Help putting together a £1500 gaming build

arknor · 22 Jul 2022 at 23:21

Tetras said:
You said you wanted 'future proof' and DDR4 is technically end of line, but it doesn't matter really, just buy whatever suits your system. Like said above though, this is all hypotheticals, so much new tech is due in the autumn it would be best to come back when you're ready to build.

no one needs DDR5 for gaming and the DDR5 around now will be considered crap by time a game comes out that warrants ddr5 anyway

Chris Georgiou · 23 Jul 2022 at 07:47

Sorry for wasting everyone’s time, I understand prices can change within a couple months and everything can change by then. Im just excited and wanted to get a idea of what I’m going for, also about the 32gb trident ram, I love the look of them and there also a good premium ram, for future proofing sake should I instead consider DDR5 ram or would I never need that sort of ram for high end gaming..

flea.rider · 23 Jul 2022 at 08:21

Chris Georgiou said:
Sorry for wasting everyone’s time, I understand prices can change within a couple months and everything can change by then. Im just excited and wanted to get a idea of what I’m going for, also about the 32gb trident ram, I love the look of them and there also a good premium ram, for future proofing sake should I instead consider DDR5 ram or would I never need that sort of ram for high end gaming..

ddr5 is for next gen boards .. which intel has some out .. in 3 months that's all you will ..

flea.rider · 23 Jul 2022 at 08:24

arknor said:
no one needs DDR5 for gaming and the DDR5 around now will be considered crap by time a game comes out that warrants ddr5 anyway

??? ddr5 nowt to do with gaming .. it's the chipset push ..out with the old in with the new .. ddr5 is being pushed to faster speeds daily .. take a look at hardware oc

Tetras · 23 Jul 2022 at 14:01

Chris Georgiou said:
Sorry for wasting everyone’s time, I understand prices can change within a couple months and everything can change by then. Im just excited and wanted to get a idea of what I’m going for, also about the 32gb trident ram, I love the look of them and there also a good premium ram, for future proofing sake should I instead consider DDR5 ram or would I never need that sort of ram for high end gaming..

It isn't just because of the prices, it is that there's a lot of new tech due in the autumn (and likely Q1 2023 for the midrange/lower-end stuff), so if you came back next year with the same question most of our comments will be irrelevant.

I know it is always a bit like that, but this is an unusual time, because of where we're at (in the cpu/gpu cycle, like with am4 being replaced and nvidia pushing out new cards after several years).

arknor · 23 Jul 2022 at 14:17

Tetras said:
It isn't just because of the prices, it is that there's a lot of new tech due in the autumn (and likely Q1 2023 for the midrange/lower-end stuff), so if you came back next year with the same question most of our comments will be irrelevant.

theres always something to wait for, hardly nay point in waiting on the new CPUs when its a 10% difference and they will be more expensive anyway because material costs are going up which intel already said, and inflation doesn't mean cheaper prices like someone said.

only thing worth waitring for is a GPU because they will be a lot faster, but t hen they also use like double the power as well...