Awfulunicorn

Thanks. Just ordered! Roughly went with the second build (no HDD) as I have had excellent experience with EVGA cards in the past. Thanks for the help! Using prices from Germany it even came down to ~830 Euro

Hello! I am looking to build a PC for some casual gaming. Currently the only thing I’m playing is Age of Empires II on my XPS 13, however the past few months I’ve been itching to try out some games that intrigued me. Especially with Anno 1800 coming out soon I feel like it’s time to get some additional hardware to not be limited to RTS games from the 90s anymore. To keep me from rambling I have gone ahead and copied the bullet points from the stickied thread: 1. Budget & Location Germany (prices in €) Budget is whatever is adequate for my needs. I’m pretty out of the loop with what Hardware to get and where prices are at. Under 800€ would be nice but that’s not a requirement. EDIT: 800€ was just my first guess. If you think that I’d need to spend more to get what I want don’t worry about the budget. I don’t mind how high as long as it not higher than it needs to be. 2. Aim Casual Gaming with decent performance, however this is not going to be my daily driver. Some machine learning might also come up now and then. 3. Monitor Some Dell Ultrawide 3440x1440p@60Hz (Thats gonna stay, I have that already) 4. Peripherals 5. Why are you upgrading? Ever tried gaming on the XPS 13? In terms of specs I was thinking about the RTX 2070 as GPU and 16GB RAM. I’m at a total loss when it comes to which CPUs are to be recommend these days. As I’ll exclusively use it to game I think good single threaded performance on a budget should be a priority Likewise for the mainboard I‘d just go with the cheapest that’s good enough. I also already have a SSD Im booting off of Right now that i would put into the new PC so I don’t need a new one. Additonally I‘d prefer a Compact Build so i can tug it away in my shelf (25-30cm wide,~35cm high, or 50cm high if I remove one board). Any advice, recommendations or pointers to further reading would be highly appreciated. Cheers