All shitposting aside, will the 970 be able to run a single monitor

in 3 years everything will be vr, so no

maybe. It'll be fine. It also depends on your CPU.

>>323666394
>all shitposting aside

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>>323666394
>in 3 years everything will be vr

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>>323666407
Fairly mediocre.

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>>323666342
>ultra
>16:9
you have shit taste in video settings.

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It'll last 3 years, but by then you won't be running new games at ultra.
Maybe med/high with the more expensive eye-candy stuff like AO turned off.

>>323666394
Yeah, because motion controller is such a standard today

>>323666558
What do you expect the lifespan to roughly be at ultra, 1080p?

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>>323666342

>>323666558
>>323666634
Having they since address the 3.5 shit and now new 970s come with 4gb?

>>323666682
No. Every 970 has the 3.5gb issue.
You shouldnt worry since you'll be running stuff on 1080p, where there is no need for 4gb of VRAM.

I'd still get a 980.

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>>323666682
>now new 970s come with 4gb

Might as well ask:
>Buy a 900 card
>Wait for Pascal

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970 is fine for the next couple years OP dont worry about the shitposting

ultimately it depends on how well the games are optimised

alien isolation one of the best looking games and runs like butter

if the game is poorly optimised the 970 will struggle obviously

worst case scenario for most games is you will have to play on high instead of ultra

>>323666628
A year or so maybe? It entirely depends on how demanding the game you're playing is. "Ultra" doesn't really mean anything.

Pascal/Arctic Islands will be out this summer with 16nm/14nm and Gen2 HBM.
The 970 is already no longer a mid range card, and it's running GDDR5 with the 3.5GB issue.

>323666666

>>323666935
Unacceptable for a card that price

>>323666976
no longer a high-range card*

>>323667003
>how do i link posts
>how do dubs work on /v/
You braindead, buddy?

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If you are going to get a 970 i hope you enjoy stuttering

Of course not, they'll gimp it via driver updates starting next year and you'll be fucked.

I have that exact 970 and it struggles with witcher 3 on high. I'd avoid it personally, but for the most part it's alright.

It really depends. I have a 970 so I won't lie to you. The moment devs make games that go past the 3.5 GB limit, our cards shits the fan

>>323667162
Seems to be the best choice if going for a 970. But what do you manage on TW3?

>>323666342
i was thinking about getting the r9 fury for $499 to replace my 660ti. but, i think i'm just going to wait for pascal since i can still run everything 1080p on med-high settings. the performance gap is supposed to be pretty big so i would consider waiting if you have something decent for the time being.

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>>323667162

Honestly though, my build would probably bottleneck anything above a 970.
>>323666482

>>323667292
>mfw I've had a GTX550ti for over 3 years now
>fucking intense use between me and my brother in hot-as-hell Rio de Janeiro weather
>still works fine

I don't get this meme.

>>323667413

I had a 480 that lasted me from 2010 to 2015. Finally upgraded to a 970 a few months ago.

>>323666342
MSI shill GTFO

>>323666394
Go away luckey

>>323667610
>implying MSI doesn't make the best 970
Pleb

>>323667674
ASUS makes the best 970

>>323667674
>MSI
>Not EVGA

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>>323667413
>GTX550ti

>>323667698
>>323667767
>best cooling
>fan stop/quieter
>best OC behind Gigabyte
>heatsink

Tell me your justifications you tell yourself about your cards.

>>323666482
That's not mediocre, but you can overclock it substantually.

>>323666342
On ultra? It wont last 2 years.

>>323666976
whoever wrote this post is an obsessive faggot with 4x sli titan's who buys the new series each time they are released. autism at its finest.

>>323666342

I have that card. Built a new rig about a year ago.

MSI - 970
i5 - 4690k cpu
16 BM memory

With 1080P its been really good to me so far,, no issues so far. For the cost and performance you get its great.

>>323666342
I got this exact card for Christmas. Can run almost everything on ultra, it's a great card for its price, very quiet, but the 3.5gb VRAM meme is true, but you shouldn't come accross any issues if you're playing at 1080p.

If a 970 on ultra won't last past a few years, then how long will a R9 390 last?

>>323668505
Longer because it actually has 4 GB worth of VRAM

Get a fucking 390

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Does 970 worth my money if I'm gonna stick with 1440x900 for another 3-5 years.
I really don't care about 4K and too lazy to upgrade to 1080p.

Or should I buy AMD?

I just worry about the whole VRAM thing since I fear that future game will require more than 4GB.

>>323668202
Actually I have a 390.

>>323668761
>I just worry about the whole VRAM thing since I fear that future game will require more than 4GB.

No one can give you an answer but what we do know is no game current reach that limit but we are close.

>>323668843
Shadow of Mordor eats a little over 6GB on Titan X so yeah.

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>it is now literally 2016 and people are STILL buying a sham card that was proven to be inherently defective and doomed to the worst kind of obsolescence

You're all pollutant. I'm truly ashamed.

>>323666682
Are you stupid?

>>323667045

It's not the card's fault, it's the developers. Blame devs for making games that can't run above 60fps on ultra even on two SLI 980Tis.

