graniteharbor502 said:I vividly remember both the opening and the closing races of that season, and in both instances, Button was clearly the better performer.
There’s a massive wave of new hardware hitting the market over the next six months. We're looking at several new Nvidia GPUs, a fresh series of AMD graphics cards coming in June, the AMD Carrizo APUs (which probably won't matter much for you), and Intel Broadwell processors.
If you want my honest opinion, grabbing an AMD FX 8320 E and giving it a little overclock would probably be your best bang for your buck if you're trying to handle streaming and gaming at the same time. An i7 would definitely be faster, but it's basically 2.5 times the price, which just doesn't make sense.
With a budget around $5,000 to $5,500, maybe you could just pick up a decent entry-level card like an R7 260 x 2 to get by for now. Then, you could wait until late summer to see how the prices settle on the new models before swapping it out for something truly beastly.
Also, the dollar has been climbing for about six months now and it doesn't look like it's slowing down, so I guess prices are just going to keep creeping up.
I guess it might be even better to grab the AMD kaver A8-Series x4 7600 like people suggest. It’s $67 a bit more expensive, but honestly, this setup should fly for you.
When you're running a CPU with integrated graphics, pretty much any power supply will do the trick. 😉
I’m a bit worried about trying this with Windows XP. Windows 7 and 8 are way more flexible when it comes to newer hardware. I'd say there's a 95% chance you'll end up having to reinstall everything from scratch.
Could you scrape together 1500-$533? You could probably pick up everything except for the PSU, the case, and the optical drive. Also, can you check which hard drive you've got? It would drop the price significantly if it's a SATA 🙂 drive.
That really depends on which Need for Speed we're talking about. 😁 I guess those newer ones won't play nice with that integrated graphics, though they might run okay on Main Street. Like fadedorca66 mentioned, you'll probably end up needing to swap out the drive and the power supply too.
Everything would probably be much better if things were just completely new and fair. $667.
That overclocking comes standard with every manufacturer; it’s just a marketing gimmick where they bump the clock speeds by 20MHz so you get maybe one extra FPS.
What is everyone actually talking about regarding the power supply? 😬
It's the ultra quiet cooling series, which I guess is a step below the GeForce GTX series in terms of build quality, but it handles an AMD FX-4300 and an AMD Radeon RX 580 just fine without any issues.