Death Stranding 1440p Ultra Custom PC Build Review

Here we will create the best priced PC build to run Death Stranding, where it will meet the demands that a game like this will put on a custom PC. Our view is to answer the question, what PC should I buy that can play Death Stranding really well, and for the best possible price today? Our mission is a top end gaming solution for this game with max graphics running, while running on 1440p screen res. Prices found here today are checked daily to make sure that the components we aare putting into our Death Stranding represent good value for money.

First off, to help us pull together the best hardware for this build, we have to understand a little bit about the type of game we are creating this computer for. Death Stranding is a title which sits in the , Adventure genre categories, which may influence our peripheral selection a bit, to help accommodate some of the particular requirements there. This game would have also been built on PC hardware during 2020 and before, which can suggest the sort of specced components a developer might have been using and hoping for their game to run on. Today we find it is 1 on our most demanding games list and 1 in our list of popular games. While this extra info gives a good sense of what we want from our PC, nothing really replaces our value for money assessment based on live prices, when putting together this build.

Best 1440p Price to Performance Death Stranding PC Hardware Component List

Choosing A Graphics Card For Our 1440p Death Stranding PC Build

Getting the right graphics card is a good way to start any game PC build. So lets take a look for the best price to performance gpu hardware available right now, that isnt overpowered for this game but will still run Death Stranding at 1440p ultra settings. Today’s prices for graphics cards lead us to the GeForce GTX 1660 Super Asus Dual Evo OC 6GB as the smartest GPU option for this computer and one that will deliver some good frame rates at this gaming resolution at ultra. We have seen this card drop its price recently by $47.68 which is part of the reason it has been slotted in to this build. Checking our records our lowest tracked price for this card was on 28th Nov 2019, which had it priced at $229.99. Todays price of $239.99 is certainly a good price for this hardware, considering the performance returns are a good match for this game.

Our ideal build will need to come with either 6GB of VRAM or more than. This is used by the computer to store image data quickly as it passes image information from GPU to CPU. Our selected GeForce GTX 1660 Super Asus Dual Evo OC 6GB comes with 6GB of VRAM which should cover image transfer for Death Stranding at this resolution.

Selecting The Right Death Stranding 1440p 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 i5-9400F 6-Core 2.9GHz 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 $167.87. A low end price for this CPU would be $119.99, which we saw it priced at on 16th Mar 2020.

And with the motherboard costing $72.99 this really helps pull the PC we are building together. To provide a motherboard pricing benchmark the lowest recorded price we have for the ASRock Intel B365 ATX LGA1151 is $59.99 on 4th Apr 2020.

How To Choose The Best RAM For Death Stranding At The Right Price

Our Death Stranding built PC needs some solid performing RAM to enable us to meet the game’s system requirement expectations and achieve the desired FPS at ultra 1440p. The Patriot Viper Steel Series 8GB (1x8GB) DDR4 3200MHz is capable of meeting those needs, while complementing the Core i5-9400F 6-Core 2.9GHz and GeForce GTX 1660 Super Asus Dual Evo OC 6GB of our build and priced at a reasonable $42.99. A low price point for this Patriot Viper Steel Series 8GB (1x8GB) DDR4 3200MHz was spotted on 29th Nov 2019, where we saw it at $30.35.

PC Performance Review at 1440p Ultra Settings on Death Stranding

We reckon these hardware components in our PC build will get 67 FPS at high settings in game and you could improve the graphics up to Ultra and see a FPS of 48 at 1440p.

If you were to increase your screen size with this PC setup to 4k then we expect to see around a figure of 28 FPS on Ultra or 40 FPS on High.

How this build performs for other popular games

When buying a gaming PC for a specific game we still expect it to run other popular games. So as a benchmark lets see how well todays best priced PC build can deal with these 3 games at 1440p. Dying Light 2 should get 48 FPS at Ultra settings and this goes up to 67 frames at High settings. Resident Evil 8 can get an Ultra FPS of 48 FPS and increases to 67 FPS for High. Battlefield 2042 is expected to be around 48 FPS for Ultra settings and improves to a 67 FPS on High settings.

An Alternative Death Stranding Graphics Card Option for 1440p

Or you could put the Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB graphics card into this computer, if you are after an alternative AMD PC build. It has a 7% better performance variation to the GeForce GTX 1660 Super Asus Dual Evo OC 6GB, so similar in capability and we have picked it as the best priced alternative manufacturer card, with a price of $899.98.