A little bit of help for a Graphics card?

[SnowBurst]

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Sorry. Went to bed shortly after.

That work for you guys?

Oh and I want to play Team Fortress 2 with a somewhat high Framerate at full resolution.

judging by that spc its outdated as hell you need a new cpu (old cpu + brand new gpu makes absolute pants difference to game play and the other way round) double the amount of ram 4gb looks dated to me theres no way you could get a "good" machine for that amount of money expect to pay more like $400 or around that source games like tf2 dont need much though this 5470 laptop version with an i3 runs it on full fine but stuff like say bf3 your going to need a whole new machine tbh mind you i did read nvidia are releasing new gpus for about $150 high end ones or something

 

[SnowBurst]

I'm using a GTX460 and its great for me, was quite cheap and I can run Battlefield 3 on max settings smoothly as well.

Processor and Resolution?

more then likely a troll not a chance in hell a 460 can do bf3 on ultra dont beleive it even if he had the latest i7 with top quality ram could that run it on ultra

 

[DazZ.]

I'm using a GTX460 and its great for me, was quite cheap and I can run Battlefield 3 on max settings smoothly as well.

Processor and Resolution?

more then likely a troll not a chance in hell a 460 can do bf3 on ultra dont beleive it even if he had the latest i7 with top quality ram could that run it on ultra

Runs fine on an i3 @ 1440x900. Fine being constant 30+fps, not ideal but fine.

 

[SnowBurst]

I'm using a GTX460 and its great for me, was quite cheap and I can run Battlefield 3 on max settings smoothly as well.

Processor and Resolution?

more then likely a troll not a chance in hell a 460 can do bf3 on ultra dont beleive it even if he had the latest i7 with top quality ram could that run it on ultra

Runs fine on an i3 @ 1440x900.

lol "i3" that doesnt say alot

 

[DazZ.]

lol "i3" that doesnt say alot

How specific were you expecting?

 

[SnowBurst]

lol "i3" that doesnt say alot

How specific were you expecting?

like the generation of the i3 which version in tht gen the gpu aswell also i was saying it about the 460 guy

 

[DazZ.]

lol "i3" that doesnt say alot

How specific were you expecting?

like the generation of the i3 which version in tht gen the gpu aswell also i was saying it about the 460 guy

Not sure why you were expecting all that when you said

dont beleive it even if he had the latest i7 with top quality ram couldn't that run it on ultra

Surely just mentioning it's fine on fairly inferior tech is saying enough without needing specific gens etc.

i3 2100/460gtx first gen 1gb however (although I'd have thought it was obvious which gpu...).

 

[SnowBurst]

lol "i3" that doesnt say alot

How specific were you expecting?

like the generation of the i3 which version in tht gen the gpu aswell also i was saying it about the 460 guy

Not sure why you were expecting all that when you said

dont beleive it even if he had the latest i7 with top quality ram couldn't that run it on ultra

Surely just mentioning it's fine on fairly inferior tech is saying enough without needing specific gens etc.

i3 2100/460gtx first gen 1gb however.

lawl i meant gen of the cpu theres only gonna be 1 gen of the gpu and an i3 is a dual core and a 460 is very old bf3 is REKNOWNED for not working on low end machine so ye either your getting the specs mixed up or ure smooth isnt above 30fps

 

[Frostbite3789]

For all the people recommending Nvidia/Intel...he's clearly on a budget. Neither Nvidia nor Intel make good budget gaming hardware. Unless you're willing to spend, you're going to get crap from them.

AMD/Radeon make far better budget PC gaming hardware.

 

[DazZ.]

lawl i meant gen of the cpu theres only gonna be 1 gen of the gpu

There are 2 versions of the 460. Edit: 4 actually.

and an i3 is a dual core and a 460 is very old bf3 is REKNOWNED for not working on low end machine so ye either your getting the specs mixed up or ure smooth isnt above 30fps

As stated, runs fine on 30+fps averaging at about 40, albeit at a low resolution.

 

[SnowBurst]

lawl i meant gen of the cpu theres only gonna be 1 gen of the gpu

There are 2 versions of the 460. Edit: 4 actually.

and an i3 is a dual core and a 460 is very old bf3 is REKNOWNED for not working on low end machine so ye either your getting the specs mixed up or ure smooth isnt above 30fps

As stated, runs fine on 30+fps averaging at about 40, albeit at a low resolution.

"low resolution" thts not max then i get about 20-25 fps on this i3 1st gen, 5470 laptop version only because i know my way around computers so i doubt an i3 can handle the physics frostbite 2 throws at it

 

[DazZ.]

