I don't have any budget at all unfortunately, all I'm doing is driving myself insane by window shopping.
I'm not sure if this will help you any, but the nvidia version numbers work like this: XYZ, where X is the hardware generation, Y is the 'tier' of card inside that generation, and Z is usually zero but is increased with revisions. IE, your 240 is a '200 series' card at the lower end of the power scale for that generation. A 285 was a improved revision high-end card from the same generation. A common card we recommend now is a 970, which is a high-to-mid range card of the 900 series, which is currently the newest available.
There's sometimes a GT, GS, or GTX prefix/postfix, they're not used as widely as they used to be. GT and GS are sometimes used to denote that the card is actually re-branded from a previous generation, sometimes it means other things though. GTX usually means it's a full fledged version of the card that you're expecting and not a low power/rebrand/budget version.
Thinking of building the girlfriend a new pc. Already have keyboard, mouse, monitor and os. All she plays is wow and lately been complaining about load times. I would just throw a SSD in and call it a day but watching the slide show when she raids is painful. Any suggestions on builds ? I can probably throw my 770 in her new build and grab me a 980!
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I just realized the gt 240 I've been thinking for years was totally a decent cardwas actually a bargain bin piece of crap at the time, I think I only got it because my previous low 9000-series card died and I was pretty broke. Hahaha.
But seriously the power rankings are super confusing compared to the naming conventions, seems like the top class cards from each generation stay relevant for quite a few generations.
Yeah, a GT240 is probably soundly out-performed by current integrated graphics on Intel chips. I remember back when I had a GTS250 and it managed Fallout 3 fairly well at 1280x1024, and that's a significantly more powerful card than what you've got.
You say you have zero budget, but really how zero is zero? Because literally anything on the market at the moment would be a BIG upgrade - for instance, this would literally revolutionize your gaming experience.
Thinking of building the girlfriend a new pc. Already have keyboard, mouse, monitor and os. All she plays is wow and lately been complaining about load times. I would just throw a SSD in and call it a day but watching the slide show when she raids is painful. Any suggestions on builds ? I can probably throw my 770 in her new build and grab me a 980!
SSD and a 770 should be fine. How much RAM is she running? Is the CPU spiking temps and downclocking to save itself?
WoW is much more graphics intensive than CPU intensive, but multiple factors could cause chugging. Could it be partially related to her network connection, too?
Thinking of building the girlfriend a new pc. Already have keyboard, mouse, monitor and os. All she plays is wow and lately been complaining about load times. I would just throw a SSD in and call it a day but watching the slide show when she raids is painful. Any suggestions on builds ? I can probably throw my 770 in her new build and grab me a 980!
SSD and a 770 should be fine. How much RAM is she running? Is the CPU spiking temps and downclocking to save itself?
WoW is much more graphics intensive than CPU intensive, but multiple factors could cause chugging. Could it be partially related to her network connection, too?
Wow can eat up a cpu something fierce. Most MMOs can, tbh. Wow will run really well on moderate hardware though. A 770 should be good for wow, just make sure it's paired with a recentish i5.
I imagine the reason WoW is hard on CPU's because it was coded before multi-core was really a thing so by modern standards it is really, really inefficient. Probably just takes one core and beats the shit out of it.
It loads all of the cores of my i7, but it hammers one core especially hard. Back when they released an expansion in 2008 they went through and did their best to multithread the engine as much as was possible, and by all accounts they did a pretty good job, given what they were working with.
I imagine the reason WoW is hard on CPU's because it was coded before multi-core was really a thing so by modern standards it is really, really inefficient. Probably just takes one core and beats the shit out of it.
That was the case when it was released, but they have improved the code quite a bit over the last 12 years. that being said it probably still isn't the most CPU efficient game on the market, again because it is 12 years old at the core.
MMO's generally are more CPU hungry than most games just becuase There is often a lot more going on in them that is happening in real time that needs to be rendered. Same goes for something like an RTS or a turn based game like Civ. most games don't really see a ton of benefit from a CPU upgrade (unless you're going from like, a P4 to a skylake part), but when I went from an i7-920 to a 4790k Civ beyond world became dramatically better. The time it took to process turns later in the game dropped in like, half.
