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The Weird, Wacky and Awesome World of the NFL - General Banter thread V2
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Any of the following are about in line with a GTX 660: GTX 950, GTX 1050, GTX 760, RX 460, RX 560.
Ireland is usually a terrible place for buying computer parts and I'd keep an eye on ebay UK so long as delivery costs from there are low, but weirdly enough one of the best places I've seen for second hand graphics cards is adverts.ie so that's also worth a look. Here's a 460 going for €80 on Adverts just posted yesterday - https://www.adverts.ie/graphics-cards/rx-460-2gb-graphics-card/15325707
Cards also hold their value well so if you went to sell that on in a year you'd probably get €50+ for it. I have bought three of them second hand (one for me, two for gifts) and they've all worked perfectly. They're a safe item to buy second hand as people are always upgrading to newer, stronger and fancier ones.
Long story short without boring you to death, the bitcoin mining that has been so popular for 18 months or so uses graphics cards and their 'VRAM' (basically RAM for visuals because there's so much going on graphically in games these days) so the costs skyrocketed, but in the last 2-3 months they've been coming back to normal as people are moving on from it or buying new parts. Because of this a good few cards are coming about nice and cheap second hand as well as newer models being set for release probably over the summer, I'd expect even more going for low prices second hand by July or August if you're OK to wait.
I would say it is probably best to avoid a 660 or 760, simply because they're older and require more power for the same output. This isn't so much about bills as just making sure the power supply in your computer can handle the increased demand. The 460, 950 and 1050 (and 1050 TI which is the best bet if you have any inkling towards some kind of racing game or the odd GTA title or whatever because it has 4GB VRAM instead of 2GB, and performs a bit stronger than the 460/560s which also come in 2GB or 4GB) all use incredibly little power, about the same as adding in an additional hard drive or two, so they're a good safe bet - the 560 and 950 also only use a small bit more (about 75W vs 90W) so those should also be grand. A 660 would use 140W, and a 760 uses 170W so it might be best to avoid those two models.
Remember though PC graphics are a lot stronger than console graphics, so even getting a mix of low/medium graphics on a PC will often match or even exceed those on a regular Xbox or PS4. In other words, anything that meets min requirements to get you up and running will work well unless you've got a particularly keen eye for graphics and such (I don't and genuinely can't tell the difference most of the time). The 1050s and 460s/560s also create extremely little heat which is good as if you've a normal desktop I'd imagine it's not set up for having a roasting how giant card inside of it (airflow, etc).
Make sure your processor can handle it though (post it here and I'll let you know). Any i5 or i7 2XXX series or higher should have no problem, same for an i3 4XXX or higher, or one of the Pentium chips I listed. The Pentium chips are an anomaly in that games should not work on them due to only having 2 cores, but long story short... they do. The 460 is probably the weakest of the cards listed above, and here is how it plays FIFA 18 (same engine, developer etc as Madden so a good barometer) with a G4560 which is probably the weakest processor, so this would be about the worst you would expect - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KQma-r0QNU
Hope this helps.
That's also kind of true, I use my PC with a projector which has entirely replaced the TV so I'm kind of cheatingIvefoundgod wrote: »Mine is on a laptop and runs PES fine and the FIFA 18 Demo, never bought the full game. I have to say though that for me anyway sports games like FIFA/PES and Madden are console games. Big screen, chilled out on the couch with a few friends playing is the only way to go.
. Though if Pat were inclined he'd just need a HDMI wire to pop it into the PC and a TV (or stick with the monitor), and could get a £20 Logitech controller off Amazon (just suggesting since I can't play anything beyond a strategy game on keyboard and mouse) and reckon sports games would be a fecking nightmare on them. 0
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