Budget Build 4K

[silentstorm161]

So I am looking at slowly building a 4K PC and would like to start with the CPU, RAM and Motherboard. Could anyone recommend a good combo?

[dany_boy]

3 minutes ago, silentstorm161 said:

So I am looking at slowly building a 4K PC and would like to start with the CPU, RAM and Motherboard. Could anyone recommend a good combo?

Budget?

[Mira Yurizaki]

And expectations?

 

If you're looking at 30 FPS 4K on maximum quality settings, "budget" does not fit in the same sentence unless you're used to buying $5000 builds.

[silentstorm161]

Sorry yeah, around £200 (CPU, RAM and Motherboard). It can have low RAM for now till i have enough to upgrade.

[BleakMaker]

wait for ryzen and keep saving yourr money.

[3 Lions]

1 minute ago, silentstorm161 said:

Sorry yeah, around £200 (CPU, RAM and Motherboard). It can have low RAM for now till i have enough to upgrade.

There's no way you will be able to get a rig that can handle 4K with that budget. 

[silentstorm161]

1 minute ago, LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo said:

There's no way you will be able to get a rig that can handle 4K with that budget. 

Okay well a CPU which can handle high settings. I am a student so do not have large amounts of monies.

[dany_boy]

1 minute ago, silentstorm161 said:

Okay well a CPU which can handle high settings. I am a student so do not have large amounts of monies.

Save your money and come again with at least double or even triple what you want to spend

[3 Lions]

2 minutes ago, silentstorm161 said:

Okay well a CPU which can handle high settings. I am a student so do not have large amounts of monies.

It's not only the CPU, you have to have a good GPU as well.

[dany_boy]

Not to mention that the graphics card to run 4k at high settings with smooth frame rates is gonna have to be a 1080

[silentstorm161]

Yeah i know i would need a GPU which could handle it but thought i could build slowly. I don't mind it running lower for the time being. I will just save the money for now then.

[Streetguru]

14 minutes ago, silentstorm161 said:

slowly building

Not worth doing, better to save and buy almost everything at once

 

for that budget just wait for AM4 to come out in a few weeks, and see how the APU's perform, DDR4 should help their performance a fair amount, and here's last gen APU benchmarks
 

A8 7650K | CS:GO/Dota 2/SC2 benchmarks Tested With 1866Mhz RAM
http://www.technologyx.com/featured/amd-a8-7650k-apu-review-the-little-apu-that-could/4/

A8 7650K | Various AAA titles Tested with 2133Mhz RAM
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9217/the-amd-a8-7650k-apu-review-also-new-testing-methodology/7

[Light-Yagami]

If you plan to wait for ryzen (which you should, just to see if it's really the beast everybody says it is) then you'll have to choose a pretty high tear to handle which every GPU you find capable of running 4k. I know for sure my 1070 isn't one of them. Even 1440p is a true struggle for her from times to times. A single 1080 will maybe be able to run some games at high settings and push over that 60fps mark. But don't expect to run 4k with "budget build". Also, is that a 1000$ budget or a 3000$ budget?

 

Ram: go for anything that has higher frequency than 2666mhz and sth like 16gb in capacity.

[dany_boy]

2 minutes ago, silentstorm161 said:

I don't mind it running lower

On what would you run it? Because driving almost 9 million pixels is no easy task

[ZackBarletto]

I would/ am currently waiting for Ryzen. I'm doing exactly what you are doing. Getting 4k capability at the lowest price I can *but with full quality to not waste the 4k fidelity with medium settings*

 

I think its one of AMD's new sayings "bringing affordable 4k gaming to everyone". These Vega cards have me excited, and the new processor lineup will get you 16 threads cheaper than ever before. even if u just need 8 threads, still pretty damn cheap compared to what were used to.

 

I think Ryzen will save us a lot of money. Even if its not drastic savings, the littlest bit saved can pay for your case, some ram, maybe a psu. That says a lot when these smaller items add up in the end....