Good Gaming PC?

[CreepyBobo346]

I'm getting a new PC in march and am wondering if this PC will be able to run BF4 at Ultra settings 40FPS (And games like Battlefield: Hardline, Titanfall, Assassins Creed: Unity)

CPU: AMD FX 8320E

Motherboard: Biostar TA970 (This motherboard is cheap and read some comments and said had no problem)

RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3-1600MHz

Storage: Hitachi Ultrastar 1TB (Has the least amount of drive failures out of popular hard drives)

Graphics Card: Gigabyte GeForce Windforce GTX 960

PSU: Fractal Design Integra R2 650W

OS:Windows 8.1 64-Bit


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[Dark Lord of Tech]

Mid Range gaming build.

 

[CreepyBobo346]

So will I be able to max out some games or most games and high settings?

 

[baniDJ]

Get the R9 280X instead of that GTX 960. It is a lot better, has 3 GB VRAM and it's around the same price.

 

[Nextg_Rival]

Get the R9 280X instead of that GTX 960. It is a lot better, has 3 GB VRAM and it's around the same price.

Agreed. If you can afford the 280X go for it. Make sure your PSU can handle it though.

 

[CreepyBobo346]

The R9 280X won't be able to handle as much of a high resolution of a GTX 960.
The Pixel Rate of the R9 280X is around 27GPixels and the pixel rate of the GTX 960 is around 36GPixels.

 

[baniDJ]

The R9 280X won't be able to handle as much of a high resolution of a GTX 960.
The Pixel Rate of the R9 280X is around 27GPixels and the pixel rate of the GTX 960 is around 36GPixels.

No Sir. The GTX 960 won't be able to. Because it has a 128-bit memory bus and only 2 GB while 280x has 384 and 3 GB. Go for the R9 280X it's much faster.

 

[CreepyBobo346]

Faster in what?

 

[Nextg_Rival]

Faster in what?

Faster in this: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/nvidia-geforce-gtx-960,review-33113-4.html

 

[baniDJ]

Faster in what?

Faster in every single task. 1080p - 280X is faster. 1440p - 280X is faster, 960 will run out of memory.

 

[CreepyBobo346]

Okay got it, going with the GTX 970 :3

NVM: Going with the R9 290X or R9 290 or sticking with the GTX 970

 

[baniDJ]

Okay got it, going with the GTX 970 :3

Yep, you got it. GTX 970 is a great card. But keep in mind, it has an hardware problem that can use only 3.5 GB of VRAM out of 4 GB. But that won't be an issue for you if you don't play in resolution higher than 1080p.

 

[CAaronD]

Have the 970, it doesn't disappoint. If the 290x is the same price as the 970, or cheaper, then go with it. Otherwise I would just suggest the 970. It is still amazing despite the 3.5GB memory cap. And to answer your question, yes you would be able to run BF4 ultra at 40+ FPS. Titanfall, yes. Probably not ACU? Not sure about Hardline though.

 

[CreepyBobo346]

Sorry about that, I'm actually going with the R9 290.
It has more than what I need everything is better than the GTX 970 except pixel rate and power usage.

 

[CreepyBobo346]

How about the R9 290?

Will that be able to achieve same frame rates as an R9 290X, because the only thing the R9 290X has is better texture filtering by 10%.

 

[baniDJ]

You can go with the R9 290. It a very good card. In high resolutions it will be better than GTX 970.
But i would suggest you to add some more $ and get the 290X for ex. this one http://www.amazon.com/XFX-Double-1000MHz-Graphics-R9290XEDFD/dp/B00HHIPN5A/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1423417059&sr=8-2&keywords=r9+290x

 

[CreepyBobo346]

I really can't upgrade my budget, and with all the things I need, the price of the PC will be way out of my budget.

 

[baniDJ]

Then go with the R9 290. That's the best price/performance GPU in my oppinion. It has a 512-bit bus and a very high memory bandwith, and will be good with high resolutions

 

[CreepyBobo346]

Will the R9 270X also be good in gaming?
I mean will the R9 285 achieve around same frame rates as R9 290?

 

[Nextg_Rival]

R9 280 < R9 285 < R9 280X < R9 290