The Ultimate CSGO RIG

[Mikjul]

CSGO, not demanding at all.

Keeping it up above 120FPS? different story, even my Skylake rig drops below the 200FPS mark at times (post recent patch), and in game the difference can be felt, not nearly as bad as dropping below 100 frames, but it is there.

 

This computer does not have to be expensive at all, in fact this is based on cost effectiveness.

 

I will use PCPartPicker USA as UK people are a smaller audience here, of course you can simply switch to UK in the actual build on PCPartPicker.

 

Unfortunately a dual core is really becoming hard to recommend, so going Pentium is a BIG no no. and AMD does not provide the special sauce to keep a GPU hopping out 200FPS... even my old i5 760 could not do that with the R9 390.

 

Skylake will not be recommended here as it does rely on a decent board to OC your chip, VRM's have gone back to the motherboard, and MSI have some real strange choice designs with their lower end boards on Z170...

 

Quiet and highly usable.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($229.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U12S 55.0 CFM CPU Cooler  ($67.48 @ Amazon) 

Motherboard: ASRock Z97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($84.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($42.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($89.49 @ OutletPC) 

Video Card: PowerColor Radeon R9 380 4GB PCS+ Video Card  ($188.98 @ Newegg) 

Case: NZXT Source 210 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($35.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Power Supply: Antec Green 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($44.98 @ Newegg) 

Monitor: Nixeus NX-VUE24A 144Hz 24.0" Monitor  ($299.99 @ Amazon) 

Keyboard: Logitech G710 Plus Wired Gaming Keyboard  ($89.99 @ Newegg) 

Mouse: Logitech G303 Daedalus Apex Wired Optical Mouse  ($39.99 @ Amazon) 

Total: $1214.86

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-23 11:46 EDT-0400

 

 

 

 

 

 

An AMD version, but expect to pay more for other parts due to the CPU needing to be OC'd quite massively.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor  ($139.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U12S 55.0 CFM CPU Cooler  ($67.48 @ Amazon) 

Motherboard: ASRock 990FX Extreme9 ATX AM3+ Motherboard  ($159.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($42.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($89.49 @ OutletPC) 

Video Card: PowerColor Radeon R9 380 4GB PCS+ Video Card  ($188.98 @ Newegg) 

Case: NZXT Source 210 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($35.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA GS 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($69.99 @ NCIX US) 

Monitor: Nixeus NX-VUE24A 144Hz 24.0" Monitor  ($299.99 @ Amazon) 

Keyboard: Logitech G710 Plus Wired Gaming Keyboard  ($89.99 @ Newegg) 

Mouse: Logitech G303 Daedalus Apex Wired Optical Mouse  ($39.99 @ Amazon) 

Total: $1224.87

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-23 11:48 EDT-0400

 

 

 

 

 

 

Do you like?

[Epiceleon]

personally for csgo i would have a four way sli titan-x

[PlayStation 2]

52/52

[exercutor5]

Nice.

[IP man]

Not trying to be mean, but are u srs lol csgo works on a 100 year old machine, just turn down the graphics

[Ihaveswag]

for CS:GO I'd justg et an i5 4460 and gtx 960

[Guest]

Why did you even bother posting an AMD version?

[Epiceleon]

for CS:GO I'd justg et an i5 4460 and gtx 960

380 is better for the same price tho

[Mikjul]

Why did you even bother posting an AMD version?

People like choice.

[manikyath]

well.. i wouldnt recommend an AMD cpu, because source engine is still a two-thread potato.

[CatzRuleZWorld]

If it's only for csgo the g3258 would be perfect actually. Only if streaming would you need a quad core

[pcnoob99]

for CS:GO I'd justg et an i5 4460 and gtx 960

hmmm... i think you mean 380...

[Mikjul]

If it's only for csgo the g3258 would be perfect actually. Only if streaming would you need a quad core

Yeah but not everyone plays CSGO only, i tried to keep it usable for other things too, straight CSGO? no problem with a Pentium anni edition.

[Guest]

I got a dual core amd processor and an old gpu and i can pump out a solid 100 fps with a few dips into the 90s

[manikyath]

so... kinda coincidential, a friend of mine with an i5 and GTX960 just tried cs:go for the first time.

 

i cant say how accurate these readings are.. but he's playing 4:3 stretched, dunno about settings.

 

in game i started off with 200 fps mani

[MblaZe7run]

I hate seeing when people post anything 144Hz. Unless you overclocked your monitor, you're not helping yourself any. Your monitor is 60Hz? Build a machine that RARELY dips below 60. 120Hz? Build one that RARELY dips below 120. Same for 144Hz. Just because I can pull 400fps in Minecraft, doesn't mean I'm seeing all 400 frames. With my monitors, I'm missing abut 340 of those frames. It's wasted performance.

 

-mini-rant over-

[Mikjul]

I hate seeing when people post anything 144Hz. Unless you overclocked your monitor, you're not helping yourself any. Your monitor is 60Hz? Build a machine that RARELY dips below 60. 120Hz? Build one that RARELY dips below 120. Same for 144Hz. Just because I can pull 400fps in Minecraft, doesn't mean I'm seeing all 400 frames. With my monitors, I'm missing abut 340 of those frames. It's wasted performance.

 

-mini-rant over-

The Source engine behaves very differently at different framerates, the engine is very sluggish below 100 FPS, whereas above that it becomes smoother and smoother, even on a 60hz panel you will notice this.

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/33vo8j/why_does_60fps_in_csgo_seem_so_shitty_compared_to/