Good afternoon,
I’m after some help with a new rig after my 10 year old system has given up the ghost. My current/broken spec was an i5, 8GB RAM, GTX 970, RoG MOBO, 500GB HDD.. which did me just fine for the games I play, the main one being Flight Simulator X.
In light of Black Friday, I have been shopping around but I’m loathe to buy something off the shelf and I’ll admit, I know a bit of what I’m talking about but I am by no means an expert so I’m after some brutally honest advice, ie I would like a 3070 but I think that might be the snob in me, and I’m not sure whether I actually need it. Alternatively, I also don’t know whether to go Intel or AMD, I admit to not being very clued in on how well AMD are doing these days.
The games I’ll be playing are MSFS 2020, Star Citizen (one day, maybe!), DCS World. Some other regulars of mine are Planet Zoo, Crusader Kings 3, Euro Truck Sim 2. I am by no means a hardcore PC gamer, I have no interest in streaming, I don’t use photoshop or anything else. Mainly a simming guy and casual other gamer as I rely on my Xbox for the likes of The Witcher, RDR2, Assassins Creed etc.
My budget is £1000-£1400, but I’m more than happy to spend less if I’m honestly told it isn’t needed. I would like to have enough hardware to entertain branching out into VR, no headset as yet. I don’t believe I have a 4K monitor yet but I’m happy to shop around in the new year for a couple of those so the ability to play in 4K would be nice. Ultimately I would really like to run MSFS or P3D very well and utilising VR in the near future so any help with a build would be nice.
Thanks in advance.
I’m after some help with a new rig after my 10 year old system has given up the ghost. My current/broken spec was an i5, 8GB RAM, GTX 970, RoG MOBO, 500GB HDD.. which did me just fine for the games I play, the main one being Flight Simulator X.
In light of Black Friday, I have been shopping around but I’m loathe to buy something off the shelf and I’ll admit, I know a bit of what I’m talking about but I am by no means an expert so I’m after some brutally honest advice, ie I would like a 3070 but I think that might be the snob in me, and I’m not sure whether I actually need it. Alternatively, I also don’t know whether to go Intel or AMD, I admit to not being very clued in on how well AMD are doing these days.
The games I’ll be playing are MSFS 2020, Star Citizen (one day, maybe!), DCS World. Some other regulars of mine are Planet Zoo, Crusader Kings 3, Euro Truck Sim 2. I am by no means a hardcore PC gamer, I have no interest in streaming, I don’t use photoshop or anything else. Mainly a simming guy and casual other gamer as I rely on my Xbox for the likes of The Witcher, RDR2, Assassins Creed etc.
My budget is £1000-£1400, but I’m more than happy to spend less if I’m honestly told it isn’t needed. I would like to have enough hardware to entertain branching out into VR, no headset as yet. I don’t believe I have a 4K monitor yet but I’m happy to shop around in the new year for a couple of those so the ability to play in 4K would be nice. Ultimately I would really like to run MSFS or P3D very well and utilising VR in the near future so any help with a build would be nice.
Thanks in advance.