Planning on buying new Gaming PC need help from the Chartz

[Squilliam]

TheThunder said:

Squilliam said:

TheThunder said:
but Squilliam thee MOBO and CPU are $200 together vs $160 CPU + $95 dollar MOBO so it's a great deal tbh

and about the GPU I want to buy something that I don't really have to upgrade for a long time (maybe till the next gen of consoles hit or something) when are the new AMD cards are coming and how much are they gonna cost from in your opinion ??

and BTW what about the differences between XFX and DIAMOND ... etc ??

XFX has a better warranty, I would say they are the better brand overall from reputation.

The new Direct x 11 (the cards you're looking at are 10) cards from AMD will definately be here between now and Windows 7 release so you could hold off on the purchase of the GPU until then and get everything else now right? Direct X 11 is important because not only will you get a faster card overall, Direct X 11 will produce better visuals and require less performance than a direct X 10 card would to do the same. They should cost $250-$300 for a top end card and $150-200 for a mid -> high end card.

 

but the cards will not drop until Octoberish probably and then you have to wait for it to drop in price because companies like that want to catch the first costumers with the "premium" price so you are looking at a 4-8 months time of waiting for a decent price. I've seen it happen all the time with the core 2 Duo and every new Nvidia Generation cards. I think what I'm going to do is get a decent card now and see what happens with the new cards because even DX10 took a long time before getting fully utilize and I don't think DX 11 will be that different.

AMD typically prices their cards in the $250-$300 range for the high end (5870) which is around where you're looking to pay now. They also price their cards at $150-$200 for the mid/high cards (5850 range). The HD 4890/70/30's will probably be the HD 5830/57** range.

Direct x 11 brings 3 main things:

Tessellation -> It means that a card can output a crapload of polygons like for example Forza 3 with over 1M polygons and as the card gets weaker with time it helps more.

Compute Shader -> It means that the cards shaders can process a much wider variety of workloads for example it can speed up rendering/deconding, the games can offload physics calculations etc.

A new process node -> The cards are made on the 40nm process nodes which means more performance, less power usage. So whilst an HD4870 may have 800 shaders you can expect more for the next generation cards. AMD predicts their next generation cards will be faster than the GTX 285.

Direct X 11 is probably the most important change since Direct X 9 in what it brings to the GPU sphere in computing.