How much should i spend on a Gaming PC

[smashbrawler87]

Hey guys, i wanted to get your opinion on how much money i would need to build a gaming pc that can play most games at around mid graphic setting with a steady 40 FPS, nothing extreme but still good. I appreciate any help or suggestions.

 

[Rogue Leader]

Is the GDDR6 confirmed? I heard rumors it may be sporting HBM2 like Titan V is. Also, we can expect a staggered launch, with the 1150's and 1160's coming first, then 1170's and 1180's and TI's being last.

Everything I've read said GDDR6 but of course with nothing official who knows. I think the launch will be opposite with the higher end parts first 1170/1180 and the 1050/1060 sticking around till later. Thats why they just introduced that 3gb 1050 card. It makes sense, they wait to build up enough not perfect chips that they need to cut down and put them in lower cards. AMD and Intel do the same thing with GPUs and CPUs.

 

[LordVile]

come back when you have the money because everything changes daily.
Then someone can advise you on a build

Good idea. Thanks everyone

Assuming you have 650 to spend currently, you can get away with 16gb's of DDR4 3200mhz memory on a Ryzen 5 1600x with a GTX 1060 6gb, faster than what I mentioned above and should do exactly what you want at 60 FPS or greater. I would keep an eye out on pricing while you save you might be able to snag a higher end card for MSRP or under it, I seen a GTX 1070 go for MSRP at 399.99 USD at a best buy last week or something. Pricing on memory should return to normal soon, depending on how the class action lawsuit falls, and GPU pricing should go below MSRP on Nvidia mid and top tear cards since Ether miners don't want them anymore and most gamers are waiting for 11 series GPU's from Nvidia which will force Nvidia to price the cards lower than MSRP to sell them since the demand isn't up and they have too many cards.

What are you smoking? A cheap 1060 GB is a near 300 card. 1600x is near 200 and 16GB of memory is 150 for 2400Mhz (which is not ideal for ryzen) or 165 for 3200 . Those 3 parts alone cost 645 and you still need a case, PSU. Motherboard and storage which will run you another 150-200.

I'm not smoking anything, that is what you could get in a few months when pricing drops on memory and GPU's. How about you pay a little more attention before jumping to conclusions like that. The OP doesn't currently have the money so which the OP stated they are going to save it up, by the time the OP has it saved GPU pricing should be at or below MSRP and memory should be normal again because of the class action lawsuit.

That's heavily debatable. Memory prices won't go down unless the manufacturers lose the class action which will take months to years and when new fabs are up and ready you're looking at maybe well into next year. GPU's won't go down until after memory goes down because the price of manufacture doesn't go down for a product you've already made.

I think your misunderstanding why GPU pricing is so high, it isn't because of memory, granted it is a little bit, but it's because of Ether miners, there weren't ASIC miners available for Ether, or similar currencies, because it was mined differently than other coins. GPU's were the fastest thing until very recently due to GPU's having very high bandwidth memory on fairly wide bus's. This caused GPU pricing to soar because Ether miners would buy 10+ cards at a time directly from AMD or Nvidia which depleted reserves of cards and the demand shot up too high for them to manage. Now miners don't want the cards because of how fast Ether miners are compared to GPU's at a much lower cost and a good chunk of gamers aren't buying cards because they want to wait for Nvidia's new GPU's to arrive. I, and many others, expect GPU pricing to drop below MSRP in the next few months because there is very little demand for them. Also, Samsung, SK-Hynix, and Micron will probably start producing more memory before the lawsuit finishes to try and avoid this whole ordeal, and if they don't I don't think it will take as long as you were saying, I've already seen memory prices drop a good bit, 20+ USD on some kits of memory.

I'm saying that cards won't be down to the orginal MSRP until vendors want them off the shelves due to the memory price hike. All the cards out there now were made with the more expensive RAM which makes the card more expensive which trickles down to the guy buying it. Since NVidia are winding down production of pascal supposedly it would make sense for the prices to remain steady until 11xx/20xx is released.

 

[jacobweaver800]

come back when you have the money because everything changes daily.
Then someone can advise you on a build

Good idea. Thanks everyone

Assuming you have 650 to spend currently, you can get away with 16gb's of DDR4 3200mhz memory on a Ryzen 5 1600x with a GTX 1060 6gb, faster than what I mentioned above and should do exactly what you want at 60 FPS or greater. I would keep an eye out on pricing while you save you might be able to snag a higher end card for MSRP or under it, I seen a GTX 1070 go for MSRP at 399.99 USD at a best buy last week or something. Pricing on memory should return to normal soon, depending on how the class action lawsuit falls, and GPU pricing should go below MSRP on Nvidia mid and top tear cards since Ether miners don't want them anymore and most gamers are waiting for 11 series GPU's from Nvidia which will force Nvidia to price the cards lower than MSRP to sell them since the demand isn't up and they have too many cards.

What are you smoking? A cheap 1060 GB is a near 300 card. 1600x is near 200 and 16GB of memory is 150 for 2400Mhz (which is not ideal for ryzen) or 165 for 3200 . Those 3 parts alone cost 645 and you still need a case, PSU. Motherboard and storage which will run you another 150-200.

I'm not smoking anything, that is what you could get in a few months when pricing drops on memory and GPU's. How about you pay a little more attention before jumping to conclusions like that. The OP doesn't currently have the money so which the OP stated they are going to save it up, by the time the OP has it saved GPU pricing should be at or below MSRP and memory should be normal again because of the class action lawsuit.

That's heavily debatable. Memory prices won't go down unless the manufacturers lose the class action which will take months to years and when new fabs are up and ready you're looking at maybe well into next year. GPU's won't go down until after memory goes down because the price of manufacture doesn't go down for a product you've already made.

I think your misunderstanding why GPU pricing is so high, it isn't because of memory, granted it is a little bit, but it's because of Ether miners, there weren't ASIC miners available for Ether, or similar currencies, because it was mined differently than other coins. GPU's were the fastest thing until very recently due to GPU's having very high bandwidth memory on fairly wide bus's. This caused GPU pricing to soar because Ether miners would buy 10+ cards at a time directly from AMD or Nvidia which depleted reserves of cards and the demand shot up too high for them to manage. Now miners don't want the cards because of how fast Ether miners are compared to GPU's at a much lower cost and a good chunk of gamers aren't buying cards because they want to wait for Nvidia's new GPU's to arrive. I, and many others, expect GPU pricing to drop below MSRP in the next few months because there is very little demand for them. Also, Samsung, SK-Hynix, and Micron will probably start producing more memory before the lawsuit finishes to try and avoid this whole ordeal, and if they don't I don't think it will take as long as you were saying, I've already seen memory prices drop a good bit, 20+ USD on some kits of memory.

I'm saying that cards won't be down to the orginal MSRP until vendors want them off the shelves due to the memory price hike. All the cards out there now were made with the more expensive RAM which makes the card more expensive which trickles down to the guy buying it. Since NVidia are winding down production of pascal supposedly it would make sense for the prices to remain steady until 11xx/20xx is released.

I doubt Nvidia is winding down production of Pascal, that would be stupid. They will wait until after the 11xx/20xx cards launch to do that since Pascal is super powerful and power efficient, and the demand is super high still so fi they slow production they are purposely cutting off their money supply before they have a new generation to fill it.