The Gaming PC Building/Upgrade Thread

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Garcian Smith said:

fenderlove01 said:

But it would be kind of dumb not to get a gpu that supports directx 11, because within the near future many pc games will be using directx 11. And if you dont get a gpu that supports it then you wont get to play with the full experience, plus you can buy a 5750 and a 5770 for pretty cheap. 

What do you consider "the near future"? At the moment, there's only a couple of DX11 games worth playing (Stalker CoP, Battlefield BC2, and Dirt 2) and all three of those run just fine on a DX10 card. And check out the ones that are announced: it's just Crysis 2, Metro 2033, and a handful of MMOs.

It's the same situation as when DX10 came out: People rushed out to become early adopters, and then games continued to be developed primarily for DX9 for years. It's only in the past year that we've finally seen a handful of DX10-only games. Don't be a sucker and fall for the same tricks again.

@ GreyianStorm: The recommended builds in the OP have already become outdated, sadly. I'll have to get around to updating them soon. In the meantime, I'll ask a mod for a sticky.

This situation is completely different. DX10/10.1 are subsets of DX11. So a developer only has to support both DX11 and DX9 or can completely migrate away from DX10. The major advantage is the compute shader which speeds up post processing effects which are starting to take up a significant proportion of frame time.