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  • ionusX
     
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    Oct 2, 2012 9:39 pm GMT

    TC go to ebay and try bidding on an hd 4850 or 9800gtx+ then you will have something halfway decent.

    alternatively dont get one at all and go fm2 and pickup an amd a10-5800k for $125 then hybrid cfx with an hd 6450

    Edited on Oct 2, 2012 9:40 pm GMT

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    TC go to ebay and try bidding on an hd 4850 or 9800gtx+ then you will have something halfway decent.

    alternatively dont get one at all and go fm2 and pickup an amd a10-5800k for $125 then hybrid cfx with an hd 6450

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  • kraken2109
     
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    Oct 3, 2012 10:17 am GMT

    For that money you may as well go second hand

    For that money you may as well go second hand

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  • MonsieurX
     
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    Oct 3, 2012 10:18 am GMT
    This was created in february,don't poster recommending cards

    whoDat_whoDat wrote:
    Engrish_Major wrote:
    No, like I stated before, the memory limitations alone on consoles can't hold enough textures to be able to replicate Crysis 1.
    thats why they dont need the memory PS3 has a little something something called Blu-Ray. and its 25 times the size of a petty 2gb SD RAM

    This was created in february,don't poster recommending cards :lol:
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  • blaznwiipspman1
     
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    Oct 3, 2012 6:50 pm GMT

    gslack wrote:

    wis3boi wrote:

    nothing worth gaming on

    A consumer..LOL

    High-end Graphics cards are designed to get people to pay ridiculous money to play a game with just a few extra bells and whistles than the mid-range cards, and the mid-range do the same thing but only compared to the low-end cards. People never fail to amaze me. They will buy a card for 500 bucks or more to play a game that for the most part won't benefit from the technology anyway. Skyrim wasn't written for what a graphics card might be able to do in the future, it was written on what a card currently in production could do at the time of its release. They plan on some small future tech sure, but nothing major, simply because they risk the game being unstable later on. ANd lets not forget the game was written to run on a Xbox 360, all the PC extras are additions.

    Personally, I think paying hundreds of dollars more so I can see a few more shadows in a game is a waste. Spend that money on a new PC, or better yet spend it on parts and build your own. A good processor, good memory, and hard drive, do a lot more for a games overall performance than a Graphics card. A nephew of mine spent around 7 thousand on a gaming rig about 3 years ago. It was awesome had two x2 cards and all the top end gas. Now he has a $7000 rig that he cannot sell because first, no one wants to buy 3 year old tech no matter how "next gen" it was 3 years ago, its old tech now, and second, because most people don't want a huge gawdy appliance to play a simple game on.

    Whether you pay for a mid-range card or a High end one, In three years you have an old machine. I say buy the best card you can get at a set price point, and be content. Best buy has a good deal on a gt 440 2 gig, under $50 and will run Skyrim at medium settings which is about what an Xbox 360 would run it. Its mainstream level two years ago and shockingly its still considered mainstream now considering the card is now rebranded the gt 630. Same card only more efficient and a little less expensive to make. Buy that, it will play most games well and you won't feel ripped off later.

    wow bro....you just bumped a 7 month old thread and wrote 3 paragraphs....i commend you

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    [QUOTE="gslack"]

    [QUOTE="wis3boi"]

    nothing worth gaming on

    [/QUOTE]

    A consumer..LOL

    High-end Graphics cards are designed to get people to pay ridiculous money to play a game with just a few extra bells and whistles than the mid-range cards, and the mid-range do the same thing but only compared to the low-end cards. People never fail to amaze me. They will buy a card for 500 bucks or more to play a game that for the most part won't benefit from the technology anyway. Skyrim wasn't written for what a graphics card might be able to do in the future, it was written on what a card currently in production could do at the time of its release. They plan on some small future tech sure, but nothing major, simply because they risk the game being unstable later on. ANd lets not forget the game was written to run on a Xbox 360, all the PC extras are additions.

