| shakarak said: To the few people who asked me what my current specs are, I'm not super computer savvy. I bought a pre built HP Pavillion and just installed my own graphics cards (two 5750's in Crossfire) and a 850W Power Supply. I have an Intel i7 920 @ 2.67 GHZ Processor I have 9 GB Of Ram (what DDR is I'm not sure I'd have to pull out the ram and find out although if the kind of RAM will make for a possible bottlekneck I'll do it and find out). Do you think that a more advanced card would bottlekneck with these specs? In addition if I do pick up a card should I wait until black friday and any other recomendations on cards between $300 - $500 that would put me at a level above a PS4? It's funny how the poll is heavily PS4 Sided, but the comments have been majorly graphics card oriented. Based on what I'm hearing right now, I'm still up in the air on it. Based on the arguements it seems like a graphics card would be a better investment, I just don't want to miss out playing with some of my buds online. Does anybody know if The Division, Destiny, or DriveClub will have crossplay between games? |
With that CPU you should be alright with the cards you have now, you could slap a higher performance card in but the price of a card that outperforms the ones you have isnt worth the additional performance without upgrading the supporting infrastructure, prebuilt with i7 920 would suggest at the time your pc was sold it was fairly decent spec, however such is the nature of prebuilt systems they rarely have good motherboards, so you most likely have a pcie-2.0 motherboard and relatively low spec DDR3, if you were upgrading the whole system it would be a lot more effective in boosting performance.
however the games you are having trouble with need large blocks of video memory and video bandwidth which your current board isnt going to support very well, while you will see a performance increase over your current cards, it isnt the sort of performance jump that is worth spending that sort of cash on - my suggestion is grab a PS4 at some point over the next 7 months and upgrade your PC late next year when component costs for the current new cards have dropped due to being replaced by newer models.
This suggestion comes from someone running a i7 3970X, 32gb of ram and two GTX Titans.
