EPTComputer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread - Page 494
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mantequilla
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Gofarman
Canada646 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + On May 28 2015 04:36 Gofarman wrote: What is your budget? 1200CAD (1000USD) What is your monitor's native resolution? 1920x1080 What games do you intend to play on this computer? What settings? Starcraft medium mostly (Shadow of mordor, Skyrim.) What do you intend to use the computer for besides gaming? Internet and streaming (finally have good enough upload) Do you intend to overclock? Yes Do you intend to do SLI / Crossfire? No Do you need an operating system? No Do you need a monitor or any other peripherals and is this part of your budget? No (Maybe a capture card is the way to go instead of all internal?) If you have any requirements or brand preferences, please specify. N/a What country will you be buying your parts in? Canada If you have any retailer preferences, please specify. Memory express will post the CPU to a Mobo if you buy through them, all my past builds have used them. | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20322 Posts
there's some decent stuff $20 cheaper | ||
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Shield
Bulgaria4824 Posts
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-CT1024M550SSD1-Internal-Solid-State/dp/B00IRRDHW6/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1433112265&sr=8-3-fkmr1&keywords=crucial mx550 1tb | ||
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Gofarman
Canada646 Posts
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Cyro
United Kingdom20322 Posts
 @Gofarman some faster RAM maybe. I don't know the quality of the SSD or PSU nor exact details of that EVA gpu cooler, but my default 970 recommendation is the msi gaming edition. You're missing a cooler ;p --------------- 980ti is officially official now. Looks like they kept all cache/ROP's/memorycontrollers intact and only cut SMM's. They cut 24 to 22, so only an 8.334% loss. That could present as a 5% or even lower performance difference vs Titan X, having 6GB of VRAM too. 290x vs 290 is a similar situation with marginally more cores cut - but even that equates to often only a 3 - 4.5% performance difference when they're clocked the same. That's very very small, it's not even like 670 vs 680 or 7950 vs 7970 gap. It's too small to even worry about unless you're buying the card for benchmarking. To compare 780/780ti vs 980ti/TitanX.. they all have all memory, ROP's etc. 780 has 80% of the core clusters of 780ti~ 980ti has 91.67% of the core clusters of Titan X. Less than half of the difference. Seems to have maybe even marginally better price/performance than 980, which is a surprise to me. Coming 8.5 months after 970/980, my opinion now is that i'm an idiot and should have waited (or just stuck with 970) but i was pretty sure that was going to happen since a long time ago Gsync now works without needing an application in exclusive fullscreen, which is nice. and optimizations and bug fixes which can provide increased performance for Kepler-based GPUs. | ||
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Divine-Sneaker
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Cyro
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Divine-Sneaker
Denmark1225 Posts
Thanks for the quick answer regardless. | ||
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FFGenerations
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i can't run twitcher 3 , it just tries to load for 0.5 second then nothing happens i tried verifiying steam cache, updating graphics driver, and forcing to directx11 using windows 8 sdk trick i guess i need new graphics card, although this one works amazingly (ran crysis, dota, gta3, skyrm with 80 mods etc) and i can't see how anything can be worth the money it'll cost in upgrading..... so lets say i have £100-150 range to spend on a card (preferably lower side but always optimal choice) here are my specs
i can't get any more info on the motherboard , i guess i have to look at it physically? i guess knowing my motherboard exactly would be SUPER important because it might not be able to have modern cards installed on it or something?? let me know if u need more info what card should i get? | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20322 Posts
On June 01 2015 22:32 FFGenerations wrote: hi again tech guyz i can't run twitcher 3 , it just tries to load for 0.5 second then nothing happens i tried verifiying steam cache, updating graphics driver, and forcing to directx11 using windows 8 sdk trick i guess i need new graphics card, although this one works amazingly (ran crysis, dota, gta3, skyrm with 80 mods etc) and i can't see how anything can be worth the money it'll cost in upgrading..... so lets say i have £100-150 range to spend on a card (preferably lower side but always optimal choice) here are my specs
