Unreal 5 budget system
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I don't know if the 4060 or 3060 12GB would be better, so I went with VRAM over performance.
My basket at OcUK:
My basket at OcUK:
- 1 x Intel Core i7-12700K 3.60GHz (Alder Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-69Z-IN) = £194.99
- 1 x MSI PRO B760-P DDR4 II (LGA 1700) DDR4 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-MSI-03380) = £109.99
- 1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX Black 32GB (2x16GB) 3600 MHz AMD Ryzen Tuned DDR4 Memory Dual Kit (CMK32GX4M2Z3600C18) (SKU: MY-4CL-CS) = £49.99
- 1 x MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ventus 2X OC 12GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-374-MS) = £244.99
- 1 x Team Group MP33 PRO 2TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen3 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-TMG-02682) = £99.95
- 1 x Phanteks Eclipse P400S Glass Midi Tower Case - Noise Dampened Gun Metal (SKU: CA-06A-PT) = £54.54
- 1 x Asus TUF Gaming 750W 80 Plus Gold Power Supply (SKU: CA-061-AS) = £79.99
- 1 x Arctic Freezer 36 120m Black CPU Cooler - 2x 120mm (SKU: COO-ARC-02420) = £23.00
Total: £869.42 (includes delivery: £11.98)
£300
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£93
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Straight from epic
Epic Games recommends the following specifications for UE5 video game development:
Epic also publishes the specs for the PCs they for internal development, though you don't need this
Epic Games recommends the following specifications for UE5 video game development:
- Processor: Six-Core Xeon E5-2643 @ 3.4GHz or better
- Memory: 64 GB RAM
- Internal storage: 256 GB SSD
- Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER or better
Epic also publishes the specs for the PCs they for internal development, though you don't need this
- Operating System: Windows 11
- Power Supply: 1000W power supply unit
- RAM: 128GB DDR4-3200
- Processor: AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3975WX Processor - 128MB Cache, 3.5 GHz base / 4.2 GHz turbo, 32 Cores / 64 Threads, 280w TDP
- OS Drive 1 TB M.2 NVMe3 x4 PCI-e SSD
- DATA Drive 4 TB Raid Array - 2 x 2TB NVMe3 x4 PCI-e SSD in Raid 0
- GPU: Nvidia RTX 3080 - 10GB
- NIC 1GBPS on-board + Intel X550-T1 10G PCI-e Ethernet adapter
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reading up on it the number of cores seem to help a lot
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Yes another £100 gets you the 14700f with a total of 20 cores mite be worth the stretch.
Reminder the F variants have no igpu .
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If it was for me I would say thats an option
tempted to just find them a half decent prebuilt system that way they get it all setup with warranty ect and if things go wrong its not my issue , with my own builds its not a problem but for a family member
it could cause an issue
maybe an i5-13400f or something
tempted to just find them a half decent prebuilt system that way they get it all setup with warranty ect and if things go wrong its not my issue , with my own builds its not a problem but for a family member
it could cause an issue
maybe an i5-13400f or something
He's just on a college course, not working at a AAA studio on a finished title. The specs in the first reply are perfectly adequate.
Chances are on a college course they're not going to be getting into C++ side of things, probably just blueprints, so compilation times etc. are not going to be a significant productivity issue.
32Gb is completely fine for just doing small projects.
Short version - that spec is totally fine, will run UE5 no problem.
Source - me, a professional game developer.
If you're working in massive open world levels, and debugging multiplayer, having multiple clients and server debug builds running locally will gobble up as much RAM as you can throw at it (you want 128Gb really). But 32Gb is all good, plus it's RAM, and you can just stuff another couple sticks in if you need it later.
Only a couple things I'd change here, which is an AMD CPU (I may be a little biased) and potentially I'd change the PSU.
The GPU could be swapped for a 6750xt at around £275.
Otherwise, I'd definitely be looking at used hardware for GPU and CPU, as you may get an amazing deal.
£300
(incl. VAT)
£270
(incl. VAT)
£50
(incl. VAT)
£100
(incl. VAT)
£93
(incl. VAT)
At the mid to upper end consumer platforms AMD CPUs generally do worse than the Intel ones for Unreal Engine development, that can change a bit if you are doing really big complex projects, etc. where core count can come into the equation as well - Threadrippers tend to do really well in that context.
IMO 14700K(F) is one of the best CPUs short of going HEDT platforms for this use - it is a hair behind the 14900K, basically the same as the AMD x950 chips, while loads cheaper.
EDIT: TPU results lean a little more towards AMD: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-9-9950x/10.html but outside of a synthetic canned benchmark generally it leans a little more towards Intel than that.
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Oh right, well the more you know, I guess.
I wouldn't go 14th gen solely for the issues present in that gen, even though they said they've been sorted, I wouldn't trust it and if the person buying doesn't know to update the bios, etc. then it could be a bad time when their CPU degrades
Personally I would as well - personally won't touch Asus with a bargepole especially with something as important to the whole system as a PSU.
I don't include AMD GPUs very often in productivity builds (e.g. Puget's benchmarks put AMD cards quite a lot behind nvidia cards for UE5), but for a gaming PC yeah, that'd be a much better performing choice at that price.
Agreed, it's not the most reputable brand, especially when you have to rma
That particular PSU reviewed reasonably well @ Anandtech and I can't see anything comparable for the same money. Their old Rog Strix PSUs were based on a Seasonic and pretty solid, so far as I know.
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