(12-29-2014, 12:37 AM)kirbypuff Wrote: (Gigabyte GPUs = nothing but problems)
That's highly subjective. Some people would say the same about MSI...or Asus, or EVGA, or XFX or pick any brand, there will be somebody giving it bad reviews or saying that the entire brand is crap.
Edit: Judging by your recent thread, I think you're just an AMD fan that hates Nvidia. It's ok, I used to be that way too
(Don't take this offensively, I'm just teasing).
Regardless which of these video cards you end up buying, any of them are what I would call mid to high-mid range hardware and will do everything that you want it to do.
Put it this way, my GT 740M(way worse than any card listed so far) allows me to play Skyrim with a buttload of texture mods, and "high" settings(with AA toned down, because, GT 740M lol). Any of these cards mentioned in the last few posts blow mine away. Granted, my CPU helps, but it's a laptop i7, not a "real" i7 lol. Turbo almost never kicks in with Skyrim because of the temperature, so you'll run at a much higher clock speed. That i3 I picked out is also hyper-threaded, so there's 4 logical cores. Not quite as good as having 4 physical cores, but it definitely helps.
I personally wouldn't recommend that mini pre-built rig, but that's just me.
Craptop specs: W7 Pro x64 | Arctic Silver 5 woo! | i7 4700MQ @ ~3.5GHz | GT 740M 2GB @ 1183/1080MHz | 12GB DDR3 1600Mhz | 1366x768 screen lololol
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