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[RaistlinMajere]

Hi all,

been playing for 6 weeks on a laptop

I want to get a decent PC to play at higher quality and wanted to get your thoughts on something like this:

i5 6500
Gigabyte N750TOC-2GL GTX 750 TI OC (Low Profile) Praphics Card
Corsair Vengeance Pro 8GB Kit(4GBx2) DDR3-1600 RAM
ASUS H170M-E D3 (LGA-1151) Motherboard


Will these get me there to playing with full quality or do i need something better?

[Oldbob10025]

Try this as it helped me when I had a worse graphics card than the one I have now.. I used this to help me with my FPS issues and graphics I was able to run at higher detail with this going on.. Try it and if its not working for you try a bigger graphics card...

[Rogue Jedi]

The parts listed look OK for mid to high settings, if you want max settings you will probably want a better graphics card, also if you are building new I strongly recomend a Solid State Drive, you have not listed a storage device but an SSD is fast storage best for games and the operating system, while a Hard Drine is nest for capicity storing pictures, videos and other larger file types, I use an SSD for the OS and applications including MWO and other games and a Hard Drive for my photography a low profile graphics card will only fit a slim case, if you will be using a full sized case make sure you get a full sized card

Edited by Rogue Jedi, 25 October 2015 - 10:39 PM.

[FuzzyNova]

I feel ya on this one. I have a newer laptop but my graphics card isn't so great. I have to play MWO on low to medium settings. It really does take some of the fun away from the game. But I use what I got. I believe my card is the AMD Radeon R3. It's crazy becuase I can run Skyrim on high settings but not MWO. Updating your graphics card may help too.

[Goose]

There are scatterd reports of "recent" quad-core Intels, as slow as 3.2GHz, doing alright; There's one or two of that rinky-dink GTX 750Ti getting by, but I don't buy that one.

I've not heard of that RAM kit before, and am dubious of it's speeds, as well as finding a mobo that'll talk to DDR3; There seems a $80~150 premium to Skylake, so maybe, if you want better now, you drop back to Haswell, and put the extra cash into a GTX 960 …

[Golrar]

I agree with Goose. The performance advantage vs price of Skylake is not enough right now to justify taking it over Haswell. Go with a 4960K and be merry.

[Durant Carlyle]

What you really need for MWO:
Intel quad-core CPU 3.0GHz or faster (real quad-core, not dual-core with HT)
8GB of whatever type of RAM
Decent gaming graphics card with 2GB RAM

"Decent gaming graphics card" = anything with a 6 or higher for the second digit if going Nvidia (example: 660, 760, 960). I would stay away from anything 5 or lower as they are for non-gaming machines.

If you go Skylake for CPU, go with a DDR4 mainboard and RAM. Previous generations of Intel CPU can use DDR3 perfectly well, and 1600 is plenty fast for current and future gaming on those. Use the money saved on the 1600 RAM to spend more on the GPU, which will have much more effect on gaming performance.

[Rogue Jedi]

A RAM kit is just 2 or more matched sticks (several sticks of RAM which are identical will work better together than sticks with identical specs but of diferant models, and if you run sticks with diferent spevs you will not get there best performance)
If you are buying multiple sticks of RAM a kit is usualy the best way to do it, often cheeper than buying the same individual and guareentees you get 2 sticks the same.