| friedtofu said: I dunno. Im not a "kiddie" but Id have to disagree here. Not trying to add to the pissing contest but... I dont think your budget PC will run Crysis very well. Sure it might run...but Powerhouse?..nah. Also, you mentioned being a graphic designer and the workstations you use. Arent there are some big differences between workstation and gaming gpu's? I think most of it is in the what the drivers are optimized for. For example workstation gpu's have specific certified drivers for use in things like CAD, DCC etc and have to pass stricter stress testing standards since they might have to run for days on end rendering 24/7. |
You are welcome to disagree but I am quite confident it will unless you are trying to run it a a high sceen resolution. Almost all testing on games is done at 640 x 480 and I base it on that. If you want everything on at 1280 x 1024 say, then no you will need dual video cards.
Actually I am not a graphic designer I am in medical research imaging to support things like 5 dimensional fluorescent microscopy where a single experiment may produce 500 MB of images at a time. The work requires moving a lot of pixels as fast as possible and thus workstations that are essentially identical to a good gamer. (which they are occasionally used for after hours.
I was not trying to compete with the highest end Alienware $3k and up gamer. I said if you could afford one go get it. This was intended obviously at someone who had not built computers and was on a budget. What I suggested is actually extremly powerful compared to mainstream computers but I also listed a commercial gaming computer of essentially the same power for $999, only some $300 more expensive.
I'm sure that there are limitless other choices, there always are, but I don't think you will do much better for under $700. Thats my opinion, if you have something you like better, fine post it along with data to support it and people will be able to make their own choice.
