New pc between £700 to £1.000 for VR SIM racing
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He's building for VR, which apparently very much favours Nvidia.
I've already suggested a 6800 that can be had for £369 earlier on the thread, if not for the VR it would have fit perfectly into his budget.
Since the OP has specifically mentioned the quest 3, does that help clarify if it works well? The 6800 is a way better card than a 3060 if it works.
I don’t think it would be for two reasons. For the same money you can by cards in the next performance tier to Nvidia. You don’t need silly a high end CPU to reach the quoted performance.
The 3060 and 4060 would have to be sub £200 and £250 to start making sense.
Yeah, at £370 the 6800 is the obvious choice.
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I'd need to do some Google fu but I'm on my phone while between sets at the moment. I don't imagine it's an uncommon combination, there's bound to be someone out there using it.
I suppose the op could at worst try it out and return the card if it's an issue.
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people lamenting getting amd for vr
More recent thread with some mixed opinions:
Renzdeg a couple of posts in offers some useful insight.
It actually seems viable as long as you follow the advice given, certainly better than putting down for a 4060 or 3060 imo.
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Soldato
Told you dump the idea of buying new, its a waste of money with a tiny £700 budget for Sim Racing, get a used AM4 system with a not terrible PSU, the upgrade the GPU (maybe CPU too) using the remaining on hand funds.
just a shame the guy advocating the amd card is now rocking a 4090 after getting rid of his 6950xt
If it were me I'd save more money for a couple of more months tbh, a new £700 machine would be a struggle for a regular gaming rig at 1080P.
£1100-1200 or so would net an AM5 setup with a 4070S/7900GRE, which is about the minimum I'd personally want for VR.
Hell, it's the minimum I'd want for 1440P on a monitor if building new.
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4090 would have been the only card worth considering beyond a 6950XT.
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Soldato
There is such good deals used, especially with AM4 staying viable due to X3D parts, so if you want to stick to a budget you can. Sometimes it is worth setting a hard limit, but then working hard to get the best from that budget. Usually people want it both ways, cheap as possible with the best performance and no effort.
I just did an upgrade for someone from an R5 1600 to 5700X3D (£190 used like new), and dropped in a RTX 4070 that was 'faulty' (a bad fan) for £330, they were going to spend £1399 on a 15% APR credit deal to get a new machine, instead with the £20 from the R5 1600 and the £70 from the GTX 1060, they've only spent £430 and have a system that is 95% as good.
I upgraded my old AM4 setup a little while back with a 5800X3D I got a good deal on myself, night and day difference over my prior 3700X in a lot of what I play.
Also on a 4070, which again I got a decent deal on. I don't personally mind buying second hand, but some people are iffy with it which I suppose is understandable.
I'm happy to drop the monitor and get it in the future if I can get a whole pc for £1.000.
I just can make my mind up with so many options
Could be contemplating the 4070 super if I could get EVERYTHING squished to £1k.
I know it's really hard to buy good and cheap, but worth trying and in the future I could always keep upgrading expending less at once if that makes sense?
I just can make my mind up with so many options
Could be contemplating the 4070 super if I could get EVERYTHING squished to £1k.
I know it's really hard to buy good and cheap, but worth trying and in the future I could always keep upgrading expending less at once if that makes sense?
I'm more than happy buying second hand, I just don't know where to look really apart of FB and here now
My basket at OcUK:
A £1000 rig + 4070S is doable new, but the quality of the build is going to suffer in certain respects.
The rig wont run particularly hot so the case will be alright, but it's not the best case in the world, there's some other stuff that could be better. Other people might be able to better recommend where to get good second hand deals, I tend to stick to member markets on forums like this one but you need 1000 + posts in the case of OCUK to access it.
- 1 x be quiet! SYSTEM POWER 10 650W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply (SKU: CA-14V-BQ) = £64.99
- 1 x Gigabyte B550M DS3H (AMD AM4) B550 Micro-ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-5BR-GI) = £94.99
- 1 x WD Blue SN580 1TB SSD NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-WDC-00540) = £65.00
- 1 x Team Group Vulcan Z T-Force 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (SKU: MY-0AJ-TG) = £59.98
- 1 x Zotac GeForce RTX 4070 Super Twin Edge 12Gb Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-ZTC-01499) = £548.99
- 1 x Kolink Inspire Series K6 ARGB Micro-ATX Case - Black (SKU: CA-047-KK) = £29.99
- 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Six Core 4.4GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-3D2-AM) = £124.99
Total: £1,000.92 (includes delivery: £11.98)
A £1000 rig + 4070S is doable new, but the quality of the build is going to suffer in certain respects.
The rig wont run particularly hot so the case will be alright, but it's not the best case in the world, there's some other stuff that could be better. Other people might be able to better recommend where to get good second hand deals, I tend to stick to member markets on forums like this one but you need 1000 + posts in the case of OCUK to access it.
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That's pretty good on the "budget"! Thank you!
As long as I can have enough room to upgrade it in the future I'm quite happy to be fair.
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It will work, but a 5600 non X isn’t great for pushing an Nvidia card so the price to performance is even worse than the OTT price for what is almost an end of life card, that will be easily outperformed by much lower end parts relatively soon.
The case has limited air flow. Ideally you want something with a mesh front.
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Best bottom of the barrel almost £750 system, with a GPU that needs more oomph.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D 3 GHz 8-Core Processor
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Assassin Spirit V2 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler
Motherboard: Gigabyte A520M K V2 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard
Memory: Crucial Pro 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL22 Memory
Storage: ADATA Legend 710 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
Video Card: MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ventus 2X 12G GeForce RTX 3060 12GB 12 GB Video Card
Case: KOLINK Inspire K7 ARGB ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply: Corsair CV650 650 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply
Total: ~£750
PoS case, average at best PSU but not dire, boggo standard board with zero features.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D 3 GHz 8-Core Processor
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Assassin Spirit V2 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler
Motherboard: Gigabyte A520M K V2 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard
Memory: Crucial Pro 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL22 Memory
Storage: ADATA Legend 710 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
Video Card: MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ventus 2X 12G GeForce RTX 3060 12GB 12 GB Video Card
Case: KOLINK Inspire K7 ARGB ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply: Corsair CV650 650 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply
Total: ~£750
PoS case, average at best PSU but not dire, boggo standard board with zero features.