Pitbull
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Since my new rig. I don't know how I ever played on anything Sub 1080
Well worth it man
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Since my new rig. I don't know how I ever played on anything Sub 1080
Well worth it man
DA-LION-619
Honorary Master
I don't mind waiting till they fix it, I really enjoyed the series but the last one never come out on PS3.
I don't game much so I don't play any FPS like CSGO, COD etc.
I'm looking at new upcoming games like NFS etc.
Since my new rig. I don't know how I ever played on anything Sub 1080
Well worth it man
Any advice with what to go with
Chevron
Serial breaker of phones
The 380 is way more powerful and has better DX12 support.
You want a proper quad core, so definitely the i5.
Pitbull
Verboten
I don't mind waiting till they fix it, I really enjoyed the series but the last one never come out on PS3.
I don't game much so I don't play any FPS like CSGO, COD etc.
I'm looking at new upcoming games like NFS etc.
Any advice with what to go with
I don't have top of the line rig though but went for something mid-range since I needed to buy a screen and other crap too.
i5, 8GB RAM, R9 290, 750W PSU.
The rig excluding peripherals and screen came to about R 10 - 11k
ODTech
Senior Member
If you are planning on gaming on a steambox or any linux distro stay away from radeon. If your going to game on windows then Radeon will do just fine.
If you are on a tight budget take a look at the i5 5675c broadwell chip, it has a integrated Iris Pro 6200 gpu. It will tie you over until you recover to buy a gpu.
diabolus
Executive Member
While Skylake difference is not significant right now, i think it is still useful to get on the platform for future upgradeability if you are buying from scratch (upgrading from a recent CPU is probably another debate) . I recently bought a Skylake I7-6700K and the price vs the I7-4790K was not that much different (DDR4 vs DDR3 RAM is another story, but you can still use DDR3 on Skylake) . But as i said, if you are on a I7-4790 or similar right now, going to Skylake is most likely not worth it at all.
I bought from Evetech , they got a nice feature with the "full gaming PC" custom build effect (you start off with a base build and can then tweak it further, gives you good idea what goes with what and such).
http://www.evetech.co.za/specials.aspx
"HD Gaming" is already out of fashion, the question now is if your PC can do "4k Gaming"
Yea, i stream from my PC to my tablet. The main bottleneck tends to be my WIFI connection , so the faster your router the better and if you can add a cable between PC -> Router that helps alot too . These 300Mbps cheapy routers don't seem to cut it when you try to stream HD resolution gaming on it, probably need to go 600Mbps+. Normal video streaming is fine, but gaming is something else at 1080p+ resolution.
Other than that it works pretty well, you can even add Non-Steam games and stream them via Steam too. It is essentially just a type of "remote desktop" , but improvements with streaming graphics/video .
I bought from Evetech , they got a nice feature with the "full gaming PC" custom build effect (you start off with a base build and can then tweak it further, gives you good idea what goes with what and such).
http://www.evetech.co.za/specials.aspx
"HD Gaming" is already out of fashion, the question now is if your PC can do "4k Gaming"
DA-LION-619 said:
Yea, i stream from my PC to my tablet. The main bottleneck tends to be my WIFI connection , so the faster your router the better and if you can add a cable between PC -> Router that helps alot too . These 300Mbps cheapy routers don't seem to cut it when you try to stream HD resolution gaming on it, probably need to go 600Mbps+. Normal video streaming is fine, but gaming is something else at 1080p+ resolution.
Other than that it works pretty well, you can even add Non-Steam games and stream them via Steam too. It is essentially just a type of "remote desktop" , but improvements with streaming graphics/video .
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DA-LION-619
Honorary Master
Cool. I'm going to stream over cable, I'm fine with HD for now since I'll just be playing on the TV.
diabolus
Executive Member
The only other catch is : Controller . When you say you are going to "play on the TV" , what does that mean? Do you have another PC/Steam Device next to the TV ? If you are just going to plug your PC into the TV with an HDMI cable , then Steam-In-House Streaming is not needed here. Steam-In-House streaming does need Steam (the app) on all your devices that wants to use it...
Anyway my current setup is actually exactly that, 10m HDMI cable from PC to TV and a wireless keyboard-touchpad combo (keyboard+touchpad in one, which i can use on the couch without needing a flat surface) with line of sight to my PC to the wireless dongle (to upgrade this to wireless gaming controller at some point) . So when i'm lazy and not doing anything serious, i use the TV setup, if i feel more hardcore, i sit in front of my PC using a regular monitor setup with wired devices.
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DA-LION-619
Honorary Master
Going use this new gaming rig as my main rig, going to take my current rig and dump it next to the TV for streaming.
I'm going to get an Xbox controller.
diabolus
Executive Member
Aaah ok, well also consider getting something like this to control that secondary PC from the couch, works pretty well for me , controller alone will only get you so far on a PC interface
https://www.incredible.co.za/microsoft-all-in-one-media-keyboard
I would go with one of the suggested graphic cards, see how it performs and make a decision from there. You are going to buy the graphics card anyways, so worth a try.
I have seen some nice reviews on YouTube regarding APU's and R9's
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I'd take the R9 380 out of those two. I currently have a 960.
For PSU http://www.wootware.co.za/computer-hardware/power-supplies?manufacturer=761