Help building a Gaming Rig

[disolitude]

Squilliam said:

disolitude said:

NJ5 said:

 

Well you don't need a 200 bucks graphics card or a $180 CPU, there are motherboards cheaper than that, and no one says that you can build a gaming computer for under $600 including the monitor. Excluding the monitor, yes.

ITs true that you DON'T need a 200 dollar card and 180 dollar cpu. But if you don't spend on that you may as well stick with consoles.

The set up Squil posted wouldn't be able to run Crysis or Metro 2033 at 1080p and medium settings and have more than 30 fps.  No one wants to play PC games at medium setting and 30 fps...High detail and 60 fps FTW! :)

http://www.guru3d.com/article/inno3d-geforce-gtx-460-oc-review/14

What card can play Metro at 1080P @30FPS at full settings? I can't see more than 2.

However gamer quality is doable at 30FPS at 1080P

http://www.guru3d.com/article/inno3d-geforce-gtx-460-oc-review/16

Yeah, full setting in MEtro 2033 is asking for trouble even if you have the Fermi 480.

You turn off AA, put detail on high(not very high) and maybe set resolution to 1680x1050 if need be and you should be getting high 30s in resolution with a GTX460 or an ATI equivalent.

I have found a perfect set up with a GTX295 where everything is still set to high, no AA and my res is 1700x900 something and I am getting 50-80 fps depending on if its indoor, outdoor, mask on, mask off...etc.

In any case, anyon getting a PC should get as fast of a CPU as possible and a good DX11 card. A lot of games, applications and emulators are not quad core optimized and when you have a 2.6 ghz dual core CPU, it really doesn't work well.

Unless you have a 3.4 ghz or higher you can say bye bye to Dolphn Wii emulator for example :)