I am a PS5 player, I do not rule out the absurd hypothesis of buying a PC for this.
But not being familiar with PCs.
What computer do I need to play without any type of limitations?
You plug it in and play.
Mateā¦ with the RAM shortage there is now, if I were you I would try to wait it out. You wonāt get the value for the money youāll spend. At least wait to see how the UE5 version runs, because FUNCOM has a terrible track record on launches.
Its affected the most to DDR 5 RAM because KI relevant Things. He can use DDR4 RAM, that not so expensive. He can make do with what heās got; heās buying āoldā hardware in that sense, but itāll be more than enough if he goes for 32GB. The CPU and graphics card are more important. He might have to make some compromises with DDR4, but it wonāt make a massive difference ā this is an 8-year-old port to UE5, not Star Citizen 
Yeah, but experience tells me itās always a bad investment. When it comes to technology, buy the absolute best that you can afford, advised by someone who knows whatās what.
Thatās what I do and I have no regrets.
Thatās a very difficult question to answer accurately without knowing how you personally define limitations.
Things like how much space do you want on the SSD drive, what resolution do want to play at, do you want a high frame rate even with all the graphical bells and whistles turned on, do you want a computer just for CE or maybe will try out newer games, which will be more demanding, down the road and so on.
Who knowsā¦ Maybe even CE will get another graphical update at some point and your new computer may not run it so well anymore.
The recommended specs in the blog post are a good starting point and like Marcos said get someone whoās familiar with it all to help or be prepared to do oceans of research yourself.
At first it would be for CE, to play it in ultra.
Then I understand that you can always change components to improve, it is not like the PS5.
To an extent, yes. There are some jumps in the tech that arenāt backwards compatible as well as some components that donāt work well with certain other components. Then thereās changing bios settings and device drivers and in some cases a complete operating system reinstall. Itās not as simple as taking out part A and putting part B in.
Buying an assembled computer from someone or a company that can be there in case of problems and/or to help with upgrades is probably a good idea for the non-tech savvy but you will pay a premium for it.
As a disclaimer Iām biased as Iāve always built my own.
I cannot do something like it , itās out of my expertise. But from the very beginning I was going to PC repair shops and asked to build me one. These people have studied in university this profession and worked on PCs as passion all their lives. So i tend to give them trust than a probably mindless salesman that sells a product in huge electric market chain. And I am not claiming that all the people who work in chains are mindless salesman, but some really are and in the past i got personal guarantee from salesman that wasnāt valid after i bought the item 
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Other than that if something happens i can easily call personally the person who sold it to me and even accept a home visit for check and repair.
I believe that overall what makes a gaming PC expensive if the amount that youāll have to pay for a graphic card, maybe all the rest will cost as much as this item alone costs.
The high end Nvidia cards are several thousand dollars. Should probably expect to pay 1k plus for a card that will run modern games in their full glory and they will need a computer to match or you become bottlenecked by the rest of the system.
On the other end of the spectrum Iām seeing some refurbished rtx 4060ās with 8 gigs of memory for slightly less then 300 dollars. That would be the way for me to go as the 4060ās have very low power requirements and I would not have to upgrade my power supply to support it plus it works with the pci slots on my motherboard. Just as an example of some of the things that have to be taken into consideration when upgrading.
Some industry people saying thereās a good chance prices will begin dropping shortly. Hopefully so.
Guys, I must complain. The posts so far arenāt very helpful. OP was asking for advice, not a discussion about RAM prizes.
@ Calixto:
The PC should fulfill the ārecommendedā specs given by Funcom. They tested the UE5 version with a lot of different hardware via the beta test and should have a good impression of what should be used.
It doesnāt make much sense to go below that in this case. The ārecommendedā specs often are more of wishlist by the gaming company - the higher they set the specs, the less complaints they get from players. Personally, I played on PCs at or below the āminimumā requirements given by the gaming industry for decades, and that was okay for me, but the specs given for Conan Exiles UE5 arenāt really that high. Thereās little savings to be made by going below the ārecommendedā specs here.
