One Eyed King
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Posted - 2017.09.17 21:47:00 -
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My two cents, after just having put my first gaming PC together a couple weeks ago.
I made a budget PC, with a Ryzen 3 1200 CPU and GTX 1050 ti.
It being my first PC, I had to do a lot of research with what I wanted and whatnot.
I was agonizing over the GPU, because there was a significant price difference between the 1050 ti, and the 1060 6gb card I really was hoping to get, thanks to the aforementioned currency miners.
One thing that really sold it for me personally, was something that cmdr already brought up, which was framerate given particular settings. After checking out a youtube video by a long time PC gamer asking the same question, as to what you were getting vs what you were giving up, it was pretty clear that with Med/High settings, you could almost double your framerates on lower cards like the 1050 ti while giving up comparatively little. I would replay scenes over and over in his video, and could not see the distinctions between the settings. And the times I did see a difference, it was not necessarily negative, it was just different. While I could afford the 1060 6gb, I didn't see the point on spending more than twice the cost of a 1050 ti for something so negligible.
IMO, while it certainly may be someone's preference to play at the highest settings, it is quite narrow minded to suggest it ignorant modern games wouldn't want to be playable on lower settings on older cards. What company in their right mind would want to limit the number of players they can reach? If playing on the highest graphical settings were a games sole objective, companies would never port to consoles, and would solely focus on high end PC games.
In fact, the GeForce Experience is designed just for optimizing frame rates and settings. Why would a GPU maker want to do that if they thought that people should only enjoy games at the ultra settings? Why would they want people to hold on to GPUs longer? It seems to me they understand that PC gaming is more than just for the elitists, despite what the #PCMasterRace thinks.
Former CEO of the Land of the BIind.
Any double entendre is unintended I assure you.
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