Vanq3 questions

Hi Snaike...  The Vanquish 3 will give you very good gaming on a single 1920x1080 monitor or less.   The V4 does have the gtx 770 for about a 20% better fps and the overclocked cpu but,  V3 still gets it done.  Gtx 760 is an excellent card.    Skyrim for example will have no problems.  

Here's a link comparing the 760 to the 770.....

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1038?vs=1037

SSDs draw very little power.  Adding a drive is no problem at all for the psu.

Hope this helps. 








Edited by bprat22 - 06 Mar 2014 at 6:02am

Thanks again.  (Are you sure you're not on DS payroll?  Perhaps you should be!)

   

Using a second monitor for surfing shouldn't impact gaming too much.  Obviously, any other rendering needed for the 2nd monitor is added work for the gtx 760, but I wouldn't think it would be very much.  I game and surf at different times, so never tried it.        Too much work.




Edited by bprat22 - 06 Mar 2014 at 6:26am

DS will sell you ram sticks but you could, if needed later, go to Crucial, Corsair, etc websites and use their memory compatibility tools to find what you need. They scan your rig and give you suggestions. They guarantee what they suggest.

Your right, no changes to Vanquish while ordering.   8gb should be all you need for gaming.   

   I love it.

Actually, it's all of the above... I'm an insomniac juiced up on 'caf pow', work graveyard in Crimea and am wired to my rig for jolts with every post.


SHI#t ! There it goes again.

Originally posted by ArkansasWoman777 Lol you never know it could have been 5 a.m his time and 2 am your time, we all live in different time zones.

Oh, I know... yet and still, who in the world pops out of bed at 0500 just to answer questions on a forum... well, I say 'who' perhaps I should say 'who, besides bprat' 

Originally posted by bprat22 What bed??      Alex and Nav have me Ty-wrapped to my computer chair .

Originally posted by bprat22 What bed??      Alex and Nav have me Ty-wrapped to my computer chair .

If you want the computer to last the longest you should probably get the best you afford in your budget.  The GTX 760 is a great card, it can max most games at 1080p right now.  If your going to be sticking to games like WoW and World of Tanks, POE etc, basically the games you listed it willl be great for them all. 

If your looking to try a lot more newer games, the gtx 760 will still do you good.

The way I look at is, your gonna spend the extra money to upgrade eventually.  It just depends if you pay more up front or more later.

I went for a vanq 3 myself. I also have the wife watching my budget, and since we both game, I couldnt get anything to much better then her otherwise she'd get way to jelous   To me, the price difference wasnt really worth it.  I was not interested in overclocking which is possible in with the V4.  And the video card performance is not that big of a difference.  I figure when I get a more powerful card I'd rather rate to see how the gtx 8 series or maybe even wait for the 9 series before upgrading again.

Playing around in your computer and swapping out parts is not as scary as it seems.  We were all noobs at one time and, I doubt you want to ship your whole rig back to DS just to install some ram and be out of a computer for a couple weeks, when you could do it yourself in literally 2 minutes.  Theres tons of good videos on youtube you can watch for any part of the computer your interested in upgrading.  Hey if you get the vanqush, you could always play operation with your old computer before upgrading the vanquish.

Here is just a suggestion for you Snaike. Why don't you try the "free-to-play" version of Star Wars: The Old Republic (it should run great on your new Vanq 3 on a 1080p monitor) and see if you like that kind of game (story driven MMO with the ability to solo the whole game). There are all kinds of couples playing together and playing solo at other times. If you like playing this game maybe you could get "she who must be obeyed" to play with you sometimes. One of you could use the other/old computer so you could play the game at the same time. If she enjoys the game too, it might get her more on your side when you want to upgrade your computer in the future. I tried this approach with my last girlfriend, and while I must admit that it did not work (because she had no interest in playing any computer game more advanced than "Farmville"), she did lighten up on resenting the time I spent playing. I didn't hear anymore of those snide remarks.