NikkoChan, on 23 March 2015 - 07:40 PM, said:
Everyone has an opinion on hardware and that's great. Honestly most people commenting on such things lack the experience and budget to know much about what they talk about. MWO as a game gets little improvement from massive video cards or super fast CPUs. Any 4core will due (though a fast 2 core also works fine for this) somewhere in the 3Ghz range. Ram 4Gb or more is fine regardless of speed brand or type from DDR2-DDR4. A solid state drive will not get you frame rates because it's not possible. Right now any current gen video card will give you more then enough power to get respectable frame rates. With these guidelines in mind you'll have no issue getting what you want for little money. Buy the best you can for the least you want to spend but don't let these guys tell you some crap like AMD sucks or INTEL is overpriced because most don't even know what they are talking about.
PCPartPicker part list /
Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: AMD FX-4200 3.3GHz Quad-Core OEM/Tray Processor ($59.95 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Arctic Cooling ACALP64-GT 25.6 CFM CPU Cooler ($8.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($73.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill NS Series 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($28.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($53.49 @ Directron)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R7 260X 1GB Core Edition Video Card ($91.98 @ Newegg)
Case: DIYPC FM18-W ATX Mid Tower Case ($28.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($49.99 @ NCIX US)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer ($15.19 @ NCIX US)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($89.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $491.53
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-24 11:25 EDT-0400
4 Core in the 3GHz Range: Check
4GB of Any Type of Ram: Check
No SSD: Check
Current Gen Video Card: Check
Now Build it and Test it, Put your Money Where your Mouth is!
Catamount, on 24 March 2015 - 06:22 AM, said:
No. That's not how this works; that's not how any of this works. If your GPU is absolute crap, then sure, you might not notice any difference. Being blind may also induce a similar condition. You say "any current gen GPU", well guess what? An R5 240 is a current gen GPU. That doesn't mean it'll run MWO in any manner approaching playability. In fact you've entirely contradicted yourself here. You say it "all comes down to GPU", implying a GPU bottleneck, but then basically say 'any GPU will do', which implies the exact opposite. I think you're very, very confused.
If you do have a remotely decent GPU, and you've satisfied MWO's moderate requirements on that end, then it comes completely down to CPU, and if you're really not capable of noticing the difference between minimum framerates in the 20s and minimums in the 40s on up, then the problem is somewhere between your keyboard and your chair. Most of us can, and consequently we recommend CPUs that can actually deliver good framerates in this game.
According to Wikipedia (so I don't know how true it is), The Bulk of the HD 7000 Series, R7 240, 250, 250X, 265, R9 270, 270X, 280, 280X are Southern Islands using GCN 1.0, While Sea Islands (GCN 1.1) includes the HD 7790, R7 260, 260X, R9 285, 290 & 290X
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon (Scroll down to Technology Overview)
Edited by Lord Letto, 24 March 2015 - 07:36 AM.