ColonelPara
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My 17 year old son has been playing games like SMITE, Battlefield 5, Modern Warfare, COD WW2 on a PS4. He's a really good player. But he wants to migrate to PC gaming (much to my disappointment because I love the PS4 - too old and slow for PC 😌) Point being I don't want to buy something that he's going to be excited to get and then be disappointed when he plays the fps games he's good at playing because the performance isn't what he needs to excel. But my budget is limited to about R10k. Not a lot, I know.
The best and most flexible config that fits my budget and has been recommended to me by a couple of vendors is an AMD B450 (because it can OC), a Ryzen 5 3400 (which has a Radeon Vega 11 iGPU), 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD. This way I don't have to fork out a lot of money to get the GPU. But I have three big concerns that I hope somebody can give me advice on:
Maybe there's a different config that I or the vendor haven't thought of.
Is there some advice for me?
The best and most flexible config that fits my budget and has been recommended to me by a couple of vendors is an AMD B450 (because it can OC), a Ryzen 5 3400 (which has a Radeon Vega 11 iGPU), 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD. This way I don't have to fork out a lot of money to get the GPU. But I have three big concerns that I hope somebody can give me advice on:
- Will the AMD CPU and iGPU have the capacity to play the Triple-A FPS's without being the potato? Will he be able to play the game without getting frustrated two weeks into having the PC. Then I regret it and have invested in something that he won't use.
- If the iGPU isn't coping, will something like the Radeon RX580 (which seems to be a lot of for sale on this forum) be a good addition to improve the graphics.
- And is the recommended config sufficient to expand as we can afford without big major costs of replacing the base config (because the PC gaming world seems to be a bottomless bucket)
Maybe there's a different config that I or the vendor haven't thought of.
Is there some advice for me?