- Mar 13, 2012
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The title begs a question I've had in my mind. What do you think? Here's what got me thinking of this:
With all the crazy sales from Microcenter, I built a new rig for a friend. She opted to reuse some of the parts of the old rig, and doesn't care about what's left over. So, I now have a haswell i5 (not the K model, the exact part number escapes me), 16 GB DDR3 and a small 128GB Kingston SSD. I'm looking to put a lower end GPU into this thing for the kids to play on.
It begs the question: should I be looking to purchase anything with less than 8GB VRAM? I know this may be overkill in some respects, given that the rest of the machine is older. It seems like rx580's are getting close to the $100 impulse buy mark, so would I be dumb getting a rx570 or 1650S now?
With all the crazy sales from Microcenter, I built a new rig for a friend. She opted to reuse some of the parts of the old rig, and doesn't care about what's left over. So, I now have a haswell i5 (not the K model, the exact part number escapes me), 16 GB DDR3 and a small 128GB Kingston SSD. I'm looking to put a lower end GPU into this thing for the kids to play on.
It begs the question: should I be looking to purchase anything with less than 8GB VRAM? I know this may be overkill in some respects, given that the rest of the machine is older. It seems like rx580's are getting close to the $100 impulse buy mark, so would I be dumb getting a rx570 or 1650S now?