Planning to build a new rig for $1200 dollars.

[LDClaudius]

I’m planning to build a new rig within a few months or so. For my spare time, I tinkered around with my new setup. At one point, it would be best for me to make major improvement on the hardware, but also add a lot more HD spaces. If I were to build a new rig, it would cost me $1,200 USD. Here the current setup at this time:

• Intel - Core i5-9600K 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor
  
• Team - Dark 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-2400 Memory
  
• Crucial - MX500 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
  
• Samsung - 860 Evo 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive
  
• Toshiba - X300 5 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
  
• GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
  
• Windows 10 64-bit
  

Now, allow me to elaborate what I’m planning to do with my trusty rig.

For my new build, I’m planning on picking up a couple pumping adrenaline titles on PC. Most of the game I’m planning to play is mostly UE4 game (Insurgency: Sandstorm, Hell Let Loose, and MORDHAU) and the upcoming space sim, Star Citizen.  Of course, I’m also planning to play emulated software (Dolphin and Project 64) as well. As of now, the software I’m playing is Rouge Squadron III, Super Mario Sunshine, and Luigi’s Mansion. I don’t expect to be able to play Rouge Squadron III on day one, it should suit me quite well. My graphic setting in-game should be running around high or ultra quality. The performance can vary depending on the PC titles I play and the emulated software as well.

Originally, I was planning to pick up the RTX 2000 series from Nvidia. Unfortunately, most of the GPU in the marker are currently over price and there not many game that fully utilize the Ray Tracing support. I’ll go ahead and stick to my current gpu; GTX 1060. It not that big of a deal. Current resolution I'm playing is at 1920*1080.

For the HD, this is where I definitely need to make the bold decision to increase the capacity for storing more data, since most video games are getting quite big for my liking. I decided that it would probably be practical for me to buy not one, not two, but up to three HD. Two HD are the SSD and the other is a regular HDD. Here how my files are going to be organized. I want to install my OS on the 500 GB SSD, most MP games I play on Steam are stored on the 1 TB drive and the other SP games are going to be installed on the 5 TB drive.

Given that most PC titles now recommend a 16 GB RAM, I think it should be reasonable for me to pick up.

What else could I do? I'm finishing up my academic material. It would come to an end soon. Since I’m going to be graduating next year, I could see myself getting my own will of fun one last time. Afterwards, that about it.

Any ideas are welcome here.

[TKSilver]

This is more then enough to handle Dolphin emulation. You can run higher internal resolutions then 1080p with that hardware and also handle some of the high def texture replacement packs to give GC and Wii titles that extra shine. Don't worry about the HDD for emulation, a 7200RPM drive is faster then the disc drives in a console anyways so the ISOs you make from your games will be fine taking up space on the slower drive.

I hope Star Citizen comes out fully playable before you find a high paying job, settle down with a wife\husband and kids, and no longer have time to play games.... well it might.

[LDClaudius]

Haha.. I know.

Trying to run Rouge Squadron II/III is not something anyone would be able to do that easily. This is given the nature that the game I mention use MMU and there insane amount of polygons in-game. With that said, I'm definitely going to play Rouge Squadron II/III for May the 4th just for my enjoyment. At least I made the wise choice for me to use Dolphin 4.0-8684.

As of this writing, I'm using an I7-3770K, 8 GB RAM, GTX 1060 6B, Windows 10. The performance look fine in my end. It doesn't offer me the precise accuracy, but this is the closest it can get. Even when the emulation software can crash on some occasions.