Looking to upgrade as my current setup doesn't allow me to play F1 2016, any thoughts on this or others, looking for something under $200, Black Friday special would be good.
Here is the info on my puter AMD ATHLON II X2 250 Processor 3 GHZ 4 GB Memory64 Bit Windows 10 500GB Hard drive space, upgrading 2Tb Hardrive
I don't know that card; you have a game in mind, is there a forum for that game you could ask to see what people's experience with it is?
A bump in system ram may be worth looking into. Depending on how you get to your current 4gb, a doubling might be pretty cheap and easy.
I like ASUS cards and have run a STRIX GTX 750 Ti for quite a while, so I don't think you can go wrong with one of their cards.
I've just upgraded it to a STRIX AMD RX 470, specifically this one. Looks like it's even cheaper than when I bought it a few weeks ago. Very happy with it - it's extremely quiet and offers good performance.
That said, I'd carefully check if the bottleneck of your setup is just the graphics card or if you're also processor and memory limited.
Thats a good card. Very comparable to the 970 (which I have) and will run most modern games without much issue. I play DOOM at 1080, medium/high settings and almost never drop below 60fps.
Not sure how F1 2016 compares.
Your system will likely be CPU limited on some modern titles.
ProDarwin wrote: Thats a good card. Very comparable to the 970 (which I have) and will run most modern games without much issue. I play DOOM at 1080, medium/high settings and almost never drop below 60fps. Not sure how F1 2016 compares. Your system will likely be CPU limited on some modern titles.
What CPU would your recommend?
Some sort of i5/i7 is the go-to processor for gaming these days. You can also go the AMD 4/6/8 core route. Cheaper and easier to overclock, but not nearly as thermally efficient. Both will likely require new motherboard and ram.
Your processor appears to be roughly 1/2 the speed of the "minimum" F1 2016 requirements.
Processor: Intel Core i3 530 or AMD FX 4100. Memory: 8 GB RAM. Graphics: Nvidia GTX 460 or AMD HD 5870.
The 1060 is a great card, but unfortunately you're looking at almost a whole new PC in order to run F1 2016.
Unless the AM3+ socket AMD chips work in your AM3 socket mainboard, the fastest CPU Newegg has is an X3 440. So, okay, I was curious how much better that would be, and I found this benchmark;
Athlon X2 250 vs X3 440 vs Core i3
This isn't good. Seems like time for a new mainboard, CPU, probably RAM, and graphics card for F1 2016. Which others already stated.
http://www.game-debate.com/ I found this website where you can plug in the different specs of your PC and whether it will work for a certain game, pretty useful, although I don't think I will be building a computer soon.
When I get back to my computer I will throw together a cheap build. Should be able to get you into the sub $500 range really easily.
Edit: If you are willing to spend $250+ on a graphics card then getting an entire PC for $400 should be fine.
PCPartPicker part list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/zC7vqk
Price breakdown by merchant: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/zC7vqk/by_merchant/
CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($104.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: *Gigabyte GA-B150M-DS3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($50.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: *Mushkin Blackline 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($47.87 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: *Zotac GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB Mini Video Card ($129.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: *SeaSonic 520W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($62.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $396.82
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available *Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-11-29 15:31 EST-0500
I have a GTX 960 which is probably not actually as good as the 1050 TI and can run all my games on high-Ultra with easy. The highest resource games are Doom, GTA V, and Witcher 3. I run an AMD FX 8350 and 16 gigs of Ram but this system should perform similar to mine easily.
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