Gadgetory

so for the longest time 1080p has been the standard for almost all PC and console gamers if you can't play a game at 1080p it really isn't worth playing at all I mean am i right but that's in the past more people want to be able to play their games at something like 1440p or even 4k if you have a beefy enough gaming PC you can play games at super high resolutions and on even with like multiple monitors so if you have two or three monitors and you can play in 1440p ultra ultra wide you know more power to you but it requires a lot of power a lot of computing power a very powerful graphics processor so what can you get for 820 H dollars well I say you can get a very powerful 1440p gaming rig that can play almost any game you throw it at at least 60 FPS don't believe me let me show you my rig so yes I've been listening to a lot of the comments and many people who watch our videos in particular don't live in either the United States or Canada so I found that a lot of PC parts tend to be more expensive especially the newer PC parts particularly the new Intel skylake lineup skylake processors and countries like Germany and England tend to be these 60 to 80 dollars more than they are in the States so you know that kind of sucks so what I decided to do was build a has low base rig of which most processors are generally more affordable than the skylake counterparts except for maybe in the US where you can get an i-5 6400 for about the same price as an i5 4460 but in other cases around the world that might not be true so what I did was purchase an i5 4460 you know standard 3.2 gigahertz with a 3.4 gigahertz turbo boost quad core processor with 6 megabytes of l3 cache and paired it with an AMD r9 380 4 gigabyte sapphire graphics card in addition I've thrown in 2 4 gigabyte sticks of kingston hyperx ddr3 clocked at 1866 megahertz i've thrown in a cooler master hyper 212 evo just you know for the heck of it and because I hate the stock Intel cooler and to kind of wrap things up I purchased an asrock extreme 4lj 1150 motherboard you know just for overkill sake so you could purchase a cheaper motherboard than this and certainly bring down the price but if you ever feel the need to upgrade to say a 4690k or 4790k that certainly is available to you and you will be able to overclock obviously because it's z97 motherboard and I also like the nice little dr. debug edition down at the bottom that's pretty cool I mean when I first booted at the computer I was getting an error code and it was nice to have dr. debug there to tell me what was wrong it was actually my Wi-Fi PCI Express card I pulled that thing out and then rebooted it and then ended up booting just fine so it was nice to have that little I guess notifier there if I didn't have dr. debug I don't know what I would have done just started pulling stuff out until something worked so anyway I put together a series of for gaming benchmarks to help you decide if you think that purchasing it has well I 5 and an r9 380 for gigabyte graphics card is a sweet little combo for you if you're interested in gaming at 1440p or an ultra wide 1080p format either those are you know fairly similar it's going to take more processing power to run full 1440p but if you're interested in gaming ultra wide 1080p at 2560 by 1080 that's also an option as well also if you're looking for a more up-to-date newer PC you could you know replace this core i5 4460 and a z97 motherboard with maybe an i5 6500 or equivalent and you know maybe like an h1 70 or Z 171 board even a B 150 will do just fine if you're not looking to upgrade in the future or overclock and any point thanks Intel for locking that base clock method appreciate it so if you're a dying like fan look for around 79 to 80 ish fps at 1080p on average and almost right at 60 FPS at 1440p keep in mind that we've maxed everything out and only turned off that annoying blur effect I think it's annoying you may not have been I would turn that off and also MSAA just because that completely murders almost any graphics card on the market now if you're not a zombie fan maybe your dirt rally fan maybe you like to race cars on your gaming PC so we threw this one in there and we achieved about 78 FPS so about the same as dying light and then in 1440p we reach 64 to 65 FPS on average our maxes and minimums were also fairly consistent now just for giggles I'm sure this won't apply to all of you but I think most of you are at least somewhat curious as to how well this game plays minecraft so of course we could max everything out in Minecraft and we did that we played it at 1080p and at 1440p and whoo so our average frame rate was about 316 and 1440p it only jumped up about 40 fps and 1080p but that's besides the point this game is pretty much playable at anything including 4k so we also achieved a max FPS of 524 in 1080p and for 98 1440p that's not too bad so if you recall from one of our previous core i5 skylake gaming pcs we were able to achieve an average FPS of about a hundred in this case we did lose about 15 FPS on the average but you know that could be because of a number of factors including but not limited to our faster ddr4 ram and just the newer 14 nanometer skylake architecture first the 22 nanometer Haswell architecture so there's not much you can do there but I would say that 83 fps at 1080p is still very very playable especially if you only have a 60 Hertz monitor in which case you'll only see 60 frames per second regardless now if you're looking to play something like GTA 5 and 1440p you will definitely notice an FPS cut from 1080p but I would say that 58 59 FPS is still pretty darn good for an r9 380 and and will pretty much the cheapest i5 you can buy from Intel at this point 59 FPS is very good for the average I would like to note however if you take a look at the minimums the minimum in 1080p was 69 FPS whereas the minimum in 1440p dropped all the way down to 31 so now what this basically says is that 1440p is just much more taxing on both the GPU and the CPU at this high of a resolution there are just so many more pixels to have to render per second it's just more taxing so you will see sharper frame dips when you approach 4 K and a rig like this I would recommend playing anything in 4k with this rig but if you want to I guess you can play minecraft before K or something like that but if you're wanting to play something very CPU intensive like Grand Theft Auto 5 at 4k I recommend a very powerful i5 perhaps even an overclocked i5 or just an i7 and pair that with at least an RN 380 but I would I would recommend an r9 390 or something like a GTX 970 on an Phidias side keep in mind though you don't have to purchase an expensive motherboard like I did you don't need a z97 motherboard to run an i5 4460 I mean kind of is crazy in a way I just like having that option if I ever needed to replace that CPU with one that is overclockable and until kcp you but most people aren't looking forward to doing that they just purchase the PC and that's what they're assuming they're going to be stuck with for a while so you can definitely replace the z97 with something like an H 81 for 50 60 bucks and put that money towards a better graphics card and who knows maybe even achieve higher frame rates and I was able to in this $800 rig for a similar $800 rig other factors that work into that $100 price tag include the corsair car by 400 C which was $100 computer case you could certainly cut that in half at least to about 50 bucks if you want a cheaper computer case and like I said you can save money on a cheaper motherboard as well you want to have as many features as z97 xtreme will but you're gonna have a motherboard and you're gonna have you know a processor and a really really good graphics card if you plan on reallocating that money somewhere else to achieve higher frames per second and if that's all that matters to you by all means crush this PC in games so share the knowledge put those PC 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