Starfield 1440p Ultra Custom PC Build Review

This is a hand selected custom PC component build that will answer your question of, what PC should I buy next to play Starfield on. One that has the right gaming hardware to enjoy a great Starfield experience. We are going to choose these parts with the aim of keeping a high FPS rate with max graphics running, running 1440p as the native screen size. 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.

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. Starfield is a title which sits in the , Sandbox, RPG 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 2023 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 Starfield PC Hardware Component List

Choosing A Graphics Card For Our 1440p Starfield 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 Starfield at 1440p ultra settings. Today’s prices for graphics cards lead us to the Radeon RX 5700 XT MSI Evoke OC 8GB as the smartest GPU option for this computer and one that will deliver some good frame rates at this gaming resolution at ultra. As a point of interest this graphics card has increased its price by $9.91 over the past two weeks. For reference, our lowest tracked price for this graphics card was on 6th Dec 2019 and it was priced at $376.05. Todays price of $397.99 is certainly a good price for this hardware, considering the performance returns are a good match for this game.

Selecting The Right Starfield 1440p Motherboard and CPU

Finding a cpu is largely dependent on the right motherboard. The CPU we are going to choose has the Socket AM4 socket type. So we have found the best priced and well featured mobo in the GIGABYTE GA-A320M mATX AM4. The Ryzen 5 2600 processor will then fit in and accompany our Radeon RX 5700 XT MSI Evoke OC 8GB selection nicely, with the cpu being at a great price point, costing $185.99. The cheapest price we spotted this cpu for is $59.9, which was on 7th Jul 2020.

With a price tag today of $59.99, the GIGABYTE GA-A320M mATX AM4 motherboard is certainly in good company, representing a feature rich, cost effective mobo for the Starfield PC. A low price point for this motherboard would be $51.88, which we recorded it at on 18th Feb 2021.

How To Choose The Best RAM For Starfield At The Right Price

To make sure we meet the Starfield system requirements and to help us achieve the required FPS for Ultra at 1440p we have chosen the Patriot Viper Steel Series 8GB (1x8GB) DDR4 3200MHz, which is todays best priced system memory. It is priced at $42.99 and compliments the CPU and GPU nicely. A price point for this RAM was down to $30.35 on 29th Nov 2019.

PC Performance Review at 1440p Ultra Settings on Starfield

We reckon these hardware components in our PC build will get 65 FPS at high settings in game and you could improve the graphics up to Ultra and see a FPS of 47 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 39 FPS on High.

How this build performs for other popular games

We should check some other games performance with our Starfield PC. Looking at some other popular games today, to see how the Radeon RX 5700 XT MSI Evoke OC 8GB and this setup will run on 1440p. Star Citizen is expected to return 47 FPS when run on Ultra which increases to around 65 frames per second on High. Grand Theft Auto VI would return 47 FPS on Ultra and then go up to 65 FPS at High settings. With Far Cry 6 we expect 47 FPS running at Ultra settings and 65 frames on High settings.

An Alternative Starfield Graphics Card Option for 1440p

Not everyone is interested in going with a AMD card, like the one we have opted for in this build. So you could try going for the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Asus Dual Advanced 8GB instead, which comes with a 4% worse performance adjustment when compared to Radeon RX 5700 XT MSI Evoke OC 8GB, and is certainly a solid video card choice for our build. We selected it while also considering its current price point, it is costing $379.99 at the moment.