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cyberglass
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 Posted: 20:34 - 16 Mar 2020  Post subject: Budget gaming pc upgrade |
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Its upgrade time for me as my current build is struggling with occulus rift s.
Have 600 to spend just need Cpu, Ram and a Gpu
Currently looking at
Cpu
Ryzen 3600x £195
Mainboard
Msi-b450-gaming-plus-max £95
Gpu
GTX1070 2nd hand £200
was also looking at the 1660 but was advised to look at a 2nd hand 1070.
And 16gb of whatever ram i can get cheap off facebook market place
are there any alternatives or improvements i can get before i start ordering things.
Thanks in advance 
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Im-a-Ridah
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| Posted: 21:32 - 16 Mar 2020 Post subject: Re: Budget gaming pc upgrade |
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| cyberglass wrote: | Its upgrade time for me as my current build is struggling with occulus rift s.
Have 600 to spend just need Cpu, Ram and a Gpu
Currently looking at
Cpu
Ryzen 3600x £195
Mainboard
Msi-b450-gaming-plus-max £95
Gpu
GTX1070 2nd hand £200
was also looking at the 1660 but was advised to look at a 2nd hand 1070.
And 16gb of whatever ram i can get cheap off facebook market place
are there any alternatives or improvements i can get before i start ordering things.
Thanks in advance |
I would suggest getting a Ryzen 2600 as a CPU and put saving into the fastest GPU you can get. CPU doesn't make much difference in gaming FPS. |
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RhynoCZ
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| Posted: 22:24 - 16 Mar 2020 Post subject: |
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The CPU is what says how many FPS the GPU will draw. If you have a weak GPU, you may reduce the graphics detail, screen resolution and post-processing effects to gain more FPS. If your CPU is slow, there's nothing, unless you overclock it, that you could do to improve your gaming performance.
That being said, for 60Hz gaming, any modern mid-range CPU would do, I guess.
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Im-a-Ridah
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| Posted: 00:26 - 17 Mar 2020 Post subject: |
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| RhynoCZ wrote: | The CPU is what says how many FPS the GPU will draw. If you have a weak GPU, you may reduce the graphics detail, screen resolution and post-processing effects to gain more FPS. If your CPU is slow, there's nothing, unless you overclock it, that you could do to improve your gaming performance.
That being said, for 60Hz gaming, any modern mid-range CPU would do, I guess. |
Extensive has been done on this by Gamers Nexus for example. I suggested a 2600 as its still on the high side, but also really cheap, and it has 6 cores/12 thread so it is more future proof than Intel processors. A 1600 would also be fine but the price difference between 1600 and 2600 isn't much so might as well go for the 2600. |
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defblade
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| Posted: 07:41 - 17 Mar 2020 Post subject: |
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I ummed and aahhed for a while then built this:
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/Defblade/saved/#view=Xfpht6
a couple of weeks ago.
I paid extra for the GPU as I really like having a very quiet PC, so you may find you can lose £40 on the total (also ditch the extra fan - that was just something I needed to replace a dodgy one).
It's fast as fuck compared to the last build (i5/GTX 960/12GB)
Watch out for re-installing Win10, it seems the "transfer digital licence" that the MS help pages mention no longer works with a MB change - try and make sure you have a Win 7 key available - see https://scottiestech.info/2019/01/15/victory-reactivate-windows-10-after-a-hardware-upgrade/
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I've just built a new system for myself, so I'm stripping out the old PC for another project that doesn't rely on having a decent(ish) graphics card. Since I'm not going to be playing any games on the old one I have a GTX 660 that I can throw in there, leaving me with a refurbished GTX 1060 (6gb), if you (or anyone else) want(s) to make an offer around the £100 mark  |
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