You NEED to spend about a thousand and a half to play latest games that require intense amount of processing power maxed out with a decent fps enough to be enjoyable and smooth.
Look at me, I spent 1600 on mine, and metro2033 still runs at 40fps maxed out.
Thanks for all the responses.
Does this seem like a good setup (€583.78):
PSU: Corsair 650W TX V2
CPU: i5-2400 3.1Ghz (quad)
GPU: Sapphire HD6850 VAPOR-X, 1GB
RAM: Kingston DDR3 8GB 1600MHz HYPERX Genesis
Motherboard: Gigabyte 1155 GA-H67M-D2-B3
Which parts should I get something cheaper for, if I want to lower the price?
I don’t think you looked at my link, which shows you that an 800 dollar rig can run BF3 maxed out. My 4 year old rig (with a newer gtx 275) can run BF3 maxed out at 1080P at 30fps. 1600 is overkill these days man. Don’t add fuel to the console haters’ fires.
I paid $1000 even for the following just last weekend:
Asus Sabertooth P67 motherboard with an i7 2600k and 8gb 1600mhz memory, as well as a GTX 560 ti and an intel 120gb sata iii SSD, powered by a Corsair TX750 psu, all in a Corsair 600t case (plus a Dell U2410 24" 1920x1200 IPS display and a backlit keyboard + Logitech gaming mouse)
My point is you don’t need to spend insane amounts of money for insane hardware. It’s about smart shopping. I got the above setup on Craigslist, an hour after selling my old POS alienware for $1250.
lol@you calling buying a 120 GB SSD and spending $100 than you would to just get an i5-2500k which can be OC’d like a motherfucker smart shopping.
From an upgrading point of view you wouldn’t want to get an i5 chip and be stuck with an i5 board for the next couple of years.
Yeah but the i5-2500k overclocked to its fullest potential would probably last you a few years, negating that. Unless you’re one of those retards who likes to just throw money around just because you have too much disposable income.
Apparently you’re one of those retards who missed the fact that I got that system on Craigslist. Obviously I would’ve used a smaller SSD, a different case, an i5 2500k, less RAM, different video card, etc. if I was building it myself. But I wasn’t. And I got a superior system for much less than you could build any “smart” system, especially when you take into account the $400+ worth IPS display I got with it.
But of course
I didn’t mean you in particular, I meant you as a general term.
…the i5 and i7 have the same socket type. You can use either on the same motherboard. Also, the i5 is not going to become obsolete for quite some time. Ivy Bridge might have a new socket when it comes out, but again, Sandy Bridge is not going obsolete any time soon.
Ah. Regardless, my point was that the i7 WAS “smart shopping”, on the contrary to what you said, simply because I got it (plus a hell of a lot of other amazing hardware) for much less than I could build a “smart” system with a smaller SSD/hard drive + an i5.
I don’t think the SSD was a bad idea, I have one in my macbook pro and it makes a huge difference. Way better than my raptor in my PC, although that drive is pretty old school these days. And for 1K that’s a pretty damn good rig if I say so myself. Also, over-clocking is super overrated especially because of the added cost of a better cooler and the risk of hardware failure, and even more especially since 90% of games are GPU bound. I mean, my four year old dual core E6850 3.0GHz still runs literally every game on the market at max settings at 1080P as long as I don’t use AA. I’m not a 60FPS snob so I can handle a game running at 30FPS as well.
Well my point at the SSD was you wouldn’t need one that’s 120 GB. 60-80 is all you’d need for your OS + system updates, and would be considerably cheaper, but as he got it on craigslist, there wasn’t much he could do about its size.
Exactly. And to be honest, I appreciate the size-- I don’t have a hard drive attached to my system yet (can’t buy one because the flood in Thailand made the prices jump 2x-3x), yet I’ve managed to install all the programs and games I play with ~ 30 gigs to spare. Sure, I won’t be torrenting too much now, but I’m not complaining.
And I still find it incredibly entertaining to open folders on the hard disk instantaneously. No spinning up-- it’s just there. Puts a smile on my face every time.
P.S. I was pleasantly surprised to see Crysis 1 run totally smoothly maxed out at 1920x1200 (with no AA, which IMO is unnecessary at that resolution) with a single GTX 560 ti. I’m sure the processor plays a major part in that as my old alienware’s i7 860 and ati 5870 didn’t play it nearly as well at 1080p.
Well that and Crysis allegedly hates ATi cards.
I didn’t have any problem playing it on my 5870 besides it not playing at 60 FPS on maximum. Also it crashed on the last boss in DX10 mode but I don’t think that was because of my card.
Good to hear that you can play Crysis 1 maxed smoothly, that means you’re pretty much ready for everything else you can throw at it
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