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Life Advice / Re: Building a custom gaming PC
« on: February 04, 2013, 11:11:25 am »the bandwidth only really matters when you start pushing higher resolutions. for 1680 you can definitely do fine then with that 550ti for say high settings for skyrim (you can hit ultra by turning off MSAA and just leave FXAA on which looks fine for me, texture packs be much more helpful) though i have no idea if it will do fine for gta4 or 5 when that comes out. Im just trying to help you future-proof your stuff so it would last longer than say 4 years.
Right now, my rig is a Pentium 3ghz dualcore, 2GB of DDR2 RAM, and a Geforce 8800. It's over 6 years old, but it actually does surprisingly well on any game that doesn't require boatloads of RAM. Crysis 2, Black Ops 2 and Skyrim run swimmingly on it at default settings; APB:R not so much.
Given the current setup I have lined out for my new PC, I'd expect it to last at least until 2018, but judging by Moore's law, that may be a tall order.