Upgrading for Escape From Tarkov

[unfunny_comedian]

Looking to upgrade my PC for Escape From Tarkov, hopefully enough to be able to play at medium/high 1440p but at the least play at 60FPS 1080p.

 

Ryzen 5 1600X                                                  £191.94

Asus Prime B350-Plus                                        £73.91

8GB (2x4GB) 2133MHz Kingston HyperX Fury   £73.50

PNY GTX 1060 6GB                                        already own

Cooler Master MasterAir Maker 8                      £62.99

 

Looking to also overclock the 1600X. If you believe it could run at 1440p do you know of any decent monitors?

[johnukguy]

The build looks solid, though maybe a different case but that is often a purely personal preference thing. What I would suggest for a good 1440p monitor is one of the Korean panels that you can get on Ebay for around $200 US, with free, fast shipping. Qnix and Crossover are popular models. Some can be overclocked to around 110Hz/120Hz, have Freesync, have much better colour and graphics quality generally than TN panels, and are often perfectly fine for gaming. Dreamseller on Ebay is one of the better known and trusted sellers. You can get so called 'pixel perfect' models for a little more and it's sometimes worth it for piece of mind, but I've done fine with a non pixel perfect monitor (though the pixel perfect one I bought was indeed pixel perfect).

[HKZeroFive]

The poor CPU will be starved of memory bandwidth. Faster RAM is a must in this case...

 

I'd argue that that from a pure gaming performance standpoint, the i5-8400 with 2666MHz memory is a better choice. For £400, you can have an i5-8400 with 16GB of memory. Use the stock cooler.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel - Core i5-8400 2.8GHz 6-Core Processor  (£173.99 @ BT Shop) 
Motherboard: MSI - Z370-A PRO ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£96.44 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Kingston - FURY 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory  (£139.99 @ Box Limited) 
Total: £410.42
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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