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[Halude]

Hello all

I know there have been many posts regarding upgrading pc's heres another one

I want to be able to play MW:O in high to very high graphics as i have love battletech since i was young remember watching the cartoons in the 80/90's lol

i am upgrading my pc from

Intel core 2 duo 6600 @2.4 gig
3gig of ram
gtx 8800 gtx - kaput constantly running now at 100c+ struggles to play most new games

to a

Intel I5 2500k @3.3gz
4gig of kingston 1333 ddr 3 ram - future plans in a few months to get 16gig corsair vengeance ram
Evga 560ti superclocked 2gig card
motherboard im not 100% on yet as my budget is around £90 for a board

will this setup get me a high to very high fps and graphic level as seen in some of the vids on youtube?

any help or direction would be much appreciated

Cheers

Halude

[Oderint dum Metuant]

You only need 8GB of RAM for gaming tops. other than that yes.

[Vulpesveritas]

While it should, CryENGINE 3 is more graphics heavy than CPU heavy, and as such I would recommend going with a slightly cheaper CPU and get a Radeon HD 7850, 7870, or geforce gtx 570.

[cipher]

A 560 Ti is fine for MWO if you're running HD (1920x1080) or less.

If you wanted to max graphics settings I'd go with either an NVIDIA 580 or 680, or AMD 7950 or 7970 instead.

Edited by cipher, 27 June 2012 - 10:53 AM.

[Hellgardia]

Motherboard: AsRock Z77 Pro3 - £85
CPU: Intel Core i5 3570K - £185
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LP 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 12800 - £44
GPU: MSI Radeon HD7870 Hawk TwinFrozrIV OC - £250

The price of a 2GB GTX560Ti is around £220 so if you don't want to spend more than that, i would recommend the MSI Radeon HD7850 Power Edition TwinFrozr IV OC- £191

Although the GTX560Ti is a great GPU, the HD7850 is a bit faster, overclocks better and it's more efficient.

Edited by Aniquilator6, 29 June 2012 - 12:16 AM.

[cipher]

Aniquilator6, on 29 June 2012 - 12:15 AM, said:

The price of a 2GB GTX560Ti is around £220 so if you don't want to spend more than that, i would recommend the MSI Radeon HD7850 Power Edition TwinFrozr IV OC- £191

Although the GTX560Ti is a great GPU, the HD7850 is a bit faster, overclocks better and it's more efficient.

The cheapest 560 Ti here is NOT $343 USD. It's $250 with rebate or $270 without (TwinFrozr as well). And $260 USD for the TwinFrozr 7850, not $297 USD here. Is hardware more expensive in the UK? Either way, in the US the 2GB 560 Ti is cheaper with that rebate going on for MSI. About the same without it.

Edited by cipher, 29 June 2012 - 05:16 AM.

[Hellgardia]

On a quick check through overclockersuk, the prices were those. Although i bet you can find them cheaper