Hi! Building a gaming PC for a friend, looking to spend about 1300$ USD. Will need to include a monitor as well. He’s looking to play some AAA and some esports games, was trying to get a 1440 setup with ability to upgrade in the future. Would you make any changes to what I’ve put together?
Looks good to me. The only thing you might consider is getting a 2tb drive instead. You can find some for the same price as the 1 tb Samsung. Not just no-name brands either. A 1tb drive fills up with games in no time.
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/dBBG3C/crucial-p3-2-tb-m2-2280-nvme-solid-state-drive-ct2000p3ssd8
I have two 1TB drives (Crucial P5 for system, P3 for Games), and as long as you have a good Internet connection, it’s not hard to manage space. I am fortunate to have 1Gbps for a decent price in my area, for example.
That said, if you don’t have a good internet connection (< 200Mbps), having more storage to keep games installed is probably the better option.
This is really good advice, thank you! One of the things I regret about my current build is only having 1 TB of space.
I have a 500gb SSD that I paid the same amount for as a 2tb SSD costs now. Ram and SSD prices are super good right now. I’d say 32gb ram and 2tb SSD is definitely worth it for the price of the whole system.
I think this is a very well balanced system. The only feedback I have is maybe save some money on the RAM as you really only need 16GB for gaming and maybe reallocate to a stronger graphics card. But if they will be doing other RAM intensive things with the computer, your current spec is great.
That’s absolutely untrue, for a mid- to high-end rig 32 GB of RAM are a must. I have games that use ~10 GB on their own. Add at least 2 GB for Windows and 2 GB for your browser, Discord, game launchers and other crap running and you’re already in swap territory.
Just right now just with my browser, launchers, email client, Discord and so on open my system chills at 11 GB RAM usage (out of 32). Yes, if you’re running out of RAM Windows will reclaim some of that to make space, but you don’t want to go there.
32 GB costs a tiny bit more than 16 GB, it would be stupid to go with 16 nowadays. Hell, in ARMA 3 I already got “System out of memory” errors while playing it nearly 10 years ago with 16 GB RAM.
Yeah, for me 16 GB was fine, but it only costs like $20 to go from 16 to 32 so there’s no reason not to, and it’s nice not having to worry about it. I use a browser addon that reduces my Firefox memory usage to like 2 GB max though, without that it can balloon to like 5 GB which would be too much for gaming with 16 GB.
