Cooking Simulator 1440p Ultra Custom PC Build Review
Prices and hardware reviewed and updated: 23rd Aug 2021If you are wanting to buy a gaming computer to run Cooking Simulator then this PC build review is aimed at putting together the correct hardware components for the cheapest price today to do just that. With the PC build brief being to maintain a stable and reliable FPS with the highest ultra graphics, while running on 1440p screen res. As new gaming components are released for PC we will continue to review prices here each day and consider swapping in and out better components.
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. Cooking Simulator is a title which sits in the , Sim, Casual 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 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 Cooking Simulator PC Hardware Component List
Component | Current Price | ||
CPU
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$185.99 | ||
Graphics Card
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$239.99 | ||
Memory
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Patriot Viper Steel Series 8GB (1x8GB) DDR4 3200MHz
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$42.99 | |
Motherboard
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GIGABYTE GA-A320M mATX AM4
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$59.99 | |
Case
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Cooler Master MasterBox Lite 3.1 mATX
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$49.99 | |
PSU
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EVGA 850W Bq 80+ Bronze
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$59.99 | |
SSD
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SanDisk SSD PLUS 480GB
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$58.99 | |
HDD
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WD 2003FZEX HDD 2TB
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$104.99 | |
Display
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Acer 21.5 inch LED 5ms
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$123.73 | |
Keyboard
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Redragon K552
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$27.99 | |
Mouse
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IBats X8 gray 9 Btns
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$12.99 | |
Headset
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Corsair HS45-7.1 Surround
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$36.99 | |
Cooking Simulator PC Build Total Price | $1,004.62 |
Choosing A Graphics Card For Our 1440p Cooking Simulator PC Build
We want a punchy GPU for this build and the GeForce GTX 1660 Super Asus Dual Evo OC 6GB is currently priced at a competitive $239.99. The lowest price recorded by us so far for the GeForce GTX 1660 Super Asus Dual Evo OC 6GB is $229.99 recorded at 28th Nov 2019.. This PC graphics hardware selection is a nice price to performance option when looking to run Cooking Simulator at 1440p ultra graphics. We expect to see some good FPS from this card at these specs. 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.
Selecting The Right Cooking Simulator 1440p Motherboard and CPU
Finding a well priced motherboard, like the one we are putting in our build today really helps tie things together in terms of performance and opens up other hardware options that become available to us later in the selection. The GIGABYTE GA-A320M mATX AM4 motherboard is at a great price point and lets us select our desired Socket AM4 cpu. As the GeForce GTX 1660 Super Asus Dual Evo OC 6GB wants a suitable good pairing when looking to run Cooking Simulator well at this resolution. The Ryzen 5 2600 is currently priced at a competitive $185.99. Our cheapest price recorded for the Ryzen 5 2600 was $59.9, which we spotted on 7th Jul 2020.
At $59.99 the GIGABYTE GA-A320M mATX AM4 motherboard muscles its feature rich chipboard into today’s Cooking Simulator PC build. To provide a motherboard pricing benchmark the lowest recorded price we have for the GIGABYTE GA-A320M mATX AM4 is $51.88 on 18th Feb 2021.
How To Choose The Best RAM For Cooking Simulator At The Right Price
The Cooking Simulator 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 1440p 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. A price point for this RAM was down to $30.35 on 29th Nov 2019.
PC Performance Review at 1440p Ultra Settings on Cooking Simulator
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.
PC Build Research Area
Other Popular Game 1440p Ultra Custom PC Builds
With the larger screen resolutions always being of interest and something to consider, let’s take a look at how this build could perform. Running a 4k Cooking Simulator we would expect 40 FPS at High and a drop to 28 when run at 4k Ultra.
How this build performs for other popular games
To buy this Cooking Simulator PC we will still want it to do ok when running other popular games. So to give us an idea about our builds performance lets see how it deals these 3 popular games at 1440p. Grand Theft Auto VI will be expecting a Ultra FPS of 48 and a High setting FPS of 67 frames. Far Cry 6 expects Ultra FPS around 48 which will improve to 67 FPS for High settings. Resident Evil 8 is expected to be around 48 FPS for Ultra settings and improves to a 67 FPS on High settings.
An Alternative Cooking Simulator Graphics Card Option for 1440p
Not everyone is a fan of team Nvidia, so if you are after a GPU from the other side then perhaps take a look at our suggested AMD card, the Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB. It is placed at 7% better performance difference and certainly capable of delivering up Cooking Simulator frames on a par with our primary GPU selection. We have also selected it based on its price today, which finds it at $899.98.