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Ray Tracing

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  • 09-12-2020 9:59pm
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    Irishder
    Registered Users Posts: 927 ✭✭✭


    Hi All,
    I built this pc about 18 months ago for my son with recommendations from people here:

    AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Processor with Wraith Stealth Cooler - YD2600BBAFBOX
    £119.00
    • MSI GeForce GTX 1660 ARMOR 6G OC (6GB GDDR5/PCI Express 3.0/1845MHz/8000MHz)
    £209.99
    • MSI B450 GAMING PLUS Socket AM4 ATX Motherboard for AMD Ryzen Processors
    £79.97
    • Be Quiet! 500W System Power 9 PSU, 80+ Bronze, Dual 12V, Cont. Power
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    • Sharkoon VG5-W Stylish Case for PC - Red
    £40.46
    • TCSUNBOW 240GB 250GB 256GB 2.5 Inch SSD With 256M Cache SATAIII 6GB/s Internal Solid State Hard Drive for Notebook Tablet Desktop PC(X3 240GB)
    £20.99
    • G.Skill AEGIS F4-3000C16D-16GISB Memoria 16GB DDR4 (2x8GB)
    £60.26

    He is now wanting to play minecraft with Rat Tracing, what would i need to upgrade to for this?

    Thanks


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    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,247 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    You need an nVidia RTX series video card, that's the 20 and 30 series. Or an AMD 6000 series card. You can see the requirements here:

    https://help.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/360052769812


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    Samuel T. Cogley
    Registered Users Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    It'll need to be an nVidia card, AMD technically does it but the performance with all the bells and whistles on will be poor.


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    ED E
    Registered Users Posts: 36,167 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Honestly, its not worth it. Its an addon/nice to have for most games, Minecraft regular still exists. Buying a new GPU just for that seems like a poor use of funds to me.


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    ozmo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,865 ✭✭✭ozmo


    ED E wrote: »
    Honestly, its not worth it. Its an addon/nice to have for most games, Minecraft regular still exists. Buying a new GPU just for that seems like a poor use of funds to me.

    Yes- I don't really see the purpose of making minecraft look better other than a good demo for rt - it was designed to have that lego look.

    If its better graphics he is into - Maybe have him look into some more advanced world building games - there is very good jobs for those who are capable in Unity - and its not that difficult to get started - and you pc should be more than capable.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wOeHPmu4Go&ab_channel=HowToDo


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wOeHPmu4Go

    “Roll it back”



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    Irishder
    Registered Users Posts: 927 ✭✭✭Irishder


    ozmo wrote: »
    Yes- I don't really see the purpose of making minecraft look better other than a good demo for rt - it was designed to have that lego look.

    If its better graphics he is into - Maybe have him look into some more advanced world building games - there is very good jobs for those who are capable in Unity - and its not that difficult to get started - and you pc should be more than capable.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wOeHPmu4Go&ab_channel=HowToDo


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wOeHPmu4Go
    looks great thanks


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