    Personally, I think paying hundreds of dollars more so I can see a few more shadows in a game is a waste. Spend that money on a new PC, or better yet spend it on parts and build your own. A good processor, good memory, and hard drive, do a lot more for a games overall performance than a Graphics card. A nephew of mine spent around 7 thousand on a gaming rig about 3 years ago. It was awesome had two x2 cards and all the top end gas. Now he has a $7000 rig that he cannot sell because first, no one wants to buy 3 year old tech no matter how "next gen" it was 3 years ago, its old tech now, and second, because most people don't want a huge gawdy appliance to play a simple game on.

    Whether you pay for a mid-range card or a High end one, In three years you have an old machine. I say buy the best card you can get at a set price point, and be content. Best buy has a good deal on a gt 440 2 gig, under $50 and will run Skyrim at medium settings which is about what an Xbox 360 would run it. Its mainstream level two years ago and shockingly its still considered mainstream now considering the card is now rebranded the gt 630. Same card only more efficient and a little less expensive to make. Buy that, it will play most games well and you won't feel ripped off later.

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    wow bro....you just bumped a 7 month old thread and wrote 3 paragraphs....i commend you

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  • superclocked
     
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    Oct 3, 2012 7:33 pm GMT
    kraken2109 wrote:

    For that money you may as well go second hand

    I would get a 6670 over a second hand card personally. I put a 5670 in my dad's PC, and it'll play any game out there just fine...





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    [QUOTE="kraken2109"]

    For that money you may as well go second hand

    [/QUOTE]I would get a 6670 over a second hand card personally. I put a 5670 in my dad's PC, and it'll play any game out there just fine...
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  • godzillavskong
     
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    Oct 13, 2012 9:16 pm GMT
    wis3boi wrote:

    nothing worth gaming on


    Indeed. I had a 5450 in a media PC, which cost $49, and it couldn't run PAC Man! Lol

    [QUOTE="wis3boi"]

    nothing worth gaming on

    [/QUOTE] Indeed. I had a 5450 in a media PC, which cost $49, and it couldn't run PAC Man! Lol
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  • godzillavskong
     
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    Oct 13, 2012 9:20 pm GMT
    I think one of the best , cheap GPUs is the Asus 6670. Now it isn't under $60, but it's very close to that price point. Not to mention you really don't have to upgrade your power supply, since it doesn't require a pci connector from the power supply, and it requires very little power. I was running a good portion of my games on medium settings. I could actually run Velvet Assassin on high, but that was the rare occassion. The rest had to be on medium. Great card for the $$$ though.

    I think one of the best , cheap GPUs is the Asus 6670. Now it isn't under $60, but it's very close to that price point. Not to mention you really don't have to upgrade your power supply, since it doesn't require a pci connector from the power supply, and it requires very little power. I was running a good portion of my games on medium settings. I could actually run Velvet Assassin on high, but that was the rare occassion. The rest had to be on medium. Great card for the $$$ though.
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  • godzillavskong
     
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    Oct 13, 2012 9:21 pm GMT
    superclocked wrote:
    kraken2109 wrote:

    For that money you may as well go second hand

    I would get a 6670 over a second hand card personally. I put a 5670 in my dad's PC, and it'll play any game out there just fine...

    I wish I would read your post first before I posted. I could've just quoted you. Lol

    [QUOTE="superclocked"][QUOTE="kraken2109"]

    For that money you may as well go second hand

    [/QUOTE]I would get a 6670 over a second hand card personally. I put a 5670 in my dad's PC, and it'll play any game out there just fine...[/QUOTE] I wish I would read your post first before I posted. I could've just quoted you. Lol
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  • the_bi99man
     
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    Oct 13, 2012 10:39 pm GMT

    gslack wrote:

    wis3boi wrote:

    nothing worth gaming on

    A consumer..LOL

    High-end Graphics cards are designed to get people to pay ridiculous money to play a game with just a few extra bells and whistles than the mid-range cards, and the mid-range do the same thing but only compared to the low-end cards. People never fail to amaze me. They will buy a card for 500 bucks or more to play a game that for the most part won't benefit from the technology anyway. Skyrim wasn't written for what a graphics card might be able to do in the future, it was written on what a card currently in production could do at the time of its release. They plan on some small future tech sure, but nothing major, simply because they risk the game being unstable later on. ANd lets not forget the game was written to run on a Xbox 360, all the PC extras are additions.

    Personally, I think paying hundreds of dollars more so I can see a few more shadows in a game is a waste. Spend that money on a new PC, or better yet spend it on parts and build your own. A good processor, good memory, and hard drive, do a lot more for a games overall performance than a Graphics card. A nephew of mine spent around 7 thousand on a gaming rig about 3 years ago. It was awesome had two x2 cards and all the top end gas. Now he has a $7000 rig that he cannot sell because first, no one wants to buy 3 year old tech no matter how "next gen" it was 3 years ago, its old tech now, and second, because most people don't want a huge gawdy appliance to play a simple game on.

    Whether you pay for a mid-range card or a High end one, In three years you have an old machine. I say buy the best card you can get at a set price point, and be content. Best buy has a good deal on a gt 440 2 gig, under $50 and will run Skyrim at medium settings which is about what an Xbox 360 would run it. Its mainstream level two years ago and shockingly its still considered mainstream now considering the card is now rebranded the gt 630. Same card only more efficient and a little less expensive to make. Buy that, it will play most games well and you won't feel ripped off later.

    Gamespot needs to stop letting new accounts bump dead threads. I don't know what these idiots are thinking.

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    [QUOTE="gslack"]

    [QUOTE="wis3boi"]

    nothing worth gaming on

    [/QUOTE]

    A consumer..LOL

    High-end Graphics cards are designed to get people to pay ridiculous money to play a game with just a few extra bells and whistles than the mid-range cards, and the mid-range do the same thing but only compared to the low-end cards. People never fail to amaze me. They will buy a card for 500 bucks or more to play a game that for the most part won't benefit from the technology anyway. Skyrim wasn't written for what a graphics card might be able to do in the future, it was written on what a card currently in production could do at the time of its release. They plan on some small future tech sure, but nothing major, simply because they risk the game being unstable later on. ANd lets not forget the game was written to run on a Xbox 360, all the PC extras are additions.

    Personally, I think paying hundreds of dollars more so I can see a few more shadows in a game is a waste. Spend that money on a new PC, or better yet spend it on parts and build your own. A good processor, good memory, and hard drive, do a lot more for a games overall performance than a Graphics card. A nephew of mine spent around 7 thousand on a gaming rig about 3 years ago. It was awesome had two x2 cards and all the top end gas. Now he has a $7000 rig that he cannot sell because first, no one wants to buy 3 year old tech no matter how "next gen" it was 3 years ago, its old tech now, and second, because most people don't want a huge gawdy appliance to play a simple game on.

    Whether you pay for a mid-range card or a High end one, In three years you have an old machine. I say buy the best card you can get at a set price point, and be content. Best buy has a good deal on a gt 440 2 gig, under $50 and will run Skyrim at medium settings which is about what an Xbox 360 would run it. Its mainstream level two years ago and shockingly its still considered mainstream now considering the card is now rebranded the gt 630. Same card only more efficient and a little less expensive to make. Buy that, it will play most games well and you won't feel ripped off later.

    [/QUOTE]

    Gamespot needs to stop letting new accounts bump dead threads. I don't know what these idiots are thinking.

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  • wis3boi
     
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    Oct 14, 2012 12:05 am GMT

    godzillavskong wrote:
    wis3boi wrote:

    nothing worth gaming on

    Indeed. I had a 5450 in a media PC, which cost $49, and it couldn't run PAC Man! Lol

    this thread is almost a year old.....good job

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    [QUOTE="godzillavskong"][QUOTE="wis3boi"]

    nothing worth gaming on

    [/QUOTE] Indeed. I had a 5450 in a media PC, which cost $49, and it couldn't run PAC Man! Lol[/QUOTE]

    this thread is almost a year old.....good job

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    Oct 14, 2012 12:15 am GMT

    Gamespot needs to come up with a feature that locks threads after a certain amount of time of being inactive.

    Edited on Oct 14, 2012 12:15 am GMT

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