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If we're going for value, what about those AMD APUs?
APUs are nice for low budget rigs and laptops, but not really for gaming.
If we're going for value, what about those AMD APUs?
APUs are nice for low budget rigs and laptops, but not really for gaming.
I think I'll go with AMD R9 260X since that's the max I can afford for a GPU.
Oh yeah, btw, how is the i5-4670's HD Graphics 4600? Just curious. Could I get a comparison table with other GPU's or something?
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/
Video Card Benchmark has a very nice list of Passmark scores for just about every GPU out there, so give that a look if you ever want to compare GPUs.
You could also use http://www.gpuboss.com/ to compare 2 GPUs to eachother as well.
EDIT: As for online stores that ship to Sri Lanka, I tried googling around but wow is it difficult to find a store that will...
Don't worry too much about the RAM speeds (not the video ram, the motherboard ram. ). From what I hear, only servers and APUs (computers with integrated graphics instead of the normal add-on card) really benefit from having faster ram. Though 1600Mhz ram isn't much different then 1333 when it comes to price so if you can afford it, go for it. Just don't waste your money on getting the ultra fast 2.4Ghz+ ram. You won't gain much from doing so and the faster ram you get the worse the latency for that ram will be. It's the unavoidable trade off. Unless you are into using Photoshop with very large images or something. Then at which case having faster ram might make those large images load faster.
The reason video cards have really fast ram compared to motharboard ram is that video cards today typically need a lot more bandwidth to load a large amount of textures, polygon data, and what not for the video games and so the latency of the ram isn't quite as important. Though I don't know if GDDR5 ram has the same latency slowdowns that normal ram does when at higher speeds. On that note, do NOT buy any video card that has DDR3 ram. It will only be a disappointment. GDDR5 is in all the good cards, so a card having DDR3 is a definite red flag.