A new i5 is not the same as an old i5.. but you are right it should be fine. I can recommend the GTX 970. I am getting between 40 and 60FPS on ultra.
just found "Moonblade", an extremely powerful silver sword for early game, at the bottom of the river north of Lindenvale in Velen. for those that are interested. you will have to brave some drowners, but look for a sunken boat with an odd green glow and a treasure chest next to it. i recommend diving off a boat rather than from shore. (click images to expand) protip: it definitely pays to check out undiscovered locations if you are short of cash, equipment, or supplies. I think all the equipment i use has come from items i picked up off the ground. save your orens for crafting blueprints, materials you need, and other rare items.
I know this is going to sound crazy Dihm, but I can tell you right now those cards can't run the game (I had the same setup and according to everyone that should barely run the game on LOW graphics) As for my consistent crashes, there seems to be some sort of issue with the 900 series that is cause lock ups... I've seen about 50 different fixes, but none have worked perfectly so far (I still get to play for 5-6 hours, but I do consistently lock up when I open up a book in my inventory). All bad things aside, I fucking love this game.
So far the best gear has come from checking out the random locations on the first map, found super solid lvl 1 silver and steel (viper witcher) schematics, only issue is they cost like 800 gold and I don't even have close to that. Just finished the first area, now in the first 'big' area.
ZALMAN Z11 NEO Black ATX Mid Tower Computer Case Rosewill Photon-850, PHOTON Series 850W Full Modular Power Supply, 80 PLUS Gold Certified, Single +12V Rail, Intel 4th Gen ... G.SKILL Trident X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2400 (PC3 19200) Desktop Memory Model F3-2400C10D-16GTX ASRock Z97 Extreme6 LGA 1150 Intel Z97 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard Intel Core i5-4690K Devil's Canyon Quad-Core 3.5GHz LGA 1150 BX80646I54690K Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 4600 Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - CPU Cooler with 120 mm PWM Fan SAPPHIRE 100361-4L Radeon R9 290X 4GB 512-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 Tri-X OC(UEFI) Video Card, New Edition Under 1k for that this weekend... I got a first Gen I5 now, 16 gb ram, cheapo mobo, all from when the I5 came out
that'll run your stuff just fine for a few years. Power supply may be overkill tho. I've been looking at sales for the 4690k
Not a PSU expert so I can't say on that specifically... www.reddit.com/r/buildapc is where I usually get my advice from.
I didn't think about it until I saw this but when I was having crash issues the game was set on borderless window, after optimizing with the new driver and restarting the PC it defaulted to fullscreen and I didn't have any more problems.
You really do not need a CPU cooler, I have my 3.4Ghz overclocked to 4Ghz on the stock cooler with no issues. I would stay away from Rosewill stuff, it is on the cheap end, and you do not want to cheap out on the PSU imo. I am not very familiar with ASRock stuff, I know they spun off of Asus as competition to Foxconn years ago, but I do not know how their quality is. I would stick with an MSI or Gigabyte motherboard personally. For the video card... I have been an AMD/ATI supporter for YEARS, but recently they have let me down time after time. Their drivers are really getting to the point they are shit. I had two 7950s that I replaced with a GTX970, taking a performance loss simply because of all of the issues I had with the drivers and stability. You are lucky if you get a driver release from AMD every 6 months, and even then it will probably be a beta release. I am not sure I can go back to supporting AMD on their graphics cards any more, I just don't think they have the software to back it up. I just put this together and it comes out to 960.64 after rebates and discounts: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/NBm4kL IF I limit it to Amazon, B&H and Newegg it is $1002. I would also look into a Samsung 850 SSD if you do not already have an SSD.
Sorry (not at all sorry) for turning this in to a Dihm needs a new computer thread http://pcpartpicker.com/p/N4pqJx I picked a random case Or I say fuck it, don't have to build it myself, and get something like so http://m.newegg.com/Product/index?itemnumber=83-229-626
I could, but I figure I get a new one and then I have an I5 with 16GB RAM we can use as a Borg server