i can't get any more info on the motherboard , i guess i have to look at it physically? i guess knowing my motherboard exactly would be SUPER important because it might not be able to have modern cards installed on it or something?? let me know if u need more info what card should i get? The only minimum requirement that your system meets for Witcher 3 is hard drive space. The recommended CPU is about 3x faster than yours, as well as asking for 6GB of RAM (though i know that's not -actually- 100% required to start the game). Your GPU doesn't support dx11, so you can't force it~ Crysis is an ~8 year old game, dota is graphically light, Skyrim was primarily designed for the xbox360 which had 0.5GB of RAM total (system and VRAM) and very very little graphical horsepower. gta3 is 14 years old. You're a little out of touch with more modern games  | ||
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FFGenerations
7088 Posts
stuff might run at 25 fps but that's how i roll eh well what about bioshock 3, i played that no problem :D (20fps or whatever) i had black ops working too (only played 5 mins , got bored) | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20322 Posts
eh well what about bioshock 3, i played that no problem :D (20fps or whatever) two year old game that was relatively graphically light for its time. Witcher is one of the hard hitters of -today-, though it runs a lot better with certain settings down i had black ops working too (only played 5 mins , got bored) five year old console port, graphically light you see where this is going ;p | ||
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FFGenerations
7088 Posts
i dont get it. i watch games on jps stream and they look the same as all the other shit. (gameplay is worse than ever.) totalbiscuit is always complaining about games looking like shit too. name me a modern game that i shouldnt be able to run other than twitcher? gta5, dishonored? (i havent tried them) | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20322 Posts
I'm not sure i can name many to be honest, not having played more than a few games recently. I tend to play like three games but for 10'000 hours dying light, cities:skylines, star citizen, ashes of the singularity? guessing a little there. "run" is very different from "aggressively raise settings on" or "have the cpu power to play smoothly even at low settings" so i guess you could "run" a surprising amount of stuff if you were tolerant of bad performance | ||
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FFGenerations
7088 Posts
oh yeah i wud be playing star citizen but dont want to pay for early access yet cpu will be an issue for another day. i will probably have to deal with motherboard before then and wont be able to afford either of them. my E8400 hasn't let me down yet and i have no lack of faith in it. i'm sure all this i5 i7 rubbish is overrated | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20322 Posts
On June 01 2015 23:04 FFGenerations wrote: hmph so do u think i should get a 960 based on the fact that i barely ever play any games but i just went and forked out £50 for twitcher ? like, is this the kind of card i would be happy with for the next 5 years? (as in, is it The Buyers Choice for the midrange optimal purchase?) oh yeah i wud be playing star citizen but dont want to pay for early access yet cpu will be an issue for another day. i will probably have to deal with motherboard before then and wont be able to afford either of them. my E8400 hasn't let me down yet and i have no lack of faith in it. i'm sure all this i5 i7 rubbish is overrated Witcher 3 is actually free with the cards unfortunately and 960's cost ~£170Sure, first gen i5's were not that insanely amazing compared to e8400's. Better and with four cores, but not that amazing. 6'th gen i5 releasing in ~august 2015 is a completely different story though my E8400 hasn't let me down yet because you ask very little of it. When your games stop booting though, that's where even the hardcore low end people have to draw the line :Dlike, is this the kind of card i would be happy with for the next 5 years? I would say no, not at all.. but it depends what you demand from it | ||
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FFGenerations
7088 Posts
what a crock of shit look before i click the button can u double check this is the right thing https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-091-HS&groupid=701&catid=56 cheers buddy if you're selling it with a copy of twitcher i could buy it through you and gift my copy to a friend | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20322 Posts
On June 01 2015 23:20 FFGenerations wrote: what are you fucking kidding what a crock of shit look before i click the button can u double check this is the right thing https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-091-HS&groupid=701&catid=56 cheers buddy That's a 280x 960's are here https://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=1914&subid=2379 https://www.overclockers.co.uk/LP/nvidia-the-witcher-3.php 280's are good buy too, probably better performance/dollar than a 960. 50% more VRAM as well, but witcher is a bit biased towards nvidia. Different game/s free with radeon card too? I didn't check them recently. I got an email for the witcher 3 free thing and saw a forum thread for it again though i can't recommend shit, even if your PSU and the graphics card etc works fine it might not even start the game or other stuff might not work~ | ||
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FFGenerations
7088 Posts
i will be back to blame you when it doesnt work :D (or to make a magnificent brag) | ||
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