I was just doing a quick search to see whatever PCI-e 2.0 cards came up. As I said, might as well go for an even cheaper card that’s $50 or less. Sik isn’t looking for some beastly card right now, dude just wants to run KOFXIII well and a random 1GB GDDR5 card will be more than enough. A 1GB GDDR5 card will let you play any modern game as well if you’re CPU is up to it.
PCIe is backwards compatible so I don’t see why it wouldn’t work in his motherboard.
Like I said though, there’s very little value in the $50-70 price range. You either want to buy a really old low end card with minimum specs as a stopgap, or go all the way and buy a current gen card for futureproofing. When you middle ground it, you’re costing yourself so much money in the long run because you have to upgrade way more often, and your games won’t look as good in the meantime.
Wouldn’t putting a PCI-e 3.0 card into a 2.0 slot shit on its potential performance, as well as the fact it’s going to be tied to older RAM, MOBO and CPU? I’m pretty sure, anyway.
While I agree with you, Sik doesn’t care about any of that stuff. He just wants to run KOFXIII well and then will build a new PC somewhere down the line.
Shouldn’t affect the performance more than 5% or so. It’s true that there will be bottlenecks elsewhere, though.
Like I said, if running KoF is all he needs the card for, he should get one with minimum specs for super cheap, or buy a decent one that he can use down the line. Buying an older gen card is just throwing money away. Stores constantly overprice them because they’re counting on people gullible enough to sacrifice a ton of performance to save a little bit of money. Current gen cards, on the other hand, are aggressively priced in order to stay competitive, and you can often find deals to lower the price even further.
so you think it up sets me? I bet you didn’t even know macs have a lot more IP protection then pcs. Even if you hack into someones mac its not worth it, since 90% of the world is a pc user. Hacking into a corporation and gaining a lot of info, on peoples accounts, is a lot more rewarding, then hacking into Bobs Mac.
Don’t know about you, but being able to go through blighttown in Dark souls at 60 fps instead of 15-20 fps on consoles is a god send for games like that. As interesting as a game like Dragon’s dogma is, frame drops makes it pretty uncomfortable to play at times, another reason why it’d be great on PC if it were possible.
There’s retards on pretty much every angle of gaming. Besides there’s plenty of quality games of this generation that can go toe to toe with the old school games and will most likely join them.
If you’re limiting yourself to those games, you won’t see past those; appreciate the old games while looking for new gems.
There are some games that just seem to work better on computer, like RTS, and FPS games. I could never get used to playing pad for FPS games, mouse and keyboard are still 100 times better
RTS games work better with mouse because of the amount of possible interactions on the surface of the view and the connectedness you get while moving the mouse on the surface of the desk
the good thing about mouse and keyboard for FPS is yeah the speed but also the level of immersion being close to the screen
It’s the precision of a good mouse and the ability to change “sensitivity” on the fly without sacrificing precision via increasing and decreasing DPI. You can have the benefits of super low sensitivity sniping and bring up the DPI outside of that.
A good mouse isn’t that expensive either. $30-$50 for a quality gaming mouse with everything you’d need, aside from a decent mouse pad and whatever the hell keyboard you’d prefer.
i wanna get a decent gaming pc for around $500, is waiting for black friday the way to go? Or is it cheaper to buy individual parts. I was planning on buying complete rigs since I don’t know how to build.
$500 would build you a mid-range PC at best since I’m guessing you need a case/PSU/etc. Try to get together another $100-200 so you can future proof yourself for next-gen by building yourself a pretty beast rig.
Honestly, I think one of the best times to upgrade/build a PC will be in 2014 sometimes after DDR4 and the new NVidia GPU’s come out. We should see a lot of discounts around that time. New Intel CPU’s too I think.
Be sure to visit a PC forum a bit before black friday and ask if there’s any notable parts on sale. There may be some insane deal that PC heads know of that you might not see otherwise.
Post your budget, mention that you’ll be buying stuff on black friday -> let them post the parts for you.
Tossing in another $100 is definitely recommended if you can.
