Hi all,
I am on basically my second home made gaming PC. Right now I am running a 3570k, 8GB DDR3 1600Mhz ram, and a 2GB HD 6950 GPU. In general, it is great and handles almost everything I need without issues. I do have one concern though and it is making me wonder if I should upgrade to a newer/better GPU.
I play Skyrim quite a bit and love utilizing the myriad mods available, typically for graphics enhancements. Generally, the 6950 is more than capable of running the game at a good framerate @1080p, but I have noticed I need to drop the internal resolution down to about 720p to have it run smoothly with all the mods I want.
Being a person that likes to spend money (and wants to plug my 6950 into my old PC so I can sell it easier), I would like to upgrade my GPU so I can more easily handle these heavily modded games at the resolution I want (which will be 1080p and sometimes with a second monitor setup for my desktop). The 6950 has been good but not up to that demanding a task, so I would like recommendations on if I should upgrade (and if so, to what GPU), assuming a max budget of lets say...$300. If it makes sense to just wait for the next generation of cards to come out, I will probably do that.
I am on basically my second home made gaming PC. Right now I am running a 3570k, 8GB DDR3 1600Mhz ram, and a 2GB HD 6950 GPU. In general, it is great and handles almost everything I need without issues. I do have one concern though and it is making me wonder if I should upgrade to a newer/better GPU.
I play Skyrim quite a bit and love utilizing the myriad mods available, typically for graphics enhancements. Generally, the 6950 is more than capable of running the game at a good framerate @1080p, but I have noticed I need to drop the internal resolution down to about 720p to have it run smoothly with all the mods I want.
Being a person that likes to spend money (and wants to plug my 6950 into my old PC so I can sell it easier), I would like to upgrade my GPU so I can more easily handle these heavily modded games at the resolution I want (which will be 1080p and sometimes with a second monitor setup for my desktop). The 6950 has been good but not up to that demanding a task, so I would like recommendations on if I should upgrade (and if so, to what GPU), assuming a max budget of lets say...$300. If it makes sense to just wait for the next generation of cards to come out, I will probably do that.