Minimum PC Specs :

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Hello,

I am looking to get started with Unreal Engine - my current laptop isn’t up to scratch so I am looking into buying a new PC (desktop).

What would you say the minimum specs to smoothly run UE4 would be? I am more focused around the cinematography side of UE4 as opposed to actual game developing.

I understand that the most effective way would be to custom build a PC, however, I am not the most clued up with that side of things!

Budget wise I am looking around the £750 figure.

Do you think an i5 processor with 8GB RAM and decent graphics card would suffice for my needs? Or do you think I need to be looking at a minimum of i7 with 16GB RAM?

Feel free to post your current specs and how UE4 performs on your system / recommendations - any further information would be much appreciated!! :smiley:

My apologies if this topic has been posted multiple times before! (I have looked but couldn’t find what I was looking for).

Thanks,
SPAWN.

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Based off Local Increments, this seems like a balanced build for £711, although I’d suggest 16 GB of ram.

GPU CPU Cooler Motherboard RAM HDD SSD PSU Case
[TABLE]

		GTX 1660 Ti
		£220
		R5 3600
		£150
		Gammaxx 400
		£25
		MSI B450 Gaming Plus
		£100
		8GB DDR4
		£36
		1TB
		£35
		240GB
		£35
		SeaSonic 650W (B)
		£50
		Antec P8
		£60
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The GPU is going to be the most expensive part of your build so I would buy a decent one off Ebay. I bought an RTX 3080ti off Ebay for $350 and it works perfectly. You should never buy a cheap motherboard, CPU, GPU, and PSU. Anything else you could find a cheaper alternative. Im not a pro but this helped be buy a decent PC for really cheap. Also never buy anything else off Ebay, only the GPU and cooling system because anything else can be alternated to fry your PC. I hope this helps!