- Oct 15, 2011
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I recently got Star Wars Battlefront and was very excited to get it installed. Fired it up and then got a dreaded display driver has stopped. Ok, forgot to update the driver. No problem, easy fix. Installed new AMD ATI driver and same error. I look at the minimum specs for the game and see that the recommended minimum graphic card is above what I currently have. Yes, I should have checked that but I guess it have never been an issue before. I am trying some other things, but nothing has gotten the game to work.
Anyway, current rigs' most important specs (the first PC I built on my own):
Intel Core I5-2500k processor
16 Gigs Ram
Dual ATI 6950s in crossfire
Plenty of HDD space, with both SSDs and HDD.
Power supply, I think is 1200w...yes it was way more than I needed at the time.
I built this over 4 years ago and it has treated me well. Even though I built this system, I have never tried to overclock anything and do not forsee doing that in the future.
So I am trying to decide if I should just pony up and build a new rig for $2k, which will be good for the next 4 to 5 years, or if I could ideally squeeze another year or so with my current rig just by upgrading the video cards.
My budget is tight right now and $2k would be a stretch as I was not planning on buying a new CPU. Ideally, I was thinking I might be able to get by with buying a new GTX 980 Ti video card and just swapping it into my old system. Yes, there are cheaper video cards that could do the trick. But I am hopeful to get a 4K gaming monitor sometime in the next year or two and want to be prepared for that. So I understand dual GTX 980 TIs would be more than enough for that.
If I go that route, I would only need to spend about $640 or so, which is palatable. However, would my older processor still stifle things? Or would the upgraded video card be just the trick to squeeze out another year until I can save enough to buy that $2k rig at which time I could just add my recently purchased GTX 980 Ti to it.
I should also add I really only use the computer for gaming. No streaming video or anything like that.
Thank you for the advice.
Anyway, current rigs' most important specs (the first PC I built on my own):
Intel Core I5-2500k processor
16 Gigs Ram
Dual ATI 6950s in crossfire
Plenty of HDD space, with both SSDs and HDD.
Power supply, I think is 1200w...yes it was way more than I needed at the time.
I built this over 4 years ago and it has treated me well. Even though I built this system, I have never tried to overclock anything and do not forsee doing that in the future.
So I am trying to decide if I should just pony up and build a new rig for $2k, which will be good for the next 4 to 5 years, or if I could ideally squeeze another year or so with my current rig just by upgrading the video cards.
My budget is tight right now and $2k would be a stretch as I was not planning on buying a new CPU. Ideally, I was thinking I might be able to get by with buying a new GTX 980 Ti video card and just swapping it into my old system. Yes, there are cheaper video cards that could do the trick. But I am hopeful to get a 4K gaming monitor sometime in the next year or two and want to be prepared for that. So I understand dual GTX 980 TIs would be more than enough for that.
If I go that route, I would only need to spend about $640 or so, which is palatable. However, would my older processor still stifle things? Or would the upgraded video card be just the trick to squeeze out another year until I can save enough to buy that $2k rig at which time I could just add my recently purchased GTX 980 Ti to it.
I should also add I really only use the computer for gaming. No streaming video or anything like that.
Thank you for the advice.
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