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Budget Gaming at 1366x768

grindboy

grindboy

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Hi Guys,

I'm a console gamer who is slowly being lead over to the dark side (The cookies really are as good as advertised!) through things like Minecraft, Magicka and the Humble Indie Bundles.

I'm also, however, just finishing my last year at university so I'm basically penniless! So I'm wanting to upgrade my computer, which has served me well for at least 4 years, so that I can do a spot of gaming. As I said earlier I'm only really going to be doing indie non-FPS games since I have a 360 for my FPS fix (and the whole forum groans!).

My requirements are for recent indie games like Magicka and Triune to run on my 32" LCD at 1366x768. As I said I'm on a tight budget so I'm looking at the Xenon AMD Phenom II X4 840 3.20GHz Bundle - Quad Core but I need help on which graphics card and the PSU I'd need. As I said I'm only running at 1366x768 and it's only for light to medium gaming.

Many Thanks

Grindboy
 
Thanks Guys. Fantastic advice. All I got to do now is buy it all! :D

[edit] one final question. I've got a bog standard cheapo case at the moment will I need a gaming case with better airflow for this system? Thanks again.
 
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The 5830's run pretty cool, if your going to overclock you may need to but in my opinion you should be fine to pop these in your case :)
 
I had a 5770 for 2 weeks while my 59 was under a revamp. That was a very good card for the price i payed,Think it was only £100 or so but would play anything at 1920x1080.

Its well worth having a look for that on the Bay of E
 
gurusan said:
the 768mb model suffers from memory bandwidth bottlenecks IMO
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Not really, the only game that I have trouble with playing on the highest settings is GTA IV, but that uses something like 1.2GB of graphics memory anyway.

I play Crysis 1 & 2, Battlefield 2 at the highest settings with my GTX 460 768MB model and I've noticed no drop in performance, all games run smoothly.

But that might be due to the i5 2500k @ 4Ghz aswell so can't really be 100% sure you will have the same performance on a lower end processor since some games use a lot of CPU power too :p

But a GTX 460 or a 5850 would be perfect and last you a good few years at that resolution.
 
I would go with a 460 786mb, not long bought the gigabyte version for my HTPC and it absolutely flys and it's silent when watching movies etc. From all the reviews and benching I've read there's only 1 or 2 FPS difference between this and the 1GB version so I wouln't worry :-)
 
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