There are many, many gaming PC companies. They PCās brand doesnāt matter much; they just the guys (and sometimes gals) that screw the good stuff together. What matters is not who build the PC, but whatās inside.
The store, PC company and so on depend a bit on where you live - send me your country in a PM if you want. Assuming the USA as an example and buying from the evil big box shop amazon, the cheapest thing I found with a quick search was the āSTGAubron Gaming PC Desktop Computer, AMD Ryzen 5 5500 up to 4.2G, GeForce RTX 3060 12G, 16G DDR4, 1T SSD, WiFi 6, BT 5.2, RGB Fan x4, Windows 11 Homeā. Thatās about 850 $ and should do fine.
Iāve played Cyberpunk 2077 and many other more or less current games on a similar rig, and it was fine for me.
Iām not an expert, and I hope somebody with more technical expertise will feel incited to give a better example. If any fellow barbarian here might step in: Letās try to give a āgood value for the moneyā advise, not your personal Christmas wishlist.
If you have even a little more money to spend, itās worth to spend maybe 200 $ more for some āheadroomā. Donāt go crazy and buy the newest stuff, despite what people say. The most current hardware is always overpriced, and unless you want a PC to butter your e-peen, go with the second or third best. For Conan Exiles specifically: Despite the UE5 update, itās a very old game. You wonāt need a supercomputer to play that on.
The āSkytech Gaming Nebula 2 Gaming PC, AMD Ryzen 5 5500 3.6GHz, NVIDIA RTX 5050 8GB, 1TB NVMe SSD, 16GB DDR4 RAM 3200, 650W Gold PSU, Wi-Fi, Win 11, Gaming Desktopā, for example, would be roughly 40% faster for 950 $.
I play on something similar to the āMXZ Gaming PC Desktop Computer, AMD Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 4060Ti, 16GB DDR4, NVME 1 T SSD, 6RGB Fansā. Due to the NDA, I cannot confirm or deny if I tested the UE5 on that machine, but based on pure speculation, youād be very, very fine with something like that - itās much more than required. Itās about 1000 $.
It may be smart to buy something used. The specs for UE5 Conan Exiles are far behind what can be bought currently, and one might find a good deal from somebody who upgraded to the latest hype. Again, depends on country of origin - in my neighborhood, prices for used hardware are a bit crazy, but that can better at your place.
If one goes bargain hunting, Iād guesstimate that something viable can be found for 500 $ or so. The aforementioned examples are just from a quick search to give an estimate, and no endorsement for evil amazon or the probably more honorable PC manufacturers. If possible, try to buy from a local company.
Buying a PC is, in my opinion, a good decision. Console are easy to use and relatively cheap, but you pay that subsidy later via game prices. As a PC user, one is still beholden to our Microsoft and Steam overlords, but thereās at least a shimmer of competition and freedom there. As a console player, youāre subject to the console manufacturers holy dictates.
Look at prices at āGood Old Gamesā for example, and youāll see what I mean. With a PC, you can spend your life gaming with little more to pay than the electrical bill (outrageous as those currently are, admittedly).
If youāre not on PC yet but plan to be someday, hereās the first and most important lesson: thereās no such thing as āno limitationsā in the PC world.
And honestly, thatās both the best and the worst part of it.
Unlike consoles, PC games are highly configurable. You can tweak settings to favor performance or visuals. But that flexibility comes with complexity. When youāre new, it feels like you need a degree to understand all the options. Once youāre used to it, though, things like anti-aliasing, V-Sync, draw distance, environment density, etc., become second nature.
Thatās what makes PC so powerful. It gives games a much longer lifespan. Even older titles can keep improving visually and performance-wise as hardware evolves, without needing major reworks from the devs.
