Smitty
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That video card looks a solid half step or a step below mine.
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html
Keep in mind that is a list of "high end" video cards.
The video card on my last rig, which could not run Skyrim on high, was an Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT. Which coincidentally is found on the "High Mid Range Video Card" list, seen here. As you can see, the 9800 GT gets a score of 718. That card was about a step or two down from top of the line when I bought it back in 2008.
Your Quadro K5000M is on that first link (the "high end" list) but has a score of 2,800.
My new (current, I mean) card, which I purchased in 2011 (the GeForce GTX 570) has a score of 4,300, which was pretty much the best reasonably priced video card money could buy on the commercial market when I got it in 2011. There was also the 580 at the time... it was nearly $1000. It was also not exactly easily in stock. So I settled for the 570 which was nearly $400. It was the best non-industrial card that was readily available and priced for consumers.
So that Quadro K500M is a half step down or so with its 2800 score.
Today, my GTX 570 can still run almost everything maxxed out. I have run into a couple games like Rage where I have to turn settings down from Ultra to merely High. But most things, including Skyrim and BF3, I can max out.
You may have a SLIGHT issue maxxing everything out... but even if so, the things you have to cut back on are probably minor, like hair quality or some ridiculously over the top setting that sucks up a lot of GPU power for not much noticeable difference.
Anyway, PC gaming kicks ass. You can build a rig that has MUCH more power than consoles for roughly the same price.
Starting out, you need more initial pieces, so your price will be higher (Hard drive, power supply, case, mouse and keyboard, DVDRom drive, mouse and keyboard, monitor, speakers), but after you have these things, there are only four components that need to be replaced every "generation" for sure: 1) Motherboard, 2) Processor/CPU, 3) Video Card/GPU and 4) RAM.
And you can piece together a computer that absolutely blows consoles away by upgrading those 4 parts for cheap.
Like I said before.... my GPU was like $350-$400. The motherboard and processor was like $250. The RAM was like $80 (I have 8 GBs).
And my now 2 year old computer still just crushes almost everything.
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html
Keep in mind that is a list of "high end" video cards.
The video card on my last rig, which could not run Skyrim on high, was an Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT. Which coincidentally is found on the "High Mid Range Video Card" list, seen here. As you can see, the 9800 GT gets a score of 718. That card was about a step or two down from top of the line when I bought it back in 2008.
Your Quadro K5000M is on that first link (the "high end" list) but has a score of 2,800.
My new (current, I mean) card, which I purchased in 2011 (the GeForce GTX 570) has a score of 4,300, which was pretty much the best reasonably priced video card money could buy on the commercial market when I got it in 2011. There was also the 580 at the time... it was nearly $1000. It was also not exactly easily in stock. So I settled for the 570 which was nearly $400. It was the best non-industrial card that was readily available and priced for consumers.
So that Quadro K500M is a half step down or so with its 2800 score.
Today, my GTX 570 can still run almost everything maxxed out. I have run into a couple games like Rage where I have to turn settings down from Ultra to merely High. But most things, including Skyrim and BF3, I can max out.
You may have a SLIGHT issue maxxing everything out... but even if so, the things you have to cut back on are probably minor, like hair quality or some ridiculously over the top setting that sucks up a lot of GPU power for not much noticeable difference.
Anyway, PC gaming kicks ass. You can build a rig that has MUCH more power than consoles for roughly the same price.
Starting out, you need more initial pieces, so your price will be higher (Hard drive, power supply, case, mouse and keyboard, DVDRom drive, mouse and keyboard, monitor, speakers), but after you have these things, there are only four components that need to be replaced every "generation" for sure: 1) Motherboard, 2) Processor/CPU, 3) Video Card/GPU and 4) RAM.
And you can piece together a computer that absolutely blows consoles away by upgrading those 4 parts for cheap.
Like I said before.... my GPU was like $350-$400. The motherboard and processor was like $250. The RAM was like $80 (I have 8 GBs).
And my now 2 year old computer still just crushes almost everything.
