Evening all,
I've decided to bite the bullet and consider a full PC upgrade but I am so far out of knowledge with the latest and best bang for components I am needing some assistance.
My current PC consists of: AMD Ryzen 5 2600, Nvidia 1070 Ti and 16GB RAM. I could probably make do with my current set up but I haven't done any real upgrades for about 6-8 years and now looking to 'futureproof' for at least 5+ years with the latest tech within my budget. Speaking of, I would say I have probably up to £2,000 to play with. As the title suggests, I am not a heavy gamer but do like to play CS2 from time to time and would like to play some similar AAA titles as well as strategy games such as the Total War series without dumbing down the graphics. Should also add I have a Dell S2721DGF monitor so I would like to play games at 1440p.
Couple of stipulations/questions:
1. Case: I'm really liking the look of small form factor cases and it seems they have come a very long way since I last looked at them around 10 years ago. The case I am looking to purchase is the Fractal Design Terra so all components would need to fit inside this case.
2. Graphics card: From my limited research I would very much like to stick with Nvidia, probably the 4070 version as this seems to be the sweet spot and cannot see any justification to spend more based on my needs.
3. Ram 32GB or 64GB: It lookslike latest games are becoming more memory hungry and 32GB is more of the standard if I want to keep up. However, I'm wondering if it's worth ever going up to 64gb as a form of future proofing. My only concern is whether games will ever reach this height and/or a new DDRX version will replace DDR5 rendering my 64GB ram useless and much slower than a newer version. Any advice on this point would be much appreciated. Having said that, if the price difference between 32GB/64GB is only £100 then I might consider upgrading to the latter.
Aside from from the above, I am open to any other suggestions as I am very behind on CPU, SSDs especially NVME versions so this is where I'm hoping you guys can help.
Cheers
I've decided to bite the bullet and consider a full PC upgrade but I am so far out of knowledge with the latest and best bang for components I am needing some assistance.
My current PC consists of: AMD Ryzen 5 2600, Nvidia 1070 Ti and 16GB RAM. I could probably make do with my current set up but I haven't done any real upgrades for about 6-8 years and now looking to 'futureproof' for at least 5+ years with the latest tech within my budget. Speaking of, I would say I have probably up to £2,000 to play with. As the title suggests, I am not a heavy gamer but do like to play CS2 from time to time and would like to play some similar AAA titles as well as strategy games such as the Total War series without dumbing down the graphics. Should also add I have a Dell S2721DGF monitor so I would like to play games at 1440p.
Couple of stipulations/questions:
1. Case: I'm really liking the look of small form factor cases and it seems they have come a very long way since I last looked at them around 10 years ago. The case I am looking to purchase is the Fractal Design Terra so all components would need to fit inside this case.
2. Graphics card: From my limited research I would very much like to stick with Nvidia, probably the 4070 version as this seems to be the sweet spot and cannot see any justification to spend more based on my needs.
3. Ram 32GB or 64GB: It lookslike latest games are becoming more memory hungry and 32GB is more of the standard if I want to keep up. However, I'm wondering if it's worth ever going up to 64gb as a form of future proofing. My only concern is whether games will ever reach this height and/or a new DDRX version will replace DDR5 rendering my 64GB ram useless and much slower than a newer version. Any advice on this point would be much appreciated. Having said that, if the price difference between 32GB/64GB is only £100 then I might consider upgrading to the latter.
Aside from from the above, I am open to any other suggestions as I am very behind on CPU, SSDs especially NVME versions so this is where I'm hoping you guys can help.
Cheers
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