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Saw that the other day he has to “wallow “ in a metal tub outside to bath (his words )
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Sadly that isn’t far from the truth
ollie989898
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Anyone played Kingdom come - Deliverance? Looks epic.
Daniel Larn
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Yes, and it is very good, but I found it a bit hard work. If you like that sort of game, with swords and such, then it is well worth a go. I tend to prefer a shoot'em up or strategy game myself.
ollie989898
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I have played Chivalry: medieval warfare and that was HARD. Mount and blade was hard as well. I thought I would mention deliverance to people although I simply do not have the time for it at the moment. Is anyone around to play GTA online tonight, I have just begun playing online for the first time ever after being introduced to it by friends. Excellent fun.
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It's a great game, but it'll put a strain on your rig if you want graphics and frames!
hollister
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What does everyone have for systems, looking at upgradi mine at the moment so taking on thoughts and opinions
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Used to love that game. Sadly it has gotten so in depth and I have such less time to get engrossed. One that I find unless you can't give it enough attention, enjoyment is hardNo other Football Manager geeks on here?
Daniel Larn
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Do you have a budget? Would you be upgrading an existing rig with components or starting from scratch?
hollister
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I've been slowly adding to current so will be taking on the SSD and 1060 graphics card. So really just couldn't and mobo. Basically is i7 worth the extra over i5?
Daniel Larn
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If you're gaming, and only have a 1060 for a GPU, then I think you will do well out of a high end i5.
You could look for an i5-7500, available new for under £150, as I think that would be the first of the chips that wouldn't bottleneck the 1060. If you can stretch to up to £200 then I'd definitely go with an i5-8400, you get a few extra cores and a higher clock speed which will help considerably when multitasking.
With regard to mobo, you don't need an overclocking board, as that CPU is not overclockable, and with only the one slot required for your GPU I think you could get away with just about any 300 series. Expect to pay less than £75, if you shop around I'm sure you could manage less than £50.
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Jesus speak English it’s all gone very technical in here now
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Makes sense if you understand that type of technical information. Could get a lot more complex yet!Jesus speak English it’s all gone very technical in here now
ollie989898
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I agree, AMD seem to have upped their game in the world of CPUs. I would still stick with a Nvidia graphics card though.
A GTX 1060 graphics card is going to be ample for a good few years yet, it is when you begin playing games on something beyond 1080p resolution that the grief starts.
Having build several systems in the past, I do not believe the extra cost of an i7 cpu is worth it for gaming workloads alone. I would not bother overclocking CPUs any more either, all the motherboards I have used in the past, and my current one have on board automatic overclocking in the bios and it doesn't make enough difference to warrant the extra heat involved. I have a water cooling loop and a horde of case fans, it would all have been better spent on a higher end GPU.
A half decent gaming rig capable of running newer games at a good lick is still going to cost about £800 I suspect but I have not priced one up for a long time so I may be wrong. If all you want is farm sim then I suspect £600 would do it.
Yes, wouldn’t have an AMD gpu, my new PC came with one but it wasn’t up to the job so now have a GTX1060 6gb one instead, NVIDIA definitely have the edge still there. Will probably upgrade my Ryzen 3 to a Ryzen 7 later this year as the 3 doesn’t have enough threads for multitasking
Daniel Larn
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AMD is really competitive these days, but I don't think they are quite beating Intel for price/performance at the low end.
The motherboards for the A4 socket are still relatively expensive and if you look at MB/CPU as a combined cost the gap isn't that significant.
New graphics cards from AMD at CES this year look incredible, trading blows with the RTX cards for sure.
Slated for release in February, and likely to be significantly cheaper than Nvidia. I could be tempted by an AMD build in the future.
The motherboards for the A4 socket are still relatively expensive and if you look at MB/CPU as a combined cost the gap isn't that significant.
New graphics cards from AMD at CES this year look incredible, trading blows with the RTX cards for sure.
Slated for release in February, and likely to be significantly cheaper than Nvidia. I could be tempted by an AMD build in the future.
hollister
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That's what I've found recently, the and cpu is cheaper than the Intel equivalent but when packaged it gets similar price. I think it'll be i5 8600k less than a tenner more than the 8600. Been getting into pubg, but my current system barely runs at 10fps.
ollie989898
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Motherboards are not cheap either, or certainly should not be. How much money you invest in them is open to debate these days although I tend to spend as much on them as I do a CPU.
The i5 8600K is no slouch and will run any game fine for years.
The i5 8600K is no slouch and will run any game fine for years.
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