- Nov 19, 2015
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Thank you for any advice. I very much appreciate it.
So my system that I built about 18 month ago now consists of an i5 3470 running at a normal clock speeds. 8 gigs of corsair ram, and a 7200 rpm 1 tb drive that houses mainly racing sims on Windows 7.
The computer does nothing else other than some light surfing. It is basically dedicated to racing sims.
Now when I put the computer together I wasn't sure where I would end up in this SIM game so I did not go over board but thought I was getting quality components that would be sufficient for most of what I wanted to do. I have since decided to move to triple screens. Currently I am running on a single Samsung 55in plasma and continually mess around with the resolution to get the screen realstate I would like vs. frame rate performance.
I am currently running an EVGA geforce GTX 760OC 4gb card. Now when I put this together the card was rather pricey, and I thought it was a rather nice card. But I fear I did not do my proper research as even 18 short month later it seems that it cannot handle most of the new games to my liking ( Assetto corsa, Project cars, etc). Still handles iracing for the most part but that isnt too taxing on most machines due to old architecture on their part I believe.
What I am wanting to do is go to three 27in+ 1080 monitors @ 60 hz min for these games as maxed out on settings as possible. I would ideally like to do this on one card.
The MOBO i am using is an ASrock Z75. From my understanding this does not have any SLI support. Again, maybe a laps in my planning initially. But I am trying to work with what I have so to speak.
I have a 750 watt corsair bronze certified (whatever that means) PSU that I think is sufficient for most cards out there today but for the sake of full disclosure figured I would let you know.
I dont have the monitors yet as I am so confused as to which would be the best to go with for the money right now. But I really cannot see the value in moving to 120/144 hz units. But I do need a card that can handle a racing sim at the healthy resolutions a triple setup will require.
So, given my computer specs do you all have a recommendation 1. on what card I should upgrade into. 2. Should I change anything else to suit, 3. Anything else I am not considering.
Money isn't so much a concern as value in my book. But I really do not want to spend much over $300 on the GFX card again if I do not have to. I think I paid over $300 for the 760 back then. But on the other side of this proverbial coin, I want something that works too. So if there is something out there that will surely do the job I am open to suggestion from all of you experts.
Thanks again, I am so sorry for the long post. Reading the recommendation above on how to post I just wanted to give as much info as I could.
Cheers.
So my system that I built about 18 month ago now consists of an i5 3470 running at a normal clock speeds. 8 gigs of corsair ram, and a 7200 rpm 1 tb drive that houses mainly racing sims on Windows 7.
The computer does nothing else other than some light surfing. It is basically dedicated to racing sims.
Now when I put the computer together I wasn't sure where I would end up in this SIM game so I did not go over board but thought I was getting quality components that would be sufficient for most of what I wanted to do. I have since decided to move to triple screens. Currently I am running on a single Samsung 55in plasma and continually mess around with the resolution to get the screen realstate I would like vs. frame rate performance.
I am currently running an EVGA geforce GTX 760OC 4gb card. Now when I put this together the card was rather pricey, and I thought it was a rather nice card. But I fear I did not do my proper research as even 18 short month later it seems that it cannot handle most of the new games to my liking ( Assetto corsa, Project cars, etc). Still handles iracing for the most part but that isnt too taxing on most machines due to old architecture on their part I believe.
What I am wanting to do is go to three 27in+ 1080 monitors @ 60 hz min for these games as maxed out on settings as possible. I would ideally like to do this on one card.
The MOBO i am using is an ASrock Z75. From my understanding this does not have any SLI support. Again, maybe a laps in my planning initially. But I am trying to work with what I have so to speak.
I have a 750 watt corsair bronze certified (whatever that means) PSU that I think is sufficient for most cards out there today but for the sake of full disclosure figured I would let you know.
I dont have the monitors yet as I am so confused as to which would be the best to go with for the money right now. But I really cannot see the value in moving to 120/144 hz units. But I do need a card that can handle a racing sim at the healthy resolutions a triple setup will require.
So, given my computer specs do you all have a recommendation 1. on what card I should upgrade into. 2. Should I change anything else to suit, 3. Anything else I am not considering.
Money isn't so much a concern as value in my book. But I really do not want to spend much over $300 on the GFX card again if I do not have to. I think I paid over $300 for the 760 back then. But on the other side of this proverbial coin, I want something that works too. So if there is something out there that will surely do the job I am open to suggestion from all of you experts.
Thanks again, I am so sorry for the long post. Reading the recommendation above on how to post I just wanted to give as much info as I could.
Cheers.
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