I just realized the gt 240 I've been thinking for years was totally a decent cardwas actually a bargain bin piece of crap at the time, I think I only got it because my previous low 9000-series card died and I was pretty broke. Hahaha.
But seriously the power rankings are super confusing compared to the naming conventions, seems like the top class cards from each generation stay relevant for quite a few generations.
Yeah, a GT240 is probably soundly out-performed by current integrated graphics on Intel chips. I remember back when I had a GTS250 and it managed Fallout 3 fairly well at 1280x1024, and that's a significantly more powerful card than what you've got.
You say you have zero budget, but really how zero is zero? Because literally anything on the market at the moment would be a BIG upgrade - for instance, this would literally revolutionize your gaming experience.
it feels like if I'm gonna spend a hundred dollars I might as well spend 200 and get something that is dx12 compatible and more future-proofed. There's no dx13 coming soon is there?
I just realized the gt 240 I've been thinking for years was totally a decent cardwas actually a bargain bin piece of crap at the time, I think I only got it because my previous low 9000-series card died and I was pretty broke. Hahaha.
But seriously the power rankings are super confusing compared to the naming conventions, seems like the top class cards from each generation stay relevant for quite a few generations.
Yeah, a GT240 is probably soundly out-performed by current integrated graphics on Intel chips. I remember back when I had a GTS250 and it managed Fallout 3 fairly well at 1280x1024, and that's a significantly more powerful card than what you've got.
You say you have zero budget, but really how zero is zero? Because literally anything on the market at the moment would be a BIG upgrade - for instance, this would literally revolutionize your gaming experience.
it feels like if I'm gonna spend a hundred dollars I might as well spend 200 and get something that is dx12 compatible and more future-proofed. There's no dx13 coming soon is there?
Thinking of building the girlfriend a new pc. Already have keyboard, mouse, monitor and os. All she plays is wow and lately been complaining about load times. I would just throw a SSD in and call it a day but watching the slide show when she raids is painful. Any suggestions on builds ? I can probably throw my 770 in her new build and grab me a 980!
SSD and a 770 should be fine. How much RAM is she running? Is the CPU spiking temps and downclocking to save itself?
WoW is much more graphics intensive than CPU intensive, but multiple factors could cause chugging. Could it be partially related to her network connection, too?
Wow can eat up a cpu something fierce. Most MMOs can, tbh. Wow will run really well on moderate hardware though. A 770 should be good for wow, just make sure it's paired with a recentish i5.
I might just give her my pc with an i5 3570k and the 770 and build myself something. I know her pc is old but I should look at her team and cpu.
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Okay guys I need some opinions. My friend has offered to build me a new computer, and has two available. Both are brand new parts, he's offering to me at a deal because he got them at whole sale rates (builds PCs as job)/we are friends and it is almost my birthday.
In both cases he's only asking for $300 up front, free shipping and I can pay him back over the next few months so overall cost is not a huge factor. I just don't know enough about the parts or computers in general anymore to be able to figure out which one is "better". However the idea would be that I can add more parts later.
What do you guys think?
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Okay guys I need some opinions. My friend has offered to build me a new computer, and has two available. Both are brand new parts, he's offering to me at a deal because he got them at whole sale rates (builds PCs as job)/we are friends and it is almost my birthday.
In both cases he's only asking for $300 up front, free shipping and I can pay him back over the next few months so overall cost is not a huge factor. I just don't know enough about the parts or computers in general anymore to be able to figure out which one is "better". However the idea would be that I can add more parts later.
What do you guys think?
Go with the second ($850) one. It has a much better cooler and the single 970 will mop the floor with dual 7770's. It is well worth the extra hundred bucks.
Okay guys I need some opinions. My friend has offered to build me a new computer, and has two available. Both are brand new parts, he's offering to me at a deal because he got them at whole sale rates (builds PCs as job)/we are friends and it is almost my birthday.
In both cases he's only asking for $300 up front, free shipping and I can pay him back over the next few months so overall cost is not a huge factor. I just don't know enough about the parts or computers in general anymore to be able to figure out which one is "better". However the idea would be that I can add more parts later.
What do you guys think?
