- Nov 16, 2011
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Hey All,
I've been upgrading my computer bit by bit over the past year and I've finally come down to my GPU as the final "old"piece.
The other specs are as follows:
i7 2600k CPU
8GB 1600 Corsair RAM
1TB 7200RPM HDD
64GB Intel SSD (can't remember exact model number, but it serves its purpose as the OS drive.)
Basically, I want to say that my investment has allowed me to probably skip the Ivy Bridge generation (at least initially) and hold off on any other major upgrades for the remainder of the year; I think 8GB of RAM will be plenty for what I do, but that's the only other thing I might update...since RAM is at an all-time low at the moment, though I really see no reason to.
Moving onto the point, I had every intention of upgrading to the Nvidia 600 series/AMD 7000 series at the beginning of this year, but it seems pretty much like a shoe-in at this point that the cards won't be released until early on next year.
The question at this point is, do I try to find a deal on a 570 or some other card during Christmas sales, or do you think the 6850 is good enough that I can hold off upgrading until the new generation of cards is released? I mean, it seems fine for what it does--although I certainly can't play all my games at ultra/max settings on my current 1080p set-up (single monitor), and that bothers me...to a small degree. Ultimately, I do want to save on money; so I'd rather not drop $300~350 on the 570 for example, and have a 660 (made-up number) outdo it in an month or two.
I've been upgrading my computer bit by bit over the past year and I've finally come down to my GPU as the final "old"piece.
The other specs are as follows:
i7 2600k CPU
8GB 1600 Corsair RAM
1TB 7200RPM HDD
64GB Intel SSD (can't remember exact model number, but it serves its purpose as the OS drive.)
Basically, I want to say that my investment has allowed me to probably skip the Ivy Bridge generation (at least initially) and hold off on any other major upgrades for the remainder of the year; I think 8GB of RAM will be plenty for what I do, but that's the only other thing I might update...since RAM is at an all-time low at the moment, though I really see no reason to.
Moving onto the point, I had every intention of upgrading to the Nvidia 600 series/AMD 7000 series at the beginning of this year, but it seems pretty much like a shoe-in at this point that the cards won't be released until early on next year.
The question at this point is, do I try to find a deal on a 570 or some other card during Christmas sales, or do you think the 6850 is good enough that I can hold off upgrading until the new generation of cards is released? I mean, it seems fine for what it does--although I certainly can't play all my games at ultra/max settings on my current 1080p set-up (single monitor), and that bothers me...to a small degree. Ultimately, I do want to save on money; so I'd rather not drop $300~350 on the 570 for example, and have a 660 (made-up number) outdo it in an month or two.
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