I am making my first PC (as I am sure you know if you have been looking in the INBOX.EXE fourms the past month or so, sorry for all the questions), anyways, I am building it to be a gaming rig, and I am all but finished, next week I will have my CPU cooler and my 16 GB of ram (2x 8GB). After that all I will need is the graphics card, and dispite how I know I want to build my comp (high things like CPU speed [intel 4th gen 3.4 GHz quad core], lots of ram, and lots of hard drive space [ I got a 2 TB HDD]), I have no idea what will be a good graphics card for a gaming rig like mine.
Obviously the more ram and GHz they have is what I want, but that comes at the price of... price.
Simply put, I want a great graphics card but I don't want to spend much more then $100 (I am willing to, just don't want to.)
So any suggestions on what type of graphics card I should get. Below is a link to the motherboard I decided to get, just so there won't be any compatibility issues.
If you can shoot for 200 for a graphics card there will be a lot more options such as a 7870 or a 660Ti. 100 for a graphics card and you wont be getting much. 200 seems to be the value price right now
You will severly limit your build with a 4th gen intel core and a $100 GPU. Maybe you can get a 3570 (if you are dead set on intel) and add more money to the gpu department.
Yay, two weeks of waiting for me. If I had known that there was that much difference I would never have looked at the $100 versions. Oh well, I guess I will just have to use the motherboard video output for 2 weeks or so. Now I just need to pick a product ( I think I will go with Nvidia, I like them more).
I already bought the parts, like I said in the my question, I only need to buy the ram and the CPU cooler (other than the GPU of course), so getting a non 4th generation intel chip is out of the question.
My bad for not catching that in your OP. I say just wait an extra week so you have a well rounded system. If not go with this card unless someone else here has some more experience with this level of card:
What's wrong with what I got, sure I will be getting a higher cost graphics card then what I origionally wanted, but other then that, what's the big deal? (Also I know that 16 GIGs of ram is a bit much for a gaming rig, but I might also want to get into video editing and game recording, so that is how I justify the 16 gigs of ram). As for the hard drive, I have over 150 games on Steam, alot are higher end games that take up 10+ GIGs of space, so that easily justifies the 2 TB HDD.
I have a hd 4870 and it's almost a Hd 7770 equivalent, while it's starting to show it's age, it's on par with a HD 7770, so for gaming you want better. If you want to run games on high resolution (1680x1050 and up) and high settings, go with a cheaper AMD CPU, which are good for both gaming and editing, and get a proper video card. And drop the RAM to 8GB you really won't be using it if you just started, it's a waste of a few dollars.
Again, I have already gotten my CPU, so I can't exactly get a different version, as for the ram, I want to get 8 GB sticks because my board can go up to 32 GB in ram on 4 slots, and they only seem to sell those in 2 (at least any site I looked at.
Also would I be able to record a game like Fallout (3 or New Vegas), or Civ 5, or GTA 5 (if and when we get it on PC) with only 8 gigs?
Alright, thanks, I chose to go with the 660Ti, in most of the games that were on the list that I like (or could imagine myself playing), that one had higher frame rate. Thanks for the advice.
I was just about to say 760. Try to get an EVGA brand card. 2 gigs of frame buffer ram will be fine for 1080p gaming for awhile. If you worried about that by the way EVGA does make a 4 gig card. But if you have any plans to install an solid state drive in the future I would pass. Just assign your pagefile to that drive and you'll never miss it. This is why I scream at a reviewer who was checking out a pair of 7790s with 1 and 2 gig frame buffer. But was using an SSD for the OS drive.(page file would be set there by defult) And he could not beleave that there was no diffrence between the two.
Point is don't worry about the questions or what you got. Some of us so called experts are still learning.