it's build log time again but this one's going to be a little bit different
instead of trying to put a computer under liquid or in space or anything
like that we're actually going to be building something a little more down to
earth it's only around 1,000 bucks for a gaming rig and you might kind of go okay
well L this what could be interesting about this and I'll tell you this is
actually based on a challenge that was issued to me by the folks over at AMD
who kind of went 4K displays are becoming a lot more affordable right now
but the perception among Gamers is that you can't really Drive games at that
resolution and to a degree that is correct in the latest tripa titles
running at Ultra res you're going to need like multiple of the highest end
graphics cards in order to get a playable enjoyable experience but they
also continued what about the titles that people are actually playing all the
time your free- toplay games like League of Legends or Team Fortress 2 or your
more mainstream or Esports e titles like CS goo or Starcraft 2 What could you
build an affordable computer that can run those games at 4K now that the price
of really nice displays like this Acer I've got right here are coming way way
down all the time well let's find out shall
we going back to my purchase of a vew Sonic P95 f+b I've believed that a
display can last you through several of these bad boys if you choose one of
sufficient quality for your needs now and in the future my old Dell 245 fpw
actually got retired from use by my wife only a couple months ago when she saw
LG's 29 ultrawide so the component
choices for this rig were a little different than normal we didn't
overbuild the PC in an attempt to run every game at 4K but we also didn't want
to build the most budget Cheapo gaming rig ever either it was meant to be a
reasonable bang for thee Buck sweet spot so around $900 to $1,000 gaming and
multi-purpose AMD based PC with some upgradeability and with the ultimate
plan of passing it along and replacing it with a new Sweet Spot rig when the
time is right a strategy that can actually yield much better value for the
money in the long run versus trying to spend you know twice as much on a
machine in the first place in an attempt to get it to last twice as long not to
mention that this way you end up with two machines so you can repurpose your
old rig for a friend or family member or server or whatever else down the line so
at the heart of the rig is an fx 6350 6 core CPU although a 6300 is also a great
choice if you don't mind doing a little bit of overclocking we could have stuck
with the eight core that AMD accidentally put in the motherboard that
they sent us but given how many threads modern games support and the growing
support for lower CPU overhead apis like nle and direct X12 I don't feel like
spending a bunch more on a CPU is a great investment for a sweep spot PC
Today thr away the okay I don't know the
words to that song our motherboard is an MSI 970 gaming board it looks nice if
that matters to you it's reasonably well built it includes support for 2-way
Crossfire if you wanted to add another graphics card in the future although it
should be noted that sweet spot rigs usually live their lives with a single
graphics card and it's got a solid IO layout with four usb3 ports we kitted it
out with eight gigs of the heaviest memory that we've ever seen now I'm just
kidding it wasn't heavy but we had to justify needing two people to build one
computer somehow we used an AMD branded
kit but any dual Channel DDR3 would work just fine if you're a heavy multitasker
you might opt for 16 gigs right off the bat but RAM upgrades are one of those
things that's easy and inexpensive to do later on down the road when and if you
need more that's where all my print jobs went I mean what's a print job I
couldn't
our Drive power supply and case choices aren't terribly important for gaming
performance but I'll let you know what we used anyway we went with a 240 gig
Kingston SSD that we had lying around the office although you could pick any
value SSD for your boot Drive these days a 2 TB WD green for mass storage and for
large games and programs a cic 400 wat 80 plus bronze power supply and an NZXT
s340 case for its solid air flow clean looks and great price price which leads
us to the last key component for any gaming rig the graphics card we chose
the radon R9 285 because at under 250
bucks with some available for as little as like 200 and change on promo it stays
within that FPS per dollar sweet spot
that usually exists between about $120 to $280 and it also has at least we were
hoping when we spec this thing enough horsepower for the games that we're
going to be running on this rig with graphic settings turned up even at 4K so
here's the finished build and with it done it's time to Benchmark all the
games for me and by me I mean Luke and
by all the games I mean we took anything that had over 10,000 viewers on Twitch
TV so like the mainstream and competitive stuff added in a couple
choices of our own fired it up at 4k on an acerb 326 HK a gorgeous IPS monitor
and cranked the details to see how they would run and actually the results
surprised me a little bit a cross our test Suite of dirt showdown Starcraft 2
Team Fortress 2 Counter-Strike Global Offensive League of Legends Dota 2 and
wow only World of Warcraft likely thanks
to its recent graphical update with Warlords of dror needed the details
turned down at all in order to spit out not just playable but actually very
enjoyable frame rates at a massive 3840
by 2160 resolution now this won't be the
case across the board we didn't make a magical computer here if you're going to
grab the latest AAA OMG photo realism
titles from a series like Assassin's Creed Battlefield crisis or the like
then you'll need to run at a lower resolution and deal with the
interpolation that comes along with that unless you want to step up to some
seriously more powerful Hardware but not everyone is interested in that and I was
still I don't know what the right word is so I'll say amused when I realized
that the most most popular games that gamers are really spending the bulk of
their time on these days just aren't that demanding and there's no reason
that a reasonable modern gaming rig can't run them cranked on a 4k monitor
today so thanks AMD for sponsoring this
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