I need some stuff....
I’m looking to buy some new ram and maybe a new grafic’s card.
Budget for around $300 for both. I also still have 1, 2gb stick of ram left.
This is what i have atm
Kingston 2 × 2g hyper X kit
Nvidia 9800GT
The reason is that one of my sticks of ram shit itself so i need some more.
Rest of my computer:
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GPU
Ram, whatever is cheapest. I have kingstion hyperX.
That graphics cards isn’t good enough for BC2. No wonder you get lag. I think 5850 has good price/performance.
ATI are releasing all new cards, so thier current cards should drop in price. I dont know much about NVidia.
overclock cpu also.
My Set Up
Hey Matt,
My RAM gets a score of 7.4. I use 2× 2GB of DDR3 1333MHz. Watching a little widget on the left monitor, I can see the CPU and RAM usage. My CPU tops out a lot (No big deal, as it was about $160NZD. I’m going to get a quad core in the future). The RAM however never gets above 50%. The only time I saw it this high was when I left all of my programming applications and a few PDFs running while playing BFBC2.
I think if you just get the cheapest RAM, and get 4GB, you will be fine. My RAM cost $150
My Graphics card is an nVidea 220GT 1024MB DDR3 from gigabyte, and it is great for movies. I play BFBC2 in 1080p on the low setting at about 60fps. I can set on the medium setting, but it drops to 30fps, and smoke drops it to about 8fps. It is my opinion anything above this will be great for a while yet. My card cost me $130 (Less than the RAM!).
Is your budget $300 for the lot, or $300 each?
Cheers,
MM
ok ok do not buy cheap ram
it will byte you in the ass
try these Matt Corsair DDR2 Twin2X
i run this on my i7 860 OC’ed G Skill 4G(2×2G) DDR3 2000Mhz
Nvida Card fully pimped but $$$$$ Gigabyte GF GTX460 1G OC DDR5
Nvida Card Gigabyte GT240 PCI-E 1GB DDR3
ta
Robag
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Would recommend Corsair ram too. RAM’s not that expensive.
GTX 460 looks good too – my choice would be this one – http://ijk.com.au/branch/ijk/product_info.php?cPath=353_261&products_id=...
$20 more. I like EVGA.
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And if you go “fuck it, I want a great graphics card” get a GTX 480!
http://ijk.com.au/branch/ijk/product_info.php?cPath=353_261&products_id=...
Only $582. A far cry from what I paid for my 8800 GTX ultra a while back ($1030).
no Nikki won't let me
spend that much money :(
$300 was for all of it if i can get away with it.
what about the gtx 450?
and i’m nvidia all the way.
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get the gtx460… then when it arrives tell Nikki you forgot to get the ram and need to buy some of that too :)
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http://www.anandtech.com/show/3909/nvidias-geforce-gts-450-pushing-fermi...
There’s some comparisons
the reviews
i’ve read lately all go the 460 for best value/performance. I got the 5850 a couple of months ago and have been pretty disappointed with the stability and performance. 460=5850 performance/price i think. But the nvidia sli set i had before was always more stable than this ati card.
ati suck
the ati drivers suck. latest 10.9a seems to work.
get 460.
Drivers
I always seem to hear bad things about ATi…
As I was saying, my GT220 is fine, and you should look at the GT240. The less you spend now, means spending more later is an option.
Right now, you are forced to upgrade. In the future, it will happen again, so why not go for the cheapest real option until you can afford to go all out. I reckon a GTX460 would be good for a good 5 years or so…
New ATI offerings
Just (as in… an hour ago) launched the first of the 6xxx series.
Mid-level cards, for mid-level prices but with performance near to the 5xxx high level cards. Yeah, their drivers can suck alot, but new shiny kit is hard to pass by.
ended up going with .....
A gt240 and 4gb kit of patriot signature ram.
Nice
g00d ch0ice there Matt….
Amazing h0w cheap stuff is n0w days, I feel the need f0r a Puta in every r00m 0f the h0use….
n0mad
$206
is what it cost all up and so far im happy.
Enough for
That leaves enough for a $94 blowjob/rub and tug.
Crazy_As can suppy for an even better saving…
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