Re: Big Bang for price (GPU)
The PSU is fine for the largest of cards. However your CPU may prove the limiting factor in playing with all possible eye-candy turned on. Bearing in mind that no single card can play Crysis 3 on Ultra settings. What sort of budget were you thinking of ?
Re: Big Bang for price (GPU)
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Phage
The PSU is fine for the largest of cards. However your CPU may prove the limiting factor in playing with all possible eye-candy turned on. Bearing in mind that no single card can play Crysis 3 on Ultra settings. What sort of budget were you thinking of ?
Looking at benchmarks, the FX-8350 isn't actually all that bad; it beats the Intel 3570K in a lot of productivity benches, but does fall behind it by between 25-30% in games:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/697?vs=701
Given that you're probably more likely to be GPU limited (depending on the type of game & the resolution you play at), my advice is to go with the best graphics card you can afford. Below shows a comparison of you current card (albeit not an OC one) against the 7970 Gigahertz edition:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/547?vs=618
Quite a healthy upgrade I think :)
Re: Big Bang for price (GPU)
Personally I wouldn't upgrade at all. I have never to this day understood why people feel the need to do this every generation. Ok there will be a performance increase, but unless you are attempting to play something at top quality, there is rarely a point, especially when this upgrade is going to cost you the equivalent of a games console.
for me however the best card/buck is the ati 7950. I couldn't justify the extra cost to the 7970 for the small performance increase.
Re: Big Bang for price (GPU)
Re: Big Bang for price (GPU)
Thank you guys, I'll keep my eyes on those but I heard the nvidia cards cost less and do better on games than the 7950/7970 in fram rates. (PLUS;Do you know if amd cpu realy works better with amd GPU or it doesn't even bother ?)
Re: Big Bang for price (GPU)
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Originally Posted by
Phage
The PSU is fine for the largest of cards. However your CPU may prove the limiting factor in playing with all possible eye-candy turned on. Bearing in mind that no single card can play Crysis 3 on Ultra settings. What sort of budget were you thinking of ?
I have around 300-350 but I'm looking for best move to go for a GPU even if it cost more than what i got. I'll just wait for the right drop to buy it.