My brother in law has a PC I built for him a while ago. It's pretty basic, Ryzen 3400g with 16gb RAM. He was using the on-board graphics. He now wants a graphics card for it. He bought himself a Samsung M70B 4k 60 hz monitor. What's the cheapest card to get 4k gaming?
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Ball park? What would you suggest as an alternative?
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Looks like 3060ti is over £400 and pretty sure that's out of his budget.
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Yeah the 4k monitor was a new addition. I know the cpu is a massive bottleneck but don't want to upgrade the whole thing. If I can get medium to high settings at 4k then that will be a bonus but understand I might have to drop down to 1080p. At which point I'm guessing a 4060ti is a bit overkill?
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He would have been better off starting with the CPU/GPU and then moved on and bought a monitor that suited. But I know you knew that...
If you're dropping down to 1080p it kinds defeats the object of a 4K monitor?
Looking at current set-up and likely future budget, a better fit would have been a 144HZ 1440p monitor, it's not a 4K card - be careful of the 8GB VRAM it's already considering obsolete - however in a very limited selection of games it may well be fine for a while, just don't expect great perfoance for years in AAA titles to come.
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3070s are not bad for most titles at 4k 60fps. Might wanna upgrade the cpu but might as well see how they get with the gpu first.
He originally just wanted a cheap pc to play some basic games on.He would have been better off starting with the CPU/GPU and then moved on and bought a monitor that suited. But I know you knew that...
Yeah, I can see what happened...
He's probably going to end up playing at 1440p on a 4K monitor, also Overwatch is better played at low resolutions and tons of FPS, not maxed out 40FPS at 4K...Sea of Thieves of 5 year old game on 4K monitor, why?
Best bet would be send it back, and have a rethink.
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And then he got a 4k monitor....
It changes the whole thing unfortunately, I've just abandoned 4k to drop to Ultrawide as it's just too harsh with the latest games and I'm running a high clocked XTX!
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In HUB's results with Ampere, RDNA 2 performed better with weaker CPUs, so if you're looking at a 4060 Ti, then I'd consider the 6700 XT (as close to £300 as possible) for older games and esports they're capable of 4K, especially with upscaling from 1440p.