Pc strength question
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"Mid range & $80 in the same sentence ? Which planet are you ordering from ?
Mid range is from $300 to $550.
$80 will get you a good flashlight and a few weeks worth of batteries.
And besides he posted “Card name: AMD Radeon R7 Graphics” I don’t think that’s on die.
PS my bad it does have a “R7” APU
Your right. I’m on a different planet……
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487347
Or try around $125 if he needs a special card for his current rig.
… and what I ment by “mid range”, was mid range for BMS. 2Gb DDR3 card would do just fine.
If the poster wanted to push his system further, then a new rig is in order. But since he wishes to simply run BMS, then his current set up would do just fine (after upgrading the GFX card of course).
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Must’ve missed quite a few sales then. That, or your local lottery doesn’t go above £300……
Show me the next one you see.
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Show me the next one you see.
Just sold an UberNXT modded one at £250 and FSSB at £350 not very long ago. Take a look at the For Sale forums to give you an idea of price ranges.
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Definitely not anywhere near “winning the lottery” territory.
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That’s $470. Not what i’d call cheap unless you consider the Warthog as cheap. He was looking for something cheap. When I said it would be like winning the lottery I was showing the long odds of finding a cheap modding Cougar under $200. Which is what the OP asked for.
So, I guess this comes down to what a person considers cheap?
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Your right. I’m on a different planet……
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487347
Or try around $125 if he needs a special card for his current rig.
… and what I ment by “mid range”, was mid range for BMS. 2Gb DDR3 card would do just fine.
If the poster wanted to push his system further, then a new rig is in order. But since he wishes to simply run BMS, then his current set up would do just fine (after upgrading the GFX card of course).
They are still barley entry level cards.
Mid level would include 1050/1060 & R570/580
Then there’s the 1070/1080s & AMD RX Vega High end cards.
Above that:
For people with plenty of liquidity we enter the arena of the 1080 Ti’s, RX Vega 64, R9 Nano, a lot more 1080 extreme & 11GB models then water-cooled cards.
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For people with plenty of liquidity we enter the arena of the 1080 Ti’s, RX Vega 64, R9 Nano, a lot more 1080 extreme & 11GB models then water-cooled cards.
My wallet wouldn’t even know what that looks like. And that’s more RAM on the GPU than I have in my rig all together… I think I’ll just sulk in the corner now
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That’s $470. Not what i’d call cheap unless you consider the Warthog as cheap. He was looking for something cheap. When I said it would be like winning the lottery I was showing the long odds of finding a cheap modding Cougar.
So, I guess this comes down to what a person considers cheap?I know it’s more than $200 but my recommendation is a WH stick…. or a modded Cougar if you can find one for cheap.
Obviously, these recommendations assume you’re serious about Falcon… if you’re just “testing the waters” or checking if you still have the desire to fly, then I understand you’ll want a cheaper stick, but I don’t have much experience here…Yeah, I guess it depends. I’d rather buy an expensive thing once and enjoy it for years than buy a cheap thing several times and get frustrated each time the cheap hardware starts to go south. For someone that is serious about Falcon, there is absolutely no way you can call a WH or a similarly-priced modded Cougar “expensive.” It is only expensive if you use it as a glorified paperweight.
$470 is still nowhere near “winning the lottery”…. now if you’re referring to the ODDS of finding a cheap, modded Cougar as opposed to the actual PRICE of such an item, then I guess I’ve won the lottery three times in under 7 years. You just have to know where to look. There was a spate of Cougars being sold on the Buy&Sell forum on this site not too long ago… eBay has them every now and again too, and I would bet other sim forums would have such sales as well.
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Ice……Read post #25 again. I edited it so you can understand better.
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Tazz said,
"My wallet wouldn’t even know what that looks like. And that’s more RAM on the GPU than I have in my rig all together… I think I’ll just sulk in the corner now "
I could afford it, but why.
Again for BMS, Shadows idea of a mid range GFX card for BMS is an 8Gb Titian. Tazz, your running a GTX760 with 2Gb RAM card. I’m sure it runs BMS quite well. So, the $80 budget GFX card I pointed out will do just fine for someone on a budget. That was my point.
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Is BMS CPU or GPU hungry?
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Both, mostly CPU if u have only a Full HD monitor.
If u have more monitors or higher resolutions 4K for example or 3x4K then it’s obvious u will need GPU with balls… and mostly vram. -
That’s why I stick to a 1920x1080 single monitor and a 1060 6g card. It does fine. I do have a lot of CPU though.
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Surely that 1060 should be able to drive multiple panels without issues? The 1060 isn’t a weak card at all.
My GTX 760 has no problem with a single 1900x1200 panel with BMS.
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My monitor is next to get an upgrade. I’ll still stay with a single, but up the size and resolution.
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My 1060 is driving 2 monitors, upper 1920 x 1080, lower 1280 x 1024.
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I think an onboard graphics is ‘adequate’ to run it. As in, you can run it and not feel like looking at a slide show of your aircraft exploding. I had ran the sim on a windows tablet, an 8-inch one in fact (Made a post somewhere here a long long time ago in the galaxy we both live in ). The thing is that you need to turn off quite a bit of graphics options, and you can get 30 fps or more.
Your CPU and RAM are very good, and way more than my tablet could ever dream of so I don’t expect them to be the bottle neck. Try to install it and run it with few enable graphics options, watch the fps and then add or subtract features. With onboard graphics I expect the problem to lie in shader and anti-aliasing, so keep them disabled first and gradually increase it. With 1920x1080 I find that you can get by without AA. If you have some fps to spare 2xAA is adequate. -
Ice……Read post #25 again. I edited it so you can understand better.
That’s $470. Not what i’d call cheap unless you consider the Warthog as cheap. He was looking for something cheap. When I said it would be like winning the lottery I was showing the long odds of finding a cheap modding Cougar under $200. Which is what the OP asked for.
So, I guess this comes down to what a person considers cheap?
What are you talking about then? If something costs $1000 and you find it 2nd hand at $600, then that is cheap, is it not?
Cheap, modded Cougar under $200 is definitely not going to happen. Stock Cougar maybe. If you want a Cougar under $200, that would most likely need some work or if it’s 100% working, it’ll be stock and we don’t know how long it’ll stay “100% working.” The phrase “cheap, modded Cougar” assumes you have an understanding of how much stock Cougar costs, how much the mods costs, etc.
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You’re the one who said it. The OP asked for a controller for under $200. You came back with a controller for $470, but also said to try and find a cheap modded Cougar.
I said that would be like winning the lottery and as far as odds go, it would be. Now, let’s drop this. It’s going nowhere.