Hey everyone, I am building a PC soon (I will give specs and yeh please don't comment on CPU, any phenoms I found are £400 because they are rare now.)
Please give a graphics card option first.
Current specs:
FX 4100 (FX 6100 if it overclocks better.)
2x4GB Kingston Hyper X 1600Mhz RAM
Fractal Core Design 1000
WD Caviar Blue 500GB
Corsair 430W
M5A78L-LE
The graphics cards I have in mind are: (Out of these, which one is the best? I can't get a 6870 because they don't sell them at the place I buy my stuff and the place I buy myself sell things cheap. So only pick out of the 3 cards I mentioned.)
HD 7770, HD 7790 and GTX 650 TI non boost (The boost is £20 cheaper than a 660 or a 7870.)
My goal is to play BF3, COD and Skyrim at 60 fps at highest settings 720p with AA disabled
and those games 1080p at low to medium settings at 60 fps.
Any ideas? AND DONT COMMENT ABOUT MY CPU, I WILL OVERCLOCK IT LATER ON.
You should really go with at least a 7850. CoD and skyrim arent exactly graphically intensive. BF3 is, though, and I can't say for sure but I don't think you'll be able to max out with any of those cards.
A 7850 is overkill. I was planning to use one in my rig (1Gb version) but they have been discontinued and the ones I see are £140! I would rather get a boosted 650 Ti for that price.
Thank you for this list. I think I am going to get a Corsair 500W then. Also, if I get a phenom, I will need to get an after market cooler because the original one is really loud. Thing is, my PC I am building with a monitor is cheaper than this :/
So even a 650 TI at 720p medium-high settings won't run BF3 at 60fps? Wow.
I am getting them from www.scan.co.uk they have poor selection. I can pick the 7870 but people dont know my budget is £420-490
I am picking GTX 650 TI right now. I was going to pick the 7850 1Gb but that has been discontinuted. The 7870 is £180. Which is out of my budget. I really can't pick those. I can only pick 7770, GTX 460, GTX 650 Ti and 7790. I really have no other option within my budget for a under £126 graphics card.
Im not going to 100% rule out getting 60FPS @ ultra on 720p with a 650TI as I don't have one, and have not seen any benches for it.
But I think a average of 60FPS is unlikely looking at benches of the card playing at 1280x1024 on better rigs.
Why not look at getting you Parts from www.overclockers.co.uk they are hard to beat on price and will price match too.
They also have B Grade stock, so you could get a faster card then the 650 TI for the same price (as long as you don't mind it being in a opened box)
They have a £179.99 Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7850 OC Windforce 2X 2048MB for £129.95!!!! (that's a monster of a card for that price).......and they give you free Haribo sweets!