"low resolution" thts not max then i get about 20-25 fps on this i3 1st gen, 5470 laptop version only because i know my way around computers so i doubt an i3 can handle the physics frostbite 2 throws at it

If you're going to include anything that is in a lower resolution than possible not being "max" then absolutely nothing is going to run BF3 at 3[sup]200[/sup]x5[sup]200[/sup] (or insert your bigger numbers if you can think of any). Edit: Unless at much higher textures than the game is made in to the point where everything is stretched over about 50 million pixels that it just doesn't matter anymore? Guess that would be doable with "stupidly stretch resolution" drivers that know to spread the image out? Just a thought, got no idea how that would work but I'd love to see it.

Spoiler: Benchmarks of an i3+HD 6950, obviously not going to find anything as specific as you require :P

Lower the resolution to the "max" of a lesser monitor and the GFX cards going to be less of a priority to framerate (but you know that, you know your way around computers).

An i3 can handle BF3 30fps+ at 1440x900, which is what I said ages ago.
Best benchmarks I could find, could make my own but that's a fuckton more effort than I'm bothered about.

 

[SnowBurst]

1 thats a 6950 far superior to a 460 2 thats a second gen i3 the cpu handles the physics hence why you need a up to par cpu tht 6950 wud handle bf3 with ease tbh but a 460 would struggle with a 1st gen i3 and theres a site cant remem what one that tells you if your system will run games or not and tell you yes or no plus a bar to say by how much

 

[DazZ.]

1 thats a 6950 far superior to a 460 2 thats a second gen i3 the cpu handles the physics hence why you need a up to par cpu tht 6950 wud handle bf3 with ease tbh but a 460 would struggle with a 1st gen i3 and theres a site cant remem what one that tells you if your system will run games or not and tell you yes or no plus a bar to say by how much

I said i3-2100. Also I evidentially (yet irrelevantly) took which component handles physics into account when I said lower the resolution and the gfx card is going to be less dominant.

Also if you're basing what games you can run off of this [http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/intro.aspx] site you're not going to get immensely accurate results, but it's a good start.

 

[SnowBurst]

1 thats a 6950 far superior to a 460 2 thats a second gen i3 the cpu handles the physics hence why you need a up to par cpu tht 6950 wud handle bf3 with ease tbh but a 460 would struggle with a 1st gen i3 and theres a site cant remem what one that tells you if your system will run games or not and tell you yes or no plus a bar to say by how much

I said i3-2100. Also I evidentially (yet irrelevantly) took which component handles physics into account when I said lower the resolution and the gfx card is going to be less dominant.

Also if you're basing what games you can run off of this [http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/intro.aspx] site you're not going to get immensely accurate results, but it's a good start.

benchmarks tell you if you can get away with some tweaking to get it good fps but its generalised. but i still fail to see how an i3 can handle bf3 and that gpu frostbite is heavy on physics and graphics which stresses them all and 1400x400 or w.e it was it still has a lot of pixels to render i play bf3 in a 1280x720 (my laptops screen with the taskbar visible)

 

[DazZ.]

benchmarks tell you if you can get away with some tweaking to get it good fps but its generalised.

The thing about benchmarks is they tend to be for very specific setups rather than generalised.

but i still fail to see how an i3 can handle bf3 and that gpu frostbite is heavy on physics and graphics which stresses them all and 1400x400 or w.e it was it still has a lot of pixels to render i play bf3 in a 1280x720 (my laptops screen with the taskbar visible)

Well I just posted a very creditable source (Tom's Hardware [http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/]) that showed it doing exactly that. Not really fussed if you fail to see it.

Was just interested about the CPU and resolution of what the other guy had running to see if I could get away with just chucking it into my spare box.

 

[SlaveNumber23]

I'm using a GTX460 and its great for me, was quite cheap and I can run Battlefield 3 on max settings smoothly as well.

Processor and Resolution?

1600x900 and my Processor is a... 'Intel core 2 Quad Processor Q9400'

 

[MorganL4]

First off, considering you already have $150 saved up for this, my recommendation is to use patience ( its a virtue, I've been told) and get another $70 ( it includes tax) saved so that you can spring for this: http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-GTX480-Graphics-015-P3-1480-KR/dp/B004EHWMP6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1347863885&sr=8-1&keywords=480+gtx

that card is currently ranked #9 on the planet as opposed to this which is in your budget range: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102908 the number 30 ranked card (admittedly I have this in the PC I am currently using, and it works great, no complaints but I can't run everything on the highest settings)

But as others have said, in order to ensure optimal performance for your card (whatever you choose) you will probably need a quad core, and you will almost certainly need a PSU upgrade....

my rankings are pulled from this chart: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_list.php

 

[distortedreality]

1 thats a 6950 far superior to a 460 2 thats a second gen i3 the cpu handles the physics hence why you need a up to par cpu tht 6950 wud handle bf3 with ease tbh but a 460 would struggle with a 1st gen i3 and theres a site cant remem what one that tells you if your system will run games or not and tell you yes or no plus a bar to say by how much

Your posts hurt my eyes.