Gaming PC on a budget

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JEMC said:

bdbdbd said:

It seems used Steam decks are over my budget. Apparently there's some issues with controls on Cottage Simulator with Steam deck that the devs have said they'll fix. 

3060 and 7700K is more or than and. And even then it's the high end of the budget anyway. Either you get better graphics card with crappier CPU or better CPU with crappier GPU.

I just offered 50€ for a 1070 graphics card and 80€ for a PC with I5 6400, GTX 960, 240GB SSD, 16GB RAM and 750W PSU. If I get the computer, I try to bargain a nearby I7 6700K processor to 30€. If I get all of them, it may be close to 200€. If not, I have other systems in mind, they're just not as close to me as these are.

Well, as someone that has been using a 1070 for the last 8 years, I can tell you that it's a great card and will likely do very well with those two games. It doesn't really have a lot more life into it, and new big budget games will run like crap if at all (no ray tracing hardware), but for smaller or indie games, it's still an ok card.

Yeah, ray tracing is in RTX cards (and GTX1660TI). 2060 would be better option than 1070 and 1070TI, but they are nowhere to be found with the budget I have. All 2060s I've seen have been in +300€ systems, with no standalone cards that I've seen.

The more you're planning on building your own PC, the more evident it becomes how undrrpowered harware consoles are, though you get what you pay for, and how easy it is to shell out 400€ and be sure every game released for the next five years will run on it as intented.