Is it good for running games on high settings for the next couple years?
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Why is it being defiant?
(I think the word you are looking for is definitely)
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At triple the price!
I saw a deal yesterday for a 550 for 90 dollars. Pretty sure its the reason for this thread.
This card is decent. Not as good as a 460 (i have one) but similar and uses low energy. You can probably run games on low to med depending on the game. Valve games, high all the way.
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In fairness, I have a 1GB GTX 460, with 4GB of RAM and a Phenom II X4 955. I play all my games maxxed out at 1920 x 1080 without any problems. Anti-aliasing, V-Sync, all switched on. It's very rare for my machine to lag. Have a gander on my profile if you're curious as to the games I play.
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My partners gaming rig actually uses a 550 TI with a E5700 oc/ed at 4 and 8GB of RAM. Can play any current game inc. Sleeping Dogs and Max Payne 3 all at the highest settings at 1600x1280. The card is the original MSi series not the re-release with better cooling. It's actually a very good card for it budget price. Although I do admit, if you have the extra cash grab a 660TI purely for the fact its a far better card in general even with the increased price.
Plus if you really want to, 2x550 TI's in SLI are a very good budget choice again if you have the slots, power and cash. Although if your buying two 550's.. your edging closer to the 660 price and should try for that instead.
I use 2x460's myself, get a steady 60fps on BF3 at 1920 with everything maxed. It never dip's below the 60. Same CPU and RAM as my partner's rig. Personally the big end cards (£300/$500) card's simply are over the top at the minute for game's around when the mid-range is doing such a good job.
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I use a big ass cooler on my CPU (Hyper 212 by Cooler Master) but the stock cooler's on the 460's. I use the following model MSi 460 GTX Hawk. Had no issue's with cooling on them.
My case is a modified Cooler Master (Can't recall model) with two 120mm fan's (One over the HDDs, and one above the GPU's between the CPU and IO shield). Noise level's are quite high I admit, but it keep's everything cool and I like it over water cooling. I just don't trust water ;)
The missus use's a stock red HSF on the 550 TI, similar case, fan and CPU setup however. Her model GPU is MSi 550TI OC. Both the 550 TI and 460's are pretty decent card's in my book. Reasonable price to.
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i have the AMD 7770 black edition and it can run Battlefield 3 / modern warfare 3 / crysis 2 on the highest settings.
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To all who replied me.
My 7770 black edition can run BF3 on High settings and 1920x1080.
(i5 2500 @3.3GHz, 4GB RAM)
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You didn't specify what framerates you were getting, but yes, it does indeed run
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If you want to run high settings, look into the 600 Series
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I've been using a GTX 570 for awhile now and haven't encountered anything that causes it any trouble. Running at 1920x1080 unless the game itself says 'NO'. Emulation is my only foe, although that would be due to the ancient Q6600 CPU I've been using for many moons.
Still, the 600 series would be a step above if you can find something at a reasonable price. If not, there's at least one decent card in the 500 family.
(EDIT: Wait, I take that back. Attempting to run WoW in DX11 will cause a system crash within an hour or two, which is an error Google suggests many 570 users have encountered. This may or may not be a huge issue for you.)
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I can emulate everything decently with a Q6600(3.2ghz OC'd) and a GTX60 1gb.
That includes 90% of PS2 games at 60fps and Wii/GC games perfect. Maybe your settings are bad? I know the PS2 emulator is kinda finicky when it comes to the best settings. I was just playing DLC3 the other day at 720p at 60fps on my TV.
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I can't seem to nudge mine up beyond 3.0 without a loss of stability. Lucky!
And I think it was actually due to my using an extremely old version of the emulator. It was pointed out to me that the last official release is ancient and that they've pushed out a million builds via SVN since then. I'll have to give it a go again soon with one of those.
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The old ones run like crapola! New ones are at least 50-100 percent faster, only game I cant emulate right so far is Zone of Enders 2.
Actually my processor can run faster but I have no need, I had it up to 3.8ghz I think....some of them cant though, think there is 2 different types of Q6600's. I also have a Hyper 212 cooler on it though.
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you dont need a 600 anything. The first number in the 3 digit series is much like a car's year. the second number is more like a car's model.
in other words, a 480 could be said to be a 3 year old idk, ford mustang, whereas a 650 would be a current year ford fiesta. anyway you get the idea...
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Not very good, even the Gtx460 is better if you can find that.
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I have the GTX 460 768 mb! :D
got it like 2 years ago when my 7800 GT fried on me while playing Spider-Man Shattered dimensions.
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600s are over 120 euros (all I can spend for a new card), I don't think I will be able to buy it anytime soon.
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If you see a 480 for less than 200 dollars I'd say go for it. gtx 570 quality, 1.5gb vram but remember the power required and the heat that the card will produce
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I know places that sell gtx 480s for less than $200 in north america. Is that not the case in Europe?
A 480 would be equivalent to a 6970
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Look for 200 or less it is a compromise. If he has 1 it isnt so bad unless he goes tri sli
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Depends on what you plan on playing, what resolution you'll be playing at, what video settings you'll be using, and what framerates you're hoping to get in said games. It's decent for the price I guess. Not that great for the newest of the new games.
edit: I see you have a 1080p monitor.
I'd look for a stronger GPU, but that ofcourse depends on the questions I asked previously(what games, settings, framerate do you want to use/get) Most games would run decently at medium'ish settings at 1080p.
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Okay, I have one question. What matters more in the game's settings? The resolution, or the quality settings (should I play with the highest resolution but lowered settings, or lower resolution and higher settings)?
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Well it's mostly recommended to always use your max resolution when gaming because anything lower will give the picture a blurred and grainy look. This only applies when in fullscreen. But yea, highest res and tinker around with the settings to find the performance that you want.
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Imo if you find a gtx 480 for less than $200 it is probably the best bang for the buck right now if you don't mind heat or noise
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i have a gtx560 and i can run BF on high, just make sure you turn off shitty shadows cause that's the thing that eats your frames away. Also disable AA or leave it on 2x...
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Non existent. Unless you meant the GTS 450. And you're asking how your GPU is? Does it perform the way you want it? If so, then there's no need to be asking if it's good or not.
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Nooo! Get a better one :P
Look here -> http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html Higher score the better~
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Yea you should stop posting that as it's horribly inaccurate as it doesn't really test true gaming performance. There's no way 570 is stronger than a 690. Do yourself a favor and forget that site for comparing gpu strength, or else you and others might make bad purchases. It's nice to see my 670 in second place, even though that's not it's rightful place :p.
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I just picked up a cheap GTX 460 1GB v2, and it does very nice. Now I just need to get rid of this stupid dual-core and get at the very least a quad.
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Medium for this gen's games perhaps, if you can get your hands on a 560Ti, that would improve a lot, and have some more gaming margin.
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GeForce GTX 550 Ti, is it good?
Edit: thanks for the suggestions.
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