Your Graphics Research
Your Graphics Research
If you are wanting to buy a gaming computer to run Batman: The Enemy Within - A Telltale Game Series then this PC build review is aimed at putting together the correct hardware components for the cheapest price today to do just that. We will therefore be aiming to run this game confidently each time with ultra graphics settings, along with a 1440p monitor resolution. The hardware selection should give us all a good jumping off point when considering what might prove a good build and price for a PC to run Batman: The Enemy Within - A Telltale Game Series. We will update prices here as they change and switch out components as new, better hardware is released.
Before getting this build together we need to consider a few background characteristics about the game we are building this PC for. Batman: The Enemy Within - A Telltale Game Series falls into the Adventure genre category groupings and would have been finished being developed during 2017 on hardware released around that period of time which may be a factor when we choose the type of hardware as it would need to be comparable in performance to hardware available from around this time. The game is not in our top demanding games lists. While these facts help us put together the best PC for the game we will still be selecting components based on the latest prices for the chosen peripherals and hardware for our build. Choosing today’s best priced items to give us an ideal PC build today for the game.
| Component | Current Price | ||
CPU |
$129.40 | ||
Graphics Card |
$175.45 | ||
Memory |
Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1x8GB) DDR4 2666MHz |
$32.99 | |
Motherboard |
MSI B360M PRO-VD Intel mATX LAG1151 |
$49.46 | |
Case |
Cooler Master MasterBox Lite 3.1 mATX |
$49.99 | |
PSU |
Corsair VS Series 650W 80+ White |
$64.98 | |
SSD |
Crucial MX500 SSD 500GB |
$53.99 | |
HDD |
Toshiba X300 HDD 5TB |
$374.97 | |
Display |
AOC 22 inch 5ms |
$90.00 | |
Keyboard |
Redragon K552 |
$34.99 | |
Mouse |
PICTEK Gaming Mouse 7200DPI wired 7 Buttons |
$15.99 | |
Headset |
Corsair HS45-7.1 Surround |
$39.99 | |
| Batman: The Enemy Within - A Telltale Game Series PC Build Total Price | $1,112.20 | ||
Choosing the graphics card needs to be done correctly and as we are putting together a gamer PC build for Batman: The Enemy Within - A Telltale Game Series at 1440p ultra graphics we want something with the best price today while returning the best performance for that price. This has led us to the Radeon RX 570 Sapphire Pulse 4GB, which has a good price at the moment, as its currently priced at $175.45. For reference, our lowest tracked price for this graphics card was on 5th Feb 2020 and it was priced at $123.99. And with that in mind the Radeon RX 570 Sapphire Pulse 4GB is a great match for Batman: The Enemy Within - A Telltale Game Series at 1440p ultra. It will certainly help us get good FPS. we will highlight those FPS in more detail later in this article.
We have selected a MSI B360M PRO-VD Intel mATX LAG1151 motherboard to allow us to then go on and add a great cpu for this Batman: The Enemy Within - A Telltale Game Series build. With a LGA 1151 socket type motherboard we choose the well priced Core i3-9100F 4-Core 3.6GHz, which is at the best price to performance for processors in this range at the moment. Currently priced at a competitive $129.4 this cpu is a good performance addition for our build. Looking through our price records we noticed that this processor was seen on 27th May 2020 priced at $59.
Looking at motherboard prices and features the competitively priced $49.46 MSI B360M PRO-VD Intel mATX LAG1151 certainly takes a well-deserved place in our build. Our motherboard price records put this mobo’s price on 28th Dec 2019 at $32.99.
As one of the 3 main system components, when considering a PC built for Batman: The Enemy Within - A Telltale Game Series, the correct RAM selection is obviously important. We are looking for something that is well priced but also capable of meeting the games requirements. The Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1x8GB) DDR4 2666MHz is well priced at $32.99 and fits with the Core i3-9100F 4-Core 3.6GHz and Radeon RX 570 Sapphire Pulse 4GB selections to ensure solid FPS at 1440p ultra settings. 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.
We reckon these hardware components in our PC build will get 95 FPS at high settings in game and you could improve the graphics up to Ultra and see a FPS of 68 at 1440p.
With the larger screen resolutions always being of interest and something to consider, let’s take a look at how this build could perform. Running a 4k Batman: The Enemy Within - A Telltale Game Series we would expect 57 FPS at High and a drop to 40 when run at 4k Ultra.
To ensure we are making a good choice with this Batman: The Enemy Within - A Telltale Game Series PC build we can check to see if it performs consistently across a variety of games. Some of the most popular games today include Far Cry 6, FIFA 21 and Watch Dogs Legion so let’s see how this build handles them at 1440p. Starting with Far Cry 6 we can expect to be seeing an Ultra FPS of 15 and at High settings an FPS of 21 frames. In comparison FIFA 21 is likely to see an Ultra FPS of around 109, improving to 149 FPS on High settings. Lastly Watch Dogs Legion will see an Ultra FPS of around 35 which improves to a 50 FPS on High settings.
The Nvidia option for this build would be the 8% worse performance difference GeForce GTX 2050 Ti 4GB graphics card and certainly a viable choice for Batman: The Enemy Within - A Telltale Game Series. We considered this alternative graphics solution because it was also the best price point in this performance range. It is priced at $139.99 today.