Bleeding Edge 1080p Ultra Custom PC Build Review

Our objective here is to enable us to explore what PC we could buy that can play Bleeding Edge, where we carefully find the right hardware components that can run Bleeding Edge and meet its gaming needs while also heavily factoring in today’s best hardware component prices. Its therefore our desire to consistently keep stable frame rates on the best graphics possible, getting its visuals from a 1080p resolution monitor screen. 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.

Bleeding Edge is currently not in our top demanding games list. It is also considered a Online, Action, Shooter genre style game and happened to be built by the devs on hardware from 2020 and in the period leading up to this. This may be worth considering when understanding the performance requirements a PC for this title might be expected to have. It is currently not really figuring in our more popular games lists. All this background info will help us better choose the components today for this game PC build, but our main factor will of course be price to performance for each component and peripheral we choose below.

Best 1080p Price to Performance Bleeding Edge PC Hardware Component List

Choosing A Graphics Card For Our 1080p Bleeding Edge PC Build

Choosing the graphics card needs to be done correctly and as we are putting together a gamer PC build for Bleeding Edge at 1080p ultra graphics we want something with the best price today while returning the best performance for that price. This has led us to the GeForce GTX 1660 Super Asus Phoenix 6GB, which has a good price at the moment, as its currently priced at $229.99. Checking our records our lowest tracked price for this card was on 28th Nov 2019, which had it priced at $229.99. And with that in mind the GeForce GTX 1660 Super Asus Phoenix 6GB is a great match for Bleeding Edge at 1080p ultra. It will certainly help us get good FPS. we will highlight those FPS in more detail later in this article. We have seen this card drop its price recently by $50 which is part of the reason it has been slotted in to this build.

Selecting The Right Bleeding Edge 1080p Motherboard and CPU

Getting the motherboard selection right in this build helps us go on to choose a compatible cpu. With a good price today we find the MSI B360M PRO-VD Intel mATX LAG1151 with its LGA 1151 socket enables us to select the Core i3-9350KF 4-Core 4.0GHz, which is priced right now at $164.99. The cheapest price we spotted this cpu for is $164.99, which was on 2nd Jul 2020.Now we have a great pairing in this rig allowing the CPU and GPU to work well together to get a solid Bleeding Edge experience for the best price point at 1080p.

The MSI B360M PRO-VD Intel mATX LAG1151 motherboard has a cost today of $49.46 that helps find it a place in today’s Bleeding Edge build. To help give some depth to the price points for this motherboard, the MSI B360M PRO-VD Intel mATX LAG1151 was priced at $32.99 on 28th Dec 2019.

How To Choose The Best RAM For Bleeding Edge At The Right Price

Our PC needs some well placed system memory to support our chosen CPU and GPU selections. As we are looking to achieve the 1080p ultra frame rates the Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1x8GB) DDR4 2666MHz is currently priced at $32.99, which is among the better priced RAM today. To provide a RAM pricing benchmark the lowest recorded price we have for the Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1x8GB) DDR4 2666MHz is $29.49 on 2nd Feb 2020.

PC Performance Review at 1080p Ultra Settings on Bleeding Edge

Running a PC build with these hardware components for Bleeding Edge we expect to see about a 88 FPS average, with a few low frame rates in some of the more intense scenes. You could up the quality of game graphics to Ultra, which will see the FPS drop to 63 at 1080p.

Having the option of larger screen resolutions in the future is a handy thing to consider. This gaming PC setup, running Bleeding Edge at 1440p would be pulling in about 67 FPS at High. We would expect that to drop again to 48 if you were playing it at 1440p Ultra.

How this build performs for other popular games

Obviously we will want to run other games on our new Bleeding Edge PC so lets explore some anticipated frame rates of some other popular games today with this hardware at 1080p. Cyberpunk 2077 should get 48 when run on Ultra and this raises to 67 FPS on High. The popular Grand Theft Auto VI gets a return of 44 FPS on Ultra and then up to 61 FPS when settings are dropped to High. Then there is Horizon: Zero Dawn, which is popular at the moment, which is returning 63 FPS run at Ultra and 88 frames on High.

Selecting A High Performance Mouse For Bleeding Edge

With the increased demands this game’s genre, Online, Action, Shooter, puts on our mouse selection we have chosen a higher performing mouse for this setup, while still ensuring it is the best value mouse today for this Bleeding Edge PC build.

Bleeding Edge Benefits From a High Quality Audio Headset

And now we move on to the PC’s audio selection, namely the gaming headset. We were looking to add a higher quality headset with this game’s PC build because it will help us enjoy the sort of game cues this type of game can offer. The headset that offers the best price today is the Tritton ARK Elite 7.1, delivering nice clear audio and a comfortable fitting at a good price. Check out the headset list above to see some alternative headsets available today for a good price.

An Alternative Bleeding Edge Graphics Card Option for 1080p

Not everyone is interested in going with a Nvidia card, like the one we have opted for in this build. So you could try going for the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB instead, which comes with a 7% better performance adjustment when compared to GeForce GTX 1660 Super Asus Phoenix 6GB, and is certainly a solid video card choice for our build. We selected it while also considering its current price point, it is costing $529.99 at the moment.