I know new stuff is coming out soon, I’m looking for now. I don’t mind upgrading parts down the road. How’s this PC build look? Is it good? is it ok? is it overkill? I primarily play WoW.
It’s almost the same build I put together for my wife’s gaming system. I used an Asus TUF X570 motherboard though. It works really well. Paired it with watercooling and a NZXT case. Quiet, fast, and hasn’t had a lick of problems.
Caveat: I don’t tweak rigs. I just set everything to default and let it run. I find that every time I try to tweak a modern PC it just causes system instability in weird ways.
She runs max settings @ 2560x1440 and gets 100 FPS in the open world. Pretty standard to be honest. For comparison I have an i5 8600k with a GTX 1070 and get roughly the same performance.
Honestly, I’d just go with whichever you can get at the best price. The differences between platforms is pretty much a wash. IMO, you can’t go wrong with either Intel or AMD.
I have an Ryzen 5 3600 paired with an RTX 2070 and a 1440p/144hz monitor and play at max settings with similar results to the poster above. You should be fine.
This looks like good stuff, and I wish I could afford it.
But; if I could afford this, I could afford a better monitor, 32gb of memory, a WD Black SSD and I’d want to know who made my case and who made the fans IN the case. That board will/should support the next wave of processors coming out. That’s a big chunk of last wave’s tech you’ll be buying, that GPU. I suppose though it’ll do, till the new wave breaks… LoL. Your PSU, make your best guess as to what you are GOING to have after a CPU and GPU upgrade. If you got that, then you can get a good estimate of what your PSU is going to have to provide.
First thing? Better Monitor.
Alright, here’s a final build. How’s this one? I tweaked it a little bit. around $2,244. I googled each part individually and total I came up with if I parted it out and did it myself was $2,527
Could I wait a few months and these parts are cheaper? Sure.
Performance wise it’s perfectly fine, it’ll play every game at High-Max settings. For WoW, it’s a bit overkill, but whatevs, most PC’s are nowadays.
As far as saving money, you can cut back to 16gb of ram if you want. It won’t make much of a difference if you’re just gaming, and if it’s a noticeable savings on Ibuypower (like if the difference is 30 bucks, just keep the 32gb)
Monitor wise, do you wanna play on a 100 dollar Dell, or your 600 dollar curved screen with all the bells and whistles. It’s up to you.
when i was talking about the Power Supply Roulette,
its not that 750w is not enough, its just you don’t know which power supply you’re going to get.
Awhile it could be 80+ cert it may on the lower end of the spectrum.
However it should be good enough for majority of people.
Changes I would suggest.
Cooling: Aim for a 240mm AIO, better cooling for not much more.
Memory: You can drop down to 16GB if gaming is your priority. I have 32GB for work purposes, but when I’m not using it for work, I barely scratch 12GB for gaming with chrome/firefox running a ton of tabs.
GPU: If you can use the step up program from EVGA. You might be able to snag a RTX 3080. Otherwise no comment.
Motherboard: Asus TUF should be more than enough for you. It even has some extras such as Type C USB.
Power Supply: Not much of a selection to go off of, but whatever they supply you should be good enough.
Monitor: Do a quick search around to see if Amazon/Newegg/Best Buy has it for cheaper.
Better.
I wonder, why are you choosing to use just 2 of the 4 ram slots?
Monitor is better, and I am pretty sure Dell doesn’t have a 31" monitor for 100$…
or 24"…
The WD Black SN750 m.2 PCIe NVMe SSD is faster than the Blue, and has the same warranty. Someone will point out to you that the speed difference is not meaningful , and the Blue writes big files better or some damn thing.
The Black is faster. The Black comes with Game Oriented software. The Blue does not. Best wishes.
looking at the ibuypower site you are probably better off with the corsair RMX 750, more then enough power for any single card out there and well built. Even with the 2070 super you won’t be pushing more then 50% of that PSU.
funny as techspot has those exact two SSds in game load tests today with the difference being between 0 and .5 seconds in each test but hey facts vs hyperbole in modern times, I know they are hard to separate.
