The reason i am asking this question is because i have always been curious as to what components are used in a games developers systems.
The card i have in my 6 year old rig is the gtx 1080 , i was on a site doing a build my pc and had ticked the gtx titan for my chosen card which was nvideas flagship at the time and as i was doing it my copy of pc gamer arrived and i saw the newly released gtx 1080 so i changed my build. Just like all new products i had to pay top price and the card alone in my build cost £800.
Yes their are some cards better or worse than mine and this will always be the case regardless of what you buy but this has never let me down.
I once asked this question on a steam discussion and one dev said sometimes their does not seem to be a logic reason why a pc cant do what you want , he went on to say that all his companies pc's were the same spec but every now and again one of them would throw a spanner in the works with a reason why it happened ... it just did.
My rig
COOLERMASTER HAF-X FULL TOWER GAMING CASE , the tower is massive.
The cpu is Intel® Core™i7 Six Core Processor i7-6800K (3.4GHz) 15MB Cache.
The motherboard is ASUS® ROG STRIX X99: ATX, USB 3.1, SATA 6 GB/s.
The ram is 16GB HyperX FURY DDR4 2133MHz (4 x 4GB).
The graphics card is 8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1080 - DVI, HDMI, 3x DP - GTX VR Ready!
The main drive is 480GB HyperX SAVAGE 2.5" SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 560MB/sR | 530MB/sW) for windows and all the items that cant be moved
The second drive is 960GB HyperX SAVAGE 2.5" SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 560MB/sR | 530MB/sW) for my steam client games and all other games.
The dvd/blue ray is 24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM.
The power supply is CORSAIR 650W CS SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET .... The build checker says 650w is 20% more than i should need.
The cpu cooler is Noctua NH-D15S Ultra Quiet Performance CPU Cooler , this is huge ! , if you put this into this tower you will be told you cant have an extra roof or rear fan which is strange because i have both.
The card i have in my 6 year old rig is the gtx 1080 , i was on a site doing a build my pc and had ticked the gtx titan for my chosen card which was nvideas flagship at the time and as i was doing it my copy of pc gamer arrived and i saw the newly released gtx 1080 so i changed my build. Just like all new products i had to pay top price and the card alone in my build cost £800.
Yes their are some cards better or worse than mine and this will always be the case regardless of what you buy but this has never let me down.
I once asked this question on a steam discussion and one dev said sometimes their does not seem to be a logic reason why a pc cant do what you want , he went on to say that all his companies pc's were the same spec but every now and again one of them would throw a spanner in the works with a reason why it happened ... it just did.
My rig
COOLERMASTER HAF-X FULL TOWER GAMING CASE , the tower is massive.
The cpu is Intel® Core™i7 Six Core Processor i7-6800K (3.4GHz) 15MB Cache.
The motherboard is ASUS® ROG STRIX X99: ATX, USB 3.1, SATA 6 GB/s.
The ram is 16GB HyperX FURY DDR4 2133MHz (4 x 4GB).
The graphics card is 8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1080 - DVI, HDMI, 3x DP - GTX VR Ready!
The main drive is 480GB HyperX SAVAGE 2.5" SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 560MB/sR | 530MB/sW) for windows and all the items that cant be moved
The second drive is 960GB HyperX SAVAGE 2.5" SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 560MB/sR | 530MB/sW) for my steam client games and all other games.
The dvd/blue ray is 24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM.
The power supply is CORSAIR 650W CS SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET .... The build checker says 650w is 20% more than i should need.
The cpu cooler is Noctua NH-D15S Ultra Quiet Performance CPU Cooler , this is huge ! , if you put this into this tower you will be told you cant have an extra roof or rear fan which is strange because i have both.
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