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Rachnar
France1526 Posts
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iLLusive
United States274 Posts
Looking for the best priced upgrade to go from my outdated Nvidia GTX 480 into something bit faster for current games I play, which are LoL, Sc2 and mostly Diablo 3 now. Budget is $250, or $500 depending if I would need to sell my GTX 480 to get the best upgrade, I believe I could get at least 150 for it. My rig is pretty solid so I can support any card on the market right now I am running i7 980x water cooled / 16 gigs of ram / 1100 wt power supply that is only running one monitor so just needs to support running ultra 1080p quality settings, but I would enjoy getting back into streaming again. Thanks for the feedback and input from folks who probably already have top end 600 series cards. | ||
Womwomwom
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iLLusive
United States274 Posts
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Womwomwom
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Rachnar
France1526 Posts
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poundcakes
Norway239 Posts
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findingthelimit
Hong Kong219 Posts
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Shauni
4077 Posts
On June 30 2012 18:26 findingthelimit wrote: is there a problem with the nvidia driver, or is it blizzard's problem? would switching to amd help :o Yes. AMD make the best graphics card. To run Diablo 3 on high, you'll want 7970, preferably in crossfire. | ||
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Tantaburs
Canada1825 Posts
Western Digital Caviar Blue WD10EALX 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" - Can get a black for an extra $30 but not sure if it is worth it AMD FX-8150 Zambezi 3.6GHz Socket AM3+ 125W Eight-Core Desktop Processor - People have told me that i should get an Intel Processor but just going off benchmarks and Itel processor that benchmarks higher then this is ~300 while this is 210 ASUS M5A97 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS - I know absolutley nothing about mother boards. I chose this one because it was the cheapest that was on the "Also bought" list so i figured it was compatable. SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 6870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card - Again I simply went off of benchmarks and this was the highest card at a decent price. CORSAIR Gaming Series GS700 700W ATX12V v2.3 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC High Performance Power Supply - Went online to see how much power i should need and it said 600 figured i should overshoot the num er it gave me for future expansion. It also was in a combo with my ram CORSAIR XMS3 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 - again people online said that 8gb was a good number and it came with the power supply. Entire rig is 1033.47 after taxes and S&H. I mainly play SC2 LoL and Skyrim. I;m currently using a laptop that can run LoL and SC2 at decent setting with good FPS but skyrim lags at anyting higher then medium. D3 gets laggy as well. The main reason i want a new machine is because my laptop runs very hot so i figure it will have a rather short life if i keep using it as a desktop and I would like to be able to play games such as The witcher 2 which i don;t think i could run currently. | ||
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Rachnar
France1526 Posts
with an HD6870 you only use 200w (though more with AMD cpu... a lot more), so a 700w is useless getting a corsair or antec 400-500w will be more then plenty for ram you will want the cheapest 2x4gb at 1.5v you can find | ||
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MisterFred
United States2033 Posts
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cemicolin
United States2 Posts
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/MSI-MultiConnect-Panel-Voice-Genie-Wi-FI-Bluetooth-3.0,14383.h | ||
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iTzSnypah
United States1738 Posts
On June 30 2012 21:42 Tantaburs wrote:+ Show Spoiler + So my grandfather gave me $1000 for my 21st and am am in need of a new computer. Im not as informed on computer parts as i would like to be so i am doing some research and would like to know if this is a good computer. Western Digital Caviar Blue WD10EALX 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" - Can get a black for an extra $30 but not sure if it is worth it AMD FX-8150 Zambezi 3.6GHz Socket AM3+ 125W Eight-Core Desktop Processor - People have told me that i should get an Intel Processor but just going off benchmarks and Itel processor that benchmarks higher then this is ~300 while this is 210 ASUS M5A97 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS - I know absolutley nothing about mother boards. I chose this one because it was the cheapest that was on the "Also bought" list so i figured it was compatable. SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 6870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card - Again I simply went off of benchmarks and this was the highest card at a decent price. CORSAIR Gaming Series GS700 700W ATX12V v2.3 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC High Performance Power Supply - Went online to see how much power i should need and it said 600 figured i should overshoot the num er it gave me for future expansion. It also was in a combo with my ram CORSAIR XMS3 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 - again people online said that 8gb was a good number and it came with the power supply. Entire rig is 1033.47 after taxes and S&H. I mainly play SC2 LoL and Skyrim. I;m currently using a laptop that can run LoL and SC2 at decent setting with good FPS but skyrim lags at anyting higher then medium. D3 gets laggy as well. The main reason i want a new machine is because my laptop runs very hot so i figure it will have a rather short life if i keep using it as a desktop and I would like to be able to play games such as The witcher 2 which i don;t think i could run currently. BRO. Picking a FX-8150 off synthetic benchmarks is THE MOST stupid thing in the world, right after buying a prebuilt. i5-3570k is ~7-10% better than i5-2500k and even then the i5-2500k still beats the FX-8150 by more than 30% in gaming (300% in Civ5 LOL), while using alot LESS energy. http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/434?vs=288 Buying AMD right now for CPU's is beyond stupid as AMD gave up on performance. | ||
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MisterFred
United States2033 Posts
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InseKtSC2
United States173 Posts
Processor: Intel® Core™ i7 3820 Processor (4x 3.60GHz/10MB L3 Cache) Liquid Cooling 2x 120mm fan push pull airflow RAM: Kingston 16 GB [4 GB X4] DDR3-1600 Memory Module Video Card: Single AMD Radeon HD 7970 - 3GB Mobo: [3-Way SLI] Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 -- 4x PCI-E x16, 6x SATA 6Gb/s Primary HD: Single 120 GB Corsair Force Series GT SSD Data HD: Single 2 TB HARD DRIVE -- 64M Cache, 7200rpm, 6.0Gb/s Power Supply: 1000 Watt standard ****** Additional Notes Looking to stream with standard 720p xsplit. EDIT: i could OC up to 20% on the 3820 and get a 1200 watt power supp. Which one? Im wary of OCing | ||
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MisterFred
United States2033 Posts
I still suggest you save $300-400 by building on your own and then invest in another monitor or save the money. Fill out the questionnaire in the OP for help. If you stubbornly insist on using ibuypower, get the corsair tx650 power supply. | ||
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InseKtSC2
United States173 Posts
On July 01 2012 10:06 MisterFred wrote: the problem with the power supply isn't the number of watts, it's the brand & reliability of the power provided. If you're not going to overclock yourself, don't pay to have someone else do it, just don't bother. I still suggest you save $300-400 by building on your own and then invest in another monitor or save the money. Fill out the OP for help. If you stubbornly insist on using ibuypower, get the corsair tx650 power supply. is this power supply good? 1200 Watt - Thermaltake TR2 TRX-1200M they have a savings event and its a free upgrade from a 1k watt one | ||
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MisterFred
United States2033 Posts
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InseKtSC2
United States173 Posts
On July 01 2012 10:13 MisterFred wrote: It's pointlessly large. Your setup won't use more than 400w if you don't overclock it. Overclocking won't use more than 500w, off the top of my head. i need at least 850 because of the video card | ||
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