kinetic Posted November 21, 2012 Posted November 21, 2012 Agreed, I was just trying to think of something new and graphically intensive as an example! None of the COD games are "graphically intensive". They run on a modified Quake 3 engine (first used in 1998!).
Cyclone Posted November 21, 2012 Posted November 21, 2012 yes the latest nvidia may be a little better but but for much less you can buy a nvidia chipsett card that will do just the same job .. ok with some cards you may get lag and low fps but unless your a pro gamer most would not notice. so saying buy the best for £400 just to play say wow ect is crazy when it can be played for £300 less I fail to see how even a monkey couldn't notice lag or low fps. It's integral to the game play. Of course with a lower quality card you can lower the graphics settings and it will be playable, you don't need a £400 card to play games, but if you intend to play the latest games with a £30 card then you're going to be disappointed. Personally I normally go for a generation or 2 old, £150 range. But at the moment I'm massively out of date (and haven't actually had my desktop on for >3 months).
kinetic Posted November 21, 2012 Posted November 21, 2012 I fail to see how even a monkey couldn't notice lag or low fps. It's integral to the game play. Of course with a lower quality card you can lower the graphics settings and it will be playable, you don't need a £400 card to play games, but if you intend to play the latest games with a £30 card then you're going to be disappointed. Personally I normally go for a generation or 2 old, £150 range. But at the moment I'm massively out of date (and haven't actually had my desktop on for >3 months). At 1080p running a single monitor any (either) of the £150 range graphics cards will kill every game out until the Unreal Engine 4 games start to appear in a year or two (or three, or....). You'd be hard pushed to find a game that a 2 or 3 year old Nvidia 460 couldn't run with most things pushed up at 1080p let alone a 660. The E3 (first ever public) demo of the Unreal 4 engine was run on a I7, SSD, with 16gb of memory and an Nvidia Kepler GTX680 (all overclocked!). That was just 3 minutes long. The next big hardware jump will happen in the next couple of years. There's little point upgrading a gaming PC bought in the past couple of years (unless you run amazing resolutions, multi-monitor or chose badly/skimped when our made your original purchase).
Cyclone Posted November 21, 2012 Posted November 21, 2012 Like I said, I'm rather out of date, my desktop hasn't even been on for 3 months (and I don't play games on my laptop). If it was on it'd be running a amd 5670 and (even older and an odd combination) a Nvidia GTS8800. And I do run a multiple monitor setup, 3 at the moment.
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