A Belgian Newb

[TheBelgianBuilder]

Hi there people,

 

I've been following LTT for ages now, tuning in to every stream aswell as listening to most yt videos over and over.

 

My name is Sacha, a 23 year old Technical Software Engineer who's currently working as a machine learning consultant for a different company. My hobbies consist of gaming, aswell as soccer. I also tend to program a lot in my free time.

 

As much as I love the video's, and all the hardware-porn, I'm new as hell and I've never really built a gaming pc (I have a custom one but it was a showroom model so I bought it like that). I'm wondering if LTT or any of you will try to make a build with the new GTX 1660 Ti, maybe a build around 1k usd? I'm really looking for help on building a system, a recreative system that can keep up with current games. I'm not so much an enthousiast. When it comes to spendings I'd prefer to not spend too much on a new pc .

 

Alright, thanks for reading and nice to meet you all.

 

Also if anyone wants I can post the specs of my current pc in this thread.

 

~Sacha

[PixelPol]

 

I'm seeing reviews, not only from Linus, also from that other guy that makes crazily massive benchmarks... (don't want to promote anyone here, lol) and... I don't know. Seems to be a good card, a bit too similar in performance compared to a 1070, and at a nice price.  Having the money, I feel a 2060 is ideal for me, also in that it doesn't get super crazy expensive, and seem to provide really good performance and modern features. One of the two seems a good fit for me. Till now, I was considering better a RX 570 despite the much lower performance, just for the great price/performance ratio, and having a low budget / low interest on games now (despite having been a hardcore FPS gamer in the past). My main worry bout cards now is its performance with graphic production apps. With this in mind, I feel CUDA cores is much a better bet, as is often better supported by the apps... Even while I like a lot more AMD brand than nVidia and Intel... But these two did never let me down, either, to be fair. I wonder if I should be going for a pro card (fire pro, etc), as those are WAY better for wires, I mean, for displaying and moving complex wireframe meshes in 3D and CAD.

 

I think 1k USD full budget kind of leaves out any of the higher end cards... (my own incoming work (freelance) rig is gonna be around 500 bucks, so I'd better shut up, haha)

[dizmo]

Welcome to the forum!

I see you've made the first mistake. If you're doing a build, always make it in your local currency; unless you're buying your parts from the US, US pricing is largely irrelevant. You can link where you'd be buying from, and we can help you that way.

 

Welcome to the forum!

[LukeSavenije]

ah, a Belgian...

 

[zassou]

hi, i like chips, waffles and chocolate, chips with gravy, waffles with honey or maple syrup and dark chocolate.

[CiBi]

On 2/25/2019 at 11:01 AM, TheBelgianBuilder said:

Hi there people,

 

I've been following LTT for ages now, tuning in to every stream aswell as listening to most yt videos over and over.

 

My name is Sacha, a 23 year old Technical Software Engineer who's currently working as a machine learning consultant for a different company. My hobbies consist of gaming, aswell as soccer. I also tend to program a lot in my free time.

 

As much as I love the video's, and all the hardware-porn, I'm new as hell and I've never really built a gaming pc (I have a custom one but it was a showroom model so I bought it like that). I'm wondering if LTT or any of you will try to make a build with the new GTX 1660 Ti, maybe a build around 1k usd? I'm really looking for help on building a system, a recreative system that can keep up with current games. I'm not so much an enthousiast. When it comes to spendings I'd prefer to not spend too much on a new pc .

 

Alright, thanks for reading and nice to meet you all.

 

Also if anyone wants I can post the specs of my current pc in this thread.

 

~Sacha

Hello fellow Belgian,

 

I'm actually a system admin at a company that also has a retail store, hit me up in DM if you wan't me to help you out with a gaming pc config.

 

Also for the other people here, best place for him to buy parts are:

www.azerty.nl

www.megekko.nl

 

i know they are dutch webshops but they are cheaper then the belgian ones