Discussion What is your ideal value PC build?

[Jmancru]

Share your ideal build if you were wanting to get the best performance to price value desktop PC that would run anything you threw it at Ultra settings. Here is mine:

Interest:
Minimal RGB
Future Proof (LOL) as much as possible
1440, 60 FPS minimum in most games
Cinematic over performance

Top 3 games I play:

1. Cities Skylines
2. CIV VI
3. Any Triple A Games

Piece	Item	Price ($)
CPU	Intel Core I7 (10th)*	$399.99
GPU	NVIDIA RTX 3080	$699.99
Cooling	ARTIC Liquid Freezer II 280	$109.99
Memory	(2) Corsair Vengeance LPX	$63.99
Motherboard	ASUS Prime Z490-P	$159.99
Storage 1 Storage 2	Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB Seagate BarraCuda 3TB	$129.99 $80.99
Power Supply	Corsair RMX Series (2018)	$114.98
Case	Fractal Define 7	$126.00
Total	Price	$1,885.91

*If it were available, I would put the Intel I7 (11th) in this spot

 

[cdrkf]

I guess it depends on a few things - what resolution are you looking at? What FPS do you need?

If for example you wanted 1080p ultra, 60 fps then I think you could halve your budget and still get that kind of performance. It also depends if you are bothered about RTX options or not (it's still pretty niche at the moment, although given RDNA 2.0 will also support it I guess it is a good idea for 'future proof')....

Personally I'd probably want to look at 1440p, 60FPS with ray tracing as the target, on which basis I'd probably go with something like:

X570 mobo
Ryzen 3700X (or Zen 3 equivalent, those are due out pretty soon)
nVidia RTX 3070 (maybe a 3060 or an upcoming RX 6000 series part, depending on benchmarks)
2tb NVME storage

 

[Jmancru]

Thank you for sharing your ideal build.

Ah, great point! I would be going with a 1440, 60 FPS. Top 3 games I play is Cities Skylines, CIV VI, COD Warzone. I would be going for cinematic value over performance.

Interesting choice with the 3070. Everything I have seen says that the 3080 will get you RTX at 1440 at 60+ FPS in almost any game.

 

[cdrkf]

Thank you for sharing your ideal build.

Ah, great point! I would be going with a 1440, 60 FPS. Top 3 games I play is Cities Skylines, CIV VI, COD Warzone. I would be going for cinematic value over performance.

Interesting choice with the 3070. Everything I have seen says that the 3080 will get you RTX at 1440 at 60+ FPS in almost any game.

I guess it depends if you are ok with using DLSS with RTX or not... from what I have seen DLSS 2.0 is pretty hard to tell from native, in which case the 3070 would probably do the trick (will need to wait for benchmarks for sure).

For non RTX titles, the 3070 should be fine for 1440p 60fps ultra (it's supposedly equal to a 2080ti, which can do that no issue, obviously need to see benchmarks).

I guess I come from the view point that current high end GPU prices have gotten out of hand - everyone is touting the 'great value' offered by the 3080 at £700.... it wasn't that long ago that the top high end rare enthusiast card cost £400. nVidia have done a great job in getting people to accept their new pricing structure... to look at it another way, the 3080 costs more than the top end next gen consoles on it's own (Series X confirmed as £450) so for me that puts it out of the price to performance category.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

agreed

 

[Jmancru]

agreed

What is your ideal build Mandark?

 

[Jmancru]

I guess it depends if you are ok with using DLSS with RTX or not... from what I have seen DLSS 2.0 is pretty hard to tell from native, in which case the 3070 would probably do the trick (will need to wait for benchmarks for sure).

For non RTX titles, the 3070 should be fine for 1440p 60fps ultra (it's supposedly equal to a 2080ti, which can do that no issue, obviously need to see benchmarks).

I guess I come from the view point that current high end GPU prices have gotten out of hand - everyone is touting the 'great value' offered by the 3080 at £700.... it wasn't that long ago that the top high end rare enthusiast card cost £400. nVidia have done a great job in getting people to accept their new pricing structure... to look at it another way, the 3080 costs more than the top end next gen consoles on it's own (Series X confirmed as £450) so for me that puts it out of the price to performance category.

That's a good point about it being more expensive than a new console on its own.