Total War: Warhammer 3 1080p Ultra Custom PC Build Review

If you are asking yourself, I want to buy the best priced PC that can definitely run and meet Total War: Warhammer 3 recommended requirements and more then today we will be looking to put together the ideal PC build for Total War: Warhammer 3. Our mission is a top end gaming solution for this game at top end graphics settings, using 1080p monitor resolution. These prices are are checked multiple times each day and we update the build if other hardware is better value for money, while still meeting our gaming hardware standards.

If we are building a PC for a specific game then various game characteristics can be considered to help us put together the right computer. When considering Total War: Warhammer 3 we can see that it is in the , Strategy, Management, Turn-based genre categories. This can influence some of the peripheral selections we make, as we will be wanting to make sure that the components we choose are complementary to the games needs. Something often overlooked is that we know the game itself would be developed during and shortly before 2022. Therefore we can speculate that it would have been built by the developers with hardware that has similar performance capability from that period as well. This title is currently one of the more demanding titles on the site right now, sitting at 1 on our most demanding list of games. With those thoughts helping us select specific hardware to match this title we will now select the best priced hardware today to meet these requirements from our curated gaming hardware lists.

Best 1080p Price to Performance Total War: Warhammer 3 PC Hardware Component List

Choosing A Graphics Card For Our 1080p Total War: Warhammer 3 PC Build

Lets not pay over the odds when we put this game’s graphics card in. We want something that can play Total War: Warhammer 3 at 1080p ultra graphics options and we want something that has a reasonable price compared to the other graphics options. The GeForce GTX 1660 Super Asus Dual Evo OC 6GB has been looking like a good stand in for this games curated PC build, based on the price of $239.99 that we found it marked at today. It will certainly help return suitable FPS, which we will go into a bit later in the article, at ultra 1080p. Checking our records our lowest tracked price for this card was on 28th Nov 2019 which had it priced at $229.99. Looking a little deeper at this cards pricing history shows this card has seen a drop in its price by $47.68 over the last two weeks.

Selecting The Right Total War: Warhammer 3 1080p Motherboard and CPU

We are choosing a well rounded and best priced motherboard (the GIGABYTE GA-A320M mATX AM4), that can provide us with the cpu Socket AM4 socket type. This is so we can select the Ryzen 5 2600 that has the best price to performance position today, at $185.99. Bottom prices recorded for this CPU was when we saw it at $59.9, which we noticed it on 7th Jul 2020.This CPU and GPU provide the required Total War: Warhammer 3 experience while maintaining the best price point at this 1080p resolution.

With the feature rich GIGABYTE GA-A320M mATX AM4 priced competitively at $59.99 it is certainly in todays Total War: Warhammer 3 build for a good reason. To offer motherboard pricing insight we spotted this being sold for a low price of $51.88, which was recorded at 18th Feb 2021.

How To Choose The Best RAM For Total War: Warhammer 3 At The Right Price

The Total War: Warhammer 3 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. To provide a RAM pricing benchmark the lowest recorded price we have for the Patriot Viper Steel Series 8GB (1x8GB) DDR4 3200MHz is $30.35 on 29th Nov 2019.

PC Performance Review at 1080p Ultra Settings on Total War: Warhammer 3

Our PC build can run Total War: Warhammer 3 at High graphics settings comfortably, returning a 1080p FPS of 88 and we would expect an average of 63 FPS on Ultra with the GeForce GTX 1660 Super Asus Dual Evo OC 6GB, Ryzen 5 2600 combo we have put into this computer.

If you were to increase your screen size with this PC setup to 1440p then we expect to see around a figure of 48 FPS on Ultra or 67 FPS on High.

How this build performs for other popular games

While we have put a great PC build together for Total War: Warhammer 3 it’s important to understand how it handles some of the more popular games of today at 1080p. With this PC build we can expect that the popular game Forza Horizon 5 will get 63FPS on Ultra settings raising to 88FPS on High. On the other hand we see that Days Gone returns 63FPS on Ultra and 88FPS when lowered to High. Lastly FIFA 22 may see 63 FPS running at Ultra, and 88 on High graphics settings.

Selecting A High Performance Mouse For Total War: Warhammer 3

We have opted for the Cooler Master MM710 because we feel it is a higher performance gaming mouse that will meet the needs of this title. When looking at a mouse for a game that sits in the , Strategy, Management, Turn-based game grouping we often consider paying a little bit more to get a better suited peripheral for the task. We have still chosen the best priced mouse we could find today that meets this need.

An Alternative Total War: Warhammer 3 Graphics Card Option for 1080p

Why not switch out the graphics card in this build and replace it with a similarly powerful card from AMD. The AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB graphics card has a 7% better performance variation compared to the currently chosen video card. As the best price point for an alternative manufacturer in this range it currently costs $899.98.