Re: PC Recommendation to Play With Mods+CC (+16go File)
@6lz1s3gr5qos I apologize for the late reply. I wanted to do some research on Hogwarts Legacy, specifically how it runs on the graphics cards available in your price range and on various settings. I could go into more detail, and please ask if you want those details, but the bottom line is, for 1500 CHF or less, your best bet is an Nvidia RTX 4060 ti. It's a bit faster than the similarly-priced RTX 3070 and has access to newer technologies that can make some very new games run better.
However, you're not going to be able to run Hogwarts Legacy at 4k without some serious compromises, ones I don't think you want to make. So while the monitor you're considering certainly looks great overall, you wouldn't get the benefits of its 4k resolution. You could play at 1920x1080 easily enough, and that scales well on a 4k monitor. Or you could look at 2560x1440 monitors and take advantage of Nvidia's DLSS settings to push framerates higher. Here again, if you want more details, just ask.
The short version is that DLSS allows the graphics card to render a game at a lower resolution and then upscale it. DLSS features look great when the difference between the rendering resolution and the display resolution is small but not as much when it's large. So going from a lower rendering resolution to 1440p is going to give you much better graphics than going from that same lower rendering resolution to 4k.
Anyway, all of this is about Hogwarts Legacy. Sims 4 would run easily on these graphics cards at 4k on ultra settings no matter how much custom content and Reshade filters you piled on top of the game itself. And if you want a 4k monitor for other reasons, for example streaming 4k video from other services, it would be a reasonable choice to just lower the resolution in Hogwarts Legacy.
For the computers themselves, this is the best choice I found:
The processor is more than good enough, 32 GB RAM is nice to have although not (yet) strictly necessary, and 1 TB SSD storage is convenient too. I don't know the motherboard and power supply brands, but the general specs are fine.
This looks like the same computer, just from a different supplier and slightly more expensive, in case you have a preference for one store over the other:
This is a reasonable alternative too. It's cheaper because it doesn't come with Windows pre-installed and has only 16 GB RAM. The memory can be upgraded, now or later, and installing Windows is simple enough: you just need a product key and a USB stick you don't mind erasing. But it might be more convenient to have that taken care of out of the box. The other hardware is the same.
I don't know anything about this builder, but everything I can see says that it uses standard components, meaning that even if something breaks, you'd only need to replace that, not the entire computer. The only other question is the build quality. It looks from the return rate that that's not a problem either: the rate is lower than companies like Asus and Lenovo that make similar products with the same standard components.
If you'd like other options, please let me know. But I didn't see anything as good as this in your price range that seems reliable.
One other option worth mentioning is this one, with an RTX 4070, even faster than the 4060 ti. The one thing that gives me pause is that other product pages for this system builder list different specs than advertised. This page doesn't have that problem, but if you do want this computer, I'd suggest calling the company and talking to a real person to confirm that you are in fact getting a 4070 and not, say, a 3060 ti.
If you have more questions in general or about any of these computers, please feel free to ask.
