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    Can I have your Tots xXCHERUBIMXx's Avatar
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    Icon5 HELP! Check my specs....

    Hey Guys and Gals,

    I was wondering if the brain trust (yeah, that's you) can pull together and look at this parts list for my build-out.

    I went a step down from what I wanted initially because it seemed excessive.

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    Above is the list of components I was going to purchase.

    My goal is to run WoT at the highest settings. That's something I've never been able to do. (Quite the opposite actually).

    If I set it to full settings, can anyone predict what kind of FPS I will see?

    40 FPS is my goal.

    Thanks, I just wanna blow stuff up again, and in a way that I don't have to dispose of evidence.

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    A closed mouth gathers no foot AOD Member AOD_RTMPro's Avatar
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    That's a very similar setup to mine. You should be able to run WoT no issues. Not sure about Ultra settings though as I don't play WoT. I can play BF4 on Ultra though.

    I have 16gb of Corsair Vengeance ram vs 8gb.

    Gigabyte R9 280x
    AMD FX6350
    Thermaltake Tough power 600w PSU (a bit under powered I think)
    Gigabyte 970 mobo
    Seagate 320gb main & 2tb secondary
    Haven't installed my Crucial 500gb SSD yet.

    Running Windows 7 Pro

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    Can I have your Tots xXCHERUBIMXx's Avatar
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    Thanks man,

    As far as I know the SSD just helps with load in times etc. I have the HDD for holding pictures, files and all that. Never used an SSD before, looking forward to it. I think these are comparable setups, and it sounds promising. I've already made the decision to increase the RAM, good observation.

    Have you had any reliability issues?

    Again, thanks.

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    Initially I had a driver issue for the video card. Stability is dependent upon which game you play. If you find me on Steam, RTMPro. All the games on my list I can play at either Ultra or High or a mix thereof. Also you can see my YouTube channel for videos I've catpured during gameplay. www.youtube.com/rtmpro

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    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue LoneSpirit's Avatar
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    Man, dont go for that XFX GPU....get anything but XFX, they have all kind of driver issues and their support is even worse than EA Support.

    While the FX 6 series are good CPU's, I'd go for an Intel one, they are simply better, especially for broken ass games like World of Tanks.
    Also as old school player I always go with a combo: AMD CPU/Nvidia GPU or Intel CPU/AMD GPU :D

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    A closed mouth gathers no foot AOD Member AOD_RTMPro's Avatar
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    I slightly agree with you. Except for if you're on a budget. AMD offers great bang for your buck with their pricing. If you've got money to burn, Intel is definitely a superior processor, for about 2x the price. I used to be a full NVidia supporter, I'll tell you what though, the past couple NVidia cards I've paid over $300 for, my 280x I paid less than $300 and it craps all over them! Again, if you've got money to burn, get a GTX980.

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    This is why I went with the 970 vs the 280.

    The GTX 970 is faster than a R9 290 and takes only a bit over half the power and is also much cooler. Also, the GTX 970 has a ‘real world bandwidth’ of ~300 GB/sec, what would be ~25% more – it has this compression technique like the new R9 285, just much better. The Texel Rate isn’t really important, because even graphics cards years ago didn’t have problems with AF anymore – you can try it yourself: Let the game run with 16xAF and then let it run with 4xAF – almost no performance difference but much cleaner picture…

    I’ve had the Sapphire R9 280 Dual-X and now I’m upgrading to a GTX 970. It’s a big difference, not only a small. YOu can throw EVERY game on it with MAX details at 1080p and you’ll get stable 60fps… On some older games you can even downsample or run at 4K, like Mirror’s Edge. With my R9 280 I sometimes didn’t even get 60fps with High Settings @ 1080p and 4xMSAA.



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    The GTX970 is a newer generation card when comparing to an R9 280x. It should be faster and better in every sense. As for my own personal budget, paying $600+ NZD for a 970 is ludicrous vs a 280x & a 6350 processor for less than $450 NZD.

    Ultimately it comes down to affordability. I would love to have an i7 & 970/980...just can't warrant spending $1,300 vs $450 to play the games I play.

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    I have come to terms with the fact that I am cannon fodder. Cyrihs's Avatar
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    You can go water cooling with the Corsair H55 for not much more. Plus it'll help with potential RAM clearance issues.
    Also you should consider a 240-250 Gb SSD. The 120 will fill up fast even with only your OS and games installed.


 

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