Gaming PC on a budget

[JEMC]

bdbdbd said:

JEMC said:

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. 

Even if you could ge a 2060 for ray tracing, it isn't a good idea. Te RT cores on those first cards weren't very good and haven't aged well. They make it up with DLSS, tho.

The RX 580 that Pem has proposed is also a good option, between the 1060 and the 1070 in performance (closer to the former).