Originally Posted by QuadroTony
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SweetFX is amazing, nothing beats it in my opinion, I run it with every game.
Actual SweetFX home, where you will find many many other presets for many games:
http://sfx.thelazy.net/games/
Shameless plug for my custom SweetFX profile:
http://sfx.thelazy.net/games/preset/2094/
Originally Posted by DarthFett11
I'd like to keep it between 500 and 1000. Of course the less money I have to spend the better.
I actually don't play any games on my pc at the moment other than ESO.
I pretty much use it for my online classes, playing ESO, watching movies and tv shows that i've downloaded (legally of course  ) and watching Netflix sometimes.
I'll check out the links you provided.
I was mainly just worried about getting high end parts and then not having the game work correctly. Like I wrote earlier I had heard that some people were having issues with ESO working with Gforce and Nvidia high end cards but I wasn't sure if those were isolated issues or not. |
In regards to the budget build I linked, try getting a 'k' version if going for Intel, that way if down the track you want to increase performance you have the ability to overclock the cpu without affecting other integrated components, which you do when overclocking by BCLK. It will also give you much more headroom to overclock for more performance.
Often issues are very individual, you will not likely ever find two machines with the exact same parts setup having the same performance, some won't even run a particular application or will have performance issues for some unknown reason while the other is perfectly fine.
In terms of getting high-end parts, you get what you pay for in the computer world, just like in any other industry. You are far better off 'future-proofing' by buying high-end equipment than buying to 'for the day' and the higher-end components is often alot more reliable as they use higher quality parts. Basically put think of buying a car, just in parts
Here is a couple of links from
www.pcpartspicker.com for amd builds:
Budget:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/CfYnXL
High-End:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/mfYnXL
As you can see, overall cost is very similar for both ends of the scale, regardless of amd or nvidia, unless you go for the extreme edition Intel Chipsets, which are not worth it at all.
Best advice anybody can give is do your homework, not just for your classes
Read plenty of reviews, copy/paste of hardware model names will provide a plethora of links, read a number of them as the reviewers can be quite biased sometimes on certain sites.