Warhammer 40,000: Darktide 1080p Ultra Custom PC Build Review

Our objective here is to enable us to explore what PC we could buy that can play Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, where we carefully find the right hardware components that can run Warhammer 40,000: Darktide and meet its gaming needs while also heavily factoring in today’s best hardware component prices. Of course our sights are set on returning a good level expereince with ultra settings selected, along with a 1080p monitor resolution. Todays prices will be checked every few hours to make sure only the best hardware at the best prices will be displayed for this build.

Before getting this build together we need to consider a few background characteristics about the game we are building this PC for. Warhammer 40,000: Darktide falls into the , Shooter, Action genre category groupings and would have been finished being developed during 2022 on hardware released around that period of time which may be a factor when we choose the type of hardware as it would need to be comparable in performance to hardware available from around this time. The game is currently one of the more demanding titles we have on the site, and is found on our most demanding list at the 1 spot. While these facts help us put together the best PC for the game we will still be selecting components based on the latest prices for the chosen peripherals and hardware for our build. Choosing today’s best priced items to give us an ideal PC build today for the game.

Best 1080p Price to Performance Warhammer 40,000: Darktide PC Hardware Component List

Choosing A Graphics Card For Our 1080p Warhammer 40,000: Darktide PC Build

Obviously one of the most important components for this build is the graphics card. We can take a look at the best price to performance hardware right now to help deliver a system that can run Warhammer 40,000: Darktide at 1080p ultra settings. Looking through today’s graphics card prices we can see that the GeForce GTX 1660 Super Asus Dual Evo OC 6GB is today’s best GPU option for this computer and it will work great at this screen resolution. Its price right now is $239.99, and running our hardware tests against that price shows this to be the cheapest but best performer for Warhammer 40,000: Darktide. Over the past couple of weeks this card has seen a price drop of $47.68, which lends us confidence in picking it as a good purchase for this game. Checking our records our lowest tracked price for this card was on 28th Nov 2019 which had it priced at $229.99.

Selecting The Right Warhammer 40,000: Darktide 1080p Motherboard and CPU

Finding a cpu is largely dependent on the right motherboard. The CPU we are going to choose has the LGA 1151 socket type. So we have found the best priced and well featured mobo in the ASRock Intel B365 ATX LGA1151. The Core i3-9350K 4-Core 4.0GHz processor will then fit in and accompany our GeForce GTX 1660 Super Asus Dual Evo OC 6GB selection nicely, with the cpu being at a great price point, costing $200. The cheapest price we spotted this cpu for is $161.03, which was on 1st Dec 2020.

With the feature rich ASRock Intel B365 ATX LGA1151 priced competitively at $72.99 it is certainly in todays Warhammer 40,000: Darktide build for a good reason. Our motherboard price records put this mobo’s price on 4th Apr 2020 at $59.99.

How To Choose The Best RAM For Warhammer 40,000: Darktide At The Right Price

The Warhammer 40,000: Darktide PC we are building will want some supporting RAM to help our CPU and GPU selections to deliver the right FPS. We are still focusing on achieving 1080p ultra and so the Patriot Viper Steel Series 8GB (1x8GB) DDR4 3200MHz which we have found for $42.99 is among the best price system memory at the moment. The cheapest system memory price for Patriot Viper Steel Series 8GB (1x8GB) DDR4 3200MHz was recorded as $30.35, and this was on 29th Nov 2019.

PC Performance Review at 1080p Ultra Settings on Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

With this current build we expect to see a return of 63 frames per second at ultra 1080p resolution in Warhammer 40,000: Darktide. Adjust some of the graphics options and you could boost this up to 88 FPS for High graphics settings.

Having the option of larger screen resolutions in the future is a handy thing to consider. This gaming PC setup, running Warhammer 40,000: Darktide at 1440p would be pulling in about 67 FPS at High. We would expect that to drop again to 48 if you were playing it at 1440p Ultra.

How this build performs for other popular games

Lets take a look to see how this Warhammer 40,000: Darktide PC build will run some other popular games today on 1080p. Far Cry 6 will get 63 on Ultra and 88 FPS on High graphics settings with the GeForce GTX 1660 Super Asus Dual Evo OC 6GB. Whereas on Star Citizen we see a return of 63 FPS on Ultra and 88 FPS when lowered to High. Another popular game at the moment is Grand Theft Auto VI, which is 63 FPS run at Ultra and 88 on High.

Selecting A High Performance Mouse For Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

The , Shooter, Action genre means that we would be looking for our build’s mouse selection to be of higher quality than normal, so we have chosen the Cooler Master MM710 as the best mouse option based on today’s prices versus gamer quality.

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Benefits From a High Quality Audio Headset

With a game like this, when considering audio options its best to pay a little more and enjoy the sort of sounds a game like this will deliver. The higher quality gaming headset we had in mind is the well priced Logitech G635 7.1, because it will cater to the , Shooter, Action genre type that Warhammer 40,000: Darktide sits in. While the best priced headset we can see in this category today, there are a few other differently priced options you can take a look at in our curated gaming headset list above. Just press the button above in the PC Build list, next to any of the components

An Alternative Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Graphics Card Option for 1080p

As an alternative to the Nvidia manufactured video card we have gone for in this PC, you could also consider the similarly powerful AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB. It has a 7% better performance difference compared to our selected GeForce GTX 1660 Super Asus Dual Evo OC 6GB. Obviously we have chosen it as the cheapest price to performance offering in this range. It is currently priced at $899.98.