General computer talk/advice

1080p is easy to drive with your current card and cheaper to buy. 1440p can sometimes look better, allow for greater stock FOV to be larger in games, and is much harder to drive, requiring a GPU upgrade.

 

So I could either get a second 1080p screen and keep my 750 or go for a 1440p screen and get like a 970. Well, I think my choice is sorta obvious now. The good thing is, the 1080p screen I have now only costs 120€ new.

 

i am going to get a 970 how well would it play games like beamng/battlefield4/on max settings on a 1440p screen?

 

i am getting a Strafe with RGB MX silents

 

FYI BeamNG is not a graphically intensive game. You'll probably be able to play at 45+ fps at max or near max settings on BeamNG. Not sure about Battlefield.

 

FYI it most certainly is. The only thing that runs worse than BeamNG is GTA IV. It takes a GTX 970 to keep above 60 FPS on normal settings. At higher resolutions (let's say 1440p at max settings) you will need nothing less than a 980ti to stay above 60 FPS. If you consider 45 FPS good enough, then a 970 will do; that said, BeamNG competes with games like Crysis, Metro LL and GTA IV in terms of framerate to hardware.

 

Don't use V-sync. I get >70FPS max settings in all maps with a 970, 45-50 with V-sync on.

 

Just get a second 1080p, same as whatever you have now. Game on one and use the other for looking at stuff. That's exactly what I do with my twin R9 270s and I've never looked back to being a single screen pleb ever since I paired my old 1280x1024 monitor with my 900p monitor years ago.

 

G502 update: Half the time on my PC is spent scrolling. This is the worst productivity mouse ever. Or the best scrolling mouse ever. Or both.

 

As a G700 owner, I know those feels.

 

I was here hoping the 950 was going to be an amazing card for an amazing price, just for it to be $20 / $40 cheaper than the 960, the 950 is also 60 / 75% the speed of a 960, no one in the right mind would buy the 950 to save $20 and have a worse gaming experience.

If you buy a 950 over the 960, I will lose my mind.

 

usually if it's around a $20-$30 dollar difference I'm with you, but in some places a 950 is around $70-$80 cheaper, and in that case I could see why people would go for a 950 instead of a 960.

 

In the process of trying to get my sister set up with a computer. This poor little thing is so pathetic. 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 (eww), 1 gig of DDR Ram, a 300 W PSU with some form of Germanic writing on it, and a 160 GB PATA HDD. All of this "awesomness" is paired to a GeForce 6200, an expansion slot cooling fan, a Netis wireless card, and a modem of some description.

I've been at this since 10:30 this morning, In the process I've killed: my 460W PSU (r.i.pepperoni), an 80 GB Wetsern Digital HDD (fuckin' PSU), my Athlon XP 3200+ motherboard (the CPU may still be fine), and a green LED. Good God I'm rusty at this, it's been so long since I've played with this stuff.

 

Well, let's see how this P4 will run Vista because I can't get the DVD drives to read my DVD-RW discs... Even though they are DVD-RW drives.

 

Bad idea.
Extremely bad idea.

 

Well... Probably. Will update with further knowledge.

UPDATE: How peculiar, it's not seeing all 1 gig of ram and it's trying its hardest to utilize the 512 meg efficiently.

It's failing.

 

A P4 with 512MB of RAM cannot run Windows XP and Chrome at the same time. Source: I tried.

 

You're doing it wrong then. My P3 with 256mb is rocking Chrome. (Or Firefox. I forget which.)

 

It can, actually. Sort of. If you have less than 3 tabs open.

 

Ah, but it was Vista at idle. And somehow that stick of RAM came back to life and is residing in the HP Pavilion a-520n, which also mysteriously came back to life. It's currently very slowly installing Windows 7. And the parts that were in the Compaq now reside in the HP. It's even quieter, somehow, even with that expansion slot cooling fan that sounds like a reference AMD card.