Post by spikes on Apr 29, 2014 22:34:18 GMT -4
With City of Titans on its way to release next year, what good is it being released if you can not play it. So, I would like to spitball the pieces of a computer to make this game work.
So, if you have suggestions or comments on;
(1) Motherboard
(2) CPU
(3) Graphic Card
(4) Hard Drive
(5) Memory
(6) Monitor
(7) Desktop vs Laptop
( Fans
(9) Keyboards
(10) Mouse, Trackball, etc.
(11) Power Supply
(12) Accessories like Mouse pads, ScreenCleaners, etc.
(13) Operating System
So to start off, Graphic Cards (taking this from one of many sites)
My desktop has two Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560 Ti graphic cards with 1GB GDDRS for PCI-E 2.0 slot, which are linked for better performance.
1. EVGA GTX 680 Signature 2
The GTX 680 is still an impressive piece of technical engineering this far down the line. Released back in March, Nvidia's current flagship card is still at the top of the graphics tree, duking it out with AMD's HD 7970 for GPU supremacy. That's impressive given the fact that its GK104 is a far simpler bit of silicon compared to the Tahiti XT behemoth in the AMD card.
The GK104 is a 3.5bn transistor chip verses the 4.3bn transistor Tahiti XT core, and as such is smaller and more power efficient. That's quite a change compared to the Fermi generation where the top GTX 480 and GTX 580 housed massive, power-hungry GPUs chock-full of CUDA cores and SM units.
2. Sapphire HD 7970 GHz Edition Vapor-X
The HD 7970 GHz Edition is the fastest consumer graphics card, and the best news is it's not the most expensive. When Nvidia released the GTX 680, AMD was able to counter with the upgraded GHz Edition of its HD 7970, upping the clockspeed to cope with the new kid on the block and retain its top-GPU crown.
This is the card to get if you're powering a hi-res screen or three. It's got the graphics processing chops to run pretty much any game at 2,560 x 1,600, on the highest settings, without batting a silicon eyelid. It may only be a little faster than the GTX 680 in most tests, but in the compute-heavy titles, such as the lighting-intensive DiRT Showdown, it has a clear lead.
3. Asus GTX 670 Direct CU II
Featuring an only slightly cut-down GK104 GPU compared to the top-end GTX 680, we were big fans of the GTX 670 when it first tipped up. It was only a little slower than the top GeForce card and was much cheaper. It also had a performance lead on the HD 7950 and was on par with the original HD 7970.
Time hasn't been kind to the GTX 670 though and with prices staying relatively high since launch, its relevance has diminished. The new GHz Edition of the HD 7970 put it out in front of both top Kepler cards and the Catalyst driver optimisations, and more compute-oriented game engines have made the HD 7950 a rather tantalising prospect in comparison.
4. Asus HD 7950 Direct CU II
There's a tremendous sense of value when you get this Asus version of AMD's HD 7950 out of the box. It really is rather massive. The triple-slot cooling array, means that you're going to have to think long and hard about whether you've got enough space inside your PC chassis to house such a behemoth of a card. That said it's not a bad little performer, especially at this price point.
AMD has managed to be incredibly aggressive on pricing as new Nvidia-shaped competitors have hit the streets, and to have this sort of performance for much less than £300 is impressive.
This card swaps performance leads with the more expensive GTX 670 across our benchmarking suite, showing that it has the chops at both hi-res and in the more compute-oriented games/lighting engines we've started to come across.
5. EVGA GTX 660 Ti Superclocked
When we first saw the GTX 660 Ti from EVGA it was hovering around the $400 - $425 price mark and was then bumping heads with the HD 7950 and that was a battle it was never going to win. Unlike a lot of the other Nvidia cards, though, this has had a little price cut in recent times.
Now it's available for just under $350 and that makes it much more of an interesting proposition. At this price it's smack bang in the middle of the HD 7950 and HD 7870, and in performance terms too that's exactly where it ought to be.
