EGPU or PC?

[aronmant]

Budget (including currency): €800,-

Country: Netherlands

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: GTA Online, Fivem, some other games.

Other details: I want to know what I should do; I have a laptop which is decent at most (AMD Ryzen 5 4500U, 16GB DDR4 @ 3200MHz). The thing is, my laptop has an APU, so it uses 8GB of RAM in games as VRAM, so I only have 8GB of RAM in games. I could go with an EGPU, but I'm not sure if my laptop has a Thunderbolt port. It does show a lightning symbol next to the USB-C port though. On the other hand, I can build a PC for a good price (in my opinion) and get hopefully good performance out of that.

 

This is a spec list I'm looking at right now: 

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600

GPU: ASUS Radeon RX 6700 XT DUAL-RX6700XT-12G

PSU: Cooler Master MWE Bronze 650 V2

RAM: Kingston DDR4 FURY Renegade 2x8GB 3600

Motherboard: Gigabyte B550M DS3H

 

If I go with an EGPU, I think I will go for a Razer Enclosure. Not sure what GPU to go with, but probably the Radeon RX 6700 XT DUAL-RX6700XT-12G.

[filpo]

6 minutes ago, aronmant said:

f I go with an EGPU, I think I will go for a Razer Enclosure. Not sure what GPU to go with, but probably the Radeon RX 6700 XT DUAL-RX6700XT-12G.

don't get an egpu

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 3.5 GHz 6-Core Processor  (€142.93 @ Paradigit) 
Motherboard: MSI B550 GAMING GEN3 ATX AM4 Motherboard  (€89.95 @ Amazon Netherlands) 
Memory: G.Skill Aegis 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  (€30.90 @ Amazon Netherlands) 
Storage: Crucial P3 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  (€46.85 @ Megekko) 
Video Card: PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB Video Card  (€343.85 @ Megekko) 
Case: Deepcool CC560 ATX Mid Tower Case  (€63.85 @ Megekko) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic FOCUS 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply  (€107.16 @ Azerty) 
Total: €825.49
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-09-13 12:49 CEST+0200

instead get something like the build below

 

[aronmant]

1 minute ago, filpo said:

don't get an egpu

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 3.5 GHz 6-Core Processor  (€142.93 @ Paradigit) 
Motherboard: MSI B550 GAMING GEN3 ATX AM4 Motherboard  (€89.95 @ Amazon Netherlands) 
Memory: G.Skill Aegis 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  (€30.90 @ Amazon Netherlands) 
Storage: Crucial P3 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  (€46.85 @ Megekko) 
Video Card: PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB Video Card  (€343.85 @ Megekko) 
Case: Deepcool CC560 ATX Mid Tower Case  (€63.85 @ Megekko) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic FOCUS 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply  (€107.16 @ Azerty) 
Total: €825.49
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-09-13 12:49 CEST+0200

instead get something like the build below

 

I can find a RX 6700XT for 249,95 on azerty. But thank you for the advise!

[filpo]

Just now, aronmant said:

I can find a RX 6700XT for 249,95 on azerty

then I'd go for this build 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 3.5 GHz 6-Core Processor  (€142.93 @ Paradigit) 
Motherboard: MSI B550-A PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard  (€109.00 @ Amazon Netherlands) 
Memory: G.Skill Aegis 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  (€30.90 @ Amazon Netherlands) 
Storage: Crucial P5 Plus 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  (€103.00 @ Amazon Netherlands) 
Case: Deepcool CC560 ATX Mid Tower Case  (€63.85 @ Megekko) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic FOCUS 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply  (€107.16 @ Azerty) 
Custom: 6700 XT (€250.00)
Total: €806.84
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-09-13 12:55 CEST+0200