Buying a new Gaming PC, little knowledge about it
Posted by Franks0n@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 4 comments
Hello everyone, I am looking to buy a new Gaming PC since almost all of the parts of my old one are outdated. I am living in Germany and have a budget from around 2000-3000€. As a reference, I want to be able to play more demanding games like Star Wars: Jedi Survivor, I don't know if that helps. I would be incredibly grateful for any advice at all, such as which brands to choose, which parts to invest a lot in and which are maybe not that relevant, to build it myself or let a professional do it or maybe buy an already assembled pc. Thank you so much in advance for anything you are willing to share and help me have fun gaming hopefully very soon!
AMPCgame@reddit
€2000-3000 will get you a very good PC capable of playing modern titles smoothly. Generally speaking, you would put around 30-40% of your budget into the GPU, and around half that much again into the CPU. That would give you a balanced build. RAM and storage is expensive at the moment, so if you were to aim for a "normal" €1500 build (before the A.I price explosion) it would get you a build that would play games at 1440p very well, for around €2000. That would look something like this is if you built it yourself: https://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/sJGvW9
There is a lot to learn about picking PC parts, but the example build above would provide room for growth, with a case that's easy to work in and that has good cooling, a PSU that has more wattage than you need, and a motherboard with a decent VRM design, which provides smooth power delivery even when the CPU is under heavy loads.
You'd have to install your own operating system, which isn't too bad at all, or you can have a professional build the system for you, if you are OK with paying the build fee. You won't get a similar spec system for the same price built for you, itll be a few hundred euro more, most likely.
Franks0n@reddit (OP)
I just looked a bit more closely through your pcpartpicker list (thanks again!!), how important is the Power Supply in your opinion, is it worth it for a 500-600 Watt PC to have a 850 Watt one? And would the Radeon 9070XT also work with these parts or would it be a waste because other parts are holding it back, if so, which parts? Sorry if these questions are a bit basic, as I said I am just getting into building a PC
AMPCgame@reddit
A power supply that has a bit of headroom for wattage allows you to run the system smoothly without worrying about reaching the power limit. So if you were to swap the 9070 with the 9070 X, keeping the same power supply then there wouldn't be any issues, and the rest of the PC would work with it without anything holding it back.
With the 9800X3D, the performance gain wouldn't be huge, the results will just depend on the game that you are playing. A 9800X3D would also require a BIOS update of that motherboard. If you don't want to try that, then you can either get a different motherboard for the 9800XX3D, or stay with the 7800X3D.
Franks0n@reddit (OP)
Thank you soo much, advice like this was exactly the one I hoped for and thank you for the link, I will definitely check it out and compare it with other offers I see, thanks!