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disolitude on 05 August 2013
CGI-Quality said:
Lulz said:
Munkeh111 said:

Would you not be better off getting 1 780 for now? Since that will be more than capable of 1080p 60fps at least for the next few years and then can be upgraded later

I was thinking the same thing. the 780 is easily good enough to max any  game that's already out, and probably anything that will be released in the near future.

It wouldn't max Crysis 3 or Metro: Last Light, but it would be enough for most titles. Still, Disolitude's suggestion is better, because then he could max anything and still be under $1,500.

Edit:  Though, he doesn't agree


I am fairly certain that a GTX 780 would give an average of 60 FPS or more on Crysis 3 with very high quality and FXAA.

Sure it may not be "maxed out" technically but it sure looks 98% maxed out. :)



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platformmaster918 on 05 August 2013
Egann said:
platformmaster918 said:
Lulz said:
$2000 seems high for a rig that you only need to run current games at max settings/60 FPS. I'm by no means an expert, but for the results you're looking for you shouldn't have to spend more than $1500 max. and probably even less than that if you were willing to build the rig yourself.

The graphics card I want to be a little future proof so maybe I'm overspending.  Also I'm thinking the CPU and/or motherboard I may be overdoing it's hard to get a read on it cause I'm not super tech savy.  Keep in mind I'm factoring in monitor so that's a big chunk.

There's no such thing as future-proofing with PC's. Especially when console launches are around the corner and who knows what game recommended specs will look this time next year. Get some middle-high GPU that's nothing special, pocket the money difference, and buy another middle-high end GPU in two years. If you've built the rest of it right, you'll float the one system for about four years.

Even better, wait until a mutiplat next gen console title hits shelves, build a rig to it's recommended specs, and then overbuild RAM and CPU so you can upgrade the GPU later.

very well I was gonna wait anyway since I'm devoting most of this Fall to PS4 and early next year.  It'll probably be a year or so before I start to really look at this seriously and by then the next gen stuff should be worked out.  Hoping to get a good rig for multiplats and Rome 2 of course on max.  Then I can also enjoy the most social games (since my friends will have it) and PS exclusives on PS4.




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-CraZed- on 05 August 2013

My first suggestion on saving some cash is not buying your rig from an online boutique... Build it yourself to save some cash.

That said I priced that rig with plenty of juice for around $1800. With a i7 4770K nice GTX 770 in there 2TB HDD RAID 0 and 8 GB of 2133 meg RAM. When those 770 cards drop in price you'll have room to pop in one or two for SLI and bump it up even further down the line.



Wagram on 05 August 2013

I recommend dropping ibuypower to get you under 2,000 :D



disolitude on 05 August 2013
CGI-Quality said:
disolitude said:
CGI-Quality said:
Lulz said:

I was thinking the same thing. the 780 is easily good enough to max any  game that's already out, and probably anything that will be released in the near future.

It wouldn't max Crysis 3 or Metro: Last Light, but it would be enough for most titles. Still, Disolitude's suggestion is better, because then he could max anything and still be under $1,500.

Edit:  Though, he doesn't agree


I am fairly certain that a GTX 780 would give an average of 60 FPS or more on Crysis 3 with very high quality and FXAA.

Sure it may not be "maxed out" technically but it sure looks 98% maxed out. :)

I don't know, sometimes, even the GTX 690 struggles to maintain a solid framerate, especially after the most recent update. Both it and Metro, in fact, are give and take. 

"Maxed Out" to me is just that - everything juiced up with hardly any hit to framerate (i.e. keeping at least 60FPS the whole way).

Yeah that would require a minimum frame rate of 60 fps on max settings... You'd prolly need a 3930k OC'd and GTX Titan X3 to achieve that on max for Crysis and Metro.



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zarx on 05 August 2013
platformmaster918 said:

very well I was gonna wait anyway since I'm devoting most of this Fall to PS4 and early next year.  It'll probably be a year or so before I start to really look at this seriously and by then the next gen stuff should be worked out.  Hoping to get a good rig for multiplats and Rome 2 of course on max.  Then I can also enjoy the most social games (since my friends will have it) and PS exclusives on PS4.


Well ask the question when you are ready to buy. It doesn't move as quickly as it once did but by next year we will be looking at very different reccomendations most likely. Also buy what you need now and upgrade later, it will end up cheaper than buying enthusiest level parts to try and jump ahead of the curve.



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Soleron on 05 August 2013

disolitude, don't let your AMD fanboyism get in the way of this guy's PC. Absolutely no one would recommend an X4 965.

But you are right in that $1000 is a much more appropriate budget.



platformmaster918 on 05 August 2013
zarx said:
platformmaster918 said:

very well I was gonna wait anyway since I'm devoting most of this Fall to PS4 and early next year.  It'll probably be a year or so before I start to really look at this seriously and by then the next gen stuff should be worked out.  Hoping to get a good rig for multiplats and Rome 2 of course on max.  Then I can also enjoy the most social games (since my friends will have it) and PS exclusives on PS4.


Well ask the question when you are ready to buy. It doesn't move as quickly as it once did but by next year we will be looking at very different reccomendations most likely. Also buy what you need now and upgrade later, it will end up cheaper than buying enthusiest level parts to try and jump ahead of the curve.

makes sense and once next gen games are out I should be able to get a good read on what they'll require.  Also I could settle for 1080p 60fps with anti aliasing cranked up since it'll be on a smaller screen than my PS4 will be and honestly I've noticed that I care more about framerate than a little more resolution lately.




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disolitude on 05 August 2013
Soleron said:

disolitude, don't let your AMD fanboyism get in the way of this guy's PC. Absolutely no one would recommend an X4 965.

But you are right in that $1000 is a much more appropriate budget.

No one except Toms Hardware for the last 6 months as the best gaming CPU for under 100 bucks.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-2.html

And AMD fanboyism? That is a strech for someone that in the last 4 years has had Nvidia cards 90% of the time and intel CPUs 50% of the time.



disolitude on 05 August 2013
CGI-Quality said:
disolitude said:
CGI-Quality said:
disolitude said:


I am fairly certain that a GTX 780 would give an average of 60 FPS or more on Crysis 3 with very high quality and FXAA.

Sure it may not be "maxed out" technically but it sure looks 98% maxed out. :)

I don't know, sometimes, even the GTX 690 struggles to maintain a solid framerate, especially after the most recent update. Both it and Metro, in fact, are give and take. 

"Maxed Out" to me is just that - everything juiced up with hardly any hit to framerate (i.e. keeping at least 60FPS the whole way).

Yeah that would require a minimum frame rate of 60 fps on max settings... You'd prolly need a 3930k OC'd and GTX Titan X3 to achieve that on max for Crysis and Metro.

Titanx3? Lord, I hope not! I'm about to grab 2, along with the 4960X, which should be plenty enough!

Here is a good reference for how many cards you need per game and resolution.

http://us.hardware.info/reviews/4632/36/geforce-gtx-700-series-sli-review-geforce-gtx-760770780-in-sli-and-3-way-sli-how-many-cards-do-you-need

I am personally eyeing 3 GTX 770s, 4GB versions in the near future. May go full blown watercooling if I have time...