This is based off the “Great tier” AMD build, but I’m waffling a bit on the price. I don’t really know a whole lot about PC specs, but I read this is supposed to be a good long-lasting build based on the DDR5 and something newer in the CPU or Video card. That being said, I’ve only really ever build mid-tier and while I do want something nice, I’m just not sure it’s necessary for me? I tend to stick to Indie titles and the most demanding game I’ve played lately was BG3 (which my current PC has to be on med-low settings to run).

Also, if anyone has a good 22" monitor recommendations I’ll take them.

PCPartPicker Part List

Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 5 7600 3.8 GHz 6-Core Processor $218.98 @ Amazon
CPU Cooler Thermalright Peerless Assassin 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler $37.90 @ Amazon
Motherboard *Gigabyte B650M K Micro ATX AM5 Motherboard $119.99 @ Amazon
Memory *TEAMGROUP Elite 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR5-4800 CL40 Memory $37.99 @ Amazon
Storage Intel 670p 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive $79.99 @ B&H
Video Card *PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB Video Card $319.99 @ Amazon
Case Lian Li LANCOOL 216 ATX Mid Tower Case $104.99 @ Adorama
Power Supply *Thermaltake Toughpower GX2 600 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply $66.98 @ Amazon
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total $986.81
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-10-06 20:02 EDT-0400
  • PrivateNoob
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    1 year ago

    Looks cool to me, if you’re not planning to upgrade to more power hungry components. Actually I bought a new PC too in early summer partly for C:S 2 too, and your specs are pretty similar, although you should consider some things.

    1.: Assuming that you will utilize a lot of mods and custom assets, a 32 GB RAM should be needed

    2.: Since C:S 2 is finally multithreaded, you could also check out Intel (if you don’t care about consumption), since theoretically it offers better multithreaded performance.

    (Gonna post my build in the morning)

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      1 year ago

      Is Intel still on top? I thought AMD had swept away multi core since Zen 2 and recently has beat equivalent Intel CPUs in single-core as well?

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        1 year ago

        It’s all just a giant pissing contest at this point. Both are good. I prefer AMD, but Intel builds are cool too.

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        1 year ago

        Not really tbh, but Intel has adopted the little.BIG architecture which means those CPUs are have high and low performance cores, just like in the ARM/mobile CPUs. Currently these low perf cores aren’t detected correctly in Windows, and as a result it actually worsens gaming performance, but I assume this will be corrected? In synthetic/theory 13600K is better at multithreaded (https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/5172vs5008/AMD-Ryzen-5-7600-vs-Intel-i5-13600K).

        This is my build: