Gaming PC - 2k Budget

Damien.

Damien.

Damien.

Soldato
Joined
20 Nov 2006
Posts
6,881
As per the title.

Case cannot be huge because it has to fit into an office desk.

Looking for the tower, monitor and keyboard. Preferably with a 1080ti for future proofing, not bothered by 4k would rather high fps at 1080 or 1440.

Budget it around the 2k mark.

Thanks in advance.
 
Last edited:
I know the 1080Ti is overkill but here's my reasoning.

If I want to play a game, on a 2k rig then I expect to play with every setting maxed out and maintain 70+ FPS.

Looking at 4k benchmarks, there are games that already stress the 1080Ti.

I feel with the rate game are advancing right now, a 1080Ti at 1080p will see me good for number of years.
 
Damien. said:
Looking at 4k benchmarks, there are games that already stress the 1080Ti.
Click to expand...
1920x1080 aka Full HD has just quarter of pixels to render so it's lot lighter making looking 3840x2160 aka 4K benchmarks bad for what's needed.

And there really isn't future proof in GPUs.
While single thread performance of (especially Intel) CPUs will advance only slowly GPUs will become steadily faster with increasing parallel processing power because of fully "multithreaded" work .
So that more expensive GPU just has lost even more of value in 3-4 years.

So considering that expense to technically totally obsolete in 4-5 years part sure hope you have that other part of game experience, audio side, in better than stereo "multimedia" speakers or game branded China garbage headset state.
 
Damien. said:
As per the title.

Case cannot be huge because it has to fit into an office desk.

Looking for the tower, monitor and keyboard. Preferably with a 1080ti for future proofing, not bothered by 4k would rather high fps at 1080 or 1440.

Budget it around the 2k mark.

Thanks in advance.
Click to expand...

I think you would be fine with 1070 at 1080p for a few years. You can then use the money you saved from not buying a 1080ti to buy the new card in 2 years time so over the period of 3 years you will have better performance than the 1080ti
 
He also mentions 1440p and if he's like me, by which I mean he likes to run maximum visual quality and above his monitor refresh (144MHz in my case) then a GTX 1080Ti is a good choice

THIS is the sort of thing that I'd be looking at
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom