I’m on a $1,500 budget - Help me purchase my first gaming PC

[SvennoJ]

Davy said:

SvennoJ said:

A 2020 PC is not modern? :p

I bet older PCs can still keep up. 

AI cuts it off at 2017:

Yes, a PC built with components from around 2017 can outperform a PS5, though it depends on the specific parts and your budget. A custom PC offers the ability to upgrade components over time, and while the PS5 provides a fixed, optimized experience, a high-end PC can exceed its performance, especially with more powerful GPUs like an RTX 40 series, offering better frame rates and ray tracing.

In 2 years if playstation 6 has 30 teraflops performance, my pc won't be modern for sure. :P

I could upgrade my gpu but i am afraid that my ryzen 3600 will eat the dust and i will have to replace the whole pc. ^^

Compared to PS6 yeah. If AI puts the cut off at 3 years prior PS5 launch, then 6 years prior PS6 launch hardware likely won't cut it.

PS6 will have 9 or 10 cores, 6 cores might struggle.

The PS6 is expected to feature an AMD "Orion" APU with a total of 9 to 10 Zen 6 CPU cores, consisting of 7-8 high-performance Zen 6c cores and 1-2 Zen 6 LP cores dedicated to the operating system. This architecture is designed to free up the high-performance cores for gaming and multitasking.

However if you're content with lower fps, you can still play ps6 games on that. But they'll look and play better on the console. 

Choices, new motherboard/CPU now or wait for DDR6 :/ And of course it's not going to be cheap when it releases. Trying to future proof a PC can easily turn into higher costs than upgrading a bit more often. Prices aren't linear between low-mid-high end PC hardware.