The Stranger VR 1080p Ultra Custom PC Build Review
Prices and hardware reviewed and updated: 13th Aug 2021This is a hand selected custom PC component build that will answer your question of, what PC should I buy next to play The Stranger VR on. One that has the right gaming hardware to enjoy a great The Stranger VR experience. We are going to choose these parts with the aim of keeping a high FPS rate at the highest graphics settings, using 1080p monitor resolution. These hardware items found in our build will continue to have their prices checked and components will be swapped in and out as we feel better hardware for our build is released.
We will be looking across a range of things to help evaluate this best gamer build. We will be looking across the range of best value for money components based on today’s prices. Something that can influence our peripheral selection is that the game is found in the , Action, Adventure genres, and this can sometimes sway some of the requirements of hardware we choose. Something else to consider is that The Stranger VR would have been built on PC hardware from 2020 and shortly before this period. All interesting points for sure, but what we are really after is that we want to select components that best fit this game type but will also be today’s best value for money hardware of good enough quality to meet the game’s needs.
Best 1080p Price to Performance The Stranger VR PC Hardware Component List
Component | Current Price | ||
CPU
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$199.99 | ||
Graphics Card
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$689.99 | ||
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 | |
The Stranger VR PC Build Total Price | $1,468.62 |
Choosing A Graphics Card For Our 1080p The Stranger VR PC Build
When selecting the right graphics card today we are specifically hunting for great price-to-performance gpus that can run The Stranger VR in ultra 1080p. Right now the best graphics card purchase for this game is the GeForce RTX 2080 Super Zotac Twin Fan 8GB, which will work really well at this screen resolution. It’s currently priced at $689.99, which puts it as one of the cheapest but best performers for this type of game. We have seen this card drop its price recently by $40 which is part of the reason it has been slotted in to this build. For reference, the lowest price recorded by us so far for the GeForce RTX 2080 Super Zotac Twin Fan 8GB is $679.99 on 29th Feb 2020.
Selecting The Right The Stranger VR 1080p Motherboard and CPU
The motherboard we are going for is the GIGABYTE GA-A320M mATX AM4. Its the best priced Socket AM4 socket type motherboard on the market today and will give us the spot to choose a great pairing CPU for the GeForce RTX 2080 Super Zotac Twin Fan 8GB. Looking over the prices today we can see that the Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core 3.6GHz processor is a great choice for this game and is currently costing $199.99. Giving us a bit more of an insight we saw this processor being sold for a low price of $56.98, which was on 7th Jul 2020.
With the feature rich GIGABYTE GA-A320M mATX AM4 priced competitively at $59.99 it is certainly in todays The Stranger VR build for a good reason. Our motherboard price records put this mobo’s price on 18th Feb 2021 at $51.88.
How To Choose The Best RAM For The Stranger VR At The Right Price
Researching the correct system memory for our build means we need it to meet The Stranger VR requirements, with a view to running reliable FPS at Ultra settings leads us to Patriot Viper Steel Series 8GB (1x8GB) DDR4 3200MHz. Today it is one of the best priced RAM options at $42.99 and will certainly support the CPU and GPU well. To help provide a sense of cost for this RAM, the Patriot Viper Steel Series 8GB (1x8GB) DDR4 3200MHz was priced at $30.35 on 29th Nov 2019.
PC Performance Review at 1080p Ultra Settings on The Stranger VR
This PC build has been optimized to deliver around 64 FPS at Ultra settings for The Stranger VR, while running on a 1080p screen size. While you might want to increase this to 90 FPS if you lower some of the graphics options inline with High graphics settings.
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At some point you might want to increase your screen size from 1080p to 1440p. The Stranger VR running with this hardware on the larger screen resolution would return 49 FPS at Ultra graphics setting or possibly up to an average of 68 FPS on High settings.
How this build performs for other popular games
To buy this The Stranger VR 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 1080p. FIFA 22 will be expecting a Ultra FPS of 64 and a High setting FPS of 90 frames. Back 4 Blood expects Ultra FPS around 64 which will improve to 90 FPS for High settings. Dying Light 2 is expected to be around 64 FPS for Ultra settings and improves to a 90 FPS on High settings.
An Alternative The Stranger VR Graphics Card Option for 1080p
Or you could put the Radeon RX 6700 XT 12GB graphics card into this computer, if you are after an alternative AMD PC build. It has a 11% better performance variation to the GeForce RTX 2080 Super Zotac Twin Fan 8GB, so similar in capability and we have picked it as the best priced alternative manufacturer card, with a price of $1288.