g-unit1111 :
The 550ti is a good gpu and maxes out bf3 with ultimate settings on at 1600x900 res. only occasional bumps down to about 40 fps. Also I suggested sli with another which would be close to a gtx570 in equivelent and would only cost another hundred or so and still be under his $700 limit.
It is *NOT* a good GPU by any stretch of the imagination - I'm running two of them in SLI and it barely comes close to matching the performance of a 570TI, I notice some huge stuttering when playing Skyrim on really high or ultra settings. You might be able to get away with maxing BF3 on 1600 x 900, but on a full 1080p resolution display, you won't be able to get anywhere with a 550TI.
I havent asked Ebayer but I recognise the psu as a raidmax and since he said it is a 630w I am sure it is a RX 630SS which I am sure of because we had to disect that model in comp.
I've had lots of bad experiences with Raidmax and Apevia and I'll be very hesitant to recommend anything they make.
Cooll... so you agree. in sli they do =, like I said, about a gtx 570 I would rather have a gtx 460 than the 550ti for roughly the same price but they are hard to come by sometimes.
I guess what I was trying to say is, it would not be a bad deal to get that gpu with the build.
It would be doable and very upgradeable and is a very much more solid base system than wasting more than a hundred MORE dollars to have an h61 platform with a lesser processor.
I mean really, look who's talking here.... You and me and we both have exactly what we want for our pc's. We have been building and putting our own together for a long time. Of course in our opinion, and even in fact, a 550 ti is not worth purchasing for the price range, pretty much, radeon controls the market in that price range.
We both know there are better cards to be had if we wanted to pick and buy one. We are not talking about us. We are talking about a new builder who doesn't even have the money to build a computer worthy of a good gpu...
Unless he can find a great deal like I showed him.
So therefore I thought it better to advise a better foundation with a gpu that would serve for awhile, and all for $100 cheeper, while he saved a little for a better card...
I don't know about what nvidea has planned , but I think it would be nice to see gtx 610 or 620 or maybe just see the 650 come down $50 in price.
I,m just sayin, I would rather purchase a good system to begin with and I think, the system I linked is worth much more than any h61, h67, p67 etc. with any less than a 2500k.
Even you gave that advice... as you must have noticed, you had to back down to an Asrock mobo to get a z68 and ai5-2400 and still have him spending almost $700
In the one I linked it is a better quality MSI board and an i5 2500k processor in a brand new build with a Really nice case to boot.... in a presently decent, but powerhouse capable pc for $100 less..... and its brand new and gen.3 pci.e 3.0 ready....
As far as the raidmax goes.... I have felt the same way about their psu's over the years. I had always read reviews and looked over toms articles and heard less than good about them.
To be honest, because of that I never gave one a chance. I had never actually seen one in a system until in class @ itt tech.
As I mentioned even my classmates bawked when our professor told us we had over thirty of them to work with. But like I said.. We worked extensively with that model and it is a great psu. Not 1 in 33 failed in any real way, any of the rigourous over, and sometimes mis-use, we subjected them to.
I am not saying that the overall view of raidmax psu's is wrong. I am only saying that to our testing, This model is one of their good psu's.
Even if it wasn't something I wanted to trust. The deal is still better worth spending his $600 bucks on ... He could get a $great gpu later, and an antec or corsair or seasonic psu for $100 or less and not be stuck with an h series mobo and lesser intel processor as its foundation.
He could sell the 550ti and raidmax psu on ebay and probably replace all he spent on a better psu and the only real extra he would have to spend would be for the gpu that he really wants after more keplers hit the market...
I also noticed that tho you say the 550 ti is not a good card in any way,, for some reason you as well have two of them and I'm sorry about the studdering, I don't have that problem with mine. Plays skyrim fine with lowest framerate around 65fps.
Out of curiosity, what are their brands... Mine are Asus 550ti dc top. I also have them clocked to over a 1024g core clock so that helps quite a bit.
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