I noticed this this morning, APU build with SSD-$269. Should this be able to handle light gaming? The only game newer than skyrim I want is Day Z. Hive input?
I noticed this this morning, APU build with SSD-$269. Should this be able to handle light gaming? The only game newer than skyrim I want is Day Z. Hive input?
It wouldn't be great. Skyrim would get 30-40FPS with medium settings at 1080p.
It's running onboard graphics, so in its current state, I doubt it. Throw a mid grade gpu at it however, and I think you might have something. Those are better than the specs of my 6 year old Asus rog laptop, and it will still crank day z.
I have an A10-6800K APU and it was OK at a variety of games but not great at all. I put in one of the ATI cards that did its Crossfire/SLI thing with the on board graphics and it got a lot better but still ok. Next came a used GTX570 and that thing pretty much does what I want, when I want it. Solid setup even though the AMD and Nvidia stuff balks at one another sometimes. You can start there and add a card but I would suggest spending similar money on a I3 setup and $80 on a real card.
Just looked on the sight and that might be a good place to start but go ahead and plan to upgrade your video card in the very near future. Get an ATI to place nice.
Did I read somewhere that graphics hardware is actually progressing faster than graphics software, in that you can get a budget GPU that'll run some of the prettiest games at 90% of max settings?
^That's correct for certain values of "max settings." There are 4K monitors now and you'd need many top-tier crazy-expensive video cards in SLI to run any game decently at 4K.
A modern midrange video card will run just about any game nicely with near-max settings at 1080p though.
The thing I hated about computer gaming (I haven't played a computer game since 2008) was that in order to get good result, you had to upgrade far more than just the GPU. Is that still the case?
Can I play most games at decent settings with 8gb of ram and a i3 processor paired with a $150 GPU?
Yes. Hardware has caught up. Gone are the days where you have to revamp your whole rig just so the newest game can be playable, let alone on max settings. (Remember FEAR?)
PHeller wrote: Is that still the case?
No, you can pretty much put a midrange video card in anything made since 2011 or so and have a good experience with most games on a 1080p display.
In reply to neon4891:
there's nothing wrong at all with the APU system. The issue that this is a bargain for is that its based on an older chip core called Trinity, so this would be a clearance buy.
however, this is still a great buy IMO. For less than 300 you get a complete system with a SSD AND a regular 1tb HD.
Sprinkle in your own OS and you're good. I would just add an extra fan to the case maybe, because the chip is a 100 watt-er
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