First time DS buyer. Looking at VanquishPost Date: 2014-03-11 |
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JacksonML
Newbie Joined: 11 Mar 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2 |
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Topic: First time DS buyer. Looking at Vanquish Posted: 11 Mar 2014 at 5:27pm |
Sadly I won't be able to say I have a good budget. Mine will be at most $1,000. Preferably $800 and below.
First some background about what computer I have right now. I currently am using a Dell Insprion Desktop that is about 5-7 years old. It runs Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit, and only has 3 gigs of RAM. On boot I use about 1GB of RAM and 1-2GB of a page file. I try to keep it defrayed to keep the hard drive as fast as possible. I play games like Minecraft, Garry's Mod, Hearthstone, Terraria, TF2, and sometimes Counter-Strike: Source. Specs: CPU: Intel Pentium Dual Core 1.8GHz GPU: Nvidia GeForce GT610 2GB (upgraded from ATI HD2400) RAM: 3GB DDR2 HDD: Toshiba or Samsung (Can't remember which one it is) 500GB 5400rpm OS: Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit PSU: 305W? I've hit a bit of a limit in terms of upgrading this computer mainly because of the MoBo's Pci being 1 pciex16. My current GPU uses Pcie2x16 (backwards compatible), and the computer being limited to 4GB of RAM. I get 30-60FPS on games (depends on scene complexity). I'm looking at getting the Vanquish 1 once it just starts to constantly crash or it just dies out. In getting it I would be looking forward to a multithreaded CPU, 64 bit, a better GPU, and most of all 8GB of RAM. I'm fairly sure I'd get a much smoother interface with 8GB of RAM and not having more than half of the OS loaded onto the HDD. One question I would ask is would it be worth it to buy it, and should I dish out another $100 to get an extra GB in VRAM and get a 1TB HDD (Vanquish 2). How much of a speed improvement would I actually see? The things I plan on doing are gaming, school work, animating and doing some rendering, and video editing. Thanks for any advice EDIT: I've also been wondering, could I take the old GPU out of my current PC, and put it in the Vanquish to run as the monitor GPU, and let the 750 be for gaming and rendering and such? EDIT: Nevermind about the above. I forgot that the i3 has an internal GPU that can handle the desktop I guess. It'd probably be easier. Edited by JacksonML - 11 Mar 2014 at 6:54pm |
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bprat22
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Quote Reply Posted: 12 Mar 2014 at 3:36am |
Hi JacksonML.... The Vanquish 2 with gtx 750ti will give you about a 20% better frame rate over the Vanquish 1 with gtx. 750. I think it's worth it but either build will give you a huge jump in gaming. A 3-4x performance increase would be my conservative guess.
Hope this helps and good luck. |
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JacksonML
Newbie Joined: 11 Mar 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2 |
Quote Reply Posted: 12 Mar 2014 at 5:04am |
Yah looking at some of the videos this morning comparing the different GTX 750s actually showed a fair difference. Now I can hope this computer dies soon lol jk.
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bprat22
DS ELITE DigitalStorm East -- (Unofficially!) Joined: 08 Jun 2011 Online Status: Offline Posts: 20391 |
Quote Reply Posted: 12 Mar 2014 at 5:08am |
An accidentally spilled drink works wonders .
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Meller
DS Veteran Joined: 20 Feb 2013 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1627 |
Quote Reply Posted: 01 Apr 2014 at 11:12am |
While both systems are great, and the GTX 750ti is a nice little maxwell card, when it comes to gaming, I must recommend not getting an i3 and getting an i5. i3's really aren't that well at much. They are like the Celerons from the Pentium days. If you could save up a while longer and get the Vanq 3, it would be such a huge upgrade for you. And the performance difference between an i3 and an i5 is very nice.
I personally recommend holding out and not getting anything less than an i5. |
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