I have a predicament

[MrBigBrainThe2nd]

Budget (including currency): 890-1000 cad

Country: Canada 

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: photoshop, esports games on lowest settings, general gaming, game design

Other details what I’m looking at is an amd ryzen 5 3600, and I already have a graphics card (2 vgb) with 16gb of ram (or 8 if it’s just too much)

 

everything else is up to you

 

but my predicament is this: should I wait for ps5’s to be in stock, which I would probably use a bit more and is what I originally wanted and am able to play all the games. Or get the pc now so I don’t have to wait and I can do more than gaming.

 

[Fasauceome]

1 minute ago, MrBigBrainThe2nd said:

but my predicament is this: should I wait for ps5’s to be in stock, which I would probably use a bit more and is what I originally wanted and am able to play all the games. Or get the pc now so I don’t have to wait and I can do more than gaming.

Demon's souls looks pretty awesome ngl

 

But you say you have a graphics card with 2GB of memory, what card is it? Doubt it's going to compete with a PS5

[Bombastinator]

46 minutes ago, MrBigBrainThe2nd said:

Budget (including currency): 890-1000 cad

Country: Canada 

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: photoshop, esports games on lowest settings, general gaming, game design

Other details what I’m looking at is an amd ryzen 5 3600, and I already have a graphics card (2 vgb) with 16gb of ram (or 8 if it’s just too much)

 

everything else is up to you

 

but my predicament is this: should I wait for ps5’s to be in stock, which I would probably use a bit more and is what I originally wanted and am able to play all the games. Or get the pc now so I don’t have to wait and I can do more than gaming.

 

How bad do you need to do those “more” things and how bad are you off for those atm?

[MrBigBrainThe2nd]

On 3/13/2021 at 9:54 PM, Fasauceome said:

Demon's souls looks pretty awesome ngl

 

But you say you have a graphics card with 2GB of memory, what card is it? Doubt it's going to compete with a PS5

An amd rx 560

[MrBigBrainThe2nd]

On 3/13/2021 at 10:39 PM, Bombastinator said:

How bad do you need to do those “more” things and how bad are you off for those atm?

Not badly, gaming is number one priority 

[Fasauceome]

9 minutes ago, MrBigBrainThe2nd said:

An amd rx 560

In terms of the gaming quality the RX 560 is pretty far behind the PS5 so if the quality of the gaming experience matters it's not really a valid comparison

[Bombastinator]

Gaming sadly is all about the gpu and GPUs are insane right now.  The 560 is a 1080p card tops. Won’t even run some of what these days are fairly basic games. One could build a high cpu system without the gpu or monitor and hope the gpu situation improves. There’s also an argument for splitting the difference by building a lower end system and holding some of the money for a gpu/monitor improvement in the future. 10400f is beating the 3600x price wise atm in some situations.  Would depend on what situation you are in.