Gaming at full HD

DA-LION-619

DA-LION-619

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If I wanted to game at full HD playing games like Batman: Arkham Knight etc.

What specs would my rig need to be?
Currently I have an AMD A8 APU but I don't game, can I keep it and just get a better CPU or do I need to upgrade my CPU and graphics card.
 
DA-LION-619 said:
If I wanted to game at full HD playing games like Batman: Arkham Knight etc.

What specs would my rig need to be?
Currently I have an AMD A8 APU but I don't game, can I keep it and just get a better CPU or do I need to upgrade my CPU and graphics card.
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You don't want an APU anywhere near a gaming rig. Just give a budget and people can make recommendations.
 
To be clear, there's nothing about your current specifications that prevents you from playing in fullhd. But your experience will be terrible. You really would have to ditch that whole PC and build something again from scratch, since the A8 APU is very slow and would bottleneck any decent GPU.

To run something like Arkham Knight at decent settings at 1080, you'd probably need a GTX 960 and an i5 with 8gb ram as a minimum.
 
cerebus said:
To be clear, there's nothing about your current specifications that prevents you from playing in fullhd. But your experience will be terrible. You really would have to ditch that whole PC and build something again from scratch, since the A8 APU is very slow and would bottleneck any decent GPU.

To run something like Arkham Knight at decent settings at 1080, you'd probably need a GTX 960 and an i5 with 8gb ram as a minimum.
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Thought as much I might need to ditch the system.
Is there a big performance improvement in Skylake compared to the previous gen?
 
DA-LION-619 said:
Thought as much I might need to ditch the system.
Is there a big performance improvement in Skylake compared to the previous gen?
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Not a mindblowing improvement but it's around 10-15%. The cost difference well.. I'm not sure it's worth it if you just want FHD gaming.

If you go the 2ndhand route you could just buy a whole system, something like this (just need to add a vga card):
http://carbonite.co.za/f43/awesoem-i7-pc-add-vga-112290/
 
Batman: Arkham Knight in HD?

You need about 4x Titan X's in SLI to get about 45FPS for that game.




:D
 
cerebus said:
Not a mindblowing improvement but it's around 10-15%. The cost difference well.. I'm not sure it's worth it if you just want FHD gaming.

If you go the 2ndhand route you could just buy a whole system, something like this (just need to add a vga card):
http://carbonite.co.za/f43/awesoem-i7-pc-add-vga-112290/
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Yeah just going to hook it up to the TV, PS3 is a bit dead now.
Rickster said:
Batman: Arkham Knight in HD?

You need about 4x Titan X's in SLI to get about 45FPS for that game.




:D
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:D was just an example, I've heard how bad the game runs but I didn't want people thinking I'm building a rig to play LOL or DOTA.
 
DA-LION-619 said:
Yeah just going to hook it up to the TV, PS3 is a bit dead now.


:D was just an example, I've heard how bad the game runs but I didn't want people thinking I'm building a rig to play LOL or DOTA.
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Whats your budget?
 
cerebus said:
To run something like Arkham Knight at decent settings at 1080, you'd probably need a GTX 960 and an i5 with 8gb ram as a minimum.
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Arkham Knight still runs like schite even after it was rereleased a few days ago. It's really not a game one should use as a benchmark.

A GTX 960 4GB or R9 380 4GB will allow you to play most games (90%) at near maxed out settings on 1080p, you might have to drop settings like shadows etc a notch.
 
Rickster said:
Batman: Arkham Knight in HD?

You need about 4x Titan X's in SLI to get about 45FPS for that game.




:D
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You jest but it's true.

[video=youtube;uRgjMquXJoo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRgjMquXJoo[/video]
 
DA-LION-619 said:
Anything that makes gaming at full HD comfortable, so 4k?

Also could I get away with a 4th gen i3, or should I just get the i5.
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A 4GB R9 380 or GTX 960 is R3.5k minumum these days, the 380 is more powerful. Alternatively you can get a R9 290 for just over R4k but it runs hotter & requires a beefier PSU.

Just get the i5 in that link I posted, it's like R100-200 more than an i3 & you'd be stupid not to get it ;)
 
ponder said:
A 4GB R9 380 or GTX 960 is R3.5k minumum these days, the 380 is more powerful. Alternatively you can get a R9 290 for just over R4k but it runs hotter & requires a beefier PSU.

Just get the i5 in that link I posted, it's like R100-200 more than an i3 & you'd be stupid not to get it ;)
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PowerColor AXR9 380 4GBD5-PPDHE R9 380 PCS+ 4GB 256-bit

Galax 96NQH8DVD9CJ GTX 960 EXOC 4GB 128-bit GDDR5

Which is better, I heard Nvida driver support is better also which PSU brand would you recommend.
 
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DA-LION-619 said:
Anything that makes gaming at full HD comfortable, so 4k? Also could I get away with a 4th gen i3, or should I just get the i5.
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i3 is sufficient for most games, you may experience some fps loss, but nothing huge. Have a look at a cpu hierarchy chart. Ideally I would recommend an i5 as it will give you more years of use.

In terms of gpus. I tend to go with best price vs performance. Yes amd are slower with driver updates, but in terms of bang for bucks they are still top. Recently had a Sapphire Fury Tri-x and was very impressed. Also I h find crossfire works better than sli in terms of scaling if you ever decide to run multiple gpus. At the end of the day I'd say go for the fastest card in your price range.
 
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