Even with a tight budget, you can put together a computer that displays games in Full HD smoothly. You don’t have to save on RAM or SSD.

Construction proposal 2020: Inexpensive gamer PC for Full HD enjoyment Fleet SSD, lots of RAM The Gamer Budget The installation Finale and fine-tuning Item in c’t 24 / 2020 read For PC buyers on a tight budget, 2020 is a good year. Not only that storage prices are falling steadily. There are finally new processors and graphics cards in the entry-level segment that allow gaming in Full HD (1920 × 1080) at high Enable detail level without annoying stuttering.

One of these new releases is the Radeon RX 5500 XT from AMD’s first generation of navigation systems. It delivers roughly the performance of an RX 590, but goes to work much more efficiently. With 8 GB it has more memory reserves than Nvidia’s equally fast GeForce GTX 1660 with 6 GB. However, you have to do without hardware-accelerated ray tracing effects in this price range. We chose the round 200 Euro expensive Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 2020 XT, which is also under full 3D use Remains whisper-quiet as long as you operate the card in quiet mode. All you have to do is push the small slide switch on the edge in the direction of the connection strip.

With the processor, we initially had a lot more difficulties. According to our article on core scaling in 3D games, it was clear that it had to be a quad-core CPU with SMT (Simultaneous Multi-Threading, called Hyper-Threading at Intel). Whether it should come from AMD or Intel was hotly debated because the manufacturers supply equivalent CPUs. AMD has the edge in application performance and can use the more modern B 94 – Throw in the chipset with support for PCIe 4.0. It also supports upcoming Zen 3 processors, which promise another performance boost, especially in games. Boards with the cheaper, but limited to PCIe 3.0 A 200 – When we put the systems together, chipsets were just as expensive as the B 550 he, which is why we did not consider them.

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