I want to buy a new pc for racing games. Budget € 900 - $ 1000 - £ 815
In the past i build up my own pc's. What i need to know is which technical specs are suited for this?
* i have a GeForce GTX 1050Ti
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Sell that and get something like a 1660 Ti. There's no point in buying a €1000 Euro PC for gaming and then putting a €100 graphics card in it. This is the most important component for gaming performance.
Make sure you get an SSD. If you ONLY use your PC for racing games, 512GB should be more than enough. However, my PC has many GB of personal documents, photos, music and downloads which has completely filled up my drive and is affecting performance. If you are in the same position, you should get a PC with two 512GB drives - one for Windows and your personal files, the other for your games. Otherwise, just one SSD is enough.
RAM - 8GB is easily still enough for gaming, but if you do any kind of video or photo editing with say, Adobe CS suite, then you will want 16GB+.
Motherboard - You don't really need to spend more than €60-€90 on this. Power supply should be around the same price - 750W, modular.
Whatever money you have left over, you should spend on the CPU. Don't go too cheap on the PC case though - get one with good cooling. My case cost me under €35 and I had to take the side door off, otherwise my CPU and graphics card reach almost 100C on a hot day.
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Not getting this within my budget.
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Really? I just put this together in under 5 minutes, although it was a random selection....
Am I forgetting something? Screen, keyboard, mouse maybe?
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Screen.
But we are getting there.
Thing is: i haven't build a single pc in some 8 years. In the past it was simple. A 2200+ XP proc was slower than a 2800+ proc. You bought a Titanium Hercules II when you wanted to have a faster one than a Hercules (I). Now there are so many types, numbers, what ever... a big jungle when you are not following it year in year out.
But we are getting there.
Thing is: i haven't build a single pc in some 8 years. In the past it was simple. A 2200+ XP proc was slower than a 2800+ proc. You bought a Titanium Hercules II when you wanted to have a faster one than a Hercules (I). Now there are so many types, numbers, what ever... a big jungle when you are not following it year in year out.
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Keep the 1050 Ti then and get a screen with the spare cash.erwin greven wrote: ↑3 years ago Screen.
But we are getting there.
Thing is: i haven't build a single pc in some 8 years. In the past it was simple. A 2200+ XP proc was slower than a 2800+ proc. You bought a Titanium Hercules II when you wanted to have a faster one than a Hercules (I). Now there are so many types, numbers, what ever... a big jungle when you are not following it year in year out.
It does kind of still work that way, but the i3 and i5 and i7 ranges complicate that a little. I tend to just go by price, a £300 CPU is faster than a £200 CPU...
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