Help me choose a Geforce Card (and things to go with it)

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vivster said:

Pemalite said:

For 1080P gaming. A Geforce 1050, Core i5, 16GB Ram is fine.

If you wish for Ultra settings, 1080P, 60fps, Anti-Aliasing. Then step it up to the Geforce 1060. You don't need to spend a ton of cash on hardware if you are only gaming at 1080P.

Is an i5 even viable anymore now that there is Ryzen?

Viable, yes. But the question is how long will it be. I'm pretty sure that by the end of the month the i5 will start trailing behind Ryzen 5 chips in games because it's limited to 4 threads only. And that's leaving out the frametimes which already are getting worse on a i5 despite having nominally higher frame counts.

In any case, now that Ryzen is out, I wouldn't buy an i5 anymore. I hope for Intel that by Ice lake they've learned and will bring 4c/8t i5 chips, with i7 covering 6-8 cores and i9 anything above that.