[Closed] Anyone help with pc spec for gaming

Pcpartpicker UK is the site you want.

Fair warning - the only thing hit harder than bikes during this pandemic is PC hardware. If you want top end stuff you'll be out of luck, or you can pay top end prices for middle of the road stuff.

I'd wait a few months.

Everyone would always "wait a few months". It never gets 'em anywhere.

You need to give us a budget to even have a hope in hell.

1) Budget
2) What level you want to play games at / other things you want to do with your machine. (Hint - the resolution of your display device will be a factor in choices - if you want to play on a 4k telly (like me) then you'll need to spunk some cash).

Ccl would be where I'd start personally. Don't even think about self build at the moment, a GPU will set you back 3 or 4x rrp . Plenty of full build options that haven't been too badly hammered.

You'll get a 6700xt equipped build for the same you'd spend on a 6700 or 3060 at the moment.

Yeah, 4K is a must. I’d play the driving games at a good level so need hardware to support. Budget wise, around £2k, would that be enough?

Aside from the shortage of components, the main questions would be..

1.what resolution do you want to game at?1080p at 60hz /minimum 60 fps is a cheaper build than 1440p at higher hz at a minimum FPS of 120.

2. Do you want to play really demanding games at ultra graphics settings?

3. See questions 1 & 2

Yeah, 4K is a must.

Have you seen how expensive 4k monitors are that have decent refresh rates? 😀

Yes, I do want the best graphics. I’ll pay more if I have to..

Yeah, 4K is a must. I’d play the driving games at a good level so need hardware to support.

4k for gaming is not a must, at all, it's significantly worse performance for more expense than 1440p.

A decent 4k gpu alone will blow your 2k budget

A graphics card that'll cope comfortably with 4K gaming will set you back the best part of your budget at the moment, if you're lucky enough to find one. Prices are batshit crazy.

Your best bet is to get a pre-built PC for now. Have a look for something here: https://www.awd-it.co.uk/gaming-pc.html

For your requirements you want a CPU that's either AMD 5000-series or Intel 10700 or higher. For graphics you want to be looking at Nvidia RTX3000 or AMD 6000 series.
16GB 3200MHz RAM at the absolute minimum, preferably 32GB 3600MHz.
And then whatever storage you think you might need. Good luck getting all that and a 4K monitor for £2000 though.

You could save yourself £1000 and just get one of the new XBox thingies.

XBox thingies.

Which for driving games is probably better to be honest.

I run a 5800x on an x570 board with 64gb of ram and a 2080ti that I was fortunate enough to buy about a week before prices went mental. The graphics alone card would set you back over a grand at the moment, second hand.

Performance without Ray trace is about equivalent to a 3070, good luck with getting one of those.

I get 50-75fps at 4k in borderlands 3

I ended up "borrowing" a 1080p monitor from work for gaming and using the 4k for video and desktop. If it didn't involve buying a new one I'd have (read I keep looking) at a 34" 1440p.

At that size 1440p is more than enough. (1080p isn't unpleasant by any stretch at 32")

We've a shiny new one of these in the house.
Ordered and delivered within 3 days.

Can't say much as I'm not a gamer, but apparently it's pretty good.

Availability was *the* defining issue of our search.
https://www.cyberpowersystem.co.uk/system/infinity-79-pro-next-day-pc

I would have thought a high frame rate would be more important for racing games than resolution. To play at 4K you’d probably want a 3080 at least. As others have said there is a shortage of pc parts, between crypto mining and wfh it’s a very bad time to be buying a new pc.

Buy ASAP. Likely going to be like this until 2023 when new manufacturing facilities are completed. Too many factors at hand to list but it’s not just Bitcoin miners.

I don't know why people bother fixating on monitors.

A 4k telly will do just fine. I've a 65" 120hz LG that's great. I'd have that without a PC so it's not something that has to be considered as part of a budget.

I've an older 1080ti. Works fine for most games (rocket league on max at 120fps) and hits 60+ for most everythimg else. (There ae a vanishingly small number of games that can't be run at those framerates - and as part of the PC gaming master race you'll have a more eclectic pallette than the knuckle dragging console crowd, no?).

If, however, you're one of those hand-wringing pussy-whipped browbeaten types who's missus won't "let" you game in the living room then life sucks and you'll have to buy a monitor and hide away in the cupboard 😉

🙂

Monitors? Pffffft, VR is where it's at for PC gaming, especially sims.

On a serious note, Graphics cards are currently unobtainium, unless you're willing to buy from a scalper on ebay at a vastly inflated price. If I didn't have a gaming PC sat under the desk in my study already, I certainly wouldn't be buying one now.

If I had to, pre-built is the way I'd be going, as the prices of parts have gone crazy enough to make them seem good value. As for vendors, Pre-builts from Scan/Overclockers/CCL/PCSpecialist/Novatech should all be reliable, and have warranty.

I was looking a little while ago for a graphics card with a bit of grunt for hacki... uh, security applications. You'd more chance of buying a jar of unicorn semen.

You could save yourself £1000 and just get one of the new XBox thingies.

's what I was gonna suggest.

Get an X-class motor spun up in Forza Horizon 4 and you won't be counting pixels, you'll be trying to work out when you can next afford to blink.

Everyone would always “wait a few months”. It never gets ’em anywhere.

Normally this, otherwise it's don't buy 3000 series as b550 is about to come out, dont buy rtx 2000 because rtx 3000 will actually do ray tracing at a usefull rate etc.

However right now you could be looking at GTX 1080's, a 3 generation old card for a £2k build with a big (superwide) monitor!

You’d more chance of buying a jar of unicorn semen.

Sums it up. I looked for a 1660 card the other day just to see if it was feasible, it was more on eBay than the RRP of a 3060!

Bit of a curveball, what about a gaming laptop.

This razer laptop was on hot uk deals the other day and it comes with a gaming chair, keyboard, mouse and backpack.

Razer laptop

Bit of a curveball, what about a gaming laptop

Just check that it will run freesync/gsync out of the display output, because the output on laptops is sometimes via the processors on-board graphics or motherboard chipset rather than directly from the GPU.

Only found this out the other day looking at one in PC world, RTX 2060 laptop for £800, but the screen didn't live up to the rest of the spec. Annoying because at that price I was happy to just buy a monitor for home use rather than wait for an affordable desktop.

That CyberPower spec'd above ain't a bad choice for that money. Buying a similar box is the only way to get get a high-end graphics card at the moment and for the forseeable....

A 2070 got me 60+ fps on a 4k monitor; Dirt Rally 2 at highish settings.

A curved widescreen monitor is much better for driving games though and less pixels (3840 or 2560 x1440) doesn't need quite so much graphics grunt.

Driving game; got a wheel/pedals/shifter/handbrake in the budget?