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so I am trying to play metro last light and I know its just about the most taxing game there is so I have a question about my gaming rig - I am pretty sure that everything is good except for the gpu not many games need much cpu and I got a fairly nice one
Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3
FX 4350 Black
16GB ram
7970
I know the 7970 isnt powerful enough to run the game on max settings I tried it but it wont even run it on min settings at anything over 20fps most of the time
I was going to buy a 290x as it is just about the most powerful single gpu card you can get under $600 ($500 at my local microcenter) thats ati - and thats the key here I want to have it mining when I am not gaming so it must be ati not nvidia even though nvidia is probably the better choice for this game and most others with phyxs
1. so would a single r9 290x be enough to play the game at 1920x1080 over 30fps or even 40fps?
2. is this cpu/mobo good enough
I have played many games including crysis 3 and arma 2 and day z which all require lots of gpu power and they all played fine for the most part, arma I could turn the draw distance up to max with no problems - all games I could play at max settings with no problems
I even have an older intel computer (its in my signature still, havent updated that in a while) a Q6600 G0 quad core 775 sockett! pcie 2.0 not even 3.0 and a 660ti gpu and it games pretty well for games like borderlands 2 hitman, splinter cell all at max settings and its a computer from 2009 and a gpu from 2011! so can I assume my cpu/mobo now is fine I just need a kick ass gpu?
I do have a dual r9 290x machine thats a miner running 24/7 and its got linux so using that isnt going to happen it makes me about $20 a day after electricity costs so I dont like to take it offline just to play games
Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3
FX 4350 Black
16GB ram
7970
I know the 7970 isnt powerful enough to run the game on max settings I tried it but it wont even run it on min settings at anything over 20fps most of the time
I was going to buy a 290x as it is just about the most powerful single gpu card you can get under $600 ($500 at my local microcenter) thats ati - and thats the key here I want to have it mining when I am not gaming so it must be ati not nvidia even though nvidia is probably the better choice for this game and most others with phyxs
1. so would a single r9 290x be enough to play the game at 1920x1080 over 30fps or even 40fps?
2. is this cpu/mobo good enough
I have played many games including crysis 3 and arma 2 and day z which all require lots of gpu power and they all played fine for the most part, arma I could turn the draw distance up to max with no problems - all games I could play at max settings with no problems
I even have an older intel computer (its in my signature still, havent updated that in a while) a Q6600 G0 quad core 775 sockett! pcie 2.0 not even 3.0 and a 660ti gpu and it games pretty well for games like borderlands 2 hitman, splinter cell all at max settings and its a computer from 2009 and a gpu from 2011! so can I assume my cpu/mobo now is fine I just need a kick ass gpu?
I do have a dual r9 290x machine thats a miner running 24/7 and its got linux so using that isnt going to happen it makes me about $20 a day after electricity costs so I dont like to take it offline just to play games