Did I make a mistake buying this GTX 260?

[Druid]

Enermax is quite a decent brand actually. Although it does depend a bit on which series you have. Its amazing how many members there are here with hundreds of posts that still haven't read this:

http://www.techist.com/forums/f76/read-first-updated-power-supply-guide-137927/

I've looked at that before, but I just kinda scanned it over. I never committed it to memory. Truthfully, I forgot about it. I just knew that pc building 2.0 thread recommended the three brands I mentioned. Anyway, sorry about that.

 

[King$nake]

Well everything looks fine there....so I dunno.

Im thinking i7, moohaha. The wife is ****ed tho, lol

If I get a GTX285, i7 Processor & i7 Motherboard, and atleast 4 Gigs of Ram....I should be able to run everything under the sun, even if its completely maxed out, right?

Thanks

 

[patonb]

Have you ran benchmark scores?

Run 3d-mark and get your score. This will be your best check, and to see the difference, put your old card back in and run it again.

 

[Druid]

Im thinking i7, moohaha. The wife is ****ed tho, lol

If I get a GTX285, i7 Processor & i7 Motherboard, and atleast 4 Gigs of Ram....I should be able to run everything under the sun, even if its completely maxed out, right?

Thanks

You're going to want tri-channel ram, so you're going to want to go with 3 or 6 GB.

 

[King$nake]

You're going to want tri-channel ram, so you're going to want to go with 3 or 6 GB.

Ok, if I get 6x gig of ram, I should be all set for any game, ya?

 

[gurusan]

There are still games that bring top rigs to their knees. Such as Crysis and GTA IV.....the problem is not so much hardware power as coding that must cater to a wide range of setups and unfortunate Xbox ports.

You setup should not be particularly slow, so I'm not sure what's going on. If I were you I would upgrade my monitor first, gaming at 1920x1200 or 2048x1152 is awesome and you'll really see the difference between different GPUs that that res.

 

[King$nake]

Thanks for the reply. Is 1680x1050 the highest res I can go with a 22"? Now I want to upgrade my monitor too!!! agh

 

[Puddle Jumper]

There are some 1920x1080 21.5" monitors.

Newegg.com - SAMSUNG 2233SW High Glossy Black 21.5" 5ms Widescreen LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 DC 15000:1(1000:1) w/ HDCP Support - LCD Monitors

 

[Thresh25]

Your setup is fine. Maybe you don't have the newest drivers, something is installed wrong, or you have a virus. But your rig is very high-powered. Heck, I can max out unreal tournament 3 on this piece of crap. It could also be your PSU, I've read that your sytem can really get slow if your psu is starting to go bad, or is bad. I really don't think you need to spend all that money yet tho.

 

[philbar71]

^ UT3 aint that hard to max out

OP: do you have the latest crysis patch installed? i know that fixed crappy performance on my PC.