Hey guys!
I've recently upgraded my rgi to run a ASUS M5a97 R2.0 board and an FX Vishera 6300 chip. Most of my hardware in my PC was over four years old by this year, and so I felt like it was time to upgrade. I bought the board, a new chip, and a SATA CD-Drive. (I was using IDE before this, haha!) Here's a list of my current parts:
Zalman Z9 Mid Tower.
ASUS M5A97 R2.0 Motherboard.
AMD FX Vishera 6300 CPU. (Hex-Core, sotck clocked 3.5ghz - 4.1ghz Turbo.)
Sapphire Radeon 6870 1GB - Stock clocks.
Seagate 500GB 7200 RPM HDD. (OS + programs.)
Western Digital 750GB 7200 RPM HDD (Games, Music, Pictures, Movies, Videos, etc.)
CoolerMaster Hyper 212 PLUS CPU Cooler.
Corsair GS600 Non-Modular 600-Watt Power Supply.
Kingston HyperX 8gb DDR3 1600mhz RAM. (2x4 GB)
Having upgraded my chip and board, I am definitely seeing a bottleneck by my GPU on games like Battlefield 3, BioShock Infinite, Saints Row: The Third, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, etc.
My budget for a new card realistically should not exceed $350, though the cheaper the better. (Of course I mean quality brand, but affordable card.) I'm open to switching to NVIDIA if it will suit me better, as I have no real preference between the two manufacturers.
What I want in a card is one that will play all of my games MAXED out at 1920x1080. I don't run AA, as at this resolution the jagged lines for me are minimal. I would like to be able to have the ability to freely mod my Skyrim graphically without bringing my FPS down to the teens. Although I'm not sure how much of a card I can get for this budget.
I do a lot of video work, mainly in Vegas Pro 12. And it supports OpenCL, so a card that is stronger will also help me here. NVIDIA card tend to work better with Sony Vegas, so I'm sort of leaning toward the Green Team here, but again, no preference really.
My Power Supply has two 6-Pin PCI-E connectors, so if possible I would prefer the card(s) to be 2x6 Pin.
Thanks for reading this!
~Wyatt
I've recently upgraded my rgi to run a ASUS M5a97 R2.0 board and an FX Vishera 6300 chip. Most of my hardware in my PC was over four years old by this year, and so I felt like it was time to upgrade. I bought the board, a new chip, and a SATA CD-Drive. (I was using IDE before this, haha!) Here's a list of my current parts:
Zalman Z9 Mid Tower.
ASUS M5A97 R2.0 Motherboard.
AMD FX Vishera 6300 CPU. (Hex-Core, sotck clocked 3.5ghz - 4.1ghz Turbo.)
Sapphire Radeon 6870 1GB - Stock clocks.
Seagate 500GB 7200 RPM HDD. (OS + programs.)
Western Digital 750GB 7200 RPM HDD (Games, Music, Pictures, Movies, Videos, etc.)
CoolerMaster Hyper 212 PLUS CPU Cooler.
Corsair GS600 Non-Modular 600-Watt Power Supply.
Kingston HyperX 8gb DDR3 1600mhz RAM. (2x4 GB)
Having upgraded my chip and board, I am definitely seeing a bottleneck by my GPU on games like Battlefield 3, BioShock Infinite, Saints Row: The Third, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, etc.
My budget for a new card realistically should not exceed $350, though the cheaper the better. (Of course I mean quality brand, but affordable card.) I'm open to switching to NVIDIA if it will suit me better, as I have no real preference between the two manufacturers.
What I want in a card is one that will play all of my games MAXED out at 1920x1080. I don't run AA, as at this resolution the jagged lines for me are minimal. I would like to be able to have the ability to freely mod my Skyrim graphically without bringing my FPS down to the teens. Although I'm not sure how much of a card I can get for this budget.
I do a lot of video work, mainly in Vegas Pro 12. And it supports OpenCL, so a card that is stronger will also help me here. NVIDIA card tend to work better with Sony Vegas, so I'm sort of leaning toward the Green Team here, but again, no preference really.
My Power Supply has two 6-Pin PCI-E connectors, so if possible I would prefer the card(s) to be 2x6 Pin.
Thanks for reading this!
~Wyatt
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