Budget ~ £1000 - obviously less is better. Pre-built or parts from single supplier (Amazon). My thinking for a self build: CPU - Mid range Ryzen 2nd / 3rd gen / 9th gen i5 GPU - RTX 2060 SSD - 500gb m2 PSU - 500W decent brand modular. Or a pre-built like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/ADMI-Gamin...rds=cyber+computer+2070&qid=1599486484&sr=8-1 Any guidance or watch-outs?
No idea if there are any wrinkles or hidden requirements but see that the current recommended (not minimum) requirements are: Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon HD 7870 or equivalent DX11 GPU Video Memory: 2 GB VRAM Processor: Core i5-7300U 3.5 GHz - an i5 4570 is sufficient to match the single core output of a 7300U Memory: 8 GB RAM What you've suggested is going to be well within limits Is that RGB laden monstrosity on Amazon destined for a young person?
I would look at something like this https://www.scan.co.uk/products/sca...00-16gb-ddr4-6gb-evga-rtx-2060-1tb-ssd-win-10 (949 in today sale) I dont trust Amazon Pcs for parts who knows whats coming. Self build is tricky to get under that price ratio and is as sad as it is to say not worth doing at this price point.
I don't know a lot so would highlight without recommending the pcpartpicker build for £911 with a 5700xt which is think is more like a 2070 https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/guide/TcLrxr/great-amd-gaming-build
I used the builder on the CCL website: https://www.cclonline.com/pc/gaming...-x1-gaming-pc/advanced-customiser/custom/321/ Cooler Master MasterBox Q300L Mini Tower Case Gigabyte A320M-S2H AMD Socket AM4 Motherboard AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6GHz Hexa Core (Socket AM4) CPU 16GB HyperX FURY 3200MHz DDR4 RAM MSI GeForce RTX 2060 Ventus XS 6GB Graphics Card Adata SU630 480GB 2.5" SATA SSD Corsair TX550M 550W Semi-Modular 80+ Gold PSU 3x CCL Choice 12cm Case Fan Blue LED 3 Year Collect & Return warranty 1.8m UK Plug to C13 Mains Lead - Black £790.68, leaving £200 for a new monitor. Other than maybe changing the SSD out for an M2 drive doesn't look to shabby.
With a case that far down the stack I'd have serious concerns about issues like rattling noises etc. Also A320 boards are extremely cut down (in terms of USB and Sata support etc) and do not allow any OC at all. Anyway, for now I'd hold off on buying any GPU, new ones are right around the corner, so there should be a nice bumper crop on the 2nd hand market by the end of the month.
Your not wrong, I think that's the route to go, waiting to see price reduction in the 2060's cased by the influx for 2070 and 2080 in the second hand market. A slightly more premium spec for £887.42. Corsair Carbide 275R TG Gaming Case - White Gigabyte B450 AORUS ELITE AMD Motherboard AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6GHz Hexa Core (Socket AM4) CPU 16GB HyperX FURY 3200MHz DDR4 RAM Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2060 6GB Graphics Card Crucial P1 500GB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe SSD Corsair TX650M 650W Semi-Modular 80+ Gold PSU Cooler Master MasterLiquid Lite 120 Liquid CPU Cooler 3 Year Collect & Return warranty
If it’s just, or mainly, for Fortnite, wouldn’t something like a 3300x and 1660 Super be all you need?
I've built a Fortnite rig for someone with an ancient 980ti from the junk drawer and it got over 100 fps at 1080p, so yeah a 1660 Super would be enough... kind of. Fortnite performance is very sensitive to resolution, if you try to move up to 1440p+ performance does go down the drain pretty quickly, plus the game is due an engine upgrade from UE4 to UE5... how it'll run after that is anyone's guess.
last 2 builds I have done are fortnite computers, it runs great on a potato OG one was a 3770K so its got plenty of cores to spare, runs it on high with shadows knocked down 1 tick from epic 60 fps all the time on a 760TI, the second is using a i3 which does ping the CPU on load times here and there, and a 1650, auto setting set almost everything to epic, it was 49-75 fps (running on a 75 hz monitor with vsync) dropping it to high steady
