I'm going to be playing Battlefield 1 on PC real soon so anybody else got an Origin account? Playing Battlefield alone is nowhere near as fun with friends. My Origin ID is 'Jeeeeeeebus' if you guys want to add me.
Also, I'll finally be getting around to posting pics of my build soonish.
Also, I'll finally be getting around to posting pics of my build soonish.
I have to ask: why the Intel CPU and AMD GPU? I went with an AMD CPU and Nvidia GPU for my build which is basically a different route to the same thing (good specs for less money). I don't particularly trust ATI graphics, though. Games get less testing coverage on them in general, so they tend to be associated with rendering bugs and other issues. The same is true of AMD CPUs, but to a lesser extent as far as I know.
Still a sweet build, I'm just curious more than anything.
I am The_Psycho_Duck on Origin. Feel free to add me. I'll be getting BF1 before long.
Including myself, I believe adderrson, SteelGreen, and ♥ Sky also run Intel CPUs alongside AMD GPUs. My reason, personally, for choosing an Intel CPU (specifically an i5-6600k) is after Addy basically persuaded me to. Intel Core CPUs are generally better than AMD CPUs in terms of single core performance which is preferred for gaming as many games generally do not utilize more than a single core/thread (although DX12 and Vulkan APIs fix this slightly). Specifically, I wanted a CPU that will allow me to play all modern AAA titles at 1080p Ultra/Max settings at or over 60 fps (excluding GTA V) and I'm not sure any AMD processor can do that at stock speeds. Hopefully AMD will finally compete against Intel again with the new Vega CPUs in high performance, for the sake of the consumers.
My reason for choosing an AMD GPU over NVIDIA as NVIDIA seems to use shady tactics and even appear to sabotage the performance of some games against AMD, among many other things. NVIDIA is very anti-consumer to me. My second reason being that my motherboard supports only AMD CrossFire and not NVIDIA SLI, so the case that I ever want to expand to two cards for additional performance in the future, I can do that. My third, most important reason is that AMD cards support the Vulkan API and 'asynchronous compute' in DX12 whereas even the newest NVIDIA cards do not. So far, I haven't had any adverse experiences using an AMD card over an NVIDIA card of similar performance (GTX 980 or GTX 1060) to mine.
Originally I did have an Nvidia Gpu, but I wanted to upgrade since I had enough money to afford a better card. Before the Nvidia 10 series released my options were: an r9 390 that was on sale for 290$, a GTX 970, or wait for the reference RX 480 GPU's, I wasn't a fan of Nvidia and how they handle things because they share the same anti consumer tendencies that Microsoft have, so I went with the MSI R9 390, mainly because the GTX 970 had 500 megabytes of unusable vram which I would need for games in the future, and I didn't feel like spending 300$ more on a GTX 980 which is on par with an R9 390x.
AMD CPUs aren't that good for gaming (No info on Zen yet) but they perform better in video editing because they put the extra cores to good use.
Because knowledgeable people told me to buy it, sad but true. I'm not able to discuss my build :/
Thought this could use an update, The new NVIDIA gpus: GTX 1050, and GTX 1050ti have been released and gpu prices have gone down.Budget GPU's that you guys should check out:
GTX 1060 (3gb) while it may be limited to having only 3 gb of vram but for 200$ it's still a great bang for your buck video card
For those of you on the red team, Amd's RX470 (4gb) is essentially an RX 480 that's a little weaker, The RX 470's benchmarks have shown it does a great job at playing games at 1080p sadly I can't recommend this video card if you're looking for 4k or 1440p gaming, for about 200$ and the useful 4gb of vram id highly suggest taking a look at this card!
The most affordable card on this list but not the best card on this list, if you're really on a budget then this card is for you, for around 140$ that's a really affordable price to pay if you want a Gpu that gets the job done at 1080p! However it should be noted that this Gpu is considerably way weaker then the RX 470, so again buy this card if you're looking for a good 1080p experience.
I could add older cards here but they wouldn't be able to play direct x12 which is what Halo 5 forge needs for you to play it, anyways if you guys have other budget cards you'd like to share feel free to reply to me.
Anyways happy building
The price of the RX 470 has gone down quite a bit, for 170$ this is by far the best bang for your buck if you're looking for a great 1080p 60fps+ experience
Nothing much to say about the RX 460 other then the fact it's the cheapest current gpu
This is by far a great gpu for the $100-130 Price range as it will play most games at 1080p 60fps, a really great option for a budget build!
A better 1050 basically, if you have enough money for this gpu, you're better off getting a RX 470 for 20$ more.
Probably the only other RX 480 that is around 200$ right now, you'll be able to play almost any game at 1080p or 1440p 60fps.
A great card that should be considered but the only thing holding this card back from completely out performing an RX 480 is the 3gb of vram, and lesser performance in DX 12 and Vulcan. Would recommend getting a 6gb variant instead, they usually go for about 30-50$ more.
If anyone is looking to Build a PC.. Low or High end... PM me your budget and I will put together a few build options for you. Also please state what your main purpose of the PC is... Gaming, code, normal office like work, video editing etc.
