| shikamaru317 said: Well, I think I have settled on the specs for my PC upgrade now. Don't have a huge budget, but I think I can manage to pull off: CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 4500 RAM: 16 GB DDR4 3600 SSD: 1 TB PCIe Gen 3 GPU: Intel Arc A580 Such a system would be roughly capable of PS5 tier performance (in all areas except for load times), while costing me around $400 since I will be reusing my case and power supply and windows install from my old build. The riskiest part by far is that Intel GPU, Intel is new to the GPU game and have struggled with drivers, struggled with performance on older DirectX 9 games, and struggled with convincing developers to use their DLSS/FSR competitor XeSS, but Intel has been putting in alot of work to fix their driver and DX 9 issues over the last year since they entered the GPU market, and they have the money to be able to afford to drive higher marketshare, which in turn will improve XeSS support for future games. I think going with Intel for my GPU may be worth the risk since the A580, when properly utilized, outperforms every other sub-$200 GPU by quite some considerable margin, the similarly priced Nvidia GeForce 1660 S, 1660ti, 3050 and AMD RX 5600 XT don't even come close to touching it's performance in games where it is properly utilized, you need to pay about $50 more for a RX 6600 to match it while Nvidia's cheapest card that matches or exceeds it is like $90 (Nvidia badly needs to get the 4050 out asap and price it lower than $200). AMD and Nvidia both have really dropped the ball when it comes to low end GPU's in recent generations, just about every GPU both have released in the last 3 years or so has been a $200+ part, they left the sub-$200 market largely uncovered for Intel to swoop in with better performing GPU's than their older generation sub-$200 offerings. Looking forward to joining the ranks of the PC master race, where multiplayer is free, Steam sales are often and have big discounts, modding is fairly easy, and we get ports of just about every game in existence. |
This build seems a bit too....underpowered for a gaming computer in 2024.
Also I wouldnt recommend going intel for GPU - if price is the issue, go with AMD otherwise Nvidia.
16 GB is bare minimum these days and as time goes, 32 GB is gonna become norm.
Also one drive storage isnt really viable nowadays especially if you plan to use your computer for more than PC gaming. Having a secondary drive (mainly a HDD) would be a good way to go.
The build you specified would have been good....back in 2020 or 2021.
But I'm assuming you want to keep your build for at least 5 years before the next upgrade?
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I'm planning to get a new rig either late 2024 or early 2025 depending on the deals (and I'm going for pre-build).
My current PC from 2019 has
-CPU: Ryzen 5 3600
-GPU: RX 580 (8 GB)
-RAM: 16 GB DDR4 3000 MHz
-SSD: 256 GB
-HDD: 2 TB
Got the computer for like $650 and I upgraded my RAM for an additional $80 from a 8 GB
I used to 10 year upgrades but my financial situation is better than it was a decade ago so I'm planning to do ones every 5 years.
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For my future build, I havent decided which exact parts to get but I have a outline in what I want to get
GPU: Nvidia preferred
RAM: 32 GB
SSD: 1 TB
HDD: 2 TB
My budget is a bit higher but I'm hoping to stay within the $900 to $1,200 range.
Also I plan to re-use my current gaming desktop as my new general PC for video rendering , etc
Gonna use my current general PC (which is also a gaming computer but with lower specs than my main gaming PC lol) for just to do general stuff like paying bills, etc.
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I'm still planning to buy the next Xbox providing b/c still applies. b/c is the main reason why I bought an Xbox.
