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disolitude on 01 April 2013

3770k really is kind of overkill for that GPU if you're doing single screen gaming.
Down the road you can pick up another GTX 660 if your mobo is SLi capable and get a 120 hz or 3 X 60hz monitors and go crazy.



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Scoobes on 01 April 2013
bananaking21 said:
Scoobes said:
With those specs you can shove nearly every game onto its highest settings at 1920x1080 resolution (1080p). There are a few exceptions (Crysis 3, Tomb Raider you may need to drop TressFX, Witcher 2 has a setting designed for dual GPUs etc.) but usually it only means dropping a couple of settings down to "High" instead of "Ultra High". Most games should run fine though.

Also, I've noticed a few games have a benchmarking tool (Tomb Raider, Bioshock Infinite and Arkham City come to mind) which you can use to test your performance. Using my 7870 (only slightly more powerful than your GPU I think) most games fall between 30-60fps on the highest graphics settings.

Oh, and anti-aliasing, I normally don't bother going over 4xMSAA as I can't tell the difference at higher settings. Also, 2x SMAA (newer anti-aliasing technique) achieve similar results but will have less of a performance penalty than MSAA.

In conclusion, nearly every modern PC game you play will look spectacular and play smoothly.


i think there is a problem with my PC, i was trying it out, and at high settings, with res of around 720P would the game only run, and it was obvious it wasnt at 30FPS, there was also problems with the water texture. 

Although your PC is new, try updating your graphics drivers. Depending on the game, some might have bugs on older drivers. Also, check task manager and see what else is running in the background; something could be interfering.




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bananaking21 on 01 April 2013
disolitude said:
3770k really is kind of overkill for that GPU if you're doing single screen gaming.
 Down the road you can pick up another GTX 660 if your mobo is SLi capable and get a 120 hz or 3 X 60hz monitors and go crazy.


i also do 3D art work on autodesk maya and some other programs, so its not just for gaming though it doesnt seem so, i cuoldnt even run Tomb raider on high setting earlier... something seems wrong, ill try another game see what happens



bananaking21 on 01 April 2013
Scoobes said:
bananaking21 said:
Scoobes said:
With those specs you can shove nearly every game onto its highest settings at 1920x1080 resolution (1080p). There are a few exceptions (Crysis 3, Tomb Raider you may need to drop TressFX, Witcher 2 has a setting designed for dual GPUs etc.) but usually it only means dropping a couple of settings down to "High" instead of "Ultra High". Most games should run fine though.

Also, I've noticed a few games have a benchmarking tool (Tomb Raider, Bioshock Infinite and Arkham City come to mind) which you can use to test your performance. Using my 7870 (only slightly more powerful than your GPU I think) most games fall between 30-60fps on the highest graphics settings.

Oh, and anti-aliasing, I normally don't bother going over 4xMSAA as I can't tell the difference at higher settings. Also, 2x SMAA (newer anti-aliasing technique) achieve similar results but will have less of a performance penalty than MSAA.

In conclusion, nearly every modern PC game you play will look spectacular and play smoothly.


i think there is a problem with my PC, i was trying it out, and at high settings, with res of around 720P would the game only run, and it was obvious it wasnt at 30FPS, there was also problems with the water texture. 

Although your PC is new, try updating your graphics drivers. Depending on the game, some might have bugs on older drivers. Also, check task manager and see what else is running in the background; something could be interfering.

thanks, ill try that updating them tomorrow, hopefully that will make things work properly



Nevermore on 01 April 2013

Usually I just start out on max and if things don't run smoothly I dial the settings down bit by bit until it does.



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disolitude on 01 April 2013
bananaking21 said:
disolitude said:
3770k really is kind of overkill for that GPU if you're doing single screen gaming.
Down the road you can pick up another GTX 660 if your mobo is SLi capable and get a 120 hz or 3 X 60hz monitors and go crazy.


i also do 3D art work on autodesk maya and some other programs, so its not just for gaming though it doesnt seem so, i cuoldnt even run Tomb raider on high setting earlier... something seems wrong, ill try another game see what happens

Yeah there is most likely a bottleneck issue somewhere...I love when that happens. :)

After reinstalling the latest drivers (clean install) I'd fire up GPUZ, Core temp, task manager and anything else that I can think of and monitor performance while I play a game. GPU should be your bottleneck and if your GPU is running 100% capacity, you're probably running the game the best that you can on that rig



bananaking21 on 01 April 2013
disolitude said:
bananaking21 said:
disolitude said:
3770k really is kind of overkill for that GPU if you're doing single screen gaming.
Down the road you can pick up another GTX 660 if your mobo is SLi capable and get a 120 hz or 3 X 60hz monitors and go crazy.


i also do 3D art work on autodesk maya and some other programs, so its not just for gaming though it doesnt seem so, i cuoldnt even run Tomb raider on high setting earlier... something seems wrong, ill try another game see what happens

Yeah there is most likely a bottleneck issue somewhere...I love when that happens. :)

After reinstalling the latest drivers (clean install) I'd fire up GPUZ, Core temp, task manager and anything else that I can think of and monitor performance while I play a game. GPU should be your bottleneck and if your GPU is running 100% capacity, you're probably running the game the best that you can on that rig

lol you love when a bottleneck happens? why?

so you are saying that i should reinstall the drivers after checking for updates. install GPUZ, core tem and run task manager and monitor performance while i play the game? 

so you are saying that this is the best performance i will get from my rig? seems really low honestly



RazorDragon on 01 April 2013

Put everything on maximum. There's no game that won't run well on your PC.



haxxiy on 01 April 2013

Man I'm thinking it's about time I upgrade from my 4GB RAM. Kind of embarrassing to think my nearly 4-year old mid-range laptop actually matches it to the day. Although to waste money to cut off a few seconds on loading times and whatnot doesn't really fancies me when there's so much I want to spend money on this year.

Anyways right now your PC should run pretty much everything on max settings and I'm sure you'll enjoy it a lot.



 

 

 

 

 

RazorDragon on 01 April 2013
CGI-Quality said:
RazorDragon said:
Put everything on maximum. There's no game that won't run well on your PC.

Running "well" and run everything @ "max" are very different, though.


My point was that every game will run on maximum and well. I mean, I can play most new games(that have XP versions) on high settings with a Phenom X3 2.3GHz, 2GB DDR2 RAM and a GTS 450. This PC can surely play every new game maxed with anti-aliasing enabled at more than 30 FPS.