Sample: £1,200 build for 1440p high refresh — what would you change?
Sample content. Working out a 1440p build with a target of 100fps or better in the shooters I actually play, and I am willing to drop settings to get there. The parts list is roughly a current mid-range GPU, a six or eight core CPU, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB NVMe drive. The question I keep going round in circles on is whether the extra spend on the GPU is better placed than on the CPU given I am not playing anything simulation-heavy. Monitor is already sorted so that is not in the budget.
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Sample reply. At 1440p the GPU is doing almost all of the work, so the extra money goes there unless you are playing something CPU-bound like a large strategy game or a heavily modded sim. Six fast cores is fine for shooters. The one thing I would not cut is the NVMe drive — going back to SATA is the upgrade you notice every single day rather than in a benchmark.
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