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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- 0 net helpful votesSample Builder 01Sample account
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.
- 0 net helpful votesSample Player 03Sample account
Sample reply. Second the GPU-first advice. I would also budget for a decent PSU rather than the cheapest unit that hits the wattage, because it is the part you keep across two or three builds.
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