Just ordered my EVGA GTX 560 yesterday! With Amazon Prime I should get it tomorrow... unfortunately I don't have the full beta, maybe I'll play around in mooege. For the most part it'll just be nice going from minimum settings (resolution notwithstanding) in SC2 to maxed out ultra.
Hi folks, was looking for a bit of advice. I've run the beta on mooege and it does run, but barely and is pretty laggy/stuttery on 1680x1050 on low settings. SC2 runs smoothly on low settings, but I'd like to bump that up to ultra and I want to play D3 maxed.
Current rig:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ (3.21 GHz, dual core)
ASUS M2R32-MVP mobo (says it supports two PCI Express x16 ATI Crossfire gfx cards)
Sapphire ATI HD 2600 XT 512MB ($91 4 years ago... good investment)
4GB DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) dual channel memory
Edit: Thermaltake Toughpower 550w
One thing I've always shunned is the "gaming laptop" but since I've gotten married I'm actually tempted to save up and get a really, really nice gaming laptop so I can game in the living room while my wife watches TV or something instead of me always being holed up in the second bedroom. I already stream movies/shows to the xbox360 in the living room using Tversity, but if I get a laptop this PC would exclusively be a media hub.
So my current goal is to spend as little money as possible to temporarily let me play D3 until I end up getting a laptop. I still want to play it on as high of settings as possible. Would a graphics upgrade suffice? No idea if my mobo will even support recent nVidia cards or if I'm forced to get a high end ATI one.
Further Edit:
Was reading some ASUS boards for this mobo and people talk about running PCI-E 2.1 video cards without issues.
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Current rig:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ (3.21 GHz, dual core)
ASUS M2R32-MVP mobo (says it supports two PCI Express x16 ATI Crossfire gfx cards)
Sapphire ATI HD 2600 XT 512MB ($91 4 years ago... good investment)
4GB DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) dual channel memory
Edit: Thermaltake Toughpower 550w
One thing I've always shunned is the "gaming laptop" but since I've gotten married I'm actually tempted to save up and get a really, really nice gaming laptop so I can game in the living room while my wife watches TV or something instead of me always being holed up in the second bedroom. I already stream movies/shows to the xbox360 in the living room using Tversity, but if I get a laptop this PC would exclusively be a media hub.
So my current goal is to spend as little money as possible to temporarily let me play D3 until I end up getting a laptop. I still want to play it on as high of settings as possible. Would a graphics upgrade suffice? No idea if my mobo will even support recent nVidia cards or if I'm forced to get a high end ATI one.
Further Edit:
Was reading some ASUS boards for this mobo and people talk about running PCI-E 2.1 video cards without issues.