Originally Posted by Joebob97
@Doc
I did hear if you unlock the 960t you can get 6 cores, I was enticed by the FX-4100 before, but because of its terrible track record, I'd rather stick with the AM3 cpu's. As for using Intel, I going for bang for buck, and I'm glad you recognize that. I'm trying to do $800 or lower.
@Alen
I've read some reviews of the 550 ti, and people said they are running skyrim and bf3 at high-ultra settings at a good fps. I might switch to AMD Radeon, but NVIDIA has a much better driver support for their cards and EVGA has outstanding support according to reviews
I did hear if you unlock the 960t you can get 6 cores, I was enticed by the FX-4100 before, but because of its terrible track record, I'd rather stick with the AM3 cpu's. As for using Intel, I going for bang for buck, and I'm glad you recognize that. I'm trying to do $800 or lower.
@Alen
I've read some reviews of the 550 ti, and people said they are running skyrim and bf3 at high-ultra settings at a good fps. I might switch to AMD Radeon, but NVIDIA has a much better driver support for their cards and EVGA has outstanding support according to reviews
Newegg.com - EVGA 01G-P3-1561-KR GeForce GTX 560 Ti FPB (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
I'm sure if people are managing high-ultra settings, than either they have a good quad core+ CPU (Skyrim and BF3 are CPU heavy games compared to others) or they are gaming on a sub 1080 resolution. Or they might have a skewed idea of what good fps is (some people think average fps is a good measure, but I prefer taking using the lowest fps as a measure as you can see how a card performs during a worst case scenario [no good running around on battlefield at an average 40fps if it drops to 15fps as soon as something exciting happens])
