Currently trying to put together a mid-end pc for the first time.

Posted by A_Bulbear@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 15 comments

I'm working with a fairly limited budget of under 2000, Cpu and storage are simple enough to find quality deals for but I've been having a lot of trouble finding a good RAM and Gpu.

Every option I look at either supports a company I morally disagree with (cough LLMs) or is way out of my price range, usually both.

As for what I'm looking for, it's not much, 1080p native 45-60 fps gaming for stuff like Hd2.

Preferably I would like to avoid frame gen and upscaling, call it old fashioned but I've seen what interpolation does to the quality of animation and movies and I don't want any of it.

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Blue-150@reddit

2000 means very little when readers around the world are chiming in and doing your research. Where are you?

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Velmidos@reddit

To be completely honest, if your plan is only to play on 1080p, then you won't be spending 2000 unless we're talking in canadian dollars. If it's us $, £ of €, 1500 or less would be better...

I'm not sure which GPU you're aiming for too, all the companies in the market are branding their AI slop all over the place. Yes, even AMD and Intel.

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ProfSnipe@reddit

Does a farming simulator game really needs 16gb vram at 1080p?

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Velmidos@reddit

It eats a lot, I was amazed too when I saw a simple 4060 run on low graphics and get a 50 avg fps on 1080p.

The worst is when you're near tons of objects such as fields, that's when your 1% low will happen.

DLSS will increase the perfs but from what I saw, it's not worth it on this game.

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manohar_18@reddit

Honestly with a $2000 budget you’re nowhere near “limited” for 1080p 60fps gaming. You can build something genuinely strong without touching frame gen or aggressive upscaling.

Also if your issue is mainly Nvidia because of the AI/LLM stuff, AMD is probably the obvious route here anyway. A Radeon card like a 7700 XT / 7800 XT absolutely crushes native 1080p and handles 1440p comfortably too.

And for RAM, people massively overcomplicate it. You don’t need some ultra-premium RGB 8000 MT/s kit for the type of gaming you’re describing.

Something like:

32GB DDR5 6000 CL30 (AM5 build) or
32GB DDR4 3600 CL16 (AM4 budget/value build)

is already more than enough.

Honestly your mindset is kind of refreshing compared to the “just enable DLSS + frame gen” crowd. Native rendering still looks cleaner in motion a lot of the time, especially if you’re sensitive to interpolation artifacts from films/animation.

For Helldivers 2 specifically, a decent CPU matters more than people expect too. Don’t overspend only on GPU.

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A_Bulbear@reddit (OP)

Thanks for the help, I'm glad I wasn't so far out of my league that I couldn't get any real information out of yall.

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mastersanada@reddit

I would just correct it as any ram is good ram at this point if its DDR5

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Electrical_Ad3618@reddit

2k is more around 1440p mid to high end im sure with ur aim of hitting 1080p with 60fps u can get that around a grand ur only problem will be ram but DDR4 is not that badly priced

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Teamskiawa@reddit

Mid tier.... Low end, mid tier, high end.

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Riipp3r@reddit

For him the middle is the end lol

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Teamskiawa@reddit

Some guy is selling a "mid end gaming PC " on my local FBM. It bothers the shit out of me. It's a 10 year old piece of shit worth $200 bucks, it's been listed for 37 weeks and he was originally asking $1k and is now asking $800. Fucking delusional. Mid end nonsense

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