Go with the second ($850) one. It has a much better cooler and the single 970 will mop the floor with dual 7770's. It is well worth the extra hundred bucks.
I second this. As a 970 owner, that single card would be worlds more powerful than the 2x 1 gb crossfire.
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Also throwing my hat in for the 970 build, is your buddy currently building these or are they pre-built systems? That's a lot of RAM, and a pretty small SSD. If the system specs are non-negotiable however, you'll still be getting a great deal on a very capable computer.
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Also throwing my hat in for the 970 build, is your buddy currently building these or are they pre-built systems? That's a lot of RAM, and a pretty small SSD. If the system specs are non-negotiable however, you'll still be getting a great deal on a very capable computer.
They are both built already.
The plan is that by the time PAX Prime rolls around I'll probably pick up a 500 GB SSD on the showfloor for $100.
As it stands I've never had an SSD before, so having it for the OS and maybe one game (probably something like FO4) at a time is something I can deal with for a few months.
EDIT: It is a lot of RAM but that's kind of his thing too, and considering the deal he's offering (It's actually $825 now that I look at our chat from earlier) I'm not going to complain.
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Also throwing my hat in for the 970 build, is your buddy currently building these or are they pre-built systems? That's a lot of RAM, and a pretty small SSD. If the system specs are non-negotiable however, you'll still be getting a great deal on a very capable computer.
They are both built already.
The plan is that by the time PAX Prime rolls around I'll probably pick up a 500 GB SSD on the showfloor for $100.
As it stands I've never had an SSD before, so having it for the OS and maybe one game (probably something like FO4) at a time is something I can deal with for a few months.
EDIT: It is a lot of RAM but that's kind of his thing too, and considering the deal he's offering (It's actually $825 now that I look at our chat from earlier) I'm not going to complain.
The AMD CPU isn't ideal, but it's going to be fine enough. When it's time to upgrade that you'll want to switch over to Intel, unless AMD comes up with something fancy on their next chips.
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Also throwing my hat in for the 970 build, is your buddy currently building these or are they pre-built systems? That's a lot of RAM, and a pretty small SSD. If the system specs are non-negotiable however, you'll still be getting a great deal on a very capable computer.
They are both built already.
The plan is that by the time PAX Prime rolls around I'll probably pick up a 500 GB SSD on the showfloor for $100.
As it stands I've never had an SSD before, so having it for the OS and maybe one game (probably something like FO4) at a time is something I can deal with for a few months.
EDIT: It is a lot of RAM but that's kind of his thing too, and considering the deal he's offering (It's actually $825 now that I look at our chat from earlier) I'm not going to complain.
The AMD CPU isn't ideal, but it's going to be fine enough. When it's time to upgrade that you'll want to switch over to Intel, unless AMD comes up with something fancy on their next chips.
Yeah that's the plan.
I figure in about a year I'll swap it to an i7, probably wait for Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals.
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Just a quick look on some CPU benchmarks, it looks like the FX-8150 is just a touch higher on the Firestrike Ultra benchmark than an Intel i7-920. That's getting a little long in the tooth to be sure, but I don't remember anyone telling anyone on this forum to rush out an upgrade their 920's yet. Pass mark also has the 8150 squarely between the i5 3570K, and an i7 3770K.
Benchmarks are not the be-all end-all, but they do offer some rough comparisons. @Alazull , I think your next CPU upgrade will likely be a full CPU and motherboard upgrade. Just plan to milk this set-up out for as long as possible, I expect you'll be completely happy with an AMD CPU for now.
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Just a quick look on some CPU benchmarks, it looks like the FX-8150 is just a touch higher on the Firestrike Ultra benchmark than an Intel i7-920. That's getting a little long in the tooth to be sure, but I don't remember anyone telling anyone on this forum to rush out an upgrade their 920's yet. Pass mark also has the 8150 squarely between the i5 3570K, and an i7 3770K.
