another performance thread

[335th_GRAthos]

Katdogfizzow was very quick and very right in what he said.

Originally Posted by cato

is a card with 1.5-2GB of vram really requires to play this game with good performance?

No, 2Gb-3Gb of VRAM is required

Originally Posted by cato

is now the time to buy a card thats gonna last me for a few years

No, the cards which can run this game have not come into the market yet. Wait for the next generation of NVDIA cards (were supposed to come this Xmas - they will not )

Still, you can get some reasonably good cards today. Ranked in order of performance + price:
GTX560ti 2Gb (watch the "ti")
GTX570 2.5Gb
GTX580 3Gb
Needless to mention, the day the new GPUs will hit the market, these cards will be outdated... So, if you can not wait and must have a GPU now, do not invest a lot of money!

Originally Posted by cato

which is why i upgraded my cpu.

Your CPU upgrade was the right thing to do and the best choice. And overclocking will give you very good performance.

Originally Posted by cato

if i upgrade my gpu im also gonna have to get a new psu as it only pumps out 500 watts.

Yes, you will not get away with this.


~S~