Hypothetical Spec

**Colonel Mitch** · 19th December 2008, 01:32 AM

Originally Posted by Oricalcos

What would be an idea spec for a bugdet of £1k (assuming no case inc. and nVidia card)

Let me, and the rest of the community make this simple...

DO NOT BUY AN NVIDEA HIGH PERFORMANCE CARD AT THIS TIME!
IT WILL BE EASILY OUTPERFORMED BY AN ATI 1 THAT COSTS LESS!

**Marshy** · 19th December 2008, 11:36 AM

Originally Posted by Colonel Mitch

Let me, and the rest of the community make this simple...

DO NOT BUY AN NVIDEA HIGH PERFORMANCE CARD AT THIS TIME!
IT WILL BE EASILY OUTPERFORMED BY AN ATI 1 THAT COSTS LESS!

oh... My new computer has a gtx 260

**VoX** · 19th December 2008, 02:31 PM

Nice one Phantom lol.

Originally Posted by Colonel Mitch

Let me, and the rest of the community make this simple...

DO NOT BUY AN NVIDEA HIGH PERFORMANCE CARD AT THIS TIME!
IT WILL BE EASILY OUTPERFORMED BY AN ATI 1 THAT COSTS LESS!

ATI Card = Cannot play Mirrors Edge. It uses PhysX and the min requirements are an GeForce 6 series with 256MB of VRAM, no mention of ATI.

SOURCE.

**Isphera** · 19th December 2008, 02:44 PM

Check most games, some do include an ATI requirement, but not all. Games which one of them back is likely not to have a requirement for the other, although it will work fine.