$600 Gaming PC. Is it possible? - Hardware & Software

Mine was built for around 600 about a year and a half ago and it can run far cry 2 and crysis on max settings, just not with high anti-aliasing and such. There was a few scenes crysis would stutter, but other wise it was fine. I played the Bad Company 2 beta and it ran it pretty decently at all settings up. I don't understand why everyone is saying it isn't possible. People used to say it was very possible. Just get a cheap case and if something is a lot better for only a small bit of money more go for it.

[QUOTE=ghostofme;23655606][img]http://media.bestofmicro.com/1/3/242391/original/Crysis%202560.png[/img] One GTX 480 can't even handle Crysis at 2560x1600 with only 4x AA. You really think you can squeeze two 5970s into a $1300 budget without bottlenecking them with a CPU?[/QUOTE] 5850 beating 5970 at 4x AA, what?

[QUOTE=drummerundrcovr;23703103]Re-read my last post. Would be adding on to marginally over 600 (with my setup at least) Doesn't have heatsinks. It's only $8 more for the ones I linked, where you could actually safely overclock them if you wanted. again only $8 :colbert:[/QUOTE] You don't really need to overclock RAM. RAM speed doesn't make much of a difference, if any, in gaming. So he should save the tiny amount of money since he won't get a performance boost. With the 460, he'll be saving $30, and the 5830 and the 460 perform similarly.

[QUOTE=GamerKiwi;23703207]You don't really need to overclock RAM. RAM speed doesn't make much of a difference, if any, in gaming. So he should save the tiny amount of money since he won't get a performance boost. With the 460, he'll be saving $30, and the 5830 and the 460 perform similarly.[/QUOTE] The 768MB 460 can be marginally slower especially at 1920x1080+. You'll notice the 5830 handles higher resolutions better. And $8 isn't enough to get anything else. I might be missing something... but $8 towards what will give a performance boost?? The psu is fine too... He can't SLI with the motherboard he's getting. In order to SLI with AMD you'd have to get a $130 AM3 motherboard. Depends on how much money the OP will eventually save up, but I'm getting vibes he'll be using this build for quite some time. Forget switching over to Intel. Currently Intel is far from fitting this budget with the same performance.

The GTX 460 requires less power and runs cooler= Higher overclockability, no need for a fatass PSU. Temperatures and power consumption: [url]http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-460-gf104-fermi,2684-13.html[/url] SLI-scaling: [url]http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-460-gf104-fermi,2684-4.html[/url]

[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;23703763]The GTX 460 requires less power and runs cooler= Higher overclockability, no need for a fatass PSU. Temperatures and power consumption: [url]http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-460-gf104-fermi,2684-13.html[/url] SLI-scaling: [url]http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-460-gf104-fermi,2684-4.html[/url][/QUOTE] [b]this. is. irrelevant.[/b] He can't SLI with this price range, no AMD motherboards support SLI under somewhere from $120-$130. AND AGAIN. THEIR IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO GTX 460s. PEOPLE, PLEASE READ AND UNDERSTAND before just saying the 460 "is more efficient" or "better performing" and "better at sli scaling. [editline]08:55PM[/editline] and a fat-ass psu?!? you can run crossfire 5830's on the 550 watt bfg fine.

[QUOTE=ghostofme;23655606][img]http://media.bestofmicro.com/1/3/242391/original/Crysis%202560.png[/img] One GTX 480 can't even handle Crysis at 2560x1600 with only 4x AA. You really think you can squeeze two 5970s into a $1300 budget without bottlenecking them with a CPU?[/QUOTE] Why does the most powerful card has the lowest FPS on 4xAA? Is it because of lack of ROPs or something else?

I don't think the OP said whether or not he needed an OS, so keep that in mind when putting a build together for him.

[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;23678549]Well, the GTX 295 is, as far as I remember, two GTX 260 or GTX 280 GPU's on a single card...[/QUOTE] It's two GTX 260 GPUs, the Asus Mars Edition GTX 295 had 2 GTX 280 GPUs.

I bought the computer.