PC Gamers - Hardware

dubb

Treated myself last year. Mainly gaming & photography work.

• • MSI HD 7950 Twin Frozr III OC V2 3072MB GDDR5

• • Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge)

• • MSI Z77A-GD65 Intel Z77 (Socket 1155)

• • Samsung 128GB SSD 830 Series SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive - (MZ-7PC128B/WW)

• • Corsair HX 650W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-650HXUK)

• • Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD

• • Corsair Carbide 300R Mid Tower Case - Black

• • Thermalright True Spirit 120 REV A CPU Cooler

• • GeIL Black Dragon 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz

Mercenary

Upgraded a couple of months ago to:

GFX: 4GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 690 DUAL GPU

Motherboard: ASUS P9X79 PRO: INTEL SOCKET LG2011

Super Quiet 22dBA Triple Copper Heatpipe Intel CPU Cooler

ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME Thermal Compound

Processor: Intel Six Core i7-3930k

RAM: 16GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz

PSU: CORSAIR 1050W PRO SERIES HX1050-80 PLUS GOLD

HDDs:
500GB VELOCIRAPTOR (partitioned for OS and for games)
1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK (for general program installs, My Documents, photos, music etc)
2TB WD CAVIAR GREEN (for storage & backup system images)

2 iiyama 24" monitors (one for games & using both for every other use)

Sparhawke

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2310 CPU @ 2.90GHz
8.1 GB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

It is not that great compared to some out there but it is a million miles from what I did have, it wouldn't even run Runescape at 2 fps and now I get 50+ on Diablo 3 so can't complain

Percy1983

Sparhawke wrote: »

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2310 CPU @ 2.90GHz
8.1 GB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

It is not that great compared to some out there but it is a million miles from what I did have, it wouldn't even run Runescape at 2 fps and now I get 50+ on Diablo 3 so can't complain

To be honest that sounds a great budget system, some people forget you can get excellent performance with relatively performance parts.

Sparhawke

Cost me about £650 all told, along with the case (all LED'd up) and 2tera harddrive...it can pretty much run anything

Blackjack_Davy

Graphics card performance is the major factor for most games, if you have a budget PC with built in Intel graphics chips and no PCI-E x16 expansion slot you can basically forget gaming.

You can often pick up high performance previous generous cards i.e. DX 10 for not a lot of money and few games make full use of DX 11. I have a 4870x2 thats 4 years old and can play Tomb Raider, Skyrim, Batman Arkham City, Crysis etc at High or Very High settings. They usually sell for around £70 used. For example.

I've no real need for any upgrades at present, I'm concentrating my spending on peripherals instead such as tablets, smartphones and whether I want to wait for prices to come down for the PS4 or buy it at release and pay a premium. :cool:

Retrogamer

I just tried Arma 3 on my PC with max everything and was lucky to get 20fps most of the time. Most demanding game i've found so far

atrixblue.-MFR-.

Retrogamer wrote: »

I just tried Arma 3 on my PC with max everything and was lucky to get 20fps most of the time. Most demanding game i've found so far

try planetside 2, it will eat up ram and CPU like kids in a sweetshop. dont bother trying with anything under 3.2ghz quadcore or higher, 4gb memory (min, ive sean it eat 5.2gb in hard battles) would recomend having 8GB or above, GTX660 256bit card or equivelant or higher, soundblaster card or usb audio with built in inline-soundcard, some older type HDD's have been known to cause bottleknecking, decent connection speed 3gig min i would say or you lag out in EU servers.

upside, whole new SOE game engine, always moderated, always hotfixed and server maintenance when things seem out of tune, interactive forums with devs, friday night ops (america time) play with the game devs and project managers from SOE and many other top players from SOE loads to do loads to do battle with, many camo's for guns and player tanks and aircraft.

just wish i had the money ATM to build my rig and get myself in the game im dying to play it propperly.

Sparhawke

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

try planetside 2, it will eat up ram and CPU like kids in a sweetshop. dont bother trying with anything under 3.2ghz quadcore or higher, 4gb memory (min, ive sean it eat 5.2gb in hard battles) would recomend having 8GB or above, GTX660 256bit card or equivelant or higher, soundblaster card or usb audio with built in inline-soundcard, some older type HDD's have been known to cause bottleknecking, decent connection speed 3gig min i would say or you lag out in EU servers.

I have been playing that over the last week, it is great and apart from a little slow down as soon as I jump in while my computer catches up for a couple of seconds (while I am in a safe zone) it is smooth as hell.

I have just checked my fps with ultra settings and in the heat of battle it is about 20-30 odd, when I lower my settings a touch I get back up to around 45

Super high definition graphics are not a concern for me though and I can play well in medium

happycamper1

I bought an alpha phase from palicomp (cant link too new) and it handles absolutely everything I throw at it, did add some upgrades but its a beast of a machine for the money, think was £650 delivered.