I meant it thermalwise. The said cards have the bad habbit to hit the wall with random TDP spikes.
So if normally the card runs at around 200W TDP under load it randomly hits 330W TDP and fries your PSU if you had tight treshold on free Watts. If you OC it it goes randomly to 350W so you need 800-900 W PSU for single card in order to be sure that you can cover the random spikes. It is bad feature of the 5xx cards the reasoning is the exellent price per dollar that Ati offered with the previous 5000 series so Nvidia factory overcloaked their card to beat Ati 6000 series at the mainstram segment.
(10-09-2013, 10:51 AM)Knjaz Wrote: Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)
1: Windows 8 is pretty much a gimmick, uncomplete operating system, just like Vista was. It's like your phone had a giant monitor, but no actual phone parts.
2: Windows 7 works pretty damn well, and XP era games are just fine on it.
3: Using windows XP with any games from say, 2010+ is not going to go so well for you, since most of them are are built for the more up to date windows 7. Expect memory leaks, crashes, freezes, and so on when playing newer games.
4: A 500w PSU is weak as hell for a gaming rig. I sincerely recommend 750w or higher.
This is my current rig of nearly 3 years, and while it cost me nearly $1,900 at first (That's including the case and monitor, expensive), you can get the same setup, sans the monitor and case, for ~$700 dollars now?
Don't listen to the Nvidia hate either.
If I can convince you to do anything though, it would be to get a bigger PSU.
that PC wont last very long, its gotta be equal (preferebly better) then the next gen console specs since that is what is going to drag down PC gaming (assuming you're going to use it for that)
in which case
- 8 core processor (altough one of the i7s will work fine too. Or a high end i5. AMD has FX-8.... and FX-9.... series)
- 8 GB of ram (although star citizen has a recommended 12 GB requirement and I can see that becoming a new standard for high end PC games)
- A decent Directx 11 card
as for PSU I think youre gonna look at 950ish give or take depending on what you get.
I would also recommend a copy of windows 7 if you can get it (if you arent building it yourself it might be hard since a lot of PC builder websites are already forcing 8 on everything)
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