GTX 460 or should I wait for something better?

[JimmyBlonde]

I've always been a bit skeptical of crossfire, it seems a little clumsy and since RoF will be my main interest alongside Cliffs, potentially, so I can probably do without it.

I notice that many of you are using better CPUs', RAM and even SSDs' now so I'll definitely be looking at more than a GFX card.

Here in Aus I can probably manage to build a half-way decent system for >$1000 but that is going to take longer to save than the $170 I was looking at for at 460.

But it will be worth it I'm sure.

I'm getting more and more enthusiastic about Cliffs now, especially with the sound mod released which is what I have been waiting for and it looks like Cliffs will include the same kind of progressive improvements that 1946 and RoF have enjoyed. Hopefully a good single player campaign will be one of them.

Apart from that I don't really play many other modern games. I fool around with Empire Total War (with Darthmod), ArmA II (It's kinda boring though and MP sucks unless you like sniping, Javelins and watching people TK each other for jets) and, don't laugh, Oblivion, which I have very heavily modded (<100 mods, lol).

[jimbop]

Get a used 480 if you can and then SLI down the track.

[ben2202]

-Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA3 6GB/S 7200RPM 64MB Cache 3.5IN Dual Proc Hard Drive OEM
-AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Quad Core Processor AM3 3.4GHZ 8MB Cache 125W 45NM
-ASUS M5A97 Evo ATX AM3+ DDR3 AMD 970 2PCI-E16 2PCI-E1 2PCI USB3.0 SATA3 GBLAN Motherboard
-Corsair CMV4GX3M2A1333C9 4GB DDR3 2X2GB DDR3-1333 CL9 Dual Channel Memory Kit
-Radeon hd 5770 1GB

Keep in mind that i have a simple flat 17-19 "i dont know witch" inch screen and my max res is 1200x1024

How should i fare??? i know the video card is a bit old ,but i used to have a 9600 gt. Gamer on a tight budget , all the hardware is brand new except the vid card , will run on win7 64bit.

On a side note i have ordered a thrustmaster T-FLIGHT STICK X with twist handle and gas throthol the first joystick for ps3 , PC compatible of course. Read nothing but good review's on it and its only 40$ can total.... sadly its out of stock everywhere except on NCIX but even then they are still looking for it in there toronto wharehouse , been waiting 6 days and they still have not ship't it.

Excuse the bad grammar , i am a frog from quebec after all.

[Heliocon]

Originally Posted by ben2202

-Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA3 6GB/S 7200RPM 64MB Cache 3.5IN Dual Proc Hard Drive OEM
-AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Quad Core Processor AM3 3.4GHZ 8MB Cache 125W 45NM
-ASUS M5A97 Evo ATX AM3+ DDR3 AMD 970 2PCI-E16 2PCI-E1 2PCI USB3.0 SATA3 GBLAN Motherboard
-Corsair CMV4GX3M2A1333C9 4GB DDR3 2X2GB DDR3-1333 CL9 Dual Channel Memory Kit
-Radeon hd 5770 1GB

Keep in mind that i have a simple flat 17-19 "i dont know witch" inch screen and my max res is 1200x1024

How should i fare??? i know the video card is a bit old ,but i used to have a 9600 gt. Gamer on a tight budget , all the hardware is brand new except the vid card , will run on win7 64bit.

On a side note i have ordered a thrustmaster T-FLIGHT STICK X with twist handle and gas throthol the first joystick for ps3 , PC compatible of course. Read nothing but good review's on it and its only 40$ can total.... sadly its out of stock everywhere except on NCIX but even then they are still looking for it in there toronto wharehouse , been waiting 6 days and they still have not ship't it.

Excuse the bad grammar , i am a frog from quebec after all.

Definitly not what I would go for, but you should go look at other forums that have people better qualified to advise you than here.

-Also get 6gb of ram and get a high res screen, you can get a 22inch 1600x1200 for about $130.

[ben2202]

Well to be honest i ask for comments on how it will fair...and i get a "get a bigger screen" comment....right. At least you are right on one thing , ill go look on simHQ for some more appropriate feedback if there is any to be had. Freaking tight budget indeed here and just paid 684$ can for all the hardware - video card + mid tower and 750 watt power supply. Only thing i see i could afford is +2 gig of ram really. Still i think it can run 30-40 fps on 1200x1000 resolution at least i hope.

[NedLynch]

The game runs fine on my system with win7 64 bit, even over areas with lots of buildings I get no stutters from texture loading.
Resolution 1600x900, fps anywhere between 30 - 70, depending on the area you are flying over, saw fps spike to over 90 in external view over the channel with about 8 planes on screen, more in combat at the time.
Settings are model detail high, textures original, visual effects high, everything else to medium, ssao on, clouds, shadows, roads on.

And Heliocon, could it be that you are mixing up amd gpu and cpu?

Ben, I am on a very tight budget as well, took me a very long time to buy everything little by little, my advice go with what you have, you can always expand later. I do agree though if new cards, motherboards and cpus (waiting for the bulldozer) will come out later this year prices for state of the art hardware now will fall then, and you even have an AM3+ MB already then.
However looking at especially video cards, one could almost buy a new one every half year, so settle for what you have, expand later, don't get hiped into the hardware ratrace. Only the smalest percentage of gamers can keep up with that financially, I most certainly cannot. No clue how others do it but I got bills to pay and a family to feed, oh and darn it, the family even wants a roof over their heads .

[NedLynch]

Oh sorry, Ben, keep the monitor you have, it'll be fine, I used to play on a 15inch widescreen monitor, max resolution was quite low but the picture was pristine, since it was that monitors max resolution.
If you get a higher resolution monitor and need to run at a lower resolution the picture might not look as good, generally I think you get the best picture at a monitors native resolution, so if you have a monitor with a lower native resolution you'll have a good picture and you'll free up resources in your comp at the same time.
Remember, never give into the ratrace.

[yellonet]

Originally Posted by Heliocon

Definitly not what I would go for, but you should go look at other forums that have people better qualified to advise you than here.

-Also get 6gb of ram and get a high res screen, you can get a 22inch 1600x1200 for about $130.

I agree that this would not be a very good setup for CloD.
But why do you completely dismiss the knowledge of everyone on this forum? I'd say that there's a fair amount of HW knowledge in this forum and perhaps in sim community in general, especially what is relevant or not to the sim at hand.

[NedLynch]

Do you guys understand he's on a budget. I can run CoD great and his setup is better than mine.
Cheapest core i5 sandybridge right now is $185. The cpu he's looking at is $50less, plus he can put a bulldozer on his MB when it comes out.

[yellonet]

Originally Posted by NedLynch

Do you guys understand he's on a budget. I can run CoD great and his setup is better than mine.
Cheapest core i5 sandybridge right now is $185. The cpu he's looking at is $50less, plus he can put a bulldozer on his MB when it comes out.

You graphics card is much better than the HD5770, that will make a big difference.