Building a PC

**sponge** · 01-08-2012, 05:57 PM

Originally Posted by Nick2.1

A 560ti is a great card for any one building their first computer, higher end cards can be intimidating. If he isn't happy about the power of his GPU, then he can either send it back or grab another one and SLI that bitch.

this is true but

building a badass gaming PC so I can finally play Skyrim, SR3, BF3, MW3 on ultra settings
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Any suggestions or advice?

He wants a computer that will play those on ultra, and harner comes up with an i7 (and an absolutely ridiculous amount of RAM but ohwellramischeap) and bickering ensues, when IO and graphics processing power are going to be his bottlenecks way before CPU power with that load.

**Harner** · 01-09-2012, 01:23 PM

Originally Posted by sponge

...and harner comes up with an i7 (and an absolutely ridiculous amount of RAM but ohwellramischeap) and bickering ensues, when IO and graphics processing power are going to be his bottlenecks way before CPU power with that load.

I do agree with this. I mean, for a setup relating just to gaming on "ultra settings", gpu is important. I honestly didn't really check out the specs on that card, because I'm not that much of a hardcore gamer to give a shit.

What I will say, is the likelihood of this computer being a dedicated 100% gaming machine is pretty slim. 12GB seems like a lot now, but seriously it's 2011. I spec out workstations with 8GB of RAM, with a life expectancy per machine of 3-5 years.