>>323668954
SoM eats whatever VRAM you can give it. It is a bug that got patched already. The problem with the 970 isn't the fact that it is 3.5. If the drivers are coded to recognise 3.5 gb as the limit then the games won't go anywhere near that amount, shit will just take longer to load. Because Nvidia refuses to admit their mistakes, the 970 is a 3.5 GB card recognised as a 4GB one so when games need more VRAM, they just allocate more VRAM to the game and once it goes over the 3.5 GB limit, the shit hits the fan.

>>323668973
Dude its even worse, retailers actually increased prices of 970+ cards near the end of the year because demand was so high.

>>323668761

>those temps

holy shit nigga dust your computer and change the thermal compund

>>323666342
>3 years
It won't even make it past 3.5 months due to 14nm/16nm + HBM cards being just round the corner

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The idiocy of the general populace never ceases to amaze. Nvidia just got sued over this card and people STILL buy it, knowing full well what they're buying.

>>323669236
My gpu idles at 80 degrees and goes up to 90+ degrees on load. No issue here.

>>323669367
Wait they actually got sued? Link.

>>323669367
Honestly, I blame that mostly on AMD since they failed to use that whole fiasco to actually put out competitive card and for a good price.

The closes you would get is 390 and that shit is just way too loud under load and uses too much power compared to 970.

But yeah, buying 970 after all that is like giving nvidia approval to do it again.

>>323669236
Too lazy. I just gave up on PC gaming since I don't know what should I upgrade.

I also need to save my cash for Japanese lessons.

I also want a 3DS too.

>>323669092

this

devs are just lazy cunts and inflate the system requirements to make up for lazy programming and optimisation

a lot of games look much worse than others while running worse at the same time

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>>323669367

look at all the fucks i don't give about your meme image :)

>>323669650
>since they failed to use that whole fiasco to actually put out competitive card and for a good price.
Are you kidding? 290x shamed Nvidia for like 2 years.

>>323669826
It also burns your house down.

>>323669740
You must love getting dick from NVIDIA

>>323669938
i do :^D

Yes.

>>323666342
No.

In fact there are current games that require more total video memory than the 970 has.

>>323666342
Ultra 1080p for 3 years on a fairly old mid range card? Don't think so

Most likely have to turn down settings to high in late 2016 and medium in 2017

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>>323666342
Remember when the 9800GT was the 980Ti of it's time? Didn't last 3 years before being completely obsolete.

So doesn't matter what GPU you buy today, they are going to be obsolete by some new tech a couple of years from now.

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>>323669891
Weird...

I have a GTX 460 and I can run new games in medium still.

>>323667413
>550ti

That meme was for high end cards. 550ti is weaker than the 460

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>>323669514
Of course they got sued. People who build for quality performance could never push their cards to the limits that Radeons in the same class (that also cost less at the time) could hit. Then they found out that the hardware on the card was so flawed that the VRAM slowed to stupidly low rates when you tried to max gfx intensive games. Some people bought 2 of them, the poor idiots.

>>323668505
AMD cards tend to work better in the long run when compared to the nvidia equivilent

>>323667413
>Weather

Doesn't mean shit in a climatized room, faggot.

>I don't get this meme.

Because you're retarded? In cold countries, nvidia will make your pc heat up more than a heater. Not even joking.

>>323667162
>struggles with witcher 3 on high
The only way of making it struggle with witcher is by turning hairworks or whatever that unoptimized garbage is called on.

>>323667247
Hair works off, everything on high maintains a solid 60fps at 1080 outside of novigrad, in novigrad it chugs a bit and occasionally stutters during weather

>>323670693
Go away kid , this meme is not even funny anymore.

>>323666482
Which programm?

>game running at 30FPS or something
>the card is only using like 2GB of its power

How do this card works?
Isnt it supposed to go at full power to run the game at max FPS?

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>>323670876
>run witcher 3 on 980ti with hairworks on
>85 fps avg

>best friend runs Witcher 3 on 390x with hairworks on
>59 fps avg

>970 tries to run witcher 3 with hairworks on
>it doesn't

Hmm.

>>323671804
Speccy. Is this your first day on the internet?

>>323671986
In case you're serious, look at GPU utilization, not memory.

>>323672054
But 390x is well above 970 while not even in same category as 980sli.

Whats your point?

>>323671986
Video memory and processing power are not the same thing, check GPU usage, not VRAM.

>>323672162
390x is a 290x rebrand.

>>323666342
Better get a R9 390 if you want it to last 3 years.

>>323672058
This place is mostly reddit these days

What should I upgrade? Whats a good and cheap graphic card?

>>323672162
>sli
the fuck are you talking about? Why are you bringing sli into this?

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>>323672334
Forgot pic

>>323672269
I am just so close to caving and getting myself 390 to replace my 5770. But I've been waiting this long I hope I can keep up until Pascal

>>323672337
Obviously I meant 980ti but brain farted at inappropriate time

>>323667162
Fuck off does it.
I have a 960 and I can play it on ultra. without hair works

>>323672334
>>323672428
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-graphics-card-upgrade-guide