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Current PC is too bad for Cities Skylines 2. Can anyone judge the PCPartPicker list I've put together? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is based off the "Great tier" AMD build, but I'm waffling a bit on the price. I don't really know a whole lot about PC specs, but I read this is supposed to be a good long-lasting build based on the DDR5 and something newer in the CPU or Video card. That being said, I've only really ever build mid-tier and while I do want something nice, I'm just not sure it's necessary for me? I tend to stick to Indie titles and the most demanding game I've played lately was BG3 (which my current PC has to be on med-low settings to run).

Also, if anyone has a good 22" monitor recommendations I'll take them.

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 7600 3.8 GHz 6-Core Processor	$218.98 @ Amazon
CPU Cooler	Thermalright Peerless Assassin 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler	$37.90 @ Amazon
Motherboard	*Gigabyte B650M K Micro ATX AM5 Motherboard	$119.99 @ Amazon
Memory	*TEAMGROUP Elite 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR5-4800 CL40 Memory	$37.99 @ Amazon
Storage	Intel 670p 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive	$79.99 @ B&H
Video Card	*PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB Video Card	$319.99 @ Amazon
Case	Lian Li LANCOOL 216 ATX Mid Tower Case	$104.99 @ Adorama
Power Supply	*Thermaltake Toughpower GX2 600 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply	$66.98 @ Amazon
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total	$986.81
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-10-06 20:02 EDT-0400

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Current PC is too bad for Cities Skylines 2. Can anyone judge the PCPartPicker list I've put together?

Wrong question. The right one would be:

"Based on the PCPartPicker list I've put together, how many mods will I be able to add to Cities Skylines 2?"

There is no PC in existence capable of running all of them all at once, but I'd recommend getting as much RAM as possible (256GB better than 32GB), it's going to be your main bottleneck. Followed by the CPU... and the SSD is only a bottleneck at load time. GPU is optional, CS2 barely uses it.

Also: better to have twice as much RAM, than RAM twice as fast. RAM itself is 100x faster than an SSD, so you're better off keeping stuff in only 50x faster RAM, rather than going back and forth to a 100x slower SSD.