Ok, I'm gonna try my best not to turn this into a wall of text.
A few weeks ago I had a little problem with water. The "leaking pipe that floods your whole apartment" kind of water problem. Having just received my insurance money, I am now ready to replace the gaming computer I built a few years ago, which was more or less turned into an aquarium during the incident. It wasn't anything special but it was a nice little computer and it still had great performance running new games on max settings - 1080p.
Now, that leads me to my question. Budget is obviously not a problem here as the amount I received is substantial, but I never was a fan of building for overkill. I don't have any problem with dropping 1500$ + on my system if that is going to yield me interesting results, but if that isn't necessary I would rather spend the money on something else. I saw a few benchmarks today and the budget pentium dual core processors seem to have really impressive performance for their price. On the other hand, the i5 processors also seem to have impressive performance for their price, but I am afraid that might be too much performance for nothing.
Same thing goes for GPUs, I saw some radeon 6850 and 6870 deliver great FPS for their price and I'm wondering if there is any reason to go for the more expensive products.
I do consider myself a hardcore gamer and I play a lot of games, I just don't wanna go spending more than what is reasonable. Can anyone help me shed some light on the performance I can expect from a system built around that kind of dual core cpu today ? I do know a bit about computers and performance but I am in no way as knowledgeable as the people who post on this forum
Thanks.
A few weeks ago I had a little problem with water. The "leaking pipe that floods your whole apartment" kind of water problem. Having just received my insurance money, I am now ready to replace the gaming computer I built a few years ago, which was more or less turned into an aquarium during the incident. It wasn't anything special but it was a nice little computer and it still had great performance running new games on max settings - 1080p.
Now, that leads me to my question. Budget is obviously not a problem here as the amount I received is substantial, but I never was a fan of building for overkill. I don't have any problem with dropping 1500$ + on my system if that is going to yield me interesting results, but if that isn't necessary I would rather spend the money on something else. I saw a few benchmarks today and the budget pentium dual core processors seem to have really impressive performance for their price. On the other hand, the i5 processors also seem to have impressive performance for their price, but I am afraid that might be too much performance for nothing.
Same thing goes for GPUs, I saw some radeon 6850 and 6870 deliver great FPS for their price and I'm wondering if there is any reason to go for the more expensive products.
I do consider myself a hardcore gamer and I play a lot of games, I just don't wanna go spending more than what is reasonable. Can anyone help me shed some light on the performance I can expect from a system built around that kind of dual core cpu today ? I do know a bit about computers and performance but I am in no way as knowledgeable as the people who post on this forum
Thanks.