Hogwarts Legacy 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 Hogwarts Legacy recommended requirements and more then today we will be looking to put together the ideal PC build for Hogwarts Legacy. We are going to choose these parts with the aim of keeping a high FPS rate with ultra settings selected, returning the visuals upon a 1080p monitor screen. 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.

This title falls in the , RPG, Action genre category, which itself can influence the type of hardware we might consider for this build. Something we sometimes dont consider is that the game would be developed in 2023 and therefore on hardware from around that period of time. We can also assume that hardware from around that period would be part of the targeted hardware, in terms of performance, by the developers, as they provide graphical options for the hardware capabilities available. It is currently sat on our most demanding games list at 1, making it one of our more demanding titles on the site right now. Also it is one of the more popular titles, placed at 1 on our most popular games of today list. With this info in hand to help guide our hardware build choices we will now select today’s best priced components that meet these game characteristics.

Best 1080p Price to Performance Hogwarts Legacy PC Hardware Component List

Choosing A Graphics Card For Our 1080p Hogwarts Legacy PC Build

Our key objective when putting together our next gaming PC is always going to be finding a great price point for the most performance we can. Today’s build we start by looking for the right graphics card, at the right price, that can run Hogwarts Legacy at 1080p ultra graphics. Looking through todays available cards and comparing their hardware performance has lead us to cherry pick the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti MSI Gaming Trio 11GB today for this game. It is capable of returning strong frame rates at our desired ultra 1080p. For reference, our lowest tracked price for this graphics card was on 29th Dec 2019 and it was priced at $1140.16. Todays price is $1140.16 which is why we have identified it as a competitive performance to price ratio compared to other hardware in the marketplace today. And we can see the card has dropped its price by $50.67 during the past two weeks.

Our graphics card will need 8GB of VRAM built into it to act as a suitable buffer between our video card and chosen CPU. This graphics card has 11GB which will be plenty for this game at this resolution.

Selecting The Right Hogwarts Legacy 1080p Motherboard and CPU

GIGABYTE GA-A320M mATX AM4 motherboard is today’s best buy mobo, that also provides us with the Socket AM4 cpu socket type. Which is ideal for the best performance to price processor we have seen for our build, the Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core 3.6GHz. This processor is currently priced at a competitive $199.99 and really works well with the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti MSI Gaming Trio 11GB. A low end price for this CPU would be $56.98, which we saw it priced at on 7th Jul 2020.

At $59.99 the GIGABYTE GA-A320M mATX AM4 motherboard muscles its feature rich chipboard into today’s Hogwarts Legacy PC build. Our motherboard price records put this mobo’s price on 18th Feb 2021 at $51.88.

How To Choose The Best RAM For Hogwarts Legacy At The Right Price

One of the more significant hardware components in this Hogwarts Legacy build is the RAM. We are choosing some complementary and well priced Patriot Viper Steel Series 8GB (1x8GB) DDR4 3200MHz. It is currently priced at $42.99. While among the best priced system memory for this build it will still provide us with the ability to reach our desired FPS for the 1080p ultra setting, that we have been focusing on with this PC. This RAM was recorded at the lowest price of $51.88, and this was on 29th Nov 2019.

PC Performance Review at 1080p Ultra Settings on Hogwarts Legacy

Now on to the frame rates for our Hogwarts Legacy running on GeForce RTX 2080 Ti MSI Gaming Trio 11GB at 1080p. We should see an average of 84 FPS on High settings or you could push up the quality to Ultra, which would get us 60 FPS.

Increasing the screen resolution for Hogwarts Legacy would mean this setup would be getting FPS that are 46 FPS average, at 1440p Ultra. The FPS would go up to 64 FPS if the graphics settings at this resolution were lowered to High.

How this build performs for other popular games

Ensuring our PC build for Hogwarts Legacy runs some of the more popular games of today competently at 1080p is also something worth considering. Looking at Star Citizen we see this pc build is likely to get 60FPS on Ultra and 84FPS on High graphics settings. In contrast we can expect Dying Light 2 to return 60FPS on Ultra and 84FPS when lowered to High. Another popular game at the moment is Battlefield 2042, which is 60 FPS running at Ultra, and 84 on High graphics settings.

An Alternative Hogwarts Legacy Graphics Card Option for 1080p

Perhaps you are after a AMD graphics card rather than the one we have added to this build. If so we would suggest the similar performing Radeon RX 6700 XT 12GB, which has a 3% better performance variation, but is still a suitable video card choice for this game. We have also considered the best value for performance based on today’s prices, with it costing $1288 at the moment.