FMod Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 It wasn't a bundle deal, it was my first build. I wanted the best gaming pc I could make with 350 bucks. I guess I should have allotted for a little more for the GPU, but I thought a gt 520 with 2gb ddr3 would be good enough. You should have bought a FM1 Athlon and HD6850, if it was recently, or an Athlon X3 before, but well, too late for that now.The amount of RAM means almost nothing, except in high-end GPU. GTX580 has just 1.5GB. My brother, who helped me with this build had a 250 and his skyrim looks amazing. He has an I7 with 8gbs of ram though. Maybe thats why?The game doesn't even know what CPU you have. And since intel's i5 and i7 are just two marketing names for the same line of CPUs, it wouldn't matter if it did. Geforce GTS250 has: * 4.8 times the memory bandwidth, * 4.6 times the computing performance, and * 7.2 times the texture fillrate of GT520.That's why his game looks better - his card has more than 5 times the power. So a used card from ebay (or elsewhere) could still save your build for very little money. A GTS250 in good condition costs $50 to $60 there with free shipping. I'm not suggesting more powerful cards due to their price and power consumption. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themaddhatter123 Posted April 3, 2012 Author Share Posted April 3, 2012 I wish i would have swapped him now =/ I appreciate the help though. Now I know some other things to look. Once I finish my move I'll get one and try it out. I do have two slots so what if I were to run them at the same time? Is there anything else that I should look for to see if they will work well together? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoofhearted4 Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 they wont. you need two of the exact same cards to run in SLI and the cards themselves need to be capeable of running in SLI. not sure a low end card like a 520 can? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fonger Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 they wont. you need two of the exact same cards to run in SLI and the cards themselves need to be capeable of running in SLI. not sure a low end card like a 520 can?what about 2 cards not in sli? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themaddhatter123 Posted April 3, 2012 Author Share Posted April 3, 2012 Yea thats what I was asking. My mobo doesnt support it I dont think. Its an asus p7h55m lx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
novalova10 Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 get GTX 560Ti, currently best bang for the buck iirc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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