Vanquish 7 level 2

Hi RRed....Welcome to the forums. 

The Vanquish level 2 will fit your budget and give you the gaming you want, assuming you game on a single monitor at 1080p and the other is for browsing and other lite duty tasks.    The gtx 1060 is  a very good graphics card for 1080p gaming. 

8GB is still all you need for the vast majority of gaming.   I still have 8gb from 6 years ago and see no need to up it.

Good luck and stay in touch. 


Edited by bprat22 - 22 Sep 2017 at 10:02am

@bprat22 , Yup only gaming on 1 of the monitors , the other might have a twitch stream , netflix or youtube up some of the time. Comforting to know that 8gb is enough too because the level 2 vanquish seems like a great fit for the price and my needs. Thanks for the response

ram is fairly/relatively cheap, so you might as well get 16GB.  i kinda disagree that 8GB is enough these days.  it is actually the minimum recommended.  it also depends on the types of games you play and how well optimized they are.  it's also easier to avoid memory issues with a paired set then to add later.  i once had the same sku, although different batch of DDR3 1600 memory not work well together when i added another 8GB later.  

The Vanquish level 2 doesn’t give him the option for 16gb.   

I hear ya.   

Don't get caught up in the models and names.

Low/mid end 1080p = 1060gtx
Highend 1080p/mid 1440p = 1070gtx
Highend 1440p/mid 4k = 1080gtx

I like a little more power so I down played tge gpu power a little but stick with that ball park

how about this




Edited by DST4ME - 22 Sep 2017 at 3:39pm

for $28 more you can get the 1300X much faster and unlocked so you can oc it as well.  i guess they're all unlocked but this proc is a cherry picked 1200.


Edited by db188 - 22 Sep 2017 at 4:18pm

Thanks so much again , Digital Storm most def has my money. I just gotta make my mind up on exactly which one of these I'm gonna get.

Right on , appreciate ya lookin out.

DST.. your build doesn’t have an HDD and has the crappy and noisy factory cooler.   That SSD is gonna fill real fast.   

No lol,I left the hhd off, when you need the space (in 6 months) you can add a better / possibly better price hdd. Adding a hdd literally takes less then 2 minutes, its pretty much plug and play.

Like I said your decision comes down to if you want to spend the difference for the 7700.

Both pc will be good to go for the next 4 years atleast.

Originally posted by RRed Right now I'm leaning towards the level 3 , the 7700 might be more power then I need but is it dumb of me to worry about future proofing a processor? I'm not sure where it fits into the big picture of pc gaming. I want this pc to still be decent in a few years. Also the hdd like bprat pointed out is a concern. I need a more space for sure.

the Ryzen 3 line was created to compete against Intel's I3-7350K 2-core/4-threads.  that Intel proc is basically the budget proc to build with for desktop workloads such as gaming.  however, the Ryzen 3 have 4 physical cores, so they offer more in terms of being able to do video encoding and software development.  they do sacrifice an integrated graphics option that the I3 includes, so you need a discrete graphics card with Ryzen 3.  the Ryzen 3 procs also come in under the price of the Intel I3.  as far as gaming performance is concerned, games that are optimized for multi core will do better on Ryzen 3 than on the Intel 2-core. 

a more direct comparison might be the I5-7500 vs the 1300X.  the Intel proc is $80 more w/integrated graphics.  similar clock speeds except the 1300X turbos higher, and cores/threads.  this just shows the difference between the architecture/performance in which Intel leads on per core performance as the Intel proc is actually a little faster in performance tests despite having a lower rated turbo clock speed.  the difference at least in perception isn't much.  if you don't value the integrated graphics than it's obvious the 1300X is a better deal as you can overclock the 1300X for even more performance/speed. 

if i were building a true budget gaming pc right now it would be with the 1300X.  a mid tier system would probably be the I5-7600K.  and a high end build would I7-7700K.  those 3 procs are situated in their respective lineups as the best price to performance offerings for their class. 

 

Congrats !!

great choices makes a great machine !!




Welcome to the next level

I am so excited for you

congrats

Excellent choice and Congrats.