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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Q6600 if you overclock will be decent. Get it to 3.4GHz or 3.6GHz and it will handle anything for now.
As for all the games from Steam. You have no choice but to shuffle them around unless you are loaded. Keep the ones you play most on the SSD. Keep the rest on mechanical drive. There are many things you can do to get Steam to work across multiple harddrives, like symbolic links.
For 1920x1080, 1.25GB should be enough. 3D doesn't double the amount of textures, it just duplicates them so it's no problem. You would want more ram for higher resolutions and more antialiasing. Get the 570.
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Well when I put Borderlands into 3D framerate drops from about 60 to about 12. Is that a fillrate issue? How do you tell what aspect of your GPU is getting maxed out?
Also, is there anything in the pipeline that I should hold out for (i.e. is this a good time to buy?), and do you think the 570 worth the price difference?
I don't see how "I have no choice" but to shuffle programs around onto an SSD... games seem to work just fine from a regular mechanical hard-drive. I honestly just don't see how and SSD would make that much of a difference, except maybe if I were using it for video recording and photo editting, but then I'd be totally thrashing the drive. Why do games need SSD? How much loading is there these days?
Thanks H&L.