Hi all
My relatives want me to build them a budget gaming PC.
Looking at £1500 spend but that has to include the monitor and mouse, keyboard.
Any help appreciated
Thanks
Hi,
I would try to stretch the budget and get these (keep in mind that the graphics cards market is terrible right now and the graphics cards are heavily overpriced, hence the increased overall cost):
My basket at Overclockers UK:
- 1 x Sapphire Radeon RX 6600 XT Pulse Gaming 8GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £499.99
- 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 5800X Eight Core 4.7GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £389.99
- 1 x Patriot Viper Steel 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C18 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVS432G360C8K)= £139.99
- 1 x MSI MAG X570 Tomahawk WiFi (AMD AM4) DDR4 X570 ATX Motherboard= £179.99
- 1 x WD Black SN850 1TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (WDS100T1X0E)= £159.95
- 1 x Phanteks AMP 750W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £87.95
- 1 x Arctic Freezer 34 eSports Duo Red CPU Cooler - 2 x 120mm= £34.99
- 1 x Aerocool Tomahawk FAW RGB Mid-Tower Case - Black Window= £34.99
- 1 x BenQ 28" EL2870U 3840x2160 4K TN 60Hz 1ms FreeSync Widescreen LED Monitor - Black= £199.99
- 1 x SPEEDLINK Jixster Ambidextrous Mouse, Black= £4.99
- 1 x MARS Gaming MK0 Gaming Keyboard - UK Layout= £5.99
A 6600XT with a 4K monitor ?
Which doesn't do any real good for fast paced games, because monitor is capped to outdated 60Hz.That monitor supports setting the resolution to 1920x1080 (when needed), as well .
Which doesn't do any real good for fast paced games, because monitor is capped to outdated 60Hz.
Remember LCDs aren't like CRTs, which had refresh rate rise at lower input resolution.
I agree with this so much.Consider saying no - unless you want to be blamed if something goes wrong with it.
What makes you say that? Plenty of reviews show it pushing much more than 60fps at 1080p depending on the game. There's no automatic bottleneck at 60 FPS because of the memory bus.That graphics card can't output more than 60 FPS, anyways. Even at the old 1920x1080.
128-bit memory interface with only 8 PCIe lanes.
BS!That graphics card can't output more than 60 FPS, anyways. Even at the old 1920x1080.
128-bit memory interface with only 8 PCIe lanes.
6600 XT is easily capable to far exceeding 60 fps in average requirements games and especially online multiplayer games would be typically light.
Even 2560x1440 wouldn't be big challenge in average game.
What makes you say that?
This is only one new game though. There are a lot of existing games and will be a lot more games released in the future where the 6600xt will achieve far more than 60fps at 1080p (and even at higher resolutions in some games). The 6600xt might not be the best value or most impressive card of the past 10 years, but it's still pretty capable.
This is only one new game though. There are a lot of existing games and will be a lot more games released in the future where the 6600xt will achieve far more than 60fps at 1080p (and even at higher resolutions in some games). The 6600xt might not be the best value or most impressive card of the past 10 years, but it's still pretty capable.
'may be the first of many to follow' - that's quite different to claiming that the card can't exceed 60fps. I'm sure there will be lots of AAA games in the future that will be very gpu heavy, but there are plenty of games that will run quite happily at high FPS and not all games released in the future will be as taxing on the gpu as bf2042.This is only one game but maybe the first out of many to follow.
Also, that result at TPU is with a very good setup, most home-made systems won't even achieve that framerate.
And when you add the heavy multi-player scenes, and the card will fall down to its knees.
So, you got a meh from me.