So yeah, forget the idea of āno limits.ā
Instead, focus on what you want out of the experience.
For me, 60 FPS is perfectly fine. But I know people who wonāt settle for anything below 120 FPS (Iāve barely even seen that in action 
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Bottom line: if you follow Funcomās recommended specs, youāll likely have a solid experience on PC.
One thing to keep in mind, though: Conan Exiles can be pretty demanding on VRAM due to all the building and rendering. Thatās not always clearly reflected in the official requirements. Iād say 6 GB is the bare minimum, but aiming for 8 GB is definitely the safer bet.
Personally Iām not comfortable with giving someone whoās not familiar with pc stuff exact specs. If the op buys the computer you linked and then isnāt happy with it because they wanted 120 fps at 4k with max settings then what? The best situation is for them to visit a place where they can see and play on various grades of computers and decide if an ultimate performance pc is worth it to them or if they want to scale it back a bit.
Also I wasnāt in the beta so have no clue how the enhanced CE is going to play on any equipment.
They did say no limitations. Not a computer that barely gets by. For all I know the op is loaded and perfectly willing to spend 5k or more on a computer that does what they want.
near 1~2.5k USD i think, at least in my country, better go a for setup above the middle to dont have to upgrade again in a short period
Better look after rtx 4060 ti or a 5060 ti or above but they are more expensive i usually look at this site, dont know if the prices are upāto-date.
16gb RAM is the limit, if you will do multi-tasks like play and listen muisc or keep open at least one browser tab streaming videos, you should think in having more RAM, another detail look for dual channel instead of single channel, they are faster. In case of doubts you can use gpt, or gemini they can give a good overview on what to choose, will save you search time and dont let you entirelly on the hands of the shops.
I want to clarify, that it would be to play Conan Exiles without limitations, I understand that if I go to other games, prepare my wallet.
The idea is to play Conan without limitations, that is, to be able to play in ultra.
Maybe I donāt experience as much change with PS5 and I donāt appreciate the difference.
But the idea is to be able to experience Conan to the fullest extent that I can give myself.
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OS: Windows 10/11 64-bit
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Processor: Intel Core i5-10400F or AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (or better)
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Memory: 16 GB RAM (Minimum)
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Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 or AMD Radeon RX 6700 (or better)
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DirectX: Version 12 (expected for Unreal Engine 5 features)
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Storage: ~40 GB free space (Significantly reduced from previous 115GB+)
Copy the above (From th FC Blpg recommemded), plop it in a google or what ever and shop. then you will get some pricing guides.
For Conan Exiles, the aforementioned rigs should all work. Personally, Iād go with the RTX 5050, RTX 4060i or a similar option. Besides Conan, thereāre other things to discover. 
Depends on the money you can and want to spend, of course.
An average gaming laptop is also able to handle Conan Exiles, but one always pays a little bit extra for a laptop. May be interesting, though, if you travel or move around the house a lot. If thatās not necessary, Iād go for the better value for money a desktop PC offers.
When you look at offers, donāt forget to check if Windows (preferably 11) is included. Thatāll mean that the PC should be more or less ready to use, and you donāt have to pay the outrageous prices Microsoft charges for separate licenses.
Thereāll be some installation required, but itās really not much of a hassle - ten minutes of work or so denying all of Microsoftās requests to collect user data.
The virus protection included with WIndows is not the Ferrari of virus programs, but okay - I use it for a decade without issue. Same goes for the firewall and other stuff. PCs have become much, much easier to use over the past twenty years or so - not harder or more effort than to set up than a smartphone, Iād say.
If I can be of any help, feel free to ask here or via DM.
Based on my experience selecting a computer to meet the stated game requirements: guys, be prepared for the fact that a computer that meets the recommended configuration will allow you to play comfortably only at medium graphics settings.
What do you think of this computer for Conan? socket am5, all white + 32gb RAM + AM5 R5 9600X + RTX 5060
Looks good!