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    wasbitwasbit
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      @wasbit
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      I have been ‘volunteered’ to oversee two new gaming rig builds by people who have never built a PC before.
      At the moment I have no idea of how much money is available or how high end they want to go.
      Should I be looking at Intel or AMD?
      Looking at graphics cards it seems the GeForce RTX 2060 or GeForce GTX 1070 Ti are the value for money options.
      Any others?

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      wasbit

      Rig 1: Optiplex 3050 SFF
      Rig 2: Asus ROG G20CB (rebuilt wreck)
      Rig 3: HP Elitebook 8440P

      Dear Starfleet, hate you, hate the Federation, taking Voyager. - Janeway

      #30275
      Dave RiceDave Rice
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        @ricedg
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        It depends on what games they want to play as to the specs (and if they have the budget for it).

        But the new i5’s + Z370 mobo + RTX2060 still seem a favourite over AMD.

        #30277
        keith with the teefkeith with the teef
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          The 20 series from NV are not worth it yet as an investment as there is to much dead cash tied up in dead tech that no one is using at mo.

          Its probabley fair to say that NV’s new tech will creep in ever so solwly as with physics.

           

          The new tomb raider game is so cutting edge in its eye candy that it proverbails all over NV’s new tech as optimising it is crap.

          Also you have to remember that a monitor that is actually set up properly can get eye candy to jump on step further.

          Just how many of dont have our monitors set up properly. :). Most i think.

          Also gaming above 1080p is still difficult in cutting edge well optimised and badly optimised tittles. As in performance bottleneck.

          8 thread cpu and 16GB of ram is now a must. This year should see it be nececary for a genuniue 8 core cpu, so a 16 threader.

          Monitor wize HDR and free sync capable. Nvidia now support free sync.

          #30317
          wasbitwasbit
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            @wasbit
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            Wow! I’m way behind the times on prices.

            £250+ for an Intel i5. I paid £11 for the second hand Intel i3 in this desktop.

            Thanks for the info. 🙂

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            wasbit

            Rig 1: Optiplex 3050 SFF
            Rig 2: Asus ROG G20CB (rebuilt wreck)
            Rig 3: HP Elitebook 8440P

            Dear Starfleet, hate you, hate the Federation, taking Voyager. - Janeway

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