Hello, i am an old noob (hope it’s not too late lol) who would like to try learning UE5. I have gathered a small amount of money to build a new pc. Here are the specs and hopefully the community here could suggest whether it is enough for ue5, or whether it can safely be downgraded for me to save more bucks .
Oh since I only have a tiny space at home, I decided to build an itx pc.
Motherboard: Asrock b550 phantom
Processor: ryzen 5 5600x
Ram: 2x16gb ddr4 pc25600
Ssd: 1tb m2 nvme gen 4 (is using gen 3 enough? The price is almost half the gen 4)
You could technically save some money on all of the parts, since this is a decent setup, so you could go lower and still be able to work with unreal. The least important parts are probably ssd(you can go with a slower speed) and the motherboard.
Processor: I recently upgraded to a ‘new to me’ ryzen 7 3700x, but before that I was using the decade-old i7-2600k. Compiling shaders was the only painful operation. So I’d say it’s hard to go wrong with any 200-300$ cpu.
Ram: You could probably get away with 16GB to start, then it’s easy to monitor how much memory you are using and it’s easy to add more RAM. (but then again… RAM is cheap)
SSD: I’d do more research, but any nvme will be plenty fast imo
GPU: Perfect ‘starter’ card, but Nvidia is supposed to be releasing at least one card from the 4000 series very soon. (September?)
Also since you are building a mini-itx, I’d get an AIO cooler, seems like in a small space, getting the heat that the CPU is generating away from the other components is a win.
Hey thank you for all your kind replies. I assume that ssd with slower speeds are fine? So I might go with gen 3 ssd instead. And since there are news about upcoming new GPU from Nvidia and new Ryzen processors both coming within this month (?), I might wait until the end of month or early next month to see if there will be a little price drop? Hopefully it’s not the other way around lol.
both ideas seem fine. you could either wait or pull the trigger-the system seems quite solid either way. the SSD will mostly help with loading speeds in some levels with more complicated assets. remember that it’s not just about the tools, but how you use it.
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