- Are you looking for a build that will *run* current gen games, a build that will give you 60 FPS at 1080p with graphics settings towards the higher end, or a build that will give you 144 FPS minimum in 1080p/60 FPS at 4K without breaking a sweat at max graphics settings for the next 3-5 years?
Well, my last build was a middle of the pack pc that was able to run anything on high settings at 60fps. I think this time around I want to go for something with a little bit more grunt. Are they making single graphics cards capable of running 4k at those frames now? I don't want to mess with multiple cards because then I'm going to want to water cool. Not looking for anything that complex right now. If there aren't any cards that can do that on their own, I think I can go for 1440p, high setting and all of the frames per second. I'm fairly sure both nVidia and AMD offer something for that.
The good ole NVidia GTX 1080ti can get you 60fps@4k consistently on almost all new games on max settings, but keep in mind this'll also mean purchasing a monitor capable of 4k resolution. You may already have one, just making sure you know ahead of time.
I think I'd honestly rather have a very high and steady frame rate over the 4k resolution @ 60fps. Are there any cards that can push 4k at 144fps? I imagine they'd cost a metric fawk-ton. Hell I'm guessing the 1080ti is pretty expensive itself and it's a couple of years old, isn't it?
I'd recommend Windows 10 Pro in that case.
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In that case you can probably do just fine with a solid i5 processor (unless you want to go AMD for the processor, which I have less experience with).
I wouldn't mind going with an i5. To be totally honest with you I'm very curious about those new AMD processors though. If they offer something better than an i5 for a similar price I'd definitely go with them. But I agree that I probably don't need anything much more powerful than an i5. Aren't modern games offloading the extra work onto the graphics cards anyway?
I'd recommend going with one 8GB DDR4 RAM card and watching the prices for a while if you want to upgrade to 16.
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Good choice. There's a lot of affordable SSD drives on the market now, especially if you only plan to put the OS and a handful of games on them. Saw a 128GB SSD for $39.99 yesterday.
check. and ****, my 128 cost me three times as much back in the day.
Let me know if you have any strong feelings about AMD vs Intel for the processor or vs NVidia for the GPU.
honestly, i do lean closer to the amd side because i know intel and nvidia have done some really crappy things. i don't blame a company for trying to stack things in their favor, but some things are too classless. amd are no saints either, i know. plus i think a homogeneous build probably works more efficiently anyway.
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