Using a EVGA GTX 770 4 gig superclocked version.
I will keep my Geforce gtx 670, possible with SLI if I can afford that.
Iām running a GF GTS 250ā¦ 
Oh. Iām afraid to say, but I donāt think you will be able to even start the game (or maybe you are, but beyond that point, not so sure).
Hi!
Yeah, Iām planning on upgrading within the next year (A whole new comp). As this one isnāt too goodā¦ I mean, 500 W powering my compā¦ Ouch. But it can still play games like Boarderlands, Rage, all the TW series, Arma II + OAH, M&B series (Obviously) and many more regulars so Iām not complaining.
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Warrior Rose.
500W is fine. The important bit are the ampere on the +12V lines. On ānonameā PSUs the data given is not quite accurate. Another important indicator would be PSUs efficency, which is also known as ācertificateā (like 80+ Gold, 80+ Silver, 80+ Platinum etc.).
Just as a comparison:
I got a 550W PSU in 80+ Gold powering a i7 4770, GTX 780, 16GB RAM, 2 HDDs and 1 SSD, 4x 140mm coolers and 2x 200mm coolers and everyhing works fine.
If you are running CrossX/SLI or maybe water cooling you might want to take a stronger PSU.
Memo to myself: Again so much offtopic.
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What would this game need to run smoothly you reckon?
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Warrior Rose.
It would be probably best to wait for the alpha release to know better. I would say i7 and a stronger GPU than the one PS4 and XboxOne use. (GTX 760 and above I suppose.) In case you wish 60fps and max details you should probably buy a state of the art GPU (GTX 770/80 and above) with 4GB of VRAM.
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So basically very high - end GPUs.
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Warrior Rose.
I suppose so. Itās CryEngine after all. There are some benchmarks of Ryse, the recent CryEngine PC game:
http://www.hardwarepal.com/ryse-son-rome-benchmark/5/
It seems GTX 680 is not sufficient for playing in FullHD on high settings, which is a shame, because itās about as strong as my GPU.
There is some other benchmark:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2403455
I would probably wait for a GTX970 or something like that. Basically a good price/performance/watt consumption solution of the new generation.
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Does a peddle bike connected up to my PSU on a treadmill work to give me more power for my gaming and new GPU needs? 
Regards,
Warrior Rose.
that benchmark seems to indicate that the 680 should be enough - it doesnāt always have to be 60+ FPS.
Well, you can always try. But please remember to document your experiment properly and keep us up to date. 
I use quite overclocked GTX 670 4GB VRAM (almost similar performance to GTX 680, which actually tends to mean crap nowadays) and it should work just fine on your PSU so if you will wait I should be able to inform you how the game works on that GPU but I would still argue you should definitely buy something stronger. That being said price of a good PSU probably wonāt matter that much in case you will buy something new and strong and glossy.
I am afraid it says you will get about 20 fps which I would consider sufficient for D. W. Griffith movies perhaps but definitely not for gaming. (High settings - the bottom graph.) The truth is I am not able to see such a difference in the comparison screenshots either. And KCD could be quite different from Ryse anyway. We will see.
But if he wants to buy a new GPU he probably should buy something that will run the other Acts too and I suppose the 9xx generation should be quite safe from this perspective.
Disclaimer: I am definitely not an expert.
the bottom graph is about frametime percentile, not sure whatās calculated there. The fps for this setting says around 48.
I may misinterpreting something, I usually donāt go much deeper than the subjective visual ārunning just fineā and perhaps a simple FPS metric.
You are of course right, I messed it up. My apologies.
It seems much better then. But I still wonder how the game will actually work on my so-so rig.
7970m. Should be enough hopefully, probably wont max it out though.
I currently have a crossfire of Amd 6850
You could try a hamster wheel. If it doesnāt work, try more hamsters first, followed by more wheels.
One can use the minimum/recommended setup for Ryse, but I would wait until the alpha and even some months into the alpha, since I expect the performance to be enhanced in the process.
I would go with a GPU with more or equal to 4GB VRAM. Just bought my GTX780 some months ago, and it already isnāt enough for Shadows of Mordor. That said, this is all about maxed out settings.
About the framerate I read dozens of pages about this in another forum (but donāt remember which one) were things like 24fps (frames/second the human eye can ārecognizeā), 48fps, 60fps and many other were mentioned. I still think (which might also be due to a lack of personal recognition ability) that it is dependent on the genre you play. Around 30 fps is perfectly fine for a RPG, but it just wonāt work for fast paced genres like racing or FPS (or TPS). But reallyā¦ I donāt want to start this discussion in that thread, since there seem to be to many opinions to keep track of.
OT: Films / movies use 24 fps (actually they started with sixteen fps - because experiments had seemed to prove that slower fps than 16 enhanced the feeling of flickering - therefore the accelerated motion you can see in old movies sometimes associated with classical slapstick in case they are - as they usually are - played in 24 or 25 fps; you play them one third faster therefore). But there are two reasons it does not hurt our eyes.
One is called the persistence of vision (or the phi phenomenon but that distinction/argument is a completely different topic). Every frame of film strip is followed by a black moment caused by the shutter of the film projector and therefore you donāt see two frames following each other as a blurred picture but rather as a movement in picture.
The second reason and probably more important for our discussion is the motion blur applied to individual frames by the camera shutter speed. Generally you donāt shot motion picture at high shutter speeds that tends to stop motion (1/250th of second and above). Therefore the illusion of movement is much smoother than in video games that connects two perfectly sharp images.
Television systems fight the flickering issue differently - by interlacing. (You play 25/30 fps as 50/60 virtually by interlacing a video frame into two half-frames.)
The thing is long time ago 30fps was considered the golden standard for gaming if I remember correctly. Nowadays it is 60. But considering fast paced genres or not, 60 is probably less stressing for your eyes. It is of course highly individual topic and it is also probably necessary to take your display into the consideration.