How can you check performance before purchase

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#1 mattamomo
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So thanks to the help of everyone on the forum i have decided on a intel i5 4570 haswell (im not planning on overclocking)

A GeForce gtx 760 acx 2gb

(I was going for the gigabyte but the price took a £20 increase so the geforce was only £8 more)

And 12-16gb of ram

Before I make the purchase how can i check what kind of performance i will be getting?

Cheers

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#2 Arthas045
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Not sure what to point you towards, but you will be fine with anything on the market now.

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#3  Edited By GeryGo  Moderator
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http://www.cpubenchmark.net/ CPU

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/ GPU

http://www.memorybenchmark.net/ RAM

Just find your hardware and know how well is yours compared to other

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#4  Edited By PfizersaurusRex
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I'm sure there are lots of benches for that CPU and GPU. I prefer Anandtech for performance comparison.

CPU bench

GPU bench

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#5 mattamomo
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Sorry i should have been more specific

there was a site which i can no longer find, which if you put your ram, GPU, and CPU in it would show you frame rates at max settings.

i was wondering if anything like that is still around

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#6 Gammit10
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@mattamomo: That sounds similar to systemrequirementslab.com

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#7  Edited By Sweetbackhair
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Asking on here also works too, most of us knows what games you can play at which settings depending on the rig you have.

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#8  Edited By mattamomo
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GeForce gtx 760 acx 2gb

intel i5 4570

16gb ram

say i had metro last light and battlefield 4 as games i wanted to play reasonably high on settings, what could i get and average nicely do you think?

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#9 mastershake575
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I'm not sure about a website where you plug in your stats and it gives you results (never heard of it personally).

The best I can do is a review of the 760 ACX http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/EVGA/GTX_760_SC_ACX_Cooler/1.html

It has 17 games tested and the setup for the charts is 8 gigs of DDR3 1600 with an i7 4770K at 4.2ghz which isn't a ton faster than what you have now in terms of CPU (you should get within 5-10% of the results on the benchmark on most games).

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#10  Edited By mattamomo
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@mastershake575:

that is slightly disconcerting, i would rather like better performance from metro last light, i swear everytime i settle on a GPU i end up upping the budget again

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#11  Edited By GeryGo  Moderator
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@mattamomo said:

GeForce gtx 760 acx 2gb

intel i5 4570

16gb ram

say i had metro last light and battlefield 4 as games i wanted to play reasonably high on settings, what could i get and average nicely do you think?

http://youtu.be/dmGWyAyO9mc?t=2m49s

Although he used i7 extreme - and Metro is a CPU hog...

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#12  Edited By mastershake575
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@mattamomo said:

@mastershake575:

that is slightly disconcerting, i would rather like better performance from metro last light, i swear everytime i settle on a GPU i end up upping the budget again

You can't get upset over the developers mistake (that's a bad habit that can lead to upgrading/buying parts you don't need).

Metro Last Light is a low budget game that's poorly optimized. Even with the poor optimization, the GTX 760 is able to get 45-48FPS average on very high settings with tessellation (along with most of the other advanced options) turned on

Your getting about 90% of the graphics potential on a poorly optimized game while still getting good frames

That's not a bad thing