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| Thread ID: 132331 | 2013-05-14 04:13:00 | Are these good specs for money/gaming quality? | Daniel78 (17080) | Press F1 |
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| 1341280 | 2013-05-15 03:38:00 | Yes but all the consoles barring the Wii-U run at full 1080p, yes? actually the opposite is true; current conoles generally upscale from 720p and the Wii-U runs native 1080p next gen consoles will run everything at 1080p wii runs SD resolutions only; perhaps this is the source of your misconception. does Daniel have a moinitor already or does daniel want a new 1080p display or something greater? gpus have been more than powerful enough for hdready resolutions for a long time. |
Mirddes (10) | ||
| 1341281 | 2013-05-15 03:55:00 | Aaaaaah OK I stand corrected. I have only had the Wii / Wii-U. Good to know :) "More than powerful"? I was hitting the limits of my 6850 so upgraded to a 7970. Framerate is much more stable now, in the heat of battles with smoke and other crazy spells flying everywhere :D |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1341282 | 2013-05-15 04:08:00 | gpus have been more than powerful enough for hdready resolutions for a long time. Well it depends how you look at it. Sure a mid range graphics card has a lot more power than the console equivalent, but game writers are aware of it and write the games to use the extra capabilities. Consoles on the other hand are fixed so software must be written to suit them. On a big screen the lack of anti-aliasing and similar is very apparent on my PS3 when compared to my PC, it still looks nice but is not in the same league as the PC at the same resolution. If you want to play new games with the settings cranked up so they look their best you need a decent graphics card, there's no getting around that. If you can live with lower settings and console like graphics then sure lower end hardware can do that but that kinda defeats the advantage of PC gaming. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1341283 | 2013-05-15 04:25:00 | MMmm I must admit I've been cranking up the antistropic filtering and antialiasing a lot more now :D FarCry3 looks much better!! | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1341284 | 2013-05-15 04:32:00 | And still it's hard to find a boar. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1341285 | 2013-05-15 04:37:00 | Yeah I found it hard to get my 3rd weapon slot, should have done more side-missions... | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1341286 | 2013-05-15 04:50:00 | min settings generally looks better than consoles. only AA/AF and fullHD+ resolutions are going to make any recent GPU break a sweat. even my 4 year old HD4850 is cpu bound. ive heard it gets a huge performance boost by being paired with a i7. much the same boost i got from overclocking me e2160 to 3ghz max settings, max aa/af etc on a 1366x768 display is easy on even a midrange gpu. 5x1 4K eyefinity would be nice. |
Mirddes (10) | ||
| 1341287 | 2013-05-15 05:48:00 | Nah my 6850 didn't even like 1920x1080 without anti-aliasing on FarCry3. Same for LOTRO. Sitting passive in LOTRO facing a specific part of the wall, I was previously getting ~106fps. Upgraded and now I get ~160. Anti-aliasing brings that down a little bit now, but it doesn't affect the 7970 anywhere near as much as the 6850. Means that even during big boss battles and things the framerate comfortably sits above 60fps. Though previously I found my CPU would sit around 80% playing FarCry with my 6850 on my dual-core 3.2Ghz AMD. Borderlands2 would max the CPU though... but not FarCry, not DotA2, and not LOTRO. Those are my usual games lately. GPU was definitely the bottleneck... |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1341288 | 2013-05-15 05:55:00 | Wouldn't trust anyone who says: Power Supply: 550W Continuous True Power If they won't say the brand of the power supply, then it's definitely a crap one. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1341289 | 2013-05-15 06:16:00 | If they won't say the brand of the power supply, then it's definitely a crap one. ^^ Pretty much ! |
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