disolitude said:
As a side note...
I've come to realize that all these insane spec'd builds are really not necessary for enjoyable PC gaming. I've been guilty in the past of buying the latest, greatest and most expensive gear and it really wasn't needed to play the games I wanted to play.
I've recently did some test and benchmarks with my old systems and here is what I've observed.
Athlon X2 7750BE + 4GB DDR2 RAM + HD7750 will run pretty much any game at 1080p and medium settings at 30+ fps. This is some seriously old and low end stuff and it's good enough to run a beast like Metro 2033 on medium and 1080p as long as you disable all AA.
Phenom II 940 (AM2+) + 6 GB of DDR2 + GTX580 will run any game at 1080p and max settings. You may need to lower AA to 4X on Witcher 2 and MEtro 2033.
Phenom II 940 (AM2+ overclocked to 3.8GHZ) + 6 GB of DDR2 + GTX580 SLI will run any game in Nvidia surround on max settings, minus AA.
These are 4 year old CPUs and slow memory combined with latest GPUs and they work just fine. I recently built a HTPC with i5 2500K, 8 GB ram and GTX 580, and I feel kind of stupid cause I could have used any two of my old AMD machines with the GTX580 to play games like Max Payne 3 or Alan wake perfectly fine.
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Well besides gaming this will mostly be for 3d work ( Maya/Mudbox and other 2d aplications). Also this will allow me to be able to work with the different passes in real time which I’ve wanted for a long time
I’ve had a week system for far to long and I can’t make models or texture them with the freedom I need plus I will be able to render scenes at a higher resolution much faster as well :)
If only we didn’t have these high taxes I Sweden though :P
