I saw in an earlier post somebody said it's cheaper to buy from Aftershock or Invader, instead of buying individual parts? So that's where i'm leaning towards right now. Anything i should watch out for before i commit?
very much the case now, as
ssd and especially
ram pricing has gone berserk for diy (can compare with pricing from less than 3 months ago on first page). not to say prebuilt is not affected, but their increase is not as crazy for now, so better to faster buy. what i would look out for is the quality of component selection outside of the cpu and gpu, usually aftershock skimps too much on parts like the mobo and psu imo. invader base spec also not amazing, but at least they offer u upgrade options for all parts.
The PC is for playing the latest games like When Winds Meet and Stellar Blade, on as high graphics settings as possible with no dropped frames. I prefer single player games so things like latency isn't a priority. Budget is at $1.5k but i can go up to $2k if needed. Hope this budget enough to play on ultra settings smoothly.
1.5k is enough for a good experience, based on my brief research seems like a 5060ti 16gb is sufficient for 1440p60 ultra settings for both mentioned games, even 4k60 might be doable with dlss. the alternative 9060xt is generally evenly matched across many games but
seems a lot slower in those 2 titles, though i could not find much comparable benchmark data.
suggest looking for an am5 + 5060ti
16gb build, i see invader starting price is just under 1.4k, which seems a bit high based on what i remember but isnt super outrageous.
Choice 2 is cheap, but it has Powercolor Radeon RX 9070 Reaper for a GPU, which i'm told isn't ideal? The RAM issue is solved by adding $70 to upgrade. And for some reason this setup can supposely run at high settings on 4k resolution. Better then choice 1, even though it seems weaker on every metric? How come?
the
9070 actually beats the 5070 in raw raster (ie non raytraced games), plus packs extra vram which is crucial for higher resolutions. personally i would avoid this choice as it sacrifices too much to be under that 1.5k price point, for eg
the 8400f is very anaemic for gaming and i would not be surprised if it ends up holding back the gpu.
From what google says, choice 1 cannot support 4k games because the GPU is only 12GB.... so i will need a 16GB GPU.
not necessarily, u can always tune the graphical settings to have the game fit in the 12gb vram buffer.
will end up costing $2.5k if i add in the OS, a speaker, and a basic keyboard + mouse. Anything i should watch out for?
u dont have to buy a windows key
Can consider this for $2k budget.. unless u really want Nvidia, but as u know 5070 is 12gb, while 5070ti may burst your budget..
https://www.invaderpc.com/product/specm44/
i would opt for the ryzen 7 7700 version for a $100+ saving as the 9700x is barely faster for gaming. the 5070ti version is ~15% more expensive but
offers ~30% more performance in stellar blade so is technically better perf per dollar, though the 9070xt still offers a solid experience.
I was told that Nvudia GPUs and AMD's X3D are best in class for gaming purposes, so i'm trying to get both in my build haha. If i have to burst budget by $100+, so be it....
x3d may not be worth it depending on the resolution and refresh rate u are targeting, as iceblendedchoc mentioned. speaking of which, what are they for u?
