Hi people,
My son is building his first PC for gaming.
He plays the following games:
- Fornite
- Rainbow Six Siege
- Call of Duty
- Minecraft
- GTA (6 when it comes out)
- Variety of Steam games
He has approximately £2300 on the build (without monitor).
Hes been told to get an Asus card.
We would also be interested in any monitor suggestions that would go well with this setup.
Really appreciate some help!
Think first you need to decide what resolution your son is going to play at, as the gpu will be the most expensive component probably so will have an impact on overall price(and also what psu you get) I'd recomment 1440 as a minimum, but your budget allows for a far more powerful gpu so 4k gaming is doable.
Also to consider the higher the resolution the less workload is put on the cpu, so you can get away with a cheaper one (ie at 1080p, the cpu will have to process a lot of frames which the gpu renders, but at lower resolution, not so difficult..so you're limited generally by the cpu(a cpu bottleneck)...at 4k, the gpu works a lot harder to render the image the cpu generates which takes longer..now the gpu is working harder and the cpu is waiting for the gpu to finish a frame before it send the next one..(so you get a gpu bottleneck)...so for a competetive game they play at low resolution with settings on low(as makes it easier to see the enemy)..so for them they'll use a 9800x3d to make the fps at low res and can get away with a less powerful gpu...for a single person gamer who wants games to look best with ray tracing etc, they want to put as much budget into the gpu, and can get a cheaper cpu(7600x for eg is more than capable) as they'll prbably be gpu bottlenecked, and cpu upgrade is a lot cheaper than a gpu upgrade
so once you know resolution you want to aim at then can look at monitors. Again, you have va, ips and oled as main types...VA can be cheap, have high contrast, can be curved but suffer from poor off angle viewing and suffer from smearing in fast movement. ips (have come down in price so fairly cheap now, genrally flat) are far more colour accurate but have poor contrast..so in a dark environment a black screen in a dark room will be visible as you generally get light bleed coming thru. Best is oled of course (you have normal woled or qdoled)..individual controlled pixels so infinite contrast, and pixel response is so fast, so real smearing...most expensive option though..then you have to decide on size...
as a guide i use a 48" lgc4 oled at mo, 4k..pixel density is 92ppi...it's ok, not greatest..moving down to a 42" soon(48" only one could get at time)
other
pixel density
27" 1440p 108ppi
32" 1440p 92ppi
32" 4k 138ppi
34" ultrawide 110ppi
42" 4k 106ppi
48" 4k 92ppi