Benchmarks are not the be-all end-all, but they do offer some rough comparisons. @Alazull , I think your next CPU upgrade will likely be a full CPU and motherboard upgrade. Just plan to milk this set-up out for as long as possible, I expect you'll be completely happy with an AMD CPU for now.
specifically related to the 920, yea it is time to upgrade that. It is pretty long in the tooth, and i upgraded mine almost a year ago to a 4790k and the difference is very noticeable, and that's before you even get to the chipset improvements. the X58 chipset the 920 ran on doesn't even have USB 3.0!
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The biggest issue with the AMD specifically compared to the Intel is the lack of single core performance, which is especially relevant for gaming because so few games truly take advantage of multi core processing as well as they could.
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Intel also boasts better TDP and Performance per watt. For the last week I was worried that AMD was about to be delisted from the stock index, but it looks like they might have a turnaround on their hands. I really wish AMD was competing with Intel again. It seems like they have been designing budget chips for a decade or more, now.
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No, I don't think nvidia lets companies pick the silicon they get, but of the silicon they *do* get, they probably just select the best of *those* for their highest end parts.
But it has 'military grade' components! Which is the most asinine statement. I work in acquisitions in the Army, you know how we choose which product we develop? Is it cheap to manufacture. Can we use the cheapest materials possible, but still meet the specifications we desire.
If a product ever says military grade, it's just a stupid marketing move to make people think that means strong and long lasting, which if you ever have been in the military is way you would never describe a piece of equipment lol.
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But it has 'military grade' components! Which is the most asinine statement. I work in acquisitions I'm the military, you know how we choose which product we develop? Is it cheap to manufacture. Can we use the cheapest materials possible, but still meet the specifications we desire.
If a product ever says military grade, it's just a stupid marketing move to make people think that means strong and long lasting, which if you ever have been in the military is way you would never describe a piece of equipment lol.
I also work in the military as a civilian. This is pretty much right, except for "major" components (e.g. hydraulic plants, air compressors, etc.) that do have fairly stringent shock qualifications. Then again, I work solely with submarines and submarine systems.
Put the girlfriend's new computer together and was going to test it and whoops I can't plug my old monitor into it! I forgot that I had been using an adapter on my GPU when I upgraded my computer before getting a new monitor... and we didn't get a GPU for her because she wasn't planning on doing anything that the onboard graphics wouldn't handle. But now we have to get a new monitor.
Geez, I'm kind of getting tired of this "if you give a mouse a cookie" thing going on.
So I'm a first-world problem dilemma, and was wondering if anybody could lend their opinion.
I'm in the market for a new desktop - my trusty C2Q 6600 has to go. I'm looking for the CPU/Mobo platform to last me at least 5 years, and Broadwell-E has piqued my interest because I use a lot of graphic design and game development software. However, my friend is looking to get rid of his Haswell-E Alienware Desktop. It was bought last summer; and knowing my friend it would be in perfect condition. It's spec'ed as follows:
Without the OS it would run around 1200 pounds new, or 1715 dollars. I'm fairly certain my friend will ask me around 850 pounds for his build. Which is a really good price; and I'd jump on it if not for the fact that it'd be paying for a 980 GTX that's going to be seriously outdated by the end of the year (I'm patient, so I can wait), and an SSD that's too small and likely doesn't perform to a Samsung EVO level. It'd also be nice to have features such as USB-C and NVMe over M.2 support without having to shell out another 200 quid for 2011-v4 mobo.
All in all, I'm leaning towards passing this up and going for a new Broadwell-E build when it comes out. Am I crazy? Thanks in advance for the advice, I'm kind of torn on this one!
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The GTX980 is not going to be obsolete by the end of the year. New cards coming out don't magically reduce its power, and unless you're looking to do 4k gaming, it's going to be a fine card for almost any application you care to throw at it.
The CPU is more than sufficient, and if you really wanted to upgrade the GPU, you could throw it on ebay for a couple hundred and count that as a rebate towards a Pascal *80
I made the stupidest face when I read that: "...for a 980 GTX that's going to be seriously outdated by the end of the year".
That shit won't be "out dated" for probably 5 years. I mean, I don't pretend to know what you do with a computer, but one of my computers has a 750Ti and can still play FO4 at totally acceptable settings.
I made the stupidest face when I read that: "...for a 980 GTX that's going to be seriously outdated by the end of the year".
