Gaming PC £1500

Definitely in that budget you should be looking at a 480, so seeing all these 470's recommended is odd in my eyes. Obviously they're silly money, but if the budget allows, and its for gaming, why not?
 
Do you think I should wait for the ATI 6000 series to come out?

My current spec just now is rubbish and not worth mentioning lol

I am still not sure what monitor to go for, I like the look of the Iiyama ProLite E2407HDS.
 
Rocky20 said:
Do you think I should wait for the ATI 6000 series to come out?

My current spec just now is rubbish and not worth mentioning lol

I am still not sure what monitor to go for, I like the look of the Iiyama ProLite E2407HDS.
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Well you could wait, but the high end AMD cards aren't coming out till end of November at the earliest - so you'd have to wait quite a bit longer :cool:

Until we see the official benchmarks, it's hard to say if it will be worth it.
 
MooMoo444 said:
Definitely in that budget you should be looking at a 480, so seeing all these 470's recommended is odd in my eyes. Obviously they're silly money, but if the budget allows, and its for gaming, why not?
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IMO - I'd go for 470 as I specced and benefit from having an SSD in there too.

Much better machine to have 470 + SSD than 480 without. SLI 470s in the future - jeez can you imagine?

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I think its worth the wait because even if there not the huge leap people are hoping for there certainly going to be an improvement of some kind and at the very least you will see the 5xxx series and its competitors start to drop in price.

Tho to be honest with you a top end 5xxx series will be good for a while so you wont be dissapointed if u buy now and if you go the nvidea route it wont really make much difference anyways. Its all a matter of just how quickly you want it :), you could buy everything else and a mid range "Placeholder" GPU for now to sell in a few months and upgrade if u dont mind burning some money.

Dont downgrade your GPU to get an SSD, screw the SSD there overpriced (ill get a lot of stick for this).
 
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Gantoris said:
Dont downgrade your GPU to get an SSD, screw the SSD there overpriced (ill get a lot of stick for this).
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OMG how can you say that!!!!!! :eek:





only joking, yes SSD'd are way overpriced, they CAN fail, there is nothing wrong with machanical drives that have been used for decades, a GPU upgrade is much better for gaming :)
 
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I personally would still go for 470 with an SSD over a 480 for example without an SSD.

I mostly game only but have an SSD and it just makes my PC run so smoothly and responsively like a clean install everyday.

I agree with MooMoo444 that top range GPUs are overpriced.
 
Well i would only buy a top end GPU if i had a silly massive budget which to OP has :), and loading times be damned normal HDDs are fine. Couple hundred quid is better spent on a better GPU not an SSD imo, SSDs will eventually drop in price enough to justify there existence but for now windows loading 10 seconds faster is not worth £150+. However if you have a near limitless budget for your PC and your not sacrificing anything else to shoe horn in a SSD then go for it why not.
 
It isn't just OS load times that are quicker, every load time is quicker with SSD. Whether they (SSD or GPU's) are overpriced is completely dependant on your uses though for a pure gaming rig I would say 480 over 470. Though in saying that the 470 will run games no problem anyway.
 
It isn't just OS load times that are quicker, every load time is quicker with SSD.
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There lies my problem with SSDs and is something ive argued about before, as a gamer i would want my games on an SSD if i had one and a fairly moderate game collection including your steam library would not fit on anything but a stupidly expensive SSD (install size of games is starting to get close to 20gb). If for the money they cost i cant fit all my games on it its a complete waste of time, for me at least.
 
Totally agree with you there Gantoris. For me my SSD is for OS, Photoshop and my current photoshop documents but for gaming they just aren't big enough unless you only ever play one game at a time.
 
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Totally agree with you there Gantoris. For me my SSD is for OS
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Well thats the problem, if its just for the OS then is it really worth £90 for windows to load in 10 seconds rather than 20? People keep tryin to convince me of the benefits but i just cant see it, i cant see the reason its worth the money.
 
Liampope said:
95thrifles spec for the win, imho!

IPS monitor, giant SSD (how is 128GB not big enough for your OS and all your currently playing games??) and perfect CPU/GPU combo. Awesome.
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I agree, 128gb would be enough for me and the games I play.

95thrifles spec looks great and I am thinking about going for it :)
 
128gb SSD would be fine but the price, the terrible terrible price :/ could get a second GPU for that.

IF i was gonna get an SSD anything less than 120gb wouldn't be enough and anything at that capacity is just far to much money for the benefit.
 
Fit's in the OP's budget though, so why not? It contributes to an awesome all round system. A 470 eats anything available now and for some time to come, and can be added to/upgraded later when needed. Wasting the money now on even more GPU than a 470 is literally that - a waste (unless we're talking 3-monitors, but we're not).
 
Well if were talking about wasting money the price of SSDs will eventually fall sharply this time next year we could be seeing them at double the capacity and half the cost.
 
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