I was building an HTPC for my home theatre last June 2011. I saw a MSI GTS 450 OC for $60 after MIR. I thought, why not? I'm not building a gaming PC but it would help with Blu-Ray playback (even though the i3-2120 does fine already) and I might be able to do some decent gaming.
Once I got it I overclocked the core clock to 930 and the memory to 2150. A great overclock from the stock performance of 783/1566.
Anyway, fast forward to June 2011 and I'm running Arkham City with these settings:
1920 x 1080
2x MSAA
PhysX on High
DirectX 9
Everything ON except Motion Blur and Ambient Occlusion
Vsync On
90% of the time I'm playing at 60 FPS. The other time it hovers around 45FPS but only for a few seconds before it goes to 60. Overall it's very, very smooth. The only time I was ever under 30 was when Penguin was shooting those ice blocks at you.
Anyway I think this is pretty sweet with a $60 GTS 450 and a $130 i3-2120. Now only we I could OC the i3
Once I got it I overclocked the core clock to 930 and the memory to 2150. A great overclock from the stock performance of 783/1566.
Anyway, fast forward to June 2011 and I'm running Arkham City with these settings:
1920 x 1080
2x MSAA
PhysX on High
DirectX 9
Everything ON except Motion Blur and Ambient Occlusion
Vsync On
90% of the time I'm playing at 60 FPS. The other time it hovers around 45FPS but only for a few seconds before it goes to 60. Overall it's very, very smooth. The only time I was ever under 30 was when Penguin was shooting those ice blocks at you.
Anyway I think this is pretty sweet with a $60 GTS 450 and a $130 i3-2120. Now only we I could OC the i3
