Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla is one of this year’s most anticipated titles, and more since it has been confirmed that it will be available for the next generation PS5 and Xbox Series X consoles. However, if you intend to play it on PC and you have doubts about your team, you will be able to do so, in this article you will find our particular recommendation when assembling a PC to play this game in 4K resolution and with everything at maximum.
According to the developer, the recommended requirements to play Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla at 1080p resolution and 60 FPS include a Core i7-6700K / Ryzen 5 1600 processor, 16 GB of RAM and a GeForce GTX 1070 / Radeon RX Vega 56, some features quite high hardware and that we are simply talking about Full HD resolution.
So, below we are going to suggest a recommended hardware configuration (in our opinion and experience, obviously there will be other valid and even better configurations) to be able to play this title at 4K resolution and with everything at its maximum without problems.
PC to play Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla in 4K resolution
As always, we’ll start by saying that the pieces of hardware we’re going to recommend below are simply based on our experience; Obviously there will be better, worse, more expensive and cheaper configurations, but this is what we subjectively recommend. What we do tell you from now is that we are not going to select top-of-the-range parts “just for the sake of it”, but we are going to look for a PC configuration that is reasonable in terms of performance / price.
With that said, let’s go there.
AMD Ryzen 5 3600
Ubisoft recommends a quad-core, eight-thread processor for Intel, and a six-core, twelve-thread processor for AMD. In this case we want to be left over, so the top sales Ryzen 5 3600 with its six cores and twelve threads at 4.2 GHz and with only 65W of TDP seems to us the most sensible option to play, especially with the price it currently has. Plus, it includes the AMD Wraith Stealth cooling solution, more than enough to keep this processor cool, and we save having to buy a separate heatsink.
ASUS ROG Strix X570-F Gaming
It is not difficult to justify the choice of this high-end motherboard for a gaming PC designed for Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, and it is that like any gaming PC we do not want to be limited to just one game, so this is one of the best options ” future proof “in order to continue improving the team for years to come. It has a 3rd generation Ryzen compatible AM4 socket (and will surely work with the 4th), it has USB 3.2 connectivity, two M.2 sockets for PCIe NVMe SSDs with integrated heatsinks and, in general, it is a motherboard that will give us the better performance without compromise.
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 MHz (2 × 8 GB)
Today the “standard” in gaming in terms of amount of RAM is 16 GB, and precisely 16 GB in dual channel mode is what we have chosen. The Corsair Vengeance LPX are also RAM memories that are a sure thing in terms of performance and compatibility, especially at the 3200 MHz at which we have selected them.
EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Black Gaming 8 GB
The most complicated choice for this hardware configuration is undoubtedly the graphics card; However, we are looking to play at 4K resolution and with the maximum graphics settings so we are not going to hang around with little ones and we choose this RTX 2080 SUPER from EVGA. Logically above are the RTX 2080 Ti, but for the price they have (they are still above 1,200 euros), we believe that this is a much more logical option and that it will also give us excellent performance at high resolutions and / or frequencies. of soda.
Corsair MP600 1TB
We look for the best performance to reduce load times, so as for the SSD, we are not shy, and we chose the Corsair MP600 in its 1 TB capacity variant, taking advantage of the fact that we have chosen an AMD platform with PCIe 4.0 support. Thus, this SSD will provide us with theoretical speeds of up to 4,950 MB / s for reading and 4,250 MB / s for sequential writing, ideal for having the best storage performance in any situation.
Corsair HX750
Fully modular, 750 watts of power, flat wiring and 80 Plus Platinum efficiency certification, what more to ask for? Of course, the 7-year warranty with which Corsair provides this power supply, a full guarantee to service the high-end gaming PC that we are assembling here.
Cooler Master MasterCase H500
Certainly the H500P Mesh version is much superior to this box, but it has limited availability and has also gone up in price, and paying 250 euros for it seems exaggerated. Much more reasonable is the lower version H500, which still has plenty of room to install our high-end hardware and includes two 200mm fans on the front (plus one 120mm on the back) to keep our hardware cool on every moment.
In total, this PC would cost us a little more than 1,800 euros and that without adding a separate heatsink (depending on the time you look at it it may vary, keep in mind that Amazon has very fickle prices and there are times with offers in which they drop) , and moments with lack of stock in which they rise).
