| kristianity77 said:
The Evil Within is one of the worst optimised games to hit the market in recent years so thats a very bad example to use in the first instance. That game should run on much lower specs than it does. |
Oh, now I saw he's planning to keep his Core Duo. The best here would really build a new PC and get up to date parts.The CPU will bottleneck him for current games and he won't play nothing even with a new GPU. Consoles are with 6 cores for gaming, so expect more games to use 4 threads and his CPU won't do it. Upgrading this PC will just waste money, he needs a new build.
About the 970, of course it is an overkill for 720p gaming now. But it has a very good pricing and in the coming years games will rip GPUs apart. Evil Within is a badly optimized game, but it won't be the last. Something like a 750ti will give a lot of issues in 1 or 2 years, so it's better to go for extra power and be sure you can play it.
The PC version of the games is ported from consoles. Even if it's a good port, the added layers of software on PC demands a better hardware to match what was done on the console. If it's a bad port, and most games are, you need an even higher advantage. The 970 will give the advantage you need. It's not for now. It's for the next few years. All these 670s, 750s and equivalent GPUs won't be running a lot of games even on 720p. The most demanding time for upgrades on PCs is when the gen switches. Mid-gen things are a breeze, my old 650 played games on 1080p easily. The new gen made my GPU useless. The GPUs that are a little bit ahead in the power scale are the nexts to become useless.
