Share your pc specs!

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Hi Unreal users.

Im looking at buying a pc that will comfortably handle UE4. My budget is just under £1k.
I know there’s a minimum and recommended specs page in the unreal wiki, but I’d like to know from other users what pcs you’ve been using & what performance you get out of them.

More specifically, where can I sacrifice on specs but still have UE4 running well? I’d love an i7-7700k, GTX1070 or 1080, & some good RAM, but that ends up going over the £1k mark!

Thanks!!

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I will just piggyback your topic a bit.

How unreal goes with new AMD Ryzen CPUs? Does anybody have it already and tested a bit?

And on topic: I think Ryzen may be now the thing to get for unreal 4. And then 1080ti

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For content creation you dont need 1070 or 1080…
1060 is pretty enough for hd gaming and also for unreal. If you want to seriously make content, grab 8700k. (Intel 6-core 4.7GHz).
I also recommend min. 16gb ram, 8k is for gaming.

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Running UE4 on a Ryzen 7 1700X, no Problems so far.
But I cant compare it to an i7 7700K or so, since I never had one.

Editor mostly is single-threaded (blueprint-compiling and such things) but packaging of the project can use all 8 cores, allthough it rarely needs/does use them at 100%. (but that might change from project to prpject.)

I am using a R9 390 as GPU, works as you would expect from an Engine that has nvidia-stuff in it. (Still waiting for DX12/Vulkan)

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Ryzen is bad for compiling and baking lights. Get an i7 7820X instead, if possible.

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I’m running:

Intel i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00 GHz (not overclocked, but can be)
16 GB RAM
and Dual NVIDIA GTX 980Ti (SLI enabled)

I’m new to the program so I’m trying to find a way to utilize my dual GPU’s to lighten the load on my CPU. On start-up of Unreal I’m maxing out my CPU (which I assume is normal?) and only using one of my GPU’s when the program is running. Any advice on optimizing Unreal to work with my dual GPU’s would be greatly appreciated!

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I probably have one of the weakest machines in this forum lol… I am running

I5 6500 @ 3.2GHZ
16 GB DDR4 @ 2133 MHZ
GTX 760 2GB
1X 120GB SSD
2X 500 GB 7200 RPM HDD
4 MONITORS

My build cost me a little over 400 british pounds since my monitors are from boot sales at around 5 pound each

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Don’t say that! I am running UE4 on a laptop (Windows 10). :smiley:

i7-4510U ~2.4GHz
Geforce 840M
8GB RAM
1TB HDD

It actually runs surpringly well (I’m just using dynamic lighting though). I’m saving for a better machine nonetheless.

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Get the best processor, and most ram slots available. You can always upgrade the gpu later. So if you get a great mb, and processor with say gtx1060, and 8gb ram for 1k than you can pick up memory, and within the next year there will be better gpu’s out.

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I have got an AMD Athlon II X2 with 2x3GHz, 4GB RAM and NVidia Geforce GTX 650 with 2GB VRAM, and it works still. It is slow, a material compiles within 10 and 30 seconds and with blueprints and low graphic effects it works. But writing C++ is really mad. It needs 8 minutes to compile for only four lines of code. I’m buying new hardware in a few weeks (4x3GHz, 16GB RAM, 4GB VRAM and a SSD), and I hope it works good. Is this hardware good enough?

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Thanks for all the replies! I ended up getting a second hand pc for around £850.
Specs:
i7-6700k
16GB 2133mhz Hyper X fury DDR4 RAM
GTX 1080 founders edition GPU
250GB SSD
1 TB SATA HDD
Corsair liquid cooling
&, the worlds ugliest pc case!

It runs really well so far, although I’m an Unreal beginner so I haven’t properly put her to the test!
I haven’t overclocked as i’m not experienced at that, but I’m keen to do so!

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Thanks, I had hope AMD is better solution for once. Have i7 currently.