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Trancematic 23 Aug @ 5:18pm

Which PC Guys please ,need advice

Im in the market for a decent Gaming Pc ,i have no intention of building one [period] no patience]

I used to be an avid PC gamer 20 years ago but got lazy and just play my consoles,however having just purchased a Steamdeck Oled from here it has now tempted me to buying a PC all over again having witnessed some amazing PC games on this small unit ,so i would like to play some of these games at the highest settings and on a much bigger screen as my eyes are not what they used to be.

I was thinking of subscribing to Geforce now in September when they do there upgrade,and if i use the Steamdeck with the Dock through that service it will be a lot better than when i connected it the other week and the tv quality of the games on my very high end samsung 65 inch tv was terrible to say the least, im guessing thats the limitations of the Steamdeck and what it can output in terms of quality ,obviously if this Geforce now produced amazing games on my tv that looked really way better than a Gaming Pc would probably not be needed.

Anyway here is the choice i have made and i am leaning towards the Chillblast one ? seems i can not copy and paste links so here are the specs...Short version.

Forge Rizen 7 9800x3d

GEFORCE RTX 580

2TB SSD

32 DDR5 RAM RUNNING 6000

Then all the fancy lights and stuff.

Wired2fire ..Similar spec but with a GPU RX9070 Which is a AMD Card and not the Geforce as above ,this is £2048 and the one above £2600 ,obviously the card bumping up the price ?

If i change the card in the Wired2fire build to the RTX580 The pc becomes £2800.

Yep a lot of money and im hoping you guys more in the know can tell me your thoughts ans opinions as i want a future proof PC that is not bottlenecking 12 months later with a newish game.

Cheers everyone.

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Illusion of Progress 23 Aug @ 6:19pm

Future proofing doesn't exist, but as long as you're willing to optimize (meaning, use the settings that games provide) instead of blindly expecting everything ultra everything, then you should be fine with any hardware that costs that much for the next year (and then some).

Are you looking to do 1440p or 4K? I think that's an important question here. A 65" TV implies 4K to me though, but maybe the quality loss at 1440p won't be as noticeable at a distance, or will you be viewing from close?

The RTX 5080 is about 10% to 15% faster than the RTX 5070 Ti (this gap tends to shrink a bit if both are overclocked), which itself is slightly faster than the 9070 XT. nVidia usually has better upscaling quality (though FSR4 that came with the Radeon 9000 series made it closer) and better ray tracing performance.

If this is for 4K and ray tracing is something that matters, I think it "forces" you to look at the RTX 5080 at a minimum. The RTX 5090 (or 4090) would be better, but they would push the price up a lot (plus increase the melting connector risk). If you're okay with 1440p, either the 9070 XT or RTX 5070 Ti are probably the better options. This generation's x80 is more of a mid-range GPU if you look at relative performance within the lineup, despite being the third fastest overall. Super refreshes are expected and may bump up the VRAM. 16 GB is fine for now, but I don't know how true that will be at 4 K years from now. But those are probably far enough away that I wouldn't suggest waiting if you want the PC right now.

Rumpelcrutchskin 23 Aug @ 7:34pm

Find something with RTX 5070 Ti or RX 9070 XT.

RTX 5080 is too expensive and new version with more VRAM is coming out anyway.

Trancematic 25 Aug @ 3:38am

Cheers guys for all the advice much appreciated ,1440p is fine by me,i just wanted a good Gaming pc that was not outdated 6 months down the line and struggling,i would like games on high settings but does not have to be ultra just high.