CrazyHeaven
Chieftain
- Joined
- Aug 26, 2006
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- 51
Your not going to get much of a different between 1k and 4k if your only concerned with gaming and not focused only on FPS to raise your epeen.
I'd recommend going with an Intel desktop with a good dedicated graphic card. Something in the 700's series, amd cards are getting better too so either way you will be golden.
A good example of GPU prices and performance so you get the idea of what extra money gets you:
Titan: 1,000 +, best card to date
760: 250, bottom graphics card of this generation for nvidia.
To the end user not watching the FPS with a monitor that doesn't have a ridiculously high res the difference between the two cards isn't much despite the different in the price. The same could be said for the processor, unless we are talking the 8 core intel non gaming related workhouse machine.
The best thing for you to do is shop around and when you see something you like post it on here and see others think. If it has a dedicated graphic card and a decent processor it will not have any trouble with civ. We just want to make sure that the computer you do choose will be able to run civ 6 without any problems. This could all be done for under 1,000.
Oh, and the only thing I'd recommend that could make prebuilt computers a little hard is a SSD for your OS/games. They have really came down in price and it makes a huge difference in loading times. Only bad thing about is that doesn't normally come with the already put together systems. You could get it custom built but that would up the cost since you are paying the builder. It is like buying a house or having a house built. In most cases it will cost more to have a house built the way you want it rather than following the builders original plan. If you plan to use it for 4 years it might be worth it to look at the custom build option. Go to at least 3 different places and get quotes on what you want and see how much it will cost them to build it with warranty and everything else you might need and want before deciding who your going to use.
I'd recommend going with an Intel desktop with a good dedicated graphic card. Something in the 700's series, amd cards are getting better too so either way you will be golden.
A good example of GPU prices and performance so you get the idea of what extra money gets you:
Titan: 1,000 +, best card to date
760: 250, bottom graphics card of this generation for nvidia.
To the end user not watching the FPS with a monitor that doesn't have a ridiculously high res the difference between the two cards isn't much despite the different in the price. The same could be said for the processor, unless we are talking the 8 core intel non gaming related workhouse machine.
The best thing for you to do is shop around and when you see something you like post it on here and see others think. If it has a dedicated graphic card and a decent processor it will not have any trouble with civ. We just want to make sure that the computer you do choose will be able to run civ 6 without any problems. This could all be done for under 1,000.
Oh, and the only thing I'd recommend that could make prebuilt computers a little hard is a SSD for your OS/games. They have really came down in price and it makes a huge difference in loading times. Only bad thing about is that doesn't normally come with the already put together systems. You could get it custom built but that would up the cost since you are paying the builder. It is like buying a house or having a house built. In most cases it will cost more to have a house built the way you want it rather than following the builders original plan. If you plan to use it for 4 years it might be worth it to look at the custom build option. Go to at least 3 different places and get quotes on what you want and see how much it will cost them to build it with warranty and everything else you might need and want before deciding who your going to use.
