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| Thread ID: 127985 | 2012-11-26 05:32:00 | Graphics and Power Supply suggestions | G-Boy (6793) | Press F1 |
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| 1314895 | 2012-11-26 05:32:00 | Hi there all, Me eye sight is starting to get worse, but I do enjoy the odd bit of online gaming, I have at present, a Acer Aspire M391O Mother board, 8.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 664MHz, ATI Radeon HD 5570 (Sapphire), Intel Core i5 650 @ 3.20GHz,(Clarkdale) Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. I have about $450.00 to spend on a graphics card and a power supply. Could any one suggest the best card and power supply for my money? And would I see a good gain? I mostly play Battle Feild3, It plays the game ok at present, but I do have the settings on low, A little more eye candy would be nice :) Thanks |
G-Boy (6793) | ||
| 1314896 | 2012-11-26 05:53:00 | gpu: www.computerlounge.co.nz or www.computerlounge.co.nz psu: www.computerlounge.co.nz my suggestions |
Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1314897 | 2012-11-26 07:54:00 | What's your current power supply? Another suggestion; www.computerlounge.co.nz www.computerlounge.co.nz Better Graphics card and cheaper power supply ends up about the same price. 500W should be enough but run your specs through www.extreme.outervision.com to check |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1314898 | 2012-11-26 08:27:00 | pricespy.co.nz and a nVidia 660 GTX or a 7870. I think the 660 is better from memory. If the psu isn't big enough go up to this: pricespy.co.nz that will probably limit you to only a 7870 though, unless the 660's have come down in price. Edit: www.anandtech.com seems the 7870 is slightly better. Unless you are only going to play BF3, in which case you want and nVidia card anyway. |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1314899 | 2012-11-26 09:06:00 | dude if my rig can easily run on a 500w psu then im sure his will be fine | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1314900 | 2012-11-27 08:43:00 | pricespy.co.nz and a nVidia 660 GTX or a 7870. I think the 660 is better from memory. If the psu isn't big enough go up to this: pricespy.co.nz that will probably limit you to only a 7870 though, unless the 660's have come down in price. Edit: www.anandtech.com seems the 7870 is slightly better. Unless you are only going to play BF3, in which case you want and nVidia card anyway. Why would I want a NVidia if I played BF3? |
G-Boy (6793) | ||
| 1314901 | 2012-11-27 10:31:00 | Because typically nvidia cards get slightly better fps on bf3 but that is a null point when it comes to price for performance. | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1314902 | 2012-11-27 22:42:00 | Because typically nvidia cards get slightly better fps on bf3 but that is a null point when it comes to price for performance. Pretty much. In bf3 benchmarks the 7970 is compared to the 670 more often than the 680 (which it is usually compared to). I think the fps difference gets greater the higher up you go in card hierarchy. Not sure if it's such a problem with lower end cards. It appears the 7870 is about 8 to 10 fps behind the 660 in Bf3. Whether you'll notice those extra 8 fps and if you think the extra money is worth it is up to you. The other game this tends to happen in is portal 2 (you see a slightly bigger than normal performance gap between amd and nvidia). Probably worth noting that chances are bf3 benchmarks are done in campaign, hard to tell what the performance difference in multiplayer is if there is any. |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1314903 | 2012-11-27 22:51:00 | Perhaps its due to the destructible terrain that bf3 has which takes better use of physx thus givig the nvidia card the better fps. But you can always get a lower end nvidia card and use it with your amd one to get physx. | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1314904 | 2012-11-27 23:15:00 | I think it's just a driver optimization issue. The game was probably developed on nvidia cards. Physx doesn't do much. From what I've seen it just tends to break things. | icow (15313) | ||
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