Not enough info. Sticking a GF 670 into a P4 prescott based system won't do much.
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If you're going for broke (and can still afford to eat afterwards), then sure, but you'd be fine with a 550ti according to the recomendations made for my tenative build.
EDIT: To point out that it was the 560ti, not the 550ti I was pointed to.
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Not enough info. Sticking a GF 670 into a P4 prescott based system won't do much.
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X58-USB3 mainboard. Currently I'm using a GeForce GTX 460. Anything else you need to know?
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So, if I understand you correctly, the card is good but has a bad price-performance-ratio?
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Originally Posted by WanderingAries
If you're going for broke (and can still afford to eat afterwards), then sure, but you'd be fine with a 550ti according to the recomendations made for my tenative build.
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460 > 550 ti
550 ti is a good choice if you are limited by PSU and case size. Better cards exist for just $10 more than the average price of a 550 ti.
670 is fine then DeepskyBlue. I just wanted to make sure your CPU was worthy of a 670, there are people out there that do crazy stuff.
H: Blaster 50, Defender 50, Tank 50, Scrapper 50, Controller 50, PB 50, WS 50
V: Brute 50, Corruptor 50, MM 50, Dominator 50, Stalker 50, AW 50, AS 50
Top 4: Controller, Brute, Scrapper, Corruptor
Bottom 4: (Peacebringer) way below everything else, Mastermind, Dominator, Blaster
CoH in WQHD
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In the super-high-performance category, the 670 is the best bang for the buck right now.|
Originally Posted by DeepSkyBlue
Hi, everybody,
I have the chance to invest some money into my machine. Would you say the GeForce GTX 670 is worth its price (not just for CoH, but in general)? Thanks for your time! |
Your 970 should run it just fine.
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The GTX 670 is a great card if you can swallow the $400 price tag. It's 90-95% the performance of a GTX 680 for 80% of the price, uses 25 watts less power and in your case only uses 10 watts more power than the GTX 460.
As NewChem points out, the GTX 550Ti is inferior to the GTX 460. A original stock clock (675MHz) GTX 460 1GB/256-bit is 20% faster than the 550Ti. A GTX 670 is about 3 times faster than the GTX 550Ti.
Yes you don't have the latest and greatest CPU to feed it and will only have it plugged into a PCIe 2.0 slot (which only costs you under 5% compared to a PCIe 3.0 slot) but the GTX 670 will be a card you can keep whenever you decide to upgrade the motherboard/CPU.
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I've been running a GTX 580 (with a computer built to support it) for almost a year and it's still pretty much overkill for CoH. I have all the ultra settings maxed out and I've noticed no significant lags or slow-downs.|
Originally Posted by DeepSkyBlue
Hi, everybody,
I have the chance to invest some money into my machine. Would you say the GeForce GTX 670 is worth its price (not just for CoH, but in general)? Thanks for your time! |
Frankly I would expect a GTX 670 to be totally over-powered for this game. As wonderful as this game is it's simply not graphically-complex enough to make a card like that even break a sweat. Remember for all its improvements CoH is basically a 10-year old game at this point - it's not bleeding edge by any stretch.
If you're looking for a GPU that'll be capable of running -anything- for the next couple of years then spending the money on a GTX 670 might make sense. But if its just for CoH it might be far more GPU horsepower than you really need.
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Hi, everybody,
I have the chance to invest some money into my machine. Would you say the GeForce GTX 670 is worth its price (not just for CoH, but in general)?
Thanks for your time!