Is my rig good for games?

[kozm2r]

I posted earlier but I wanted to know if my computer wasn't good for gaming. I'm having an issue with certain games and FPS and was thinking I might have bought the wrong parts.


My Sepcs:
AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 970 Processor 3.5 GHz
16 GB
Microsoft Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (build 7601), 64-bit
AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
1TB

Thoughts.

 

[fb39ca4]

Yes, you are good. What games are you talking about? Even the 6950/70 will struggle if you push the settings too far on some newer games.

 

[megagabobe1]

it will be good for gaming, no worries

 

[coper210]

Well since it is part of the 6900 series you should be find, they are great cards and I have a radeon HD xfx 6950

 

[stanistheman]

6950/6970 Will play games on high. or ultra without aa so yea your good to go

 

[kozm2r]

I'm having an issue sometimes with Skyrim. It def. won't play on high settings. Sometimes it's a little off even on just High. But BF plays just fine.

 

[stanistheman]

Yea skyrim runs better on nvidia cards i belive.

 

[kozm2r]

I meant Ultra it wont play. Bummer so next time invest in Intel and Nvidia

 

[panwala95]

hey skyrim beats the s**t out of highend i7s that phenom x4 is just a wimp for it!

 

[stanistheman]

Oh I mean yea theres nothing wrong with amd though.

 

[kozm2r]

It has a turbo button.. Worth hitting it when I play Skyrim?

 

[stanistheman]

Um sure? do you have a decent cpu cooler?

 

[QEFX]

Should be fine unless your running some insane 5760x1080 set-up with setting maxed. Some games just run faster with Nvidia, some with ATI (AMD). Some run fine and then hickup, some just run slow.

Your system should give you a few years of pixel killing enjoyment.

 

[stanistheman]

Yea i agree with QEFX like metro runs better on 7970 than 680. (just an example) so yea just depends what games you play

 

[dudewitbow]

Yea skyrim runs better on nvidia cards i belive.

it depends on resolution and what cards. at high end cards at high resolution:

the curve shifts more into AMD's side when the resolution goes up.