Broadly speaking it's a quicker card than the HD 7870, even the overclocked Gigabyte version we're looking at in this test. There are a couple of instances where it suffers by comparison, but then only very slightly. Interestingly it's actually quicker than the HD 7870 in the traditionally AMD-centric DiRT Showdown
So, if you have suggestions or comments on;
(1) Motherboard
(2) CPU
(3) Graphic Card
(4) Hard Drive
(5) Memory
(6) Monitor
(7) Desktop vs Laptop
( Fans
(9) Keyboards
(10) Mouse, Trackball, etc.
(11) Power Supply
(12) Accessories like Mouse pads, ScreenCleaners, etc.
(13) Operating System
So to start off, Graphic Cards (taking this from one of many sites)
My desktop has two Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560 Ti graphic cards with 1GB GDDRS for PCI-E 2.0 slot, which are linked for better performance.
1. EVGA GTX 680 Signature 2
The GTX 680 is still an impressive piece of technical engineering this far down the line. Released back in March, Nvidia's current flagship card is still at the top of the graphics tree, duking it out with AMD's HD 7970 for GPU supremacy. That's impressive given the fact that its GK104 is a far simpler bit of silicon compared to the Tahiti XT behemoth in the AMD card.
The GK104 is a 3.5bn transistor chip verses the 4.3bn transistor Tahiti XT core, and as such is smaller and more power efficient. That's quite a change compared to the Fermi generation where the top GTX 480 and GTX 580 housed massive, power-hungry GPUs chock-full of CUDA cores and SM units.
2. Sapphire HD 7970 GHz Edition Vapor-X
The HD 7970 GHz Edition is the fastest consumer graphics card, and the best news is it's not the most expensive. When Nvidia released the GTX 680, AMD was able to counter with the upgraded GHz Edition of its HD 7970, upping the clockspeed to cope with the new kid on the block and retain its top-GPU crown.
This is the card to get if you're powering a hi-res screen or three. It's got the graphics processing chops to run pretty much any game at 2,560 x 1,600, on the highest settings, without batting a silicon eyelid. It may only be a little faster than the GTX 680 in most tests, but in the compute-heavy titles, such as the lighting-intensive DiRT Showdown, it has a clear lead.
3. Asus GTX 670 Direct CU II
Featuring an only slightly cut-down GK104 GPU compared to the top-end GTX 680, we were big fans of the GTX 670 when it first tipped up. It was only a little slower than the top GeForce card and was much cheaper. It also had a performance lead on the HD 7950 and was on par with the original HD 7970.
Time hasn't been kind to the GTX 670 though and with prices staying relatively high since launch, its relevance has diminished. The new GHz Edition of the HD 7970 put it out in front of both top Kepler cards and the Catalyst driver optimisations, and more compute-oriented game engines have made the HD 7950 a rather tantalising prospect in comparison.
4. Asus HD 7950 Direct CU II
There's a tremendous sense of value when you get this Asus version of AMD's HD 7950 out of the box. It really is rather massive. The triple-slot cooling array, means that you're going to have to think long and hard about whether you've got enough space inside your PC chassis to house such a behemoth of a card. That said it's not a bad little performer, especially at this price point.
AMD has managed to be incredibly aggressive on pricing as new Nvidia-shaped competitors have hit the streets, and to have this sort of performance for much less than £300 is impressive.
This card swaps performance leads with the more expensive GTX 670 across our benchmarking suite, showing that it has the chops at both hi-res and in the more compute-oriented games/lighting engines we've started to come across.
5. EVGA GTX 660 Ti Superclocked
When we first saw the GTX 660 Ti from EVGA it was hovering around the $400 - $425 price mark and was then bumping heads with the HD 7950 and that was a battle it was never going to win. Unlike a lot of the other Nvidia cards, though, this has had a little price cut in recent times.
Now it's available for just under $350 and that makes it much more of an interesting proposition. At this price it's smack bang in the middle of the HD 7950 and HD 7870, and in performance terms too that's exactly where it ought to be.
Broadly speaking it's a quicker card than the HD 7870, even the overclocked Gigabyte version we're looking at in this test. There are a couple of instances where it suffers by comparison, but then only very slightly. Interestingly it's actually quicker than the HD 7870 in the traditionally AMD-centric DiRT Showdown