Cheap PC build for ESO?

Armanie

My old GPU from 6 years ago has died and I now run ESO on the integrated GPU of an i7 4790k. It works, but.. yeah

I'm looking for a temporary build to run ESO at 1080p or 720p, ideally medium settings. Until I find a 30XX GPU if one day the GPU market returns to normal. Do you have any ideas?

Would an AMD ryzen 5 5600g APU with integrated Vega 7 be enough? (261 euros on AMD website for my country)
I would also have to replace motherboard and RAM but I'd like to know first if this APU is good or not. If so, could this processor in the long run accommodate a 30XX GPU with good performance on AAA games?

Or should I already buy processor (single, not APU), motherboard and RAM as if I already owned a 30XX card, and buy a cheap card in the meantime like GT1030 until I find a 30XX? Would that be enough to run ESO in the short run?

Thanks

Idinuse

Armanie wrote: »

My old GPU from 6 years ago has died and I now run ESO on the integrated GPU of an i7 4790k. It works, but.. yeah

I'm looking for a temporary build to run ESO at 1080p or 720p, ideally medium settings. Until I find a 30XX GPU if one day the GPU market returns to normal. Do you have any ideas?

Would an AMD ryzen 5 5600g APU with integrated Vega 7 be enough? (261 euros on AMD website for my country)
I would also have to replace motherboard and RAM but I'd like to know first if this APU is good or not. If so, could this processor in the long run accommodate a 30XX GPU with good performance on AAA games?

Or should I already buy processor (single, not APU), motherboard and RAM as if I already owned a 30XX card, and buy a cheap card in the meantime like GT1030 until I find a 30XX? Would that be enough to run ESO in the short run?

Thanks

Well. I have to confess to using an i4790K on a ROG Maximus VII Ranger, 16GB of 2400Mhz Corsair RAM, WD Black SN750 NVMe but I was fortunate enough to buy a 1660 Super in Mars 2020 for $230 and ESO flies on this rig. In fact everything pretty much still flies on it imo, apart, perhaps, for the latest most demanding games on ultra.

So if you can find a decent GPU for your current rig I would get that while waiting for the ridiculous GPU/CPU prices to normalize. I think it will be easy to sell that one off when you decide to fully upgrade all components.

I don't know anything about APUs though, but what I've seen from U2B, I think 5600g should perform good.

Icy_Nelyan

I think an AMD ryzen 5 (not necessarly the last ones, You can check the previous generations, I ran with the 2k series Just to say, we are now on 5k generation) on 200€, with Radeon rx 480/580 for around 180€, 16gb Corsair RAM (whatever You want non overclockable) works, Just grab an AMD chipset MOBO with 2 RAM slots and You are good to go (I guess You can find something good with around 100€, since for Intel You can take good MOBO with 70€).

I play with Radeon sapphire rx480, ryzen 7 2700x, 32 GB RAM and a Mortar b350 and I play ESO on ultra, with around 500€ of pieces you'll have awesome performances and not only, You Will have a good PC that Will last for a while (with the rx580 over the rx480).

Armanie

Idinuse wrote: »

Well. I have to confess to using an i4790K on a ROG Maximus VII Ranger, 16GB of 2400Mhz Corsair RAM, WD Black SN750 NVMe but I was fortunate enough to buy a 1660 Super in Mars 2020 for $230 and ESO flies on this rig. In fact everything pretty much still flies on it imo, apart, perhaps, for the latest most demanding games on ultra.

So if you can find a decent GPU for your current rig I would get that while waiting for the ridiculous GPU/CPU prices to normalize. I think it will be easy to sell that one off when you decide to fully upgrade all components.

I don't know anything about APUs though, but what I've seen from U2B, I think 5600g should perform good.

All 1650/60 cards are out of stock where I live. Same for AMD cards. I can only reliably order gt 710, 730 or 1030 for ~70-100 euros. Would that work for ESO medium settings? Is it compatible with an Asus B85 Motherboard, which is what I have atm? It sucks to spend that much for such a low end card, but I'm not sure what else I can do. It's like I have to either waste 100 euros on a *** card or semi-waste 260 euros on an AMD APU that maybe is not very optimized to accomodate a "real" GPU in the future.

Icy_Nelyan wrote: »

I think an AMD ryzen 5 (not necessarly the last ones, You can check the previous generations, I ran with the 2k series Just to say, we are now on 5k generation) on 200€, with Radeon rx 480/580 for around 180€, 16gb Corsair RAM (whatever You want non overclockable) works, Just grab an AMD chipset MOBO with 2 RAM slots and You are good to go (I guess You can find something good with around 100€, since for Intel You can take good MOBO with 70€).

I play with Radeon sapphire rx480, ryzen 7 2700x, 32 GB RAM and a Mortar b350 and I play ESO on ultra, with around 500€ of pieces you'll have awesome performances and not only, You Will have a good PC that Will last for a while (with the rx580 over the rx480).

I can't get my hands on "old" stuff like rx480 and 2700x unless it's a used product from a private customer, and I don't trust that. Seems like the only choice I have is to buy a "new" low end card that has little use for modern AAA games, or get a "new" AMD APU but it seems quite expensive for a temporary build, unless a 5600g can be as affective as any modern single CPU in combination with a high end GPU in the long run.

code65536

Armanie wrote: »

Would an AMD ryzen 5 5600g APU with integrated Vega 7 be enough?

Yes, it definitely should be!

When I'm not at home, I can log onto ESO with my laptop. This is not a gaming laptop, but rather a thin-and-light laptop with integrated graphics, using a Ryzen 3700U. And it works fine. I get around 40-50 FPS with medium graphics settings (the important thing for me is that subsampling is still at high), and the game is playable at 1080p.

A 5600G would be much better than my 3700U, since it's a couple of generations newer, and as a desktop APU, it has a higher power and thermal budget than what I have with a thin-and-light laptop.

ixthUA

According to this website https://technical.city/en/video/HD-Graphics-4600-vs-Radeon-RX-Vega-7 , with AMD 5600G you will get +200% to +400% GPU performance boost.