I can't give you any specific number but I can tell you (from experience) that you can raid 25 man with very acceptable FPS/performance with an i3-2120+6850 (you can usually get an 6870 for not much more and a decent boost in performance) with the usual lowered settings like shadows, AA etc.
Which of these builds do i need to play skyrim smoothly with a nice high FPS, at good settings (above average, but no need for max) ?
when i die ... i won't drop any loot mwhahahaha
I have Skyrim nearly maxed out (turned one of the AA settings down just one notch to 8x I believe) and I get 60 fps almost constantly on a resolution of 1920x1080.
I have an i5-2500K@4.4GHz and a GTX 560 Ti OC'd to 950MHz Core clock.
I'd say you'd get the same or very similar, perhaps better results, from the gaming $800 build, and higher will only achieve better results.
How well can the 400 build handle WoW in 25 man raids, on low settings and decent/high settings? I have played WoW for the last 6 years on low, so tuning down everything except particle density isn't a huge problem.
I have about 7 or 8 graphically intensive mods and my 560 Ti handles it like I stated above, pretty damn flawlessly at 1920x1080. I'll get my graphics settings hold on....
AA 8
AF 8
Texture qual high
radial blur qual med
shadow high
decal qual high
FXAA is unchecked (should I check this? lol)
All water things checked.
View distance:
Object fade: 7
Light fade: 25
Actor fade: 6
Item fade: 4
grass fade: 3
specularity fade: 9
distant obj detail: high
objc detail fade is not checked.
When I first installed and opened Skyrim, it said it wanted to run the game on absolute max, I chose to not do that because I remember hearing how tough it was even on 570s, but I do wonder how it would perform totally maxed out.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157326
Maybe you could find that? All the other motherboards cheaper were from companies I don't trust. Biostar, EliteGroup, MSI (never hear anything good about their mobos).
It's about $15 more expensive, so. =S
Asrock H61M-VS - £35
Asrock H61M/U3S3 - £54
MSI H77MA-G43 - £67
Any of these, depending on how much you're willing/able to spend.
Hi all, so i was told it was better for me to go with nvidia for playing skyrim, so could one of you tell me what the overall changes to performance would be if i build the gaming 1500 build but switch out the GPU to one of these http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130769, also would i need to switch out another component (i'm looking at the PSU here)
when i die ... i won't drop any loot mwhahahaha
A 300W PSU with a strong enough 12V rail would have no problems running an LGA1155+GTX 680 computer (good luck finding one though).
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when i die ... i won't drop any loot mwhahahaha