Help! What makes the Vanquish 5 best so great?

Originally posted by GeckoGuy528 What is so great about the vanquish 5 best. Is there another company that does the same thing except better, or is there another computer that is 1500 and is better? Help!

That is how digital storm ranks the various configs they sell on the webisite.

The best model has better hardware than the cheapest option if you go back and look you will notice this.

Originally posted by Purpletalon55 Originally posted by GeckoGuy528 What is so great about the vanquish 5 best. Is there another company that does the same thing except better, or is there another computer that is 1500 and is better? Help! That is how digital storm ranks the various configs they sell on the webisite.The best model has better hardware than the cheapest option if you go back and look you will notice this.

I understand this, what I meant was is there another brand of computer by digital storm. Thanks!

For around $1500, Your best bet is build it yourself. To play at 4k level, you properly need a graphic card like GTX 980ti, Radeon R9 Fury x or better. These Graphic cards retails at around $600+ so that's already over 1/3 of your budget.

Hi GeckoGuy528,

To hit your budget of $1500 your best bet is the Vanquish Level 3 for $1449 but it isn't adequate for 4K gaming except very low levels. Certainly not a good gaming experience with Skyrim. Even the Vanquish Level 4 is not what I would want to have for 4K. The fact is there is no single card GPU available today that is good enough for 4K at highest levels. The cheapest solution is dual GPUs but that is way above your budget. I am not sure that the motherboards used for level 3 or 4 is SLI capable.

For you $1500 budget your best choice is the Vanquish Level 3 and stay with a 1080 monitor. Another choice is the Level 4 and a 1440 monitor.

Frank    

Edited by FrankW - 05 May 2016 at 6:26am

Originally posted by GeckoGuy528 I was hoping for a computer that is about 1500, I did realize that by posting here that I would probably be recommended a Digital Storm. But I was wondering which computer might be the best fit. I am looking for something that can game on the best settings possible for the budget and is vr ready. I am also planning on getting a 4k monitor. Although, I do also realize that this is going to take the general quality down from the game. My ideal goal is to play skyrim on a pc for 1500 with the best quality possible for a 4k monitor. Quiet would also be preferable.

why do some people say you can play 4k with a single top end graphics card?  because you can by lowering the settings, but here's the rub: why on earth would anyone want to see lower quality better?  the settings in the game are designed to improve the image quality the higher you go, right?  higher monitor resolutions means more pixels on the screen at one time.  it's kind of like robbing Peter to pay Paul.

the other thing is this: everyone rages about max fps as the be all, end all.  well, it's not.  it's not even about average fps.  the really important number is minimum fps and frame rate drops/stutters.   and you will, even with the best high-end single graphics card and lowered settings, get frame rate drops below what is considered a pleasurable gaming experience (around 30+fps).  in addition to low fps, you will also get stuttering/freezes.  

perhaps, in the near future, there will be a single card combined with DX12 games that can provide a quality experience at 4k and beyond, but it's not here, nor do i expect consumer Pascal to be the answer either.  

Originally posted by Litespeed911 Originally posted by db188    perhaps, in the near future, there will be a single card combined with DX12 games that can provide a quality experience at 4k and beyond, but it's not here, nor do i expect consumer Pascal to be the answer either.   I believe Titan Z could do it but it's a dual GPU enclosed as single card. But it's a $3k++ Graphic card.

that's a single "card", yes, but the point is it's the same thing as having 2xsli, but only utilizing one PCIe x16 slot.  it's not one, ultra powerful gpu, capable of handling 4k+ by itself.

you're arguing semantics dude.  for all intents and purposes they function in the same way as two separate cards.  don't cloud the issue for people who wouldn't know better reading this.  two gpu cores on the same pcb are separate entities.  they don't magically combine for double the VRAM and processing power.  you won't get any more performance out of a dual gpu card than you will out of 2xsingle gpu cards in sli.  in fact, you might get less, because two gpu cores are sharing the same x16 PCIe slot, rather than two single occupying individual slots in an x8/x8 config.  

well, thanks for showing up to troll me then for using the words "single card" instead of "single gpu" in my original post.  you've contributed so much to this thread