Re: Spec for games machine

"John Jordan" wrote in message news:g4KCq.49130$8A3.48150@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 04/12/2011 12:04, Daniel James wrote:

That's not what I'm seeing ... the 5670 I have my eye on is around £50,
the 6850s I'm seeing online start at around £100 and go up to
£130-something.

It's only the DDR3 5670s that go that low, usually, and they're much closer to the 5570 in benchmark numbers. Benchmarked 5670s are all DDR5.

... current games are already heavily limited by a 5670 ...

That's the sort of thing I need advice on ... are you talking about the
majority of current games, here, or just the most demanding?

I use a 5670 512mb GDDR5 in my budget games system as its ok, I can play BF3 at medium settings at 1368*768 with an average frame rate above 40. As long as you play games at a relatively low resolution the card does not perform to bad. Its about the same as the old nvidia 9800GT which was no slouch in its day.

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