I’d like to play the latest BF with little holdbacks.
Can allocate $2k for the tower and it’s guts. Mainly after reliability.
Please help me.
Looking for a Cheap Gaming Rig to Build - Budget $2k
evian on 17/04/2022 - 16:12
Last edited 17/04/2022 - 18:17 by 1 other user
Last edited 17/04/2022 - 18:17 by 1 other user
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Great help
Answer effort = OP effort
Solid suggestions.
I do lean more towards Team Crimson (AMD+AMD) instead of Team Aqua (Intel+Nvidia), at least for the current offerings. With the AMD r5-5600X and AMD RX-6800 combination being more balanced than the Intel i5-12400 and Nvidia RTX-3080. You're getting cooler, quieter, and lower power use, with more potential future-proofing with the higher VRAM and upgrade path (eg r9-5950X3D).It looks like Intel's 13th-gen isn't going to be faster than their 12th-gen, but should prove to be more stable (and hopefully a little cooler). Much more anticipated is AM5 upcoming from AMD, that is a long-term platform, with Zen4 architecture, +5nm lithography, DDR5 RAM, Pcie 5.0 and USB 4.0 features. Hopefully they're released with competitive pricing for the Motherboards and CPU. I don't have any great expectations from Intel's Big dGPUs based on Xe or Arc, they're paper-launches anyway. Meanwhile, the RTX-4000 series and RX-7000 series are really going to be interesting. I think we will see solid upgrades from AMD, but it looks like Nvidia will probably win this round when it comes to efficiency and performance.
…I should preface this with that, unless availability is sorted out, there won't be any winners.I do lean more towards Team Crimson (AMD+AMD) instead of Team Aqua (Intel+Nvidia), at least for the current offerings. With the AMD r5-5600X and AMD RX-6800 combination being more balanced than the Intel i5-12400 and Nvidia RTX-3080.
The 3080 is definitely better than the 6800.
You're getting cooler, quieter, and lower power use, with more potential future-proofing with the higher VRAM and upgrade path (eg r9-5950X3D).
How is the 5600X "cooler, quieter and lower power use" than the 12400? Are you just making things up?
There is no 5950X3D.
Urgh, need sleep.
It was meant to write RX-6800 vs RTX-3070.
The RTX-3080 competes against the RX-6800xt, and the RTX-3090 against the RX-6900xt.There is the r9-5950x, and there is the r9-5800X3D. That's what meant there, both great options for upgrading if you're on the AM4 platform and want to max out without changing the Mobo.
AMD's 5000-series still has the efficiency and power-draw advantage over Intel's 12th-gen series. The i5-12400 is supposed to be a "65W TDP" part, but it doesn't behave like it. I should say the 12400 is a good chip, it lacks multithread performance but has good IPC/single-core performance, and great gaming potential. Definitely better potential than the 5600g and 5700g APUs. However, the crowd favourite seems to be the i7-12600k on the desktop, just need a good PSU and Cooler.
I probably made more typos up there, but don't care anymore.
edit: the initial point stands, you can't go wrong with either combinations of 12400+3070, or a 5600+6800 for a midrange system. Though AMD is technically better for the reasons stated above. Moving to a high-end system there's 12600+3080 vs 5800+6800xt. And the luxury segment consists of 12900k+3090 vs 5950+6900xt.
AMD's 5000-series still has the efficiency and power-draw advantage over Intel's 12th-gen series. The i5-12400 is supposed to be a "65W TDP" part, but it doesn't behave like it.
Its pretty close to 65W.
See: https://youtu.be/_P_AGv-DJbU?t=725
The 12400 draws ~75W, which is around 7W more than the 5600X, certainly a negligible amount. Completely agree that either the 12400 or 5600X will provide a practically same gaming experience, however, it's not accurate to say that power draw or heat is a drawback of the 12400.
something like https://au.pcpartpicker.com/guide/v9dnTW/enthusiast-intel-ga…
halve the ram, downgrade the cpu to a 12600k, and get a cheaper cooler and you will be about 2k
Im looking into a 12600k and 3070 build. It’s looking to be closer to $2400, but the benefits seem tangible.
I’d like to play the latest BF with little holdbacks.
don't waste your money on that pile of crap
Well that makes one person who wants to play BF. Honestly not worth lol, it's just filled with bots. I built a rig for it and eventually sold it as the game was trash. There's no coming back for this iteration of it
Is there anything that is wrong with the below spec list? I.e compatibility Any advice would be most welcome.
i5-12600k-6-core-lga-1700-cpu-processor
Gigabyte -z690-aorus-elite-lga1700-ddr4-atx-motherboard
Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Master 8G Graphics Card
Corsair 32GB (2x16GB) CMW32GX4M2D3600C18 Vengeance RGB Pro 3600MHz DDR4 RAM
Corsair 750W RM750 80+ Gold Fully Modular ATX Power Supply
Your definitions seem wildly different to mine.
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