Hi Folks...
One of my friends is going to upgrade his proccy and get a discrete gpu.
Total budget - 15K.
Current config -
AMD X2 (dont know more than this)
Asus M4A785D-M Pro
DDR2 RAM (dont know how much)
Crappy PSU (ya he's got some bull-crap psu and wont upgrade it...so I say, let it blow and let him learn "it" the hard way)
Some crapshit cabby (Frontech I think)
and the usual sh1t!!
Ok, so he is going to upgrade to a X4 (I do not have any idea about AMD proccys - so I will just assume this is an upgrade from a dual-core to a quad-core proccy)
And he wants to buy a discrete GPU (in his words, a "1 GB RAM GPU" - ya, he is ur typical more-VRAM=more performance-and-thats-it kind of guy)
So, I need help from u guys in deciding the best proc+gpu combo his 15K is gonna get him....
I am guessing the X4 shud come within 5K. so that leaves us with 10K for the GPU.
Plz suggest.
My friend likes to game at medium to low settings...basically he will go from high to low till it works...(so ya, u might find him at 640X480 with everything turned off, simply for the sake of playing the game)
I think (and I am not sure of it)...that a 6 series Radeon might bottleneck, given the rest of his old hardware (not so sure how new a model a X4 is, I am bad with AMD CPUs like I said earlier)
So I was thinking may be a 5 series GPU with DDR3 VRAM might be it???
(Me thinks GDDR5 VRAM might be a bottleneck???? yes/no???)
I think the 5670 1GB DDR3 will come in at around 4K...
Whoa hope he's not reading this; coz if he sees 6K getting saved, he will get this before I have had a chance of completing this post!!
Anyway, no use my guessing around like a fool!! Let me just shut up!
Step in with ur suggestion guys!!
Thanks.
Keep in mind that -
We have about 2 weeks before we hit Chandni!
Dont suggest any online shops!
One of my friends is going to upgrade his proccy and get a discrete gpu.
Total budget - 15K.
Current config -
AMD X2 (dont know more than this)
Asus M4A785D-M Pro
DDR2 RAM (dont know how much)
Crappy PSU (ya he's got some bull-crap psu and wont upgrade it...so I say, let it blow and let him learn "it" the hard way)
Some crapshit cabby (Frontech I think)
and the usual sh1t!!
Ok, so he is going to upgrade to a X4 (I do not have any idea about AMD proccys - so I will just assume this is an upgrade from a dual-core to a quad-core proccy)
And he wants to buy a discrete GPU (in his words, a "1 GB RAM GPU" - ya, he is ur typical more-VRAM=more performance-and-thats-it kind of guy)
So, I need help from u guys in deciding the best proc+gpu combo his 15K is gonna get him....
I am guessing the X4 shud come within 5K. so that leaves us with 10K for the GPU.
Plz suggest.
My friend likes to game at medium to low settings...basically he will go from high to low till it works...(so ya, u might find him at 640X480 with everything turned off, simply for the sake of playing the game)
I think (and I am not sure of it)...that a 6 series Radeon might bottleneck, given the rest of his old hardware (not so sure how new a model a X4 is, I am bad with AMD CPUs like I said earlier)
So I was thinking may be a 5 series GPU with DDR3 VRAM might be it???
(Me thinks GDDR5 VRAM might be a bottleneck???? yes/no???)
I think the 5670 1GB DDR3 will come in at around 4K...
Whoa hope he's not reading this; coz if he sees 6K getting saved, he will get this before I have had a chance of completing this post!!
Anyway, no use my guessing around like a fool!! Let me just shut up!
Step in with ur suggestion guys!!
Thanks.
Keep in mind that -
We have about 2 weeks before we hit Chandni!
Dont suggest any online shops!