers 97 games and 79 CAD, video, photo, 3D and office programs, each with its source and the date we checked it. RAM, video memory, storage and Windows are compared with the published numbers. CPUs and graphics cards, which requirements only name by model, are compared using public rendering measurements — and we label that part as our own judgement.
We do not sell anything and we do not take commissions from stores. That makes it easy to say "you do not need this". Prices change daily, so we leave them to the store you buy from. Pick Spec is run by one person; if something looks wrong, pleaselet us know.