Luckily the PC community is the best around. If you want to learn and build a machine, then find a good forum and ask questions. Tomshardware one example. There are countless friendly people that will do everything they can to help you out! Of course it takes a bit more effort and time to accomplish but it's really not rocket science. A PC all fits together like a puzzle, clicking and screwing, it's not like you'll be soldering, using wire diagrams or welding or anything too techn...
This is my favourite Call of Duty game, before the series became all 'consolified' with churned out endless yearly rehashes. The first game was spectacular, but this game was kind of the pinnacle of WW2 FPS games. It was a technical masterpiece too. The PC version looked incredible for the time (this game is over 10 years old) and the Xbox 360 version was virtually as good which was a stunning achievement. It was also by far and away the best launch game for 360.
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If the S has a slightly upclocked GPU after it has had its die shrink then there is a possibility it will be able to improve on the framerate of games that slip below their predetermined lock.
Yes I said If @ thrust. Glad you can read.
No this has nothing to do with PS4.
No I'm not telling you to buy a gaming PC.
No I don't care what phone you have.
No I don't care if you prefer to buy a console.
What I said stands by itself. If you're a PC gamer Microsoft just entirely removed the last motivations for many of those millions of people to buy a Microsoft console for the gam...
There is literally no reason to buy a Microsoft console as of right this second if you have a gaming PC. I mean it's been coming for a while now but they are killing their own console brand for a lot of people. Millions of PC gamers.
Why even buy Scorpio in 18 months? You know you'll be able to play all of it's games anyway on PC if you really wanted, before the machine even arrives!
At stock, some cards are pulling 10+ watts more through the motherboard than expected. Ok, most good boards can deal with this. However, what about heavily overclocked? What about a pair together? A pair overclocked? You could easily find yourself seriously overloading the motherboard.
It's not great news whichever way you look at it.
Simple, don't buy a reference board or crossfire reference boards that all have 6 pin connectors. You probably shouldn't anyway, the coolers suck.
Just another reason to wait for the partner boards and better coolers in a few weeks, it's possible many of them have an 8 pin connector that basically eliminates these concerns
Skyrim got more love but Oblivion was just the better game for me. I loved Oblivion. Never felt that for Skyrim. Oblivion blew me away, it might have been because it was one of the first true 'next gen games', coming out literally just a scant few months after Xbox 360. It was by far the best early title in 360's life, it was amazing whether you got it on PC or 360.
It was impactful even for me as a PC gamer because you did need a bang up to date expensive PC to...
It's coming to Windows 10 too isn't it? I liked the first game. It was no Command and Conquer gameplay wise, but it was quite streamlined, slick and really pretty. It was just a tad too simplified. You basically could win all the time if you swarmed enemies with everything you had at once.
If the sequel is a bit deeper and a bit more strategic that would be great.
Dual cards don't work properly with a tonne of new games that I have personally tested. It's a false economy, for sure. Until multi GPU systems scale superbly and work EVERY TIME, then they will (and should) remain the preserve of ultra high end systems with expensive cards.
This is hype and used to try and shoot down Nvidia's GTX1080 launch by AMD. Pretty clear tactic used when AMD don't have the single card on offer to compete with Nvidia's top offerin...
Being someone who has owned and experimented with countless multi GPU systems, you should only bother with them if you are putting very high end cards together for a monster system.
Too many extremely demanding titles don't work with it well. Even if they do, you still end up with a bunch of multi GPU niggles guaranteed, micro stutter, driver issues, hardware issues, update issues.
Just recently I have played Quantum Break- demanding, doesn't work...
Gamers are now used to disc based installs, or download times, or loading times. They have been somewhat mitigated by being able to install on the fly, download the most important data first, or pre-loading games before release. This is also now a one off deal- a couple minutes install at first and you're away with most titles.
Installing to hard drives also reduce game loading times anyway. Few titles these days subject the player to minute long loads between sections....
It does indeed look amazeballs. Quantum Break now looks better than it did on PC after the silly upscaling has been disabled, but Uncharted still tops it really. Best looking game around without too much difficulty or thought needing to go into that decision.
Yep, DX12 is forcing it. However I dual boot with Win 7 as my primary OS, and Win 10 as required for some games now. It's no big deal as both boot so quickly, although I am under no illusions nearly everyone logging onto steam to play games will always be on Windows 10 within just a couple years- including me.
PC level power isn't an overclocked Jaguar based CPU. The GPU by all rumours and accounts is at least twice as fast as the original PS4 'Liverpool' core, but the CPU allegedly has just a 30 percent clock bump, and even less memory bandwidth bump. CPU and memory bandwidth were always very limiting factors of the existing hardware, especially since the CPU and GPU still share the memory bandwidth.
This new PS4 would be extremely GPU top heavy. It's already GPU...
@ OoglyBoogly Sorry, but it generally does.
If you are only running undemanding titles, early console titles that didn't take full advantage of the hardware and not the cutting edge ones then yes, you might barely make do with an R9 290X for 4K.
But if you're running any games remotely modern and GPU bound then it's not really enough to lock to a 30FPS minimum. You really need to average in excess of 30FPS to claim equivalent performance, because ...
4K resolution games with the same PS4 visuals we have right now requires 4 times the performance. In terms of current GPUs, that's an R9 Fury. Go look at the price of a R9 Fury. That's not all, you would also need a CPU and significant memory performance boost to match.
Does anyone really think Sony are launching a machine in 2016 with 4 times the performance of PS4 in a small console box for a reasonable price? Not happening.
What they could do thoug...
Learn how to buy off the store from other regions
@kevnb Xbox One GPU half as powerful as a 970? Microsoft wishes.
GTX970 is over 3 times more powerful.
Even so, on an intel 6700k and a 980ti (A good 5 times as fast as Xbox One) Quantum Break ends up struggling to a 40FPS minimum and 50FPS average on ultra and 1080p (effectively 720p, like Xbox One).
Utterly crazy. Such a PC destroys the console hardware, but you are barely getting an improved experience. No more resolution, marginally super...
If you're going to call out someone on something at least be accurate yourself.
For example on Crysis 3, how is 2560 x 1440 + FXAA the same as 2560 x 1440 4x MSAA? Or the Rise of the Tomb Raider benchmarks not including SSAA?
MSAA/SSAA is obviously massively more demanding and explains all the lower framerates quoted by Nvidia's release for the RX 480.
They all include demanding AA methods which are ignored by your 'correcti...