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Cerebralbore101 on 04 February 2019
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Ka-pi96 said:
Cerebralbore101 said:

1. A Desktop PC costing more than $750 is largely a waste of money. 1080p 60 FPS is fine for a gaming PC. Spending more than that results in diminishing returns so severe that the extra money just isn't worth it. (Yes, I'm guilty of spending way above that for my PC.) Edit: Seriously though the price to go from a 1080/60 FPS rig to a 4k/60 FPS rig is like $900.

What if the extra money above that is being spent on bigger harddrive/SSD, a faster processor or more RAM rather than just a graphics card though?

I put together two builds on pcpartpicker for comparison. One was a 1080p/60 FPS build with a cheap Ryzen 5, 8GB 2400 RAM, 580 GPU. The other was a 4K/60 F{S 2700X, 16 GB 3200 RAM, RTX 2080. Both had the same storage. Power supplies were slightly different due to the 4K build needing more power. 

Personally I prefer having at least a 1TB SSD, but I have to admit that just going for a $17 120 GB SSD for booting windows is the better option financially speaking. That and a non-SSD for storing games. 

Last edited by Cerebralbore101 - on 04 February 2019