Jumping back into the pc building game again soon hopefully...
If I wanted a higher end gaming with a preference for power per dollar and an upgrade path over the next few years, what am I looking for these days?
Also, I guess monitors I probably should consider buying new since I haven't updated those in like... Whenever wide flatscreens became affordable in the 22" range?
If a price point is needed, let's aim for around 3k cdn including case and monitors.
I'm putting together a new rig currently, here's where I'm at...right now I see no reason not to go with a Ryzen 3700 (or 3900 if you want all the cores) and an x570 board. Intel is still great for gaming performance too, but I'm going with AMD this round.
Get DDR4- 3600 ram to go with that, Ryzen seems to love all the frequency you can give it. CAS 16 seems to be tight enough without getting crazy expensive.
For gaming, monitors should be based on the resolution you want to game at. I'm looking at 27" 1440p monitors but haven't chosen them yet; just remember that if you are going to want to game at 4K, a big chunk of your budget will be just the monitors. GPU will have to be beefy as well but the mid-range from both companies are doing pretty well at most games in 4K. rtx2070 Super, and x5700XT. Both look like great options and today I noticed that prices have dropped substantially on both, about $100 at newegg compared to last week.
Not an expert compared to some guys in this thread, but since we're both building or ready to build I'd figured I'd share what I've come up with so far.