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Hello, all. I'm hoping you can help a fellow gamer out.

 

I'm in the process of gathering parts for my very first custom gaming PC build. I'm going for the same mid-to-high range desktop I bought 8 years ago - not necessarily the best on the market, but really good, and hopefully enough to last me nearly another decade ( :laugh:).

 

That being said, I'm having trouble in the GPU department. Specifically because I already have all the other components, and now I am trying to find something that will fit my power supply even in heavy-load gaming. I was originally planning my other parts around the GTX 1080 (I started planning earlier this year), but now I can't get one at a decent price, and on top of that they keep selling out before I can get my hands on one.

 

I did, however, manage to find some 2070s at a lower price than even the 1080, but now I'm wondering if my other components can actually handle the newer GPU. Can anyone help me confirm?

 

These are my other parts:

 

Case - Phanteks Eclipse P400S Tempered Glass Silent Edition

MoBo - Asus Prime Z370-P

Memory - Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x8GB DDR4 3000MHz

SSD - Samsung 970 EVO 500GB

CPU - Intel i5-8400

PSU - EVGA SuperNova 650W G3

 

Do note that I have absolutely no plans of overclocking.

 

If not the 2070, what other GPU is a good alternative to the 1080? Hopefully that I won't have to replace very soon?

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What country are you in?

 

I think the 'next gen' stuff is still awfully new, so, some interesting issues with them. Have you considered a 1070??

 

USA.

 

I have thought about the 1070. How does it compare to the 1080? If it's not that much different as far as graphics performance goes, I might go for it.

 

I wouldn't bother with the "20" cards, yeah they have Ray Tracing but they're not powerful enough to do it without taking a nasty frame rate hit, they're also having a few "issues".

 

I see. I figured it would take some time to iron the bugs out of the newer cards.

 

I'd go with more than 650w PSU, it's better to over-watt than under-watt

 

Unfortunately, I can't buy another PSU at this point, so it would have to be something my 650 can definitely handle.

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With the i5, I think the 1070 will be a good match. Get as much VRAM as you can on it. (I see 8gb fellers for around 450 on amazon..... don't know if you wanna spend that much though.)

 

450 is doable. A lot better than the 700+ I was seeing for the remnants of the 1080s... :ermm:

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What resolution is your monitor? at 1080p a 1070 will be fine, at 4K not so much.

 

It's a 1080p. Can't do 4k gaming quite yet. :P

 

I decided to go ahead and get the 1070. We'll see how it goes. :D Thanks everyone for the advice and help! :)

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