Recent content by jurrie

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    Will an i5 do me any good?

    I tried overclocking but the comp would crash very soon. I'm not experienced in that department and my airflow and cooling are probably not good enough. My internet connection is decent, 60Mbit down, 6Mbit down. Some more reading tells me that TERA is very CPU demanding. After watching a...
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    Will an i5 do me any good?

    I've seen such benchmarks, but when upping the resolution to 2560x1600, it almost looks as if the cpu does not matter anymore. That's what I'm most concerned about. When I set my resolution to 1920x1200, everything becomes blurry, unless I set the screen to 1:1 format, but that makes it look...
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    Will an i5 do me any good?

    I have 8GB of RAM and run Win7 64-bit. Sorry for not mentioning that.
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    Will an i5 do me any good?

    Hello, I know this is the video cards department, but since my question boils down to fps, I was hoping the combined knowledge of video cards and cpu's in the gaming crowd that most likely roams here will result in an answer :-) My scenario: - AMD T1055 hexacore @2.8GHz (best choice for...
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    Cannot decide on a GPU to buy

    Thanks for the responses. I've done some looking around and these are the results: - 680's are out of stock all around, except when you are willing to pay over 500 euro's for one - Cheapest 680 is 444 euro's, while the rest are around 480 - The 7970's are between 450 and 500 euro's, so about...
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    Cannot decide on a GPU to buy

    I decided to finally register to the forums in hopes of having my question answered :-) First off, I'm not a huge gamer. When I do game, however, I like my eye candy. The genres I prefer are FPS and RPG. For this year I plan on playing the MMO TERA, which I would like to play in its full...