That shit won't be "out dated" for probably 5 years. I mean, I don't pretend to know what you do with a computer, but one of my computers has a 750Ti and can still play FO4 at totally acceptable settings.
Out dated was definitely the wrong thing to say. But I wouldn't get any real benefit out of paying 300 pounds for a 980. It sounds wonderful, but what you're saying about your TI is exactly the reason why I was hesitating - I have a 570 GTX I can cannibalize, since I only really play Dota 2 and that infrequently. Why spend that money now when it's literally no inconvenience to wait and get something better down the road?
The CPU is more than sufficient, and if you really wanted to upgrade the GPU, you could throw it on ebay for a couple hundred and count that as a rebate towards a Pascal *80
I could always sell the card immediately as well. It's bound to lose some value after summer. (That is if AMD is really going to release Polaris then - and it's not a paper launch.) It's a good idea, so thank you!
(Edit: Specifically, the appeal of new cards is that allegedly I am supposed to be moving over to 3D towards the end of the year and getting up to speed with Substance Painter, a program which loves incredible amounts of VRAM. I am kind of hoping for a new card like the 390X towards the end of the year. ;-) )
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I'm not sure if this will help you any, but the nvidia version numbers work like this: XYZ, where X is the hardware generation, Y is the 'tier' of card inside that generation, and Z is usually zero but is increased with revisions. IE, your 240 is a '200 series' card at the lower end of the power scale for that generation. A 285 was a improved revision high-end card from the same generation. A common card we recommend now is a 970, which is a high-to-mid range card of the 900 series, which is currently the newest available.
There's sometimes a GT, GS, or GTX prefix/postfix, they're not used as widely as they used to be. GT and GS are sometimes used to denote that the card is actually re-branded from a previous generation, sometimes it means other things though. GTX usually means it's a full fledged version of the card that you're expecting and not a low power/rebrand/budget version.
Yeah, a GT240 is probably soundly out-performed by current integrated graphics on Intel chips. I remember back when I had a GTS250 and it managed Fallout 3 fairly well at 1280x1024, and that's a significantly more powerful card than what you've got.
You say you have zero budget, but really how zero is zero? Because literally anything on the market at the moment would be a BIG upgrade - for instance, this would literally revolutionize your gaming experience.
SSD and a 770 should be fine. How much RAM is she running? Is the CPU spiking temps and downclocking to save itself?
WoW is much more graphics intensive than CPU intensive, but multiple factors could cause chugging. Could it be partially related to her network connection, too?
Wow can eat up a cpu something fierce. Most MMOs can, tbh. Wow will run really well on moderate hardware though. A 770 should be good for wow, just make sure it's paired with a recentish i5.
That was the case when it was released, but they have improved the code quite a bit over the last 12 years. that being said it probably still isn't the most CPU efficient game on the market, again because it is 12 years old at the core.
MMO's generally are more CPU hungry than most games just becuase There is often a lot more going on in them that is happening in real time that needs to be rendered. Same goes for something like an RTS or a turn based game like Civ. most games don't really see a ton of benefit from a CPU upgrade (unless you're going from like, a P4 to a skylake part), but when I went from an i7-920 to a 4790k Civ beyond world became dramatically better. The time it took to process turns later in the game dropped in like, half.
it feels like if I'm gonna spend a hundred dollars I might as well spend 200 and get something that is dx12 compatible and more future-proofed. There's no dx13 coming soon is there?
You won't even need $200 for a GTX960.
No. Games aren't even really implementing the supposed benefits of DX12 yet.
I might just give her my pc with an i5 3570k and the 770 and build myself something. I know her pc is old but I should look at her team and cpu.
He's offering this one for $750: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/sRRdK8
And this one for $850: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/xhxzqs
In both cases he's only asking for $300 up front, free shipping and I can pay him back over the next few months so overall cost is not a huge factor. I just don't know enough about the parts or computers in general anymore to be able to figure out which one is "better". However the idea would be that I can add more parts later.
What do you guys think?
Go with the second ($850) one. It has a much better cooler and the single 970 will mop the floor with dual 7770's. It is well worth the extra hundred bucks.
I second this. As a 970 owner, that single card would be worlds more powerful than the 2x 1 gb crossfire.
