re: PC Discussion - Gaming, Performance and Enthusiasts

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No doubt about the boot drive- I have a 250gb WD Black 4.0 m.2 I'm reusing for my OS. I think it will all come together with a cool white/silver aesthetic rather than going with the straight-up all white. I'll post pics when I'm done, but it will be a couple of weeks. I want to build it with my nephew who is really into computers. He's really excited about it and I think it will be a cool bonding experience.

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Then I withdraw any and all objections

While those games aren’t optimized, the menu issue is unrelated and usually caused by not capping frame rate in the menu, which causes CPU load to spike. I globally cap my frame rate to make sure Gsync doesn’t run into issues, so I rarely have runaway CPU temps, but some games, including Jedi Survivor, annoy the piss out of me that there’s nowhere in the menu to “rest” your components, usually because the menu is just superimposed on the screen while it continued to render the game world behind it. And it’s doubly worse for Survivor because you can’t save at will. A week or so ago, I found myself needing to get up right then, but I was in the middle of a puzzle far away from a meditation point. Literally just had to walk away from the menu letting my PC pull over 500w for over an hour while I went take care of what I needed to.

Remind me what cooler you have?

Although, the only games I play are sims 3,4 and Cyberpunk in short intervals.

Come on in, the water’s fine

I was genuinely surprised it was still spiking so hot, but that now makes sense

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How much would it cost to get a PC to play games at an at least consistent 60 fps and on par with ps5?

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Less than $1000 if you are just trying to build a machine that can play 1080p/1440p on medium/low settings capped at 60 fps… but you’re missing a lot of details like the specific resolution you want to game at, do you want higher settings and still maintain the 60 fps, how long do you want your machine to last, do you care about ray tracing? A lot of these questions will also effect how much your Pc will cost.

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So lets say not top of line but a little above current medium grade for that level.

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I would go with something like this

PCpartpicker list

If you can go higher I’d recommend getting a 4070/4070ti as your GPU for the new dlss 3 feature along with better raytracing performance, but you sacrifice vram which you will want more of as developers continue to unoptimize games for PC, which means more vram is required for high quality textures to load. Also the case is personal preference and there are plenty of good options depending on your needs and style. I didn’t include the case fans in the list though as that also comes down to the case and your personal taste

Just ordered the ASRock Z690 Phantom with Thunderbolt 4 to go with my 12900k. Price was sketchily low, so we'll see if it even shows up