Gaming PC on a budget

[Pemalite]

bdbdbd said:

Pemalite said:

A Radeon RX480 or RX 580 (Or even the 470 and 570) would be fine... Or even the Radeon RX 6600.

Any Quad-core or better CPU made within the last decade... And of course make sure you have a decent amount of DRAM.

If you are on a budget, you need to ignore nVidia.

Actually the minimum requirement is I5 8400/Ryzen 1600. Apparently one of the games need at least a 6-threaded processor and Intel I5 and lower did not have at least 6 threads until the 8th generation. 

1060 6GB, or AMD equivalent, was the minimum for the game. If user benchmarks is to believe, GTX 1060 is better than RX 580, although 580 has more VRAM and the amount of VRAM may be the limiting factor for the game. The cheapest 1060 6GB sell seem to be 40€ and so is 580.

Other than power consumption, RX 6600 doesn't seem to offer much benefits overall, as the 1070, 2060 and 1070TI seem to all be cheaper and GTX1080 about 20€ more expensive than 1070TI, however, there aren't many 6600's available, perhaps it will change after the next generation of Radeon is released next month.

The new cards are expensive and even the newer used, but the 2016 and 2018 released cards' price doesn't really depend on the manufacturer anymore. As the Nvidia cards are more common, there seem to be more people who don't know what they're selling and you're more likely to find someone selling a computer with Nvidia card for less than the standalone card itself sell, than you are to find AMD card the same way. 

Quaddy will be fine.
It's not always about the threads, but clockrates, cache and IPC as well... And even TDP. I.E. Some of the early Ryzen mobile chips, the 4-core CPU's @25w would get more performance in gaming than the 6-core CPU's @ 25w because more IPC could be spent driving up the clockspeeds of the 4-core processor.

An i3 8350k can get 93% of the performance of the 8500 for example in gaming with 2 less cores.

Keep in mind he isn't running Flight Simulator or Civilization here... Even my "work" PC with an Intel N200 Quad-Core CPU can run most games "fine" if the GPU wasn't holding things back.