GBSAFC
Striker
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Gaming PCs
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anth
Winger
including monitor, windows, keyboard and mouse?
Will you ever be doing anything else with it? The intel CPUs are the best for gaming (just), but if you do anything else the equivalently priced AMD convincingly beats it in everything else. So if your just gaming go Intel, if your doing anything else go AMD.
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Dave Herbal
Striker
Do a bit research, ask on here what parts you need, then use a pc part picker website to check compatibility. Buy It all then watch YouTube videos on building. I saved about £300 doing that.
I got told the opposite. AMD is more bang for your buck.
anth
Winger
that's right, you do get more bang for your buck with AMD. Take for example the Ryzen 5 3600 and it's direct competitor, both just shy of £200. The intel is a faster clock speed but lower core count, the AMD is slower clock speed but more cores. Gaming favors clock speed are rarely uses all the cores. Most other things more cores is better.
Banks
Striker
Very likely to be bad advice in 12 months.
anth
Winger
pretty much everything is bad advice after 12 months. Are you expecting Zen3 to mean AMD take over intel when it comes to gaming?
Banks
Striker
Recommending intel is just a waste of money.
A Ferrari is better than a corsa but I wouldn't recommend it to a new car buyer.
Pound per frame intel are a shocking buy
anth
Winger
I can't argue for general use, I personally use a Ryzen 3900x, but there is no getting around the fact that at the moment, pound for pound the intel CPU will give you a couple of extra frames per second in most games.
GBSAFC
Striker
No just tower
Vore
Winger
Don't get anything until the 30x0 NVIDIA cards are out, you probably want a 3070. They're going to be cheaper than what's currently available but much more efficient and powerful. If you're looking to spend a grand on just a tower then you want RTX and DLSS-capable.
Take this post seriously.
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anth
Winger
I was thinking that, but what CPU would you pair with a RTX3070? I've specced one up for £500 excluding the GPU, but it's a Ryzen 5 3600, I am not sure if that will bottleneck at RTX3070? If it will, then you need to bump it up and therefore cant afford the RTX3070.
This was my thoughts on first look, you maybe able to get this stuff cheaper elsewhere.
CPU- Ryzen 5 3600
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Leaves about £400 for a GPU, If you can't stretch that out to £500 for an RTX3070 (or cant find one) then look for second hand RTX2080 or 2080Ti, they'll be between 350 and 500 with the 3000 series is out in a few weeks.
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Vore
Winger
Haven't checked yet I'm afraid, I'm waiting til these are out then looking properly at a new build. Pretty certain I'll end up with 3060 or 3070 but yeah you could well be right, even my monitor would be a massive bottleneck for either at the moment like.
Either way, with RTX & DLSS, which is very much the future now, you have to be looking at one of the RTX series, and these will be half the price of the RTX2000
IMO there's no way you want to spend a grand on a new PC now, that can't play Cyberpunk with RTX when it comes out. It would be too brutal.
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anth
Winger
I don't think anyone has a RTX3070 to actually do a full suite of tests for this kind of stuff, the only videos I've seen are unboxings of the 3080, plus one limited set of tests. The used market is going to be flooded with 2000 series cards. I'll bet you can get 2070 supers (my card) for £200 by christmas.
Pseudonym Number 1
Striker
Still embargoed
anth
Winger
To be fair it's not long until AMD show Zen 3 so it's almost certainly worth waiting for that if your waiting for the RTX3000 series hitting the market anyway.
GBSAFC
Striker
Good shout fella, was about to unload my cash on a machine ... I'll hold fire.
Thanks for all the info lads ... May your beers be many
Makcem Crihs
Midfield
Anyone know if this will be sound for COD on Ps4 as got it for nowt.
Obviously could just try it but thought I'd ask on here before I fuck about moving ps4
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Obviously could just try it but thought I'd ask on here before I fuck about moving ps4
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Pseudonym Number 1
Striker
It'll be fine, you'll need to get some speakers though or use a headset.Anyone know if this will be sound for COD on Ps4 as got it for nowt.
Obviously could just try it but thought I'd ask on here before I fuck about moving ps4
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Makcem Crihs
Midfield
Got the platinum headset for playstation which is decent so will give it a bash cheers mate
PTR
Striker
I find that extremely unlikely to be true, frankly.
