Gtx 550 ti

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calduf

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Everyone on here seems to think the gtx 550 ti is quite bad, but according to NVIDIA, it's really quite good (for my resolution of 1280x1024). Also game debate website rates it an 8, and days it will be able to handle medium to high settings smoothly? Andyone got any input or views?
 
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gempachi

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its actually a great card for the price... if you cant spend more money this would be your best bet... you will run all your games on high specs sometimes even with AAx4. You just gotta make sure you have a sufficient computer performance to avoid bottlenecking.


Edited... wait... 550 ti or 560 ti?
 
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calduf

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Also heres the rest of the spec, what do you think about bottleneck?


Case STYLISH PIANO BLACK ENIGMA MICRO-ATX CASE + 2 FRONT USB
Processor (CPU) AMD PHENOM II X4 QUAD CORE 955 (3.20GHz/8MB CACHE/AM3)
Motherboard ASUS® M5A78L-M/USB3: M-ATX, USB 3.0, SATA 3.0Gb/s
Memory (RAM) 4GB SAMSUNG DDR3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 2GB)
Graphics Card 1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 550 Ti - DVI,HDMI,VGA - 3D Vision Ready
2nd Graphics Card NONE
Memory - 1st Hard Disk 2TB WD CAVIAR GREEN WD20EARX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE
2nd Hard Disk NONE
RAID NONE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
2nd DVD/BLU-RAY Drive NONE
Memory Card Reader INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT
Power Supply 450W Quiet 80 PLUS Dual Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan (£29)
Processor Cooling STANDARD AMD CPU COOLER
Sound Card ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options 4 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Modem NONE, I WILL BE USING BROADBAND
Floppy Disk Drive NONE
Firewire & Video Editing NONE
TV Card NONE
Operating System Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
 
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gempachi

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hmmmm.... there wont be any bottleneck there.... everything seems fine. Ultimately you could lower HDD size and save up about 30 quid... add 60 of your own and get 560 ti.... you will double your performance :) utlimately you could just get rid of OS and use the money you saved on it to get your graphics card... that is... if you have some OS on your side.
 
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calduf

Silver Level Poster
Thanks for that on the bottleneck, but as in my first post, is it really necessary? According to NVIDIA and game debate, it's really quite good, especially in such a game as crysis 2, did you check out my link? (remembering my resolution is only 1280x1024 for the most part? )
 
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gempachi

Member
yea i understand... but... Nvidia has to advertise all their graphics as amazing and such etc. they wanna sell their products... you want to make a future proof computer and buying a cheap graphics card wont do that... youre better off buying a gtx 460 as the price is the same and youre getting a higher performance. You will get a new monitor in the future. everyone will eventually and future games will work better on a better graphics card :) this is why you should ensure to get a better card ahead of yourself :)
 
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calduf

Silver Level Poster
Hmm, I suppose, but I don't neccisarly need to play games 100% maxing out, on amazing settings. I just want one that will last a while at fairly reasonable settings with a good framerate, do you think it will manage that? :)
 
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