The General Pooter Games Thread.

[Wolfshade]

Reduced one of my favourite words, "By Default" is another

Looks quite nifty. I've decided to save my pennies and get a small form factor rig.

[Psychosplodge]

Not build a small form factor rig?

dunno whether to get a second for SLI kind of overkill but would be awesome...

[Wolfshade]

Build/get, depending on how bothered I am, some of them are water cooled and I am always cautious about doing that myself, but would enjoy the quietness.

SLI isn't really worth it.

[Psychosplodge]

Apparently a pair of those give better performance than a 680...

A full custom watercooled build? Or one of those self contained loops? The odds are its the latter. Not sure you'd ship the alternative through the post.

[Wolfshade]

£10 more get the 760 instead... ~20% better, ish.

No, I'll have a look around and have a think.

[Psychosplodge]

Its the ti version, you took that into account?
I suppose I could go for a bigger card. I don't need one, but the temptation is always there...

See if you're building a new rig eventually, a graphics card is a part you can use now

[Learn2Eel]

Its the ti version, you took that into account?
I suppose I could go for a bigger card. I don't need one, but the temptation is always there...

See if you're building a new rig eventually, a graphics card is a part you can use now

Yep, exactly. I've got a 4-5 year old computer and I recently put an AMD Radeon HD 7800 in it. I went from running Shogun 2 on Low settings 1920x1080 @ 20fps to Ultra setting 1920x1080 @ 60fps. The difference is simply insane, even despite my crappy old computer bottle-necking it badly.

The only game that my rig even struggles with now is Rome 2, which I'm currently playing on High settings 1920x1080 @ 20-30fps. When I upgrade the rest of my computer though, it will run like a breeze. Though there are some game mods like Phoenix Rising for EAW that destroy my CPU regardless of what GPU I have lol.

[Psychosplodge]

With the 660ti I can run planetside 2 on ultra settings at 60fps and any dropoff is down to the cpu (i5 3570k @ 3.4ghz)
Rome 2 again runs with everything turned up to full.
In fact I never really had any freezing or crashing till the first patch...

[Wolfshade]

Well I do have enough redundancy in my current psu. It might be a good idea, a one off for this. Then make the big mobo + chip jump later.

I do really like this little case (35.9 x 25 x 40.4 cm)

[Psychosplodge]

I've seen them, they're a nice looking piece of kit. Plenty of colour choice too. I think they have room for a fullsize gpu as well don't they?