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It's usually worth putting together a custom build yourself, but as everyone has already said there's still naff all GPU's for sale right now and what there is are expensive.
I have heard lots of people are just getting a CPU with integrated graphics and using that while they wait for GPU's to come back into stock. It doesn't look totally bad
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colin1 Captain Safety
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I'd recommend getting a powerful old office workstation, and fitting it with a new psu and graphics card.
I got a Dell Precision T1700 with i7-4770K with 16gb ram.
I think I paid £250, but you can get them for £200 now.
I've put a 750w psu in there, but people say a 450w is ok with an rtx 2060. Nvidia says 550w though.
Dell use their own connecters for the psu so you need to get converter cables to use a standard higher power PSU.
I paid £250 for my rtx 2060 but people now want £600 for them.
Oddly people also want £600 for an rtx 3060ti, so I'd go for that instead if I were buying now.
With this set up I can play most things in 1440p. If you want to play warzone, it might be better to get a pc with a faster cpu. I can get 60-75 fps, but with a faster cpu I may be able to get 120 or 140fps.
Someone is selling PC with an i7 9700 and no gpu for £500 which is tempting.
I messed up fitting the GPU and PSU, by not being careful that the leads from the psu were all where they should be, so I damaged something, and the bios battery is dead so I should replace that.
This cause problems but the local pc shop fixed it for me.
A novice can have a go if there is a local pc shop nearby to fix it if things go wrong.
In my old PC I have a gtx 560ti, which is fine for counterstrike but not much else.
I also recommend having windows on an ssd.
If you dont want to replace the psu to put in a power hungry GPU, you can get special low power GPUs that will work with the office PCs PSU.
I think the gtx 1650 may be one. (1080p gaming only)
These cards seem overpriced compared to a normal card, but not compared to a normal card and psu.
I recommend getting a card that can handle 1440p gaming. ray tracing is overrated but dlss is quite good.
Having said all that this article recommends just using integrated graphics that comes with a PC that has a new cpu.
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/god-of-war-integrated-graphics/ ____________________ colin1 is officially faster than god |
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CPU - Intel 486DX2 @ 66Mhz, - go for the DX4 if money allows.
RAM - 16Mb EDO with close timing as BIOS can give. Option for 32mb if you want best performance in intensive multimedia based games such as Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars. Win95 takes up 4mb on it's own so you should factor what you want.
GFX - 2mb ATI Mach64VT is good - Gives resolutions up to 1024x786 w/ 64k colours. If you can afford it, 4mb Savage. I personally think PowerVR is the future though.
You might want a cpu fan.
And your typical 3.5, 5.25 floppy drives, and 1x or 2x (if you can afford it) CD drive.
HDD - Western Digital Caviar 2420 - 420mb, 3k-rpm
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blurredman World Chat Champion
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Posted: 12:48 - 26 Jan 2022 Post subject: |
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xX-Alex-Xx wrote: | blurredman wrote: | CPU - Intel 486DX2 @ 66Mhz, - go for the DX4 if money allows.
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P75 for the win. It blew my DX4-100 out of the water on games.
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Agreed. Will be much better for CD streaming and don't forget for MP3's too! But.. Pentiums man.. they cost a lot! ____________________ CBT: 12/06/10, Theory: 22/09/10, Module 1: 09/11/10, Module 2: 19/01/11
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 2 years, 87 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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