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To answer the title's question: No. Underpowered will crash, blackscreen, explode or smell really bad. It won't cause a drop in FPS. Unless you count dropping to zero.
If you are short on money, but want something really cool, I recommend building a system using stuff that cost thousands of dollars and was simply THE BEST several years ago. like 2007's version of a Quad GTX680 dual E5-2687W workstation rig. Maybe a Skulltrail mobo with dual C2Q QX9775s and Four HD 3870/4870s? I did something like this, cost me barely $500 and plays everything latest(On DirectX 10 XD) like a dream.Well i guess like u said about my CPU , maybe during PC Vantage it didnt needed that much " power " so it turn out fine , while some games when it needed my CPU most and it fails and causes lag.
Another problem is , im itching to get a new PC , well i dont know about u guys , even building a mid range gaming rig here aint cheap and im still a student , college actually lol.
Im 1 of those POOR yet HARDCORE gamers , to be honest i even feel quite embarrass being here , surrounded by overkill PC owners like u all
But i do plan to swap out everything , no point changing my CPU now, i think my Mboard is old , even my RAM is only DDR2, i prefer AMD too so i need get a AM3+ Socket Mboard
For now i maybe plan to change my GPU and PSU once again.
In that case guys , for the time being , what should i get for a better CPU ? FX-4 3.6 GHZ or the Phenom II X6 3.0 GHZ , this is the budget i plan for future might change though since well maybe when the time i really change my whole PC , new CPU might have release
._. my local Best Buy hasn't started selling 2012 Graphics Cards yet. They still sell 8400GTs.Sad thing is yes older stuffs is cheaper of course. But once its sold out here, they will no longer bring in any more stocks. Like AMD GPU now , u can say we no longer able to find anymore 6000 series , now they only have 7000 series on the shelves. For 7000 , well its least 7850 its consider good if u ask me which is a whopping 800 bucks , with 800 bucks u could gotten something like 6870 or maybe even 6950.
But of course i think 7850 its hell lot stronger, but once again , money problem lol.
I wanted to go for a 6850 , my friend got it maybe 2 GB ver , its decent. But they no longer have stock , so i think the HD 7770 OC its the closes version now. Still it costs around 500 like the old 6850 1GB , 2 GB is 600.
GPU and the PSU are the most expensive parts of a PC if u ask me !
Even a 400 - 500 bucks motherboard its decent enough for gaming , so are processors.
RAM is the cheapest even gaming series.
Well for SSD that's just crazy lol , 1 TB SSD here is 3 - 4 K i think , which u can get the best GPU out there now !
SLI does not mean crossfire. SLI means Scalable Link Interface, Formerly Scan Line Interleave, and works entirely differently from CFX. However, In a practical sense, SLI essentialy does the same thing as Crossfire, yes. And, memory bandwidth doesn't directly influence a card's processing capability... A CUDA core is a special thing developed by Nvidia for use in relation to GPGPU technology.HD 7770 has only 128-bit memory link? I thought it was 256, like my HD 4890. Hm.Well yeah thats what most ppl told me , the important is the BIT but of course the memory , clock speed etc.
Whats CUDA core ? I hear ppl saying it but when i read on the specs i dont c this
But surprisingly even the HD 7770 is only 128 BIT its still quite powerful