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Post by Dunki on Feb 17, 2016 23:19:18 GMT
Good choice there Andrew. Good branded stuff and a 960. Surweet.
Click the buy button John.
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Post by cageyh on Sept 14, 2016 13:32:14 GMT
I think I may have to look at an upgrade. My 8 year old PC seems to struggle a little with running nice detail levels.
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Post by Si on Sept 14, 2016 13:57:31 GMT
I think I may have to look at an upgrade. My 8 year old PC seems to struggle a little with running nice detail levels. I upgraded recently, after splashing out on what I thought was a bargain graphics card: sig-racing.boards.net/post/8073/threadIt of course depends on how much you are spending. But you can see from the thread what I did. I'm running it all on max easily though and I could probably VR or triple screen off it too.
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Post by cageyh on Sept 15, 2016 6:03:44 GMT
£1200 isn't going to happen right now. Other (expensive) hobbies such as HiFi took my spare cash.
I am going to upgrade bit by bit, so what should I get first? Motherboard bundle or graphics card? I currently have an AMD Crossfire set up in my current PC and was playing around last night trying to see if I could get it working on rFactor 2. It seemed to struggle with the stadium section at Silverstone.
So what is the most important bit - GPU or CPU?
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Post by cageyh on Sept 15, 2016 6:33:29 GMT
Having just checked, my motherboard has a PCI-E x16 slot. My graphics card is a PCI-E 2.0 16x so I am thinking a mono bundle would be best for now? Motherboard is an Asus P5K and graphics card is an Asus EAH6970 DCII 2GD5 2GB (with a 6950 working in crossfire).
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Post by Andrew on Sept 15, 2016 6:34:03 GMT
Most of the time the issue is the GPU, so I'd look at that first, however you said your PC is 8 years old so what slot would the GPU need to be comparability with your motherboard? There's no point in buying a card that doesn't work when you upgrade the motherboard. What have you got now and how much do you want to spend?
ETA, you beat me to it! What CPU do you have?
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Post by cageyh on Sept 15, 2016 6:59:31 GMT
I was wondering if a PCI-E 3.0 card would be an upgrade in a PCI-E 16x slot. It seems like there will be the same bottleneck to me.
CPU, if I remember correctly, is a Core 2 Duo E6400. I will confirm tonight.
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Post by cageyh on Sept 15, 2016 7:02:55 GMT
I was thinking of keeping all the existing drives in my PC and changing the graphics card and Mobo bundle. I could build up another PC, but it just adds to the cost.
I just need to check the dimensions of the graphics card is no bigger than what I have.
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Post by scoops on Sept 15, 2016 7:12:21 GMT
I seem to think that currently the bottleneck is with the gpu as DX 9 can't share the gpu and gpu whereas I think I've read that DX11 can send a certain amount of work to the cpu?
In game ctrl +f I think give you bars on the cpu and gpu useage which might show your weakness? Only problem is I can't remember which colour bar refers to gpu or cpu? 🙄
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Post by Andrew on Sept 15, 2016 7:15:03 GMT
If you could stretch to it, a mobo bundle and graphics card would be great. Something like an i5 6500 and mobo with a 990X chipset and a GTX 950 would offer the best value for money right now.
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Post by cageyh on Sept 15, 2016 7:19:42 GMT
The idea is to buy one of the required components soon, and the other in a few months. Having read this article I am thinking graphics card first. To be honest I was tempted by an AMD chipset as that is what I already have. Are the Nvidia chipsets better now? I was thinking of something like this card.
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Post by Andrew on Sept 15, 2016 7:37:08 GMT
Good question, I went from a AMD HD6950 to an Nvidia GTX970 and much prefer the Nvidia. But Si has an AMD card and likes it and the reviews for the RX470 and RX480 are really good.
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Post by scoops on Sept 15, 2016 8:09:29 GMT
Currently using a R9 290 all upto max with no problems at all so no complaints. I'm running triple screens with one different size to the rest with a forth running alongside to show team speak, remote sever voice control program etc
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Post by cageyh on Sept 15, 2016 8:23:26 GMT
More research required tonight, following this - Comparison table. I am after best bang for buck, not outright performance.
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Post by Andrew on Sept 15, 2016 8:31:10 GMT
Kev, I've always used this page here to make sure I'm getting the best graphics card I can for the money.
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