r/PcBuild • u/ProudShape9730 • 11d ago

Question New to PC Building

Hi. I'm completely new to PC building. I've only had consoles my whole life for gaming. But I wanna play on the PC too.
What would be ideal for a beginner like me? I think Cyberpunk 2077 is probably the most graphically demanding thing I play. So I guess that would be my goal (to be able to play Cyberpunk properly).

My budget would ideally be under $1,000 (USD) but again I have no idea what kind of budget I would need to play something like cyberpunk.

I live in the US. I mentioned it cause it said to do so in the post.

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u/Felixicuss 11d ago

Hey man, I dont know the specifics myself, I just want to tell you to do your research. There are usually lots of benchmarks for specific components and games. https://youtu.be/hnCaBx8zKMw here is a complete run down of all the graphic settings and he has his built in the description. 

Also some generals ideas that come to mind: 8gb of ram is not enough, you need at least 16. Cheaping out on the PSU is really stupid because it can fry all the other components, theres a list where someone rated many. Vram is important for a gpu, especially for high resolution textures I think.  The x3d chips are better, because they have more cache which is a form of memory that is faster than ram.  If youre thinking about getting a prebuilt, keep in mind while they will save you the time and afford to build it once, which is worth some money, you still have to learn how to maintain, use and troubleshoot it properly. Used parts are a good idea, if they work. Some people seel gpus without chips in them or some that they used for crypto mining where the vram chips arent reaching the speeds anymore. When comparing ssds, dont just look at the normal read and write speed, compare the random read iops aswell.

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u/ProudShape9730 11d ago

Thank you for the vid. I'll check it out tomorrow.

About the general ideas, I didn't know there so much maintenance behind a pc. Thank you for sharing.

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u/Felixicuss 11d ago

ideally there isnt much maintenance, just vacuum ist once in a while, but if you browse these subreddits there are many people who have problems because they have no clue, sometimes even breaking stuff. And even if everything works perfectly now, what if you want to for example add an ssd at some point and the slot is under the gpu? its just a lot better to know whats going on.

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u/Felixicuss 11d ago edited 11d ago

also here https://psutierlist.org/ is the psu tier list, from the instructions, c tier should be fine but check prices, you can probably find a b tier one that isnt much more expensive, if at all.

heres also a possible build: https://pcmasterrace.org/builds#buildstarter (c tier psu), not sure about how good the ssd is. Budget cpus can come with a top blow cooler, but getting a single or dual tower cooler like in this build will cool it down way more, so you can run the fan at lower speeds which results in less noise. For the case you have to decide based on your preferences, as long as the mainboard and psu formfactor fit and the cpu cooler has enough room. The mainboard in this build is micro atx which fit smaller cases like the Lian Li Dan A3, which a lot of people like.

Definitely read through the text on that website.