They are both built already.
The plan is that by the time PAX Prime rolls around I'll probably pick up a 500 GB SSD on the showfloor for $100.
As it stands I've never had an SSD before, so having it for the OS and maybe one game (probably something like FO4) at a time is something I can deal with for a few months.
EDIT: It is a lot of RAM but that's kind of his thing too, and considering the deal he's offering (It's actually $825 now that I look at our chat from earlier) I'm not going to complain.
The AMD CPU isn't ideal, but it's going to be fine enough. When it's time to upgrade that you'll want to switch over to Intel, unless AMD comes up with something fancy on their next chips.
Yeah that's the plan.
I figure in about a year I'll swap it to an i7, probably wait for Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals.
Benchmarks are not the be-all end-all, but they do offer some rough comparisons. @Alazull , I think your next CPU upgrade will likely be a full CPU and motherboard upgrade. Just plan to milk this set-up out for as long as possible, I expect you'll be completely happy with an AMD CPU for now.
specifically related to the 920, yea it is time to upgrade that. It is pretty long in the tooth, and i upgraded mine almost a year ago to a 4790k and the difference is very noticeable, and that's before you even get to the chipset improvements. the X58 chipset the 920 ran on doesn't even have USB 3.0!
What are you ACTUALLY getting for your money? is MSI selecting higher quality chips that can be overclocked better?
From the looks of things, the price increase is for an extra 82MHz on the non-boost core clock. Is it worth it? I'm 90% sure that the answer is "No"
If a product ever says military grade, it's just a stupid marketing move to make people think that means strong and long lasting, which if you ever have been in the military is way you would never describe a piece of equipment lol.
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I also work in the military as a civilian. This is pretty much right, except for "major" components (e.g. hydraulic plants, air compressors, etc.) that do have fairly stringent shock qualifications. Then again, I work solely with submarines and submarine systems.
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I'm in the market for a new desktop - my trusty C2Q 6600 has to go. I'm looking for the CPU/Mobo platform to last me at least 5 years, and Broadwell-E has piqued my interest because I use a lot of graphic design and game development software. However, my friend is looking to get rid of his Haswell-E Alienware Desktop. It was bought last summer; and knowing my friend it would be in perfect condition. It's spec'ed as follows:
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/tnQpf7
Without the OS it would run around 1200 pounds new, or 1715 dollars. I'm fairly certain my friend will ask me around 850 pounds for his build. Which is a really good price; and I'd jump on it if not for the fact that it'd be paying for a 980 GTX that's going to be seriously outdated by the end of the year (I'm patient, so I can wait), and an SSD that's too small and likely doesn't perform to a Samsung EVO level. It'd also be nice to have features such as USB-C and NVMe over M.2 support without having to shell out another 200 quid for 2011-v4 mobo.
All in all, I'm leaning towards passing this up and going for a new Broadwell-E build when it comes out. Am I crazy? Thanks in advance for the advice, I'm kind of torn on this one!
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The CPU is more than sufficient, and if you really wanted to upgrade the GPU, you could throw it on ebay for a couple hundred and count that as a rebate towards a Pascal *80
That shit won't be "out dated" for probably 5 years. I mean, I don't pretend to know what you do with a computer, but one of my computers has a 750Ti and can still play FO4 at totally acceptable settings.
Not a completely gold copper heat pipe/sink setup?
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Out dated was definitely the wrong thing to say. But I wouldn't get any real benefit out of paying 300 pounds for a 980. It sounds wonderful, but what you're saying about your TI is exactly the reason why I was hesitating - I have a 570 GTX I can cannibalize, since I only really play Dota 2 and that infrequently. Why spend that money now when it's literally no inconvenience to wait and get something better down the road?
I could always sell the card immediately as well. It's bound to lose some value after summer. (That is if AMD is really going to release Polaris then - and it's not a paper launch.) It's a good idea, so thank you!
(Edit: Specifically, the appeal of new cards is that allegedly I am supposed to be moving over to 3D towards the end of the year and getting up to speed with Substance Painter, a program which loves incredible amounts of VRAM. I am kind of hoping for a new card like the 390X towards the end of the year. ;-) )