| zuvuyeay said: yes i was looking at some components and the 660ti seemed to be the best option for me,thats expensive for me too,is the i5 quad core fine then for a few years,i don't have to max out games personally,i just want to play them without a hassle with the standard asus p8Z77,decent psu,1tb CB WD,16gb that is £1000 i just can't afford an ssd,how vital is an ssd for these modern times it seems to be all the rage with the 16 gb memory what effect does say 1333mhz to 1600/1866/2400mhz what does that actually mean is it important to have the more expensive one oh and a antec P280 case |
U dont need too powerful GPU or CPU these days to run games without hassle, 660ti is really good value card that will last you quite some time. You might even want to go a tad lower if ur on budget. Read some reviews and most importantly COMPARE BENCHMARK RESULTS, they'll give you a good indication how much better certain card is for certain games and such.
Skip SSD, very little space, still quite high price. You only save seconds not minutes from your loading times.
the memory speed is not really important, also the amount for gaming isn't important. 16gb of memory is way more than you need if youre mostly going to game on that comp, most games still run perfect only at 4gb or less, I'd recommend getting 8gb so you save a bit of money and have some extra memory for the CPU when u happen to multitask or do some light image/video editing. The average difference between memory speeds like 1333mhz and 1600mhz tends to be about 1-2 FPS, so it's really negligible gain. Pick the best value memory, there's not much difference between them.
Case doesnt matter what it is, as long as it can fit all your parts inside. Also DON'T SKIMP ON THE POWER SUPPLY!!! Read some reviews about them. Avoid the cheapo models which blow up inside the case and take other parts with them.
@Planetside 2 discussion, I play it. It's inferior to PS1 in everything else but the polish. Very lite on tactics or purpose, more like a neverending huge BF3 game. :( For people who are new to the series, it's propably quite a bit more impressive though...
Playing PS1 was like playing chess, playing PS2 is like playing checkers :D
Atleast the game is free and will get better in the future without any additional payments
