Anno 2205 1080p Ultra Custom PC Build Review

Here we will create the best priced PC build to run Anno 2205, where it will meet the demands that a game like this will put on a custom PC. Our view is to answer the question, what PC should I buy that can play Anno 2205 really well, and for the best possible price today? Its therefore our desire to consistently keep stable frame rates on ultra graphics settings, and a 1080p screen 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.

Today we find Anno 2205 is not in our top demanding games list and currently not figuring in our more popular games lists of today. It also falls in under the Strategy, Management, Sandbox game genre types, which itself can influence some of our choices of hardware today, to make sure we better meet the hardware needs of the game. This sort of information will help us build a fuller picture and better understand what to select when putting our best build PC together for the game. Interestingly, it might be worth thinking about the performance of the hardware that the game was originally built on, which would have been from 2015 and shortly before. So the devs themselves may have been aiming for hardware with performance capability from this particular period.

Best 1080p Price to Performance Anno 2205 PC Hardware Component List

Choosing A Graphics Card For Our 1080p Anno 2205 PC Build

When selecting the right graphics card today we are specifically hunting for great price-to-performance gpus that can run Anno 2205 in ultra 1080p. Right now the best graphics card purchase for this game is the GeForce GTX 1650 EVGA XC Ultra Black Gaming 4GB, which will work really well at this screen resolution. It’s currently priced at $169.99, which puts it as one of the cheapest but best performers for this type of game. As a point of interest this graphics card has increased its price by $169.99 over the past two weeks. For reference, the lowest price recorded by us so far for the GeForce GTX 1650 EVGA XC Ultra Black Gaming 4GB is $169.99 on 28th Nov 2019.

Anno 2205 needs 2GB of VRAM to suitably store adequate amounts of image data during transfer between video card and processor. Our GeForce GTX 1650 EVGA XC Ultra Black Gaming 4GB graphics card has 4GB which will be suitable for this resolution of gaming.

Selecting The Right Anno 2205 1080p Motherboard and CPU

MSI B360M PRO-VD Intel mATX LAG1151 motherboard is today’s best buy mobo, that also provides us with the LGA 1151 cpu socket type. Which is ideal for the best performance to price processor we have seen for our build, the Core i3-9100T 4-Core 3.1GHz. This processor is currently priced at a competitive $160.49 and really works well with the GeForce GTX 1650 EVGA XC Ultra Black Gaming 4GB.

And with the motherboard costing $49.46 this really helps pull the PC we are building together. Bottom motherboard prices recorded for this mobo was when we saw it at $32.99, on 28th Dec 2019.

How To Choose The Best RAM For Anno 2205 At The Right Price

To make sure we meet the Anno 2205 system requirements and to help us achieve the required FPS for Ultra at 1080p we have chosen the Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1x8GB) DDR4 2666MHz, which is todays best priced system memory. It is priced at $32.99 and compliments the CPU and GPU nicely. The cheapest system memory price for Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1x8GB) DDR4 2666MHz was recorded as $29.49, and this was on 2nd Feb 2020.

PC Performance Review at 1080p Ultra Settings on Anno 2205

This PC build has been optimized to deliver around 64 FPS at Ultra settings for Anno 2205, while running on a 1080p screen size. While you might want to increase this to 89 FPS if you lower some of the graphics options inline with High graphics settings.

If this 1080p build was to run Anno 2205 at 1440p Ultra, by increasing its screen size, then the FPS it would return on High would be around an average of 68 FPS. At Ultra we expect the average to be 48.

How this build performs for other popular games

We should check some other games performance with our Anno 2205 PC. Looking at some other popular games today, to see how the GeForce GTX 1650 EVGA XC Ultra Black Gaming 4GB and this setup will run on 1080p. Assassins Creed: Valhalla is expected to return 25 FPS when run on Ultra which increases to around 37 frames per second on High. FIFA 21 would return 110 FPS on Ultra and then go up to 152 FPS at High settings. With Genshin Impact we expect 37 FPS running at Ultra settings and 52 frames on High settings.

Selecting A High Performance Mouse For Anno 2205

In today’s build we have chosen a higher performing mouse to better match the needs of this type of game. The Cooler Master MM710 is the best priced gaming mouse that meets our requirements.

An Alternative Anno 2205 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 580 XFX GTR XXX 8GB, which has a 30% 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 $164.99 at the moment.