Help making my PC good for gaming....

[dreamcast210]

Raistline said:

dreamcast210 said:

I assume that is directed to me since I started the thread (someone else chimed in with their specs). Are you saying that spending the money on the new RX 470 would be pointless and I should go for a current card that is on the market right now? If so, what would you suggest?

Your CPU will be a bottleneck for anything over 1080p for sure. You will also see about 10-15% less performance on most games compared to similar benchmarks for the same video card, this may increase as games get more demanding.

With that said you will get amazing performance out of an AMD R9 380 or a GTX 960. So long as you stay at or under 1080p for resolution you should be able to get near-MAX on all settings and get a stable 60FPS for all but the most demanding games. They will run better, and look better than anything the PS4 can put out.

You could also wait for the RX 480 to come out and actually be in stock, you will likely wait a couple months unless you get lucky. It will be cheaper and perform better than both my suggestions above, but entails a wait. You will also likely lose closer to %20 performance vs standard benchmarks due to your i3 CPU. 

You should not have to worry that much about that performance loss though since you can always upgrade your CPU later. Any Motherboard that can run an i3 can run an i5 so when you get the cash together later you can upgrade your CPU and get performance gains throughout your entire system.

 

There is quite a bit to consider when upgrading huh?

A lot to consider but cool to finally have an understanding of this stuff. Always shied away from it because I like the plug in and play of consoles. Honestly, it's Microsoft's announcement about Xbox Play Anywhere that started me thinking about doing this.

Doing a quick search of graphics cards on ebay, the ones you mentioned are at the same cost or even higher than the RX 470 coming out that I'm considering. You think demand for that will be high too?