Lag, what could I upgrade.
witch:
I've just built a new PC in the last couple of weeks and want to pass on a tip I was given. Apparently if you have an Nvidia video card and later on want to use SLI with another card, you will need the identical Nvidia card. Whereas if you go with ATI Radeon, you will be able to do Crossfire as long as you have a similar GPU. I thought Crossfire might be a cheap way of upgrading my video card in a year or two.
HDDs can be a bottleneck too. When I was researching parts for my new PC, I discovered a lot of the new HDDs are labelled 'green' and often run as slow as a notebook/laptop drive i.e. 5700rpm. I don't game with any less than 10K rpm and the faster read/write can help with the over all system. In my old machine I had 2 smaller HDDs and put them in RAID 0 which helped keep my now 5 year old machine up to the task for a lot longer.
If you get a secondary HDD for data, you can also put Windoze page file on that, save having to access your main drive(s) for that as well as what you're doing.
silverkitty:
Quote from: witch on 2012 June 15, 22:49:20
I've just built a new PC in the last couple of weeks and want to pass on a tip I was given. Apparently if you have an Nvidia video card and later on want to use SLI with another card, you will need the identical Nvidia card. Whereas if you go with ATI Radeon, you will be able to do Crossfire as long as you have a similar GPU. I thought Crossfire might be a cheap way of upgrading my video card in a year or two.
This is very interesting, it's the first I've heard of Crossfire. After looking it up I'm quite interested, thank you for mentioning it!
Dark Trepie:
I have the exact same card. It runs well enough without having to sacrifice too much. I knocked the view distance options down a couple of notches and that was all I needed. That being said you probably got it for the same reason I did. I was looking for a video card on the cheap and found it on Newegg for $60. So, no, it's not the best card. And yes, you will want to save up for a better one.
Quote from: witch on 2012 June 15, 22:49:20
HDDs can be a bottleneck too. When I was researching parts for my new PC, I discovered a lot of the new HDDs are labelled 'green' and often run as slow as a notebook/laptop drive i.e. 5700rpm. I don't game with any less than 10K rpm and the faster read/write can help with the over all system. In my old machine I had 2 smaller HDDs and put them in RAID 0 which helped keep my now 5 year old machine up to the task for a lot longer.
I predict they will try to phase out the HDDs we have now in favor of solid state drives in a couple of years. Then we can all sit around and laugh about how HDD's used to be clunky devices that had moving parts while we watch our computers boot up in five seconds.
silverkitty:
Quote from: Dark Trepie on 2012 June 16, 03:32:51
I have the exact same card. It runs well enough without having to sacrifice too much. I knocked the view distance options down a couple of notches and that was all I needed. That being said you probably got it for the same reason I did. I was looking for a video card on the cheap and found it on Newegg for $60. So, no, it's not the best card. And yes, you will want to save up for a better one.
That is the exact reason I bought it. I'd been playing (grudgingly) on a laptop for the past year and couldn't find a good enough excuse to dump the money on a new computer. Then TOR was released and I couldn't play for more than 10 minutes without overheating, and even if I could it was too laggy to be enjoyable. So I went out and bought a budget pc that could play everything I play decently, expecting anything that could flawlessly run TOR could run Sims without much of a hitch. I was wrong, but at least its got plenty of upgrade capability.
witch:
Quote from: Dark Trepie on 2012 June 16, 03:32:51
I predict they will try to phase out the HDDs we have now in favor of solid state drives in a couple of years. Then we can all sit around and laugh about how HDD's used to be clunky devices that had moving parts while we watch our computers boot up in five seconds.
Yiss, my new PC has a SSD. It is actually 7 seconds to boot to desktop, but who's quibbling? :P
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