Just got a GTX 960 to upgrade muh rig, finally time to play other

witcher 2 looks nice, is pretty fun, and is pretty cheap.

I can only imagine the sheer amount of bottlenecking your other parts will do.

>>323806191
>960

you better be a eurofag or you just bought the shittiest mid-range card available

>dragon's dogma
>witcher 3
>shogun 2
>metro 2033/ll
>wasteland 2 dsr @ 1440/4k

>>323806191
Return it and buy a 380

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>>323808517

>insulting based nvi- oh wait.

>>323808726
ya the 960 is just overpriced as shit but I know in Europe it's the exact opposite here stateside. It's like $180 for the 960 and $200+ for the 380x

>>323808971

> It's like $180 for the 960 and $200+ for the 380x

Well yes because the 380x has no direct equivalent from Nvidia. The 380 is the 960 competitor. Even in bongland the 960 is stupid because it is around 380 money and slower.

>>323806191
should have saved a little more money and gotten a 970 or the 380x

whats the difference between a 380 and a 380x

>>323809743
looking at this >>323808726
quite a bit. It competes very well with the 970

>>323809294
I got my 960 for £155 with MGS V which I was going to buy anyway, so it was basically £125.

It's hard to go AMD considering the power consumption, fan noise and worse optimisation. Hopefully they can close that gap that's been around since Kepler soon.

>>323809460
>970

Off yourself.

>>323809819

The 970's competition isn't a 380x - its the 390 (which isn't on the chart posted earlier). Still a 390 is essentially an overclocked 290.

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>>323809943

>It's hard to go AMD considering the power consumption, fan noise and worse optimisation. Hopefully they can close that gap that's been around since Kepler soon.

Not only is the 380 faster it uses similar levels of power. As for the kepler gap? lel you need to check yourself - these days a 290x is competing close to a 980 when it was originally launched to best the 780.

>>323806191

You fucked up.

>>323810148
In practice, people are talking of needing fans on high RPM to maintain decent temps, and driver issues. Raw performance wise they're great, but I'm getting older and starting to value other factors.

>there are people who fell for the green meme

Said it in the other thread: a small 960 at 123 bucks was the best bang on the buck in the world, I literally couldn't do wrong if I tried. I could understand if you could find a 280 for that much money, but then the relatively small advantage is taken back by heat and noise.

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>>323809943
>He fell for the Nvidia power draw meme

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i got a 950 and i love it

>paying $300~ for a graphics card
>ever

>>323810662
that's pretty much the ATI experience. i wouldn't be surprised if longtime ATI users just thought that was normal

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>>323811486
>being too poor to afford a GTX 980 Ti and run multiple monitors and games at the same on max settings at 100+ fps per game

I can only imagine how much it sucks to be poor and not have the latest and greatest. I couldn't live without this, that's for sure.

>>323811486
If you ever played a new game with every setting max, and it running smoother then a young mail order brides ass then you would understand why having the best graphics card matters.

>MSI
Prepare for coil whine

>get AMD MSI 390
>fans aren't overly loud unless at 100% (which never happens unless I set it at that on purpose)
>temps never exceed 50C
>it runs most games at 1440p, 60fps at high settings
>never have any driver issues

it just werks

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>>323806191
You fucked up, OP.

>>323806191
>960

idk man, you can play runescape or something with that shit card. maybe.

Return it before it's too late.

>>323812097
>>323812065
>caring about graphics
Fucking faggots.

>>323812347

Dunno, Tomb Raider can be ultraed at near perfect 60fps, and Zestiria runs at 4x res without a hiccup. It's clearly not made for anything higher than that, but for 1080p it's fine.

>>323812065
>>323812097
i enjoy games. i also enjoy other things that don't involve sitting in front of a computer all day. i'll take some quality times out with my mates over some more texels and tris any day

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Is that you marty ?

>>323812761
you're a fucking idiot

>>323806191
>other games than cs 1.6
Yeah like CS Source right
lmao

>>323809819

that chart tells absolutely nothing

>>323813571

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihGPPF8iT5w

When is the new series of gtx cards coming out?

>960

why not 380

>>323806191

Congrats faggot.

>the new wolfenstein games (TNO and TOB)
>Metro-games
>Red Orchestra 2
>Rocket League
>Nidhogg
>Cities : Skylines

>>323806191
>MSI
GET THE FUCK OUT SHILL!!

>>323814571
Because OP is retarded

>>323812259
>temps never exceed 50C
I'm and AMD fan myself but unless you live in Antarctica this is not true

>>323814005
GTA V benchmark is not a really good way of compaing performance, I had a lot of stuttering with my old 7870 while actually playing the game but everything was perfect when I loaded the benchmark

>have old ass 550ti
>wanted to buy a 960 too
wew maybe it was a good thing I found this thread

>>323815203

Just wait 'till the new cards are announced. If you're really in need of a new card, just get a 380 or a 970.

>>323815203
>>323815294
correction: 380 or a 390

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>>323814906

To be fair 1) this is a 290x and 2) custom cooling.

Point is though it can be done.

>>323815203
The 960 is fine. I upgraded from my ~4 year old gtx560 and have been very happy

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>>323808726
>960 is the same speed as a rebrand of a 4 year old card

>>323808721
>amd

>>323816150
Also your GPU is underclocked compared to a regular 390/x

>>323815603
I have money, but in fact I don't think I need that much of an upgrade.
I miss newer titles, that I can't play them, but to be honest I just want to try them out and I bet I wouldn't get into even half of them.

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>>323816352

The way its meant to be played. Consider the 7970 though - that card has bested the following:

680
770
285
380
380x
and these days it rivals a 780 at times, an impossibility when the 780 launched.

The 7970 really is the greatest card ever built.

>>323816467

Its overclocked vs a 390 (which has base clocks of 1ghz).

>>323816550
>I miss newer titles, that I can't play them, but to be honest I just want to try them out and I bet I wouldn't get into even half of them.
Get a used 770/280x/290 and wait for the new gen, maybe? You'll save a lot of money

>>323808726
Why is the gtx 770 4gb never ever on any of these lists

What the fuck

>>323809743

It's like the Ti version of the 380. The same card, only a bit better overall.

Better than 380/960, worse than 390/970.

>VR
>higher resolutions than 1440p
>100+ fps gaming
These are the things you've cucked yourself out of with that shitty underpowered card. Oh well, you can