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XXXtitan

Hi All,

What would a good financial amount be to spend on a decent 4k gaming machine?

suggestions welcome, also a spec of a machine would be great,

Thanks,

Digital Solitude

Not as much as the last PC you came away with anyways :pac:

At the minute, about €1500 off the top of my head, but you're better off waiting for a few months for the next line of GPUs to be released, as they'll hopefully have a single card solution for 4k, which we don't have currently.

For a general spec,
i5 6500 €200
Z170 board €120
1tb HDD €50
8gb RAM €40
600w PSU €75
Case €120
240gb SSD €65
Total €770

Then whatever a 4k capable GPU costs. Best current solution is a 980Ti, which is about €750

XXXtitan

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Not as much as the last PC you came away with anyways :pac:

At the minute, about €1500 off the top of my head, but you're better off waiting for a few months for the next line of GPUs to be released, as they'll hopefully have a single card solution for 4k, which we don't have currently.

For a general spec,
i5 6500 €200
Z170 board €120
1tb HDD €50
8gb RAM €40
600w PSU €75
Case €120
240gb SSD €65
Total €770

Then whatever a 4k capable GPU costs. Best current solution is a 980Ti, which is about €750

Ha, that was a long time ago. Times have changed.

Thanks for the info,

K.O.Kiki

It depends on the games you're playing.

LinusTechTips built a machine that can handle MOBAs and WoW at 4k60 for under $1000

BloodBath

I'd wait for the next gen of cpus and gpus that are on the horizon.

Something like an 8 core / 16 thread zen cpu and a 8gb high end polaris gpu.

I still wouldn't bother with 4k though. Get a 2560 x 1440 144/160hz monitor or a 3440x1440 100hz one. The higher refresh is just as important as the resolution. I couldn't go back to 60hz now. It's very noticeably worse even outside of gaming.