I havent had a gaming PC for a while now. Last I put one together was 2018. Its crazy how things have changed and I have no idea what is a good deal and what isn’t. I was hoping you guys could help me build the cheapest PC that is able to pull BF6 and COD at 4K at medium to high settings. Thanks!
Considering I get ~170fps on my 9800X3D + 5080 rig at 1440p mixed settings & BF6 beta ran above 160fps easily at 1440p ultra for me, 4K target seems high IMO.
Get at least a 9600x + 5070Ti rig for 1.5L. Optimise the settings for 4K 120fps somehow.
I’m not a fps geek. I’d be okay with 60hz too. In this case can I keep it much lower than 1L?
You are the one who mentioned CoD & BF6, both are FPS MP games primarily, so 1440p 120fps is much better than 4K 60fps for such games.
Why are you even targeting 4K gaming with 1L budget? Heck my 5080 can’t run some heavy SP games at 4K high 70fps, so I have to use DLSS quality mode to get an fps boost.
Anyways, an i5 12400F + DDR4 RAM + 9060XT rig will be under 80k. It is a good 1080p or basic 1440p rig. A 1440p monitor is under 15k at times on sales (Acer XV272U V3).
With 1L, you can build maybe R5 7600 + 5060Ti 16GB rig, but that won’t be much faster than i5 12400 + 9060XT 16GB rig for gaming. So just save money.
Next major jump is R5 7600 + 9070XT for 1.3-1.35L.
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Thanks for the detailed reply!
4K 60 because I already have a 4K monitor that I love but is 60Hz.
Response times of a non gaming monitor is poor, 60fps gaming will feel better on a gaming monitor than a non gaming one. Plus VRR helps a lot.
You can use v sync & use FSR4/DLSS4 balanced to play at 4K or just run games at 1440p native.
I have a 4K 120Hz OLED TV, I played a lot of games on it at native 1440p vs upscaled 4K. So with 9060XT 16GB, better to play at native 1440p or 1440p FSR4 quality mode when needed.
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For battle royale games, I think 1080p or 1440p is more than enough. Even professionals still tend to choose 1080p. A 60Hz refresh rate for FPS games is not a good idea.
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Between BF6 and COD,BF6 will be more demanding so you need to base your rig around that.
The game is both CPU and GPU heavy.
Given that ,you do need both a beefy CPU as well as GPU especially at 4k .
As far as CPU goes ,7800x3d is a good choice , but to save a bit of cost ,you can go for 5700x3d/9700x,if you can find it for cheap , but i would go for 9700x for future upgrade path with Am5,plus better or nearly equivalent performance (in most games atleast)
For gpu tbh ,there is nothing that would give u a consistent 120 fps at 4k at native.
So you gotta use dlss/fsr. With dlss 4 being better than fsr,and the added fact that dlss4 with perfomance mode is extremely good for 4k rendering i would choose a Nvidia Gpu. You should try for 5070 or 5070ti atleast , but i would suggest to wait for the super refresh which is just around the corner. The 5070 super is supposed to have a few hundred extra cores so might be slightly faster with 18 gb vram ,so i would be looking for that.
On the radeon side if dlss is a not so important for you ,there is only one option 9070xt and its a great option,since fsr 4 is actually very good too unlike fsr 3
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Just because you have 4k monitor (60hz) watching movies/tv shows you shouldn’t consider 4k gaming on it. You need frames for fps gaming 60fps won’t cut. Most these days haven’t even jumped up to 2k forget 4k.If you have money to throw then only 4k is an (option).
while I appreciate everyone’s advice and the time they take to write out detailed posts, its just funny how everyone is after the frame rate. I don’t play competitively. Its going to be a casual thing for me. I have monitor that I love. I might even just do 1080p pr 2k on it depending on what hardware I can get. Worst case, I end up getting a PS5 and just play that on my TV.
I guess I am just not that young anymore to care about the fixation on fps.
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I get you man 
If fps is not a concern ,and you just want to get a playable 60 fps experience at 4k.
You can get away with a much cheaper build.
A am4 build with ryzen 5/7/9(u can find used ones even cheaper) ,and any gpu among 3070/3080/4070/5060ti/6800/9060xt
You can probably do all this under 60k ,if you find decent deals,with some used parts included.
Will give a you a great experience,with close to max settings
Seems to me like OP knows what he wants and that is 4K 60FPS gaming. I suggest a 5070 TI or 5080 with rest depending on the remaining budget. Most like a Ryzen 9600x + 32 GB RAM and a mid range B650 motherboard. You don’t need to spend a lot on processor because at 4k processor doesn’t matter as much anymore, motherboard also doesn’t matter if your main goal is gaming and you aren’t looking to overclock or run a high end processor. I’m sure 9600x can run on the worst motherboard in the market right now.
For AMD GPUs you can look into 9070 or 9070XT.
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I feel he doesnt want to overspend 9070/5070 etc are too expensive currently.
And most older gen gpu/cpu are perfectly capable of doing what he needs. He will still get much better perfomance from that then a ps5. All he wants is a better than ps5 experience,which is doable with these
You are right, maybe I’m underestimating how well optimised BF6 is for todays standard. I think OP should set a fixed budget (plus minus 10k max) and ready a list of every component they will buy except GPU then minus that from the budget and buy the best GPU they can get for the remaining price.
Although this video shows RTX 5070 at 74fps @4k low/med settings so I don’t know how much lower you can go GPU wise before it starts to dip under 60fps. Maybe with the help of DLSS it will be fine.
I have a 3080 and it perfoms just as well as 5070 tbh ,maybe just a little worse ,so an old 4070/3080 is more than enough, especially with dlss at perfomance at 4k for 60 fps.
I play at 1440p at dlss quality with a mix of high/med/ultra and get around 130-110 fps,some drops are there since i am cpu bound,but this game is very cpu heavy at lower res,but i doubt it ll be cpu bound at 4k even with am4 ryzen 7/9
Maybe I should look for a good deal on 3080ti or 4000 series super
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That ll be good if u can find one but u can get away with a 6800xt/3080 or even 3070ti too(vram is not an issue in this game ) ,but u will need a good cpu too,game is very cpu heavy from my experience,but dont over spend on the cpu side.
I recommend at least RTX 40 series because of DLSS4 finally being implemented for it. RTX 30 will not get the same feature. Also the pricing for new RTX 40 series is kinda mediocre at best. Either get a good deal on used GPUs or get RTX 50 series with full warranty to be tension free.
Dlss4 is indeed available on rtx 30 series,its the frame gen that is missing and there is no point using frame gen on a multiplayer game due to the added latency but If you still feel like using frame gen you can use fsr frame gen in BF6 with DLSS4 on any 30 series gpu,so u essentially get both DLSS4 and frame gen working ( through fsr frame gen ) .
Take out the 4x frame gen though and 50 series offers nothing exceptional ,unless u go 5070ti and above ,plus its missing 32 bit physx support on older games.
I keep talking about DLSS4 like DLSS multi frame gen is the only main feature of it when in reality it improved other aspects of DLSS as well compared to previous versions so yeah my bad there. As for why I suggest having a DLSS multi frame gen capable card in the first place is because of the possibility of when OP does decide to play other games, remember the last time they upgraded a PC was in 2018 which means OP is the kind of user who sticks with their PC.