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| Thread ID: 110199 | 2010-06-07 07:50:00 | Good Gaming PC? | VendettaSteel (15813) | Press F1 |
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| 1107705 | 2010-06-08 04:41:00 | I'm with pctek / Metla / wainuitech See here: www.tomshardware.com www.slizone.com Spend more on GPU. Spend less on the CPU. Yes. People always budget on the card. Geez, why? If you're not gaming, but then you're not buying cool hardware in the first place. First thing I did when I could afford it, bump the card up..... |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1107706 | 2010-06-08 09:31:00 | Yes. People always budget on the card. Geez, why? If you're not gaming, but then you're not buying cool hardware in the first place. First thing I did when I could afford it, bump the card up..... Whats the best card you can buy right now? and is ATI still better than nVidia or have I been told a load of bull? |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1107707 | 2010-06-08 09:34:00 | 5970. Which pctek has. :D | qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 1107708 | 2010-06-08 09:57:00 | Whats the best card you can buy right now? and is ATI still better than nVidia or have I been told a load of bull? One of these possibly. Hope you are sitting down when you look at the price. :waughh: www.ascent.co.nz |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 1107709 | 2010-06-08 10:03:00 | that price is terrible. i could get a decent laptop with windows 7 on it for that price | goodiesguy (15316) | ||
| 1107710 | 2010-06-08 11:36:00 | I got a laptop for that price. Logically if you got a good enough motherboard you'd get better performance for your buck from having two lower end graphics cards running in SLI/crossfire. I'm assuming that on a dual gpu setup you've pretty much got a split of 8x lanes between the two in a single slot, which my motherboard offers if you use both slots. So you could get my mobo and two 5770's for about 800-900 dollars, get probably comparable performance and still have 300 left over. Then again, this might not be the case. But jesus christ it's still not worth having that gpu right now. There are so many more useful things in life that could be paid for with that $1200. |
8ftmetalhaed (14526) | ||
| 1107711 | 2010-06-08 21:43:00 | that price is terrible. i could get a decent laptop with windows 7 on it for that price And? It wouldn't play games as well. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1107712 | 2010-06-08 23:29:00 | that price is terrible. i could get a decent laptop with windows 7 on it for that price Depends on your gaming resolution and if it brings enjoyment.... In reality you can buy a ATI HD5870 for around the $650 mark that will play most games 2560x1600 at over 50FPS. Certainly a 5870 is overkill for the far more common resolution of 1920x1200 and lower accept a few new games like Metro(that sucks anyway) and Crysis prob more like 40FPS but still smooth. I would rate the ATI 5850 $450 (preference) and Nvidia GTX470 as the true current minimum gaming cards looking forward. |
Battleneter2 (9361) | ||
| 1107713 | 2010-06-09 00:16:00 | that price is terrible. i could get a decent laptop with windows 7 on it for that price And I could probably get 1200 cans of baked beans too. Personally I don't tell people what to buy with their money. Surely we have a Government already that does that. All about priorities on what a person decides to do with their disposable income. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 1107714 | 2010-06-09 05:06:00 | Hmmm....still seems insanely cheap. But as you said earlier, get a 5770 in place of the GTX260. And if you can upgrade the CPU to an i7 860 for only $150, then go for it. Firstly, thanks a ton, secondly I bought the parts on the black market, that's why they're so cheap, MUAHUAHUAHUAHA. No, just kidding, I threw this together on dell's website to see what price I would be looking at, and it cost me $150 more than the initial price, of course I didn't mean the retail price ;) Regards, VendettaSteel |
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