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Burning Typhoon on 14 May 2017
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JRPGfan said:
ibrahimman0 said:

I recently sold my Xbox One (that I had gotten by trading it for a PS4) in order to get a PC. I generally prefer Microsoft exclusives, but since all Xbox games will come to Windows 10 from now on, I decided to get a PC.

The thing is I am totally lost with the endless PC components out there and idk what to go but i plan on buying a used full pc due to lack of money.

 

The best afforardble PC i found so far is:

Processor: Intel I7 3770 (3.9GHz, 4 cores, 8 threads, 8M Cache) (old cpu, but i7, probably ~200$)

GPU:  MSI RX 480 Gaming X 4GB  (~ 260$)

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H (old mb, ~80$?)

Power supply : HEC-600TC-5KW (600W) (~60$?)

Ram: 8GB DDR3 1866MHz Corsair Vengence Pro (~60$?)

Case: Cooler Master K350  (~50$?)

and 1TB hardrive  (40 to 60$)

 

it also comes with a standard monitor (~80-100$), gaming mouse (30-40$), keyboard (10-20$), and Xbox 360 controller (15$?).

Can someone please tell me how much is this worth? Can it run all 2017 games on Ultra 60fps? (should run fine, maybe not ultra)

 

If your paying like 900$ or so, its probably a fair price.

A used motherboard at 200 dollars is too much.  I only paid 150, or so for mine, and it was new.  AX 370 G5 Gigabyte.  I understand intel boards are generally more expensive than AMD counterparts, but wow...  You'll have to add another 20, or 100 dollars for windows, depending on how you wish to go about obtaining it, if it's not included.  And, it's used, so I'd automatically knock off 50% of the price.

So, again, 500 bucks.  But, that PC is not going to outperform Xbox Scorpio.  I don't think it's worth thinking about if you're not going to be satisfied with it.  It's one thing to say, "Hey, I want a PC that'll let me do this," and another to get a PC that can't do what you wanted because it wasn't in your price range.  Why even do that to yourself?

Please, just go a few months, and get a scorpio.  I was kinda in the same boat...

My last PC build had an i7 4790k and an R9 390x.  When I wasn't multi-tasking, it was fine.  The moment I tried doing other stuff too, my framerates would go from 120, down to 45... In overwatch.... on mostly high settings.

Now, I can play on ultra and get framerates above what my monitor can display anyway...  When I'm not multi-tasking.  As far as playing on epic... Why?  I just tried the setting, just to see.  I'm getting 90FPS on the title screen (orisa at Gibralter, if it makes a difference) on epic at 1440p.  Do I care?  No.  It's the same game, and having extra details in the game, in tiny artifacts that are half the map away from me, when my monitor's native relsolution is 1080p anyway, it makes no sense for me to play on epic and have such a nasty dip in my frames. If I stopped and picked apart the image, I'd see minor differences between the two.  It's really not worth it.

Being at 90fps, that's probably just enough headroom to play at a stable 60 FPS.