I was looking for some advice since you guys at Tom's havent let me down yet.
After searching for a week I'm still at an indecision as to what to get with regards to me getting rid of my GTX 460 se (wasnt my choice)
My maximum budget is £200 all in but I'm getting the card second hand as thats how I get all my parts (because I love wasting my time fixing stuff :lol: )
My spec is as follows:
Lan Party JR - X58 T3H6
Corsair TX750w Enthusiast V2
6GB Corsair Dominator 1600
Intel i7 920 (hopefully will be clocked to 3.8 in a day or 2)
Coolmaster V10
GTX 460 se EVGA
I'll be using it with my projector in 1080 and 1600×900 resolutions
Mainly playing in order:
Skyrim with loads of mods (reason for overclocking the CPU)
Stalker Clear Sky
Stalker Call of Pripyat
Crysis 1 and 2
RAGE
Battlefield 3
iRacer
GTA 4
UK based if anyone has any second hand cards
Not against dual card setup just scared of microstuttering as I've not encountered this before and read a little about it, any idea why this mainly happens? I dont want the hassle of it, 2nd hand is enough as it is! Am I at risk if I go for that option? 460 sli?
Is there any difference between the 400 series texture wise than the 500 series apart from they generally run faster ie would a 570 look better than 2 460's in SLI?
The guy in the local computer shop told me that Nvidia is the way to go as I would get better textures and basically having a fully fledged ATI card wouldnt give as good depth as a GTX, any idea what hes talking about?
Is a 2gb edition instead of a 1gb card going to be much better for me since I cant go over the 1080p threshold (projector limited) as from what I've read and seen the only reason to have this is to really boost the resolution (and for one game GTA4 which I can live without for £30-50)
Would ideally like this setup as cheap as possible as £200 is really breaking the bank for me
Currently looking at a 560ti Twin Frozr for 150quid which goes at 8.30 this morning so any recommendations or help especially on the Nvidia vs Radeon front as im a bit confused, would be mightly appreciated.
Thanks for reading and especially for your help.
Asa
After searching for a week I'm still at an indecision as to what to get with regards to me getting rid of my GTX 460 se (wasnt my choice)
My maximum budget is £200 all in but I'm getting the card second hand as thats how I get all my parts (because I love wasting my time fixing stuff :lol: )
My spec is as follows:
Lan Party JR - X58 T3H6
Corsair TX750w Enthusiast V2
6GB Corsair Dominator 1600
Intel i7 920 (hopefully will be clocked to 3.8 in a day or 2)
Coolmaster V10
GTX 460 se EVGA
I'll be using it with my projector in 1080 and 1600×900 resolutions
Mainly playing in order:
Skyrim with loads of mods (reason for overclocking the CPU)
Stalker Clear Sky
Stalker Call of Pripyat
Crysis 1 and 2
RAGE
Battlefield 3
iRacer
GTA 4
UK based if anyone has any second hand cards
Not against dual card setup just scared of microstuttering as I've not encountered this before and read a little about it, any idea why this mainly happens? I dont want the hassle of it, 2nd hand is enough as it is! Am I at risk if I go for that option? 460 sli?
Is there any difference between the 400 series texture wise than the 500 series apart from they generally run faster ie would a 570 look better than 2 460's in SLI?
The guy in the local computer shop told me that Nvidia is the way to go as I would get better textures and basically having a fully fledged ATI card wouldnt give as good depth as a GTX, any idea what hes talking about?
Is a 2gb edition instead of a 1gb card going to be much better for me since I cant go over the 1080p threshold (projector limited) as from what I've read and seen the only reason to have this is to really boost the resolution (and for one game GTA4 which I can live without for £30-50)
Would ideally like this setup as cheap as possible as £200 is really breaking the bank for me
Currently looking at a 560ti Twin Frozr for 150quid which goes at 8.30 this morning so any recommendations or help especially on the Nvidia vs Radeon front as im a bit confused, would be mightly appreciated.
Thanks for reading and especially for your help.
Asa