The Best Gaming PC to Play at 2K Resolution and 144 FPS at Maximum

Playing at 144 FPS is important for competitive play, as receiving visual feedback before everyone else is crucial to winning many titles.

Follow our advice and you can have the right PC to play your favorite games at this incredible refresh rate and 2K resolution.

Setting up a gaming PC to play at 2K resolution and 144 FPS

The first and most important criterion is that we assume that you already have a PC monitor with a refresh rate of 144 Hz to be able to play, or surely you have already had your eye on one beforehand. In any case, we are going to give you a couple of recommendations.

The ASUS VG279Q is the best option that you can find at the moment in the market to play at 144 frames per second without problems thanks to its response time of 1 ms.

Also the Viewsonic XG2405 is a good choice as a monitor, and it is somewhat cheaper.

The importance of the CPU in a gaming PC for 2K and 144 FPS

When rendering each frame that we see on the screen, the first part of the work is done by the CPU and that is why it is important that it is fast enough when doing its work. Nowadays all games use the multicore characteristics of the processors, so the more cores the CPU of your system has much better, since it will take advantage of the additional cores and if you can make sure that the CPU has support for SMT or HT, so much better.

That is why we recommend at least a CPU with 6 cores or more and therefore the option we have chosen is the AMD Ryzen 5 3600X as the CPU of our system.

But if you want even more performance, we recommend that you place a good liquid cooling system in your PC in order to overclock the CPU and place it at higher speeds, which is ideal to have shorter frame times and arrive like this more easily at a higher refresh rate.

Second, RAM

We recommend a dual-channel configuration with 16 GB capacity, 8 GB per channel, and since the AMD Ryzen are dependent on the performance of the speed of the RAM, we recommend pulling DDR4 memory as fast as possible in the event that opt for one of those processors.

We can’t forget storage

Some games continually search for data beyond RAM. That is why a solid disk is preferable over a conventional HDD as this helps not only load times, but the CPU also increases performance.

We have several options for an SSD, both are faster than a conventional hard disk, but in speed if we can connect an SSD through PCI Express it is preferable, and if possible at least PCIe 3.0. Besides, an SSD is a future option to consider, since the games will soon ask for it as a minimum technical requirement, replacing conventional hard drives.

The recommended one is a 1 TB capacity so as not to fall short with the storage, and if it is under the 4.0 standard, the better.

The graphics card, the most important

For this configuration, we are looking for a gaming PC to play at 2K resolution and 144 FPS, we do not recommend a graphics with less than 8 GB of memory and that has a memory bus of less than 256 bits.

We have chosen a model based on the RX 5700 XT for quality / price ratio and have discarded the NVIDIA options due to the fact that it supports FreeSync. The reason not to choose an NVIDIA card is not only because they are more expensive, but because higher-end NVIDIA cards base their extra power on running at 4K, for Ray Tracing and DLSS is not fast enough yet for be applicable to 144hz refresh rates in a solvent manner.

For a little less money and if you want to opt for the AMD option, the RX 5700 XT are your best option.

With these tips you can get an approximate idea when configuring a PC to play at 2K and / or 144 Hz without problems, at least without too many filters.

We can’t forget about the motherboard

The ASUS Prime B550-A is a good choice as a motherboard, it is compatible with Zen 2 and has support for PCI Express 4.0 so the CPU-GPU communication will be much more fluid thus increasing performance (+ -2% extra ).

And to finish the tower

I have chosen the NOX Infinity Neon as a tower to finish assembling our PC.

And we can’t forget about the power supply. With a 600W it will be enough for us.

How much would our 2K Gaming PC cost?