Goatblaster
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Been a while since I've been [hard]core gaming, but looking to get back into it! I'm on a budget though, and was looking for some opinions for upgrade(s). Here's my current system specs. I'm thinking of just a vid card upgrade, not necessarily the entire system, unless that might prove pointless, opinions requested
As you can see, I've got some older equipment by today's standards, but when I bought in December 2009, I splurged. The system has held up surprisingly well over time.
I'm fairly certain the main system bottleneck I'm seeing when gaming in eyefinity specifically and at higher detail levels is just the vid card's aging horsepower and limited 1GB of vid card mem, by today's standards anyway. I have no complaints about boot up speed, processing speed, etc, etc, buttery smooth, but when eyfinity gaming, I typically need to keep games at medium to lower detail settings and tweak stuff to get a 50+ framerate. I'd like to kick it up a notch, but don't think I'm quite ready to splurge on a new mobo, CPU, RAM, etc. - so I'm hoping just a decent vid card upgrade would prove worthy. Thoughts?
Also, nVidia / AMD suggestions welcome (triple monitor friendly of course). Also, if you don't think it's worth throwing a new vid card in "this" particular rig, I'd like to know that also! I can wait / save if need be.
The system has been rock solid since 2009 really, no issues. I'm looking to get into some of the newer Call of Duty, Battlefield FPS games mainly, possibly a few MMO's (WoW, GW2, etc.), at higher detail levels under the 3 screen setup. At "least" 2GB of RAM vid card, for sure. 3 would be better.
Any suggestions are appreciated. Tx!
- Goatblaster
- Asus Rampage II Gene Motherboard (1366 socket)
- Intel core i7-920 OC'd to 3.6ghz
- 12GB OCZ DDR3-1600
- 128GB OCZ Vertex 3 SSD - Boot drive
- 1TB WD Black secondary drive
- 1000 Watt Antec True Power PS
[*]Sapphire Radeon 5870 vid card - 3 x Dell P2310h Monitors (5760x1080 eyefinity setup - 2 on DVI one on DisplayPort)
- Antec 902 case
- Bland, crappy DVD drive I haven't touched in 3 years
As you can see, I've got some older equipment by today's standards, but when I bought in December 2009, I splurged. The system has held up surprisingly well over time.
I'm fairly certain the main system bottleneck I'm seeing when gaming in eyefinity specifically and at higher detail levels is just the vid card's aging horsepower and limited 1GB of vid card mem, by today's standards anyway. I have no complaints about boot up speed, processing speed, etc, etc, buttery smooth, but when eyfinity gaming, I typically need to keep games at medium to lower detail settings and tweak stuff to get a 50+ framerate. I'd like to kick it up a notch, but don't think I'm quite ready to splurge on a new mobo, CPU, RAM, etc. - so I'm hoping just a decent vid card upgrade would prove worthy. Thoughts?
Also, nVidia / AMD suggestions welcome (triple monitor friendly of course). Also, if you don't think it's worth throwing a new vid card in "this" particular rig, I'd like to know that also! I can wait / save if need be.
The system has been rock solid since 2009 really, no issues. I'm looking to get into some of the newer Call of Duty, Battlefield FPS games mainly, possibly a few MMO's (WoW, GW2, etc.), at higher detail levels under the 3 screen setup. At "least" 2GB of RAM vid card, for sure. 3 would be better.
Any suggestions are appreciated. Tx!
- Goatblaster
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