SFF PC for Gaming / VM's

[TonyToniTone]

Hi All,

Looking at building a small form factor gaming PC and pricing up the parts myself I could build one for around £1200 assuming I could get a graphics card which I can’t.

I found the following build available to buy prebuilt on Scan for £1468, individual Scan components and prices below, so a £150 extra for the build.

Thermaltake Core V1 mini ITX Black Edition Cube Case	44.99
ASUS ROG STRIX B550-I GAMING	185.99
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X, Zen 3, 6-core with SMT, 3.7GHz, 4.6GHz Turbo	309.98
be quiet! Pure Rock 2 - Quiet Air Cooler	34.99
32GB (2x16GB) Corsair DDR4 Vengeance LPX - 3200MHz	190.33
12GB EVGA GeForce RTX 3060 XC GAMING, 3584 Cores	389.99
Corsair CX550M, Semi Modular, 80PLUS - Single GPU	67.99
1TB WD Blue SN550, 2400MB/s Read, 1950MB/s Write, 410K IOPS	89.98
	1314

I have a 4k monitor and a couple of SSD’s to put into it, its a bit more than I wanted to pay and doesn't USB-C on the front but I can live with that..

Would the above have cooling issue's playing fortnite/flight sim on high settings?

Edited by TonyToniTone on Thursday 25th March 10:20

[HRL]

Not sure about cooling but the GPU is optimistic for 4K gaming unless you’re happy to settle for turning down settings.

[mmm-five]

3060 has no chance at 4K - even the 3070 is touch & go. I use a 3070 for 1440p gaming, which seems to be its sweet spot....and that's for 'normal' games. MSFS2020 is a huge hog, and from reports I've seen (there's even a FS2020 thread on here) for 4K at 30fps you'll need at least a 3080.

Current prices for anything that will give you a decent 4k experience are about £1000 for a 3080 (if you need ray tracing) or £900 for a 6800XT (if you don't need ray tracing).

So you'd need to find everything else for a couple of hundred £££ to fit your budget....and wait a few months for a GPU.

Edited by mmm-five on Wednesday 24th March 11:00

[TonyToniTone]

I am going to order the above with a slightly better case and bump the PSU to 850 and try and get on the pre-order list for a ASUS GeForce RTX 3080 and sell on the RTX 3060 if and when..

Will give flight sim a miss and wait for it on the xbox.

Thanks for the info.