What budget GPU should I buy?
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iBeInspire
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Just did a quick search on amazon, The 650ti is £130, but you can get a 1gb HD6950 for £122...
iBeInspire
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I've had my HD6850 for about 2 years now, and there are still driver updates...
TBH my HD6850 is about the only thing I Haven't had driver issues with... Like, ever.
minus47
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My 4850's driver updates stopped. AMD said that they would be releasing driver updates on a "quarterly basis" for the older 2000,3000 and 4000 cards but they never did. The last CCC version was 12.6 which was released in April.
There are so many bugs in modern games
Eventually the 5000, 6000 and 7000 will also face the same fate.
There are so many bugs in modern games
Eventually the 5000, 6000 and 7000 will also face the same fate.
Would not put anything higher than a 650ti, 7770 or , at best, 6850, on an i3. The big misleading benchmark everyone is getting wronged over is the one Tom'sHardware released showing cpu/gpu in BF3. They benched a singleplayer movie - cut scene. It didnt even utilize the cores on the CPUs, and was a terrible benchmark. I've tested first hand you get a 20+% improvement going from i5 - i7 in bf3 multiplayer, where it actually does use all the cores. But that benchmark has spread like wildfire spreading innacurate information.
SavageCupcake
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i highly doubt youd see a difference with an i7 in bf3 compared to an i5......
SavageCupcake
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I've never seen this benchmark. I cant imagine any game using 4 threads fully let alone 8.
Dunno who you asked, but I do Folding AT Home
THe battlefield series (from bc2 - present) can utilize all 8 threads on an intel cpu, and all 6-8 cores on an AMD cpu. Other games do this as well, such as crysis series and planetside 2, it's starting to become the norm for new releases.
Folding is better on nVidia. Bitcoin mining is better on AMD.
okay, folding is basically a voluntary service that you dont get paid for, right? And bitcoin is the one that u can make money with?
iBeInspire
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I'm pretty sure I always read that Crysis/warhead/2 doesn't use more than 2 threads...
ur prolly right. I found a "pre-bf3" list of games that benefit from more than 4 cores/threads, so there's going to be some not on this list
Metro 2033: up to 20%*
Prince of Persia: up to 10%*
Arma II: up to 5%*
Battlefield Bad Company 2: up to 10%*
Grand Theft Auto 4: up to 10%*
Dirt 2: up to 10%*
Resident Evil 5: up to 15%*
Splinter Cell Conviction: up to 10%*
Metal of Honor: up to 10%*
Civilization 5: up to 40%*
Ruse: up to 20%*
Dead Rising 2: up to 20%*
Dragon Age Origins: up to 5%*
Arcania Gothic 4: up to 30%*
F1 2010: up to 10%*
Lost Planet 2: up to 15%*
Anno 1404: up to 30%
Yes sorta. Bitcoin isn't worth it any more. If you got in on the early days you could make some money, now though you won't even break even.
