Need your help picking a pc

[IgnasC]

Hi,

All the time I was playing on laptop, with really bad graphics, no assets and so on. And the the day has come, when I decided to pick up a decent rig. Would you think this pc would run this game smoothly with best graphics, mods and assets?:
Intel® Core™ i7-8700K / 12M Cache / 3.7Ghz / up to 5.7Ghz
MSI Z370 TOMAHAWK
G.SKILL SNIPER X 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 SDRAM 3600MHz CL16
Samsung SSD 970 EVO NVMe M.2 500GB
GeForce® RTX 2080 VENTUS 8G



Thanks for the help, I know there was related posts, but I just want information about this type of rig

 

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@MarkJohnson

 

[MarkJohnson]

Hi,

All the time I was playing on laptop, with really bad graphics, no assets and so on. And the the day has come, when I decided to pick up a decent rig. Would you think this pc would run this game smoothly with best graphics, mods and assets?:
Intel® Core™ i7-8700K / 12M Cache / 3.7Ghz / up to 5.7Ghz
MSI Z370 TOMAHAWK
G.SKILL SNIPER X 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 SDRAM 3600MHz CL16
Samsung SSD 970 EVO NVMe M.2 500GB
GeForce® RTX 2080 VENTUS 8G

Thanks for the help, I know there was related posts, but I just want information about this type of rig

Awesome. Everything is overkill for this game, although if you love workshop, more RAM would be beneficial. I have 32GB instazlled and have little to no issues when I do use workshop (,2000 limit, more if you use Virtual Memory (page file) (6,000+ workshop)

A second SSD would be great for Steam only. 1TB SSD is around $150. Faster ones are more, slower ones are less. You don't need much. Any SSD will be fast enough. I just have a Mushkin Reactor I got cheap over a year ago and it has been great and fast.

GTX 1060 6GB would be more than enough for 1080p 60HZ. Other games may benefit from GTR 2080. Especially Ray Tracing games, although there aren't many yet.

 

[IgnasC]

Hm, I was thinking upgrading RAM to 32, to be sure it is good and over 30fps all the time . But this video card is better then GTX 1080, because I have an opportunity to buy this one and can't decide, GTX 1080 or RTX 2080 VENTUS 8G?

 

[MarkJohnson]

Hm, I was thinking upgrading RAM to 32, to be sure it is good and over 30fps all the time . But this video card is better then GTX 1080, because I have an opportunity to buy this one and can't decide, GTX 1080 or RTX 2080 VENTUS 8G?

That's totally up to you. The 2080 has a slight increase in performance for regular game. But has ray tracing for special games.

But don't expect much over 30fps with either card. It is hard for this game to keep it up very high. It shouldn't lag though. You just won't be able to sustain 60fps for long and it will be impossible to sustain 40fps.

Whatever your budget allows and your games require, Not to mention hardware. especially monitors. More pixels equals lower fps.

 

[IgnasC]

So in others words if I play Cities Skylines and my city reaches over 100k population with this setup it will decrease between 20-30 fps? My main goal is to sustain over 30fps with great graphics all the time (it can be 30 all the time) and reach over 100k population. You think it is not possible?

 

[MarkJohnson]

So in others words if I play Cities Skylines and my city reaches over 100k population with this setup it will decrease between 20-30 fps? My main goal is to sustain over 30fps with great graphics all the time (it can be 30 all the time) and reach over 100k population. You think it is not possible?

Yes, you should sustain 30fps at all times. Depending on workshop, but even then, you'll likely still maintain over 30. When I had my 1080, it was around 35-37 even on large cities. Around 45 fps at normal building level. Only zoom in at vanilla zoom was it in the 30s. Which is rare to do. 90% of the game is at mid building zoom. so it will stay in the 40s 90% of the time.

 

[IgnasC]

ok, thank you. I tihink I will upgrade then