New to PC gaming

[Ksmerola1]

Hi all,

 

I am new to PC gaming and just looking for some general advice. I have a PC that was previously used for a golf simulator setup that I am planning on using for some gaming now and was just looking for some general thoughts on how this machine should perform and what type of resolution/frame rate I can expect with different games. I play mostly FPS and open world games. I am also hoping this machine can handle flight simulator 2020 with some decent frame rates and resolution. Any tips on how I can expect this machine to perform and if there are any components I should be looking at upgrading for a better gaming experience? Thanks!

 

Specs:

Alienware Aurora R7

i7 8700K

GTX 1080 Ti

32gb DDR4 2666MHz

256gb M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD

2TB SATA 

850W EPA Bronze PSU 

[curiousmind34]

2 minutes ago, Ksmerola1 said:

Hi all,

 

I am new to PC gaming and just looking for some general advice. I have a PC that was previously used for a golf simulator setup that I am planning on using for some gaming now and was just looking for some general thoughts on how this machine should perform and what type of resolution/frame rate I can expect with different games. I play mostly FPS and open world games. I am also hoping this machine can handle flight simulator 2020 with some decent frame rates and resolution. Any tips on how I can expect this machine to perform and if there are any components I should be looking at upgrading for a better gaming experience? Thanks!

 

Specs:

Alienware Aurora R7

i7 8700K

GTX 1080 Ti

32gb DDR4 2666MHz

256gb M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD

2TB SATA 

850W EPA Bronze PSU 

This machine is still a very competent gaming machine. Flight sim 2020 will work totrally fine, granted maybe not at ultra settings.

[Morrie Sells Wigs]

On 3/8/2021 at 5:04 PM, Ksmerola1 said:

Hi all,

 

I am new to PC gaming and just looking for some general advice. I have a PC that was previously used for a golf simulator setup that I am planning on using for some gaming now and was just looking for some general thoughts on how this machine should perform and what type of resolution/frame rate I can expect with different games. I play mostly FPS and open world games. I am also hoping this machine can handle flight simulator 2020 with some decent frame rates and resolution. Any tips on how I can expect this machine to perform and if there are any components I should be looking at upgrading for a better gaming experience? Thanks!

 

Specs:

Alienware Aurora R7

i7 8700K

GTX 1080 Ti

32gb DDR4 2666MHz

256gb M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD

2TB SATA 

850W EPA Bronze PSU 

As curious says, it's still capable.

 

32 gb is a lot of RAM, so you are well covered there.

Your CPU and GPU will let you run most games at playable frame rates with nice settings. 

You have a very good PSU in terms of power should you want to upgrade your graphics card.

 

Storage is also decent, with 2tb being enough for 35-40 medium size titles.

 

You should be set for the short-medium term.

[Bombastinator]

A modern equivelant would be a 3300x and a 5700xt

[SteveGrabowski0]

Should be a really nice 1440p gaming machine. Only thing that could use an upgrade is the SSD since 256GB isn't much.

[LogicalDrm]

You should get bigger SSD. Games will be easier to load when run from SSD. And the bigger ones are rather cheap overall, plus getting even SATA SSD will be faster than loading from HDD.

[Ksmerola1]

On 3/9/2021 at 2:35 AM, LogicalDrm said:

You should get bigger SSD. Games will be easier to load when run from SSD. And the bigger ones are rather cheap overall, plus getting even SATA SSD will be faster than loading from HDD.

Thanks for the suggestion! Any tips on which SSD to get? Sorry, like I said I’m brand new to this and I appreciate the input

[gloop]

2 hours ago, Onfayno said:

Hi guys, I want to buy an affordable gaming PC, what is the best option? 

Create your own thread in the New Builds and Planning sub forum and you will get a lot more answers. 

[Soag]

I have a very similar build (you can check my profile for details).

Generally less but faster low latency RAM, 9700k instead of 8700k (pretty much the same performance, yours has more threads) and bigger SSD (1TB).

With it you can play pretty much anything, except newest titles, in 1440p on ultra, so I believe you're set to go unless you want to have multiple titles installed at the same time then maybe, as others suggest, you could buy additional SSD space. Currently I have 15 titles with the biggest one taking almost 60 gigs (CP2077), so you could have at least 3 like those simultaneously (remember it's best to have OS on SSD as well).