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Unseul said:
20080ti is a very nice upgrade! Given you have that, I'd perhaps be looking at some of the cheap facebook 2nd hand builders. Pick up something with some OK internals, and just throw the 2080ti in after. Depends on what you're trying to achieve in the build though!

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yep 2080ti is a good all rounder, i was lucky to pick it up. surprisingly its not as popular as i thought it was. its scoring close to a 3070 looking at details when i checked details.

requirements wise i have a few basic ones
  1. what ever i spend needs to try and last for 5-8years gaming wise
  2. graphics card upgrade options for when i need to move up around the 3-5 year mark at a guess if the 2080ti isnt performing (this is more a stop gap again to get core build and then a few yers later the gpu card and keep hopping alternate big cost items and spread costs about a bit)
  3. be usable for some virtualisation workloads when not gaming (so core count an ram requirements for hyper-v/proxmox/xcp-ng)
  4. small form factor / mini tower ideally
  5. with a cost foot print excluding gpu of aroud £1200 which from what i can all good. probably AM5 build
  6. bonus is storage options as part of point 3 but easier to deal with, with things like SANS / dedcated systems for storage and other solutions.
  7. bonus linux supported, i can see a shift coming to linux in the future.
ooorrrr i'm beng to demanding.. which is quit possible.

i think the above is doable in principle untill the univese decieds to screw me over.
or the step daughter whos gonna need extra TLC for a bit.. KIDS who'd ave'em!!! <3

according to steam hardware survey:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 - most popular card apparantly which is a bit surpriseing to me
NVIDIA GeForce RTX X060 - 3060 / 1060 / 2060 next popular in that order which isnt so surprising as they are a main stay card.
 
Emo_hug said:
yep 2080ti is a good all rounder, i was lucky to pick it up. surprisingly its not as popular as i thought it was. its scoring close to a 3070 looking at details when i checked details.

requirements wise i have a few basic ones
  1. what ever i spend needs to try and last for 5-8years gaming wise
  2. graphics card upgrade options for when i need to move up around the 3-5 year mark at a guess if the 2080ti isnt performing (this is more a stop gap again to get core build and then a few yers later the gpu card and keep hopping alternate big cost items and spread costs about a bit)
  3. be usable for some virtualisation workloads when not gaming (so core count an ram requirements for hyper-v/proxmox/xcp-ng)
  4. small form factor / mini tower ideally
  5. with a cost foot print excluding gpu of aroud £1200 which from what i can all good. probably AM5 build
  6. bonus is storage options as part of point 3 but easier to deal with, with things like SANS / dedcated systems for storage and other solutions.
  7. bonus linux supported, i can see a shift coming to linux in the future.
ooorrrr i'm beng to demanding.. which is quit possible.

i think the above is doable in principle untill the univese decieds to screw me over.
or the step daughter whos gonna need extra TLC for a bit.. KIDS who'd ave'em!!! <3

according to steam hardware survey:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 - most popular card apparantly which is a bit surpriseing to me
NVIDIA GeForce RTX X060 - 3060 / 1060 / 2060 next popular in that order which isnt so surprising as they are a main stay card.
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You should absolutely be able to get a brilliant PC for £1200. Especially if you're happy to use the members market and B grade from UCUK. I parted up a 4090 am5 system, basically the case and the fillings, for about £2k for my dad to build (new case, new PSU), the 4090 was about £1300 of that. Mostly using B grade. It was only a 7600X, but it was 32gb ram etc. If you need a monitor as well it'll obviously push things up. A good AM5 motherboard should see you right for a fair few years, especially if you spend a bit more and get PCI 5 stuff.

Make sure whatever case you pick up is big enough for the PSU, the GPU and the CPU cooler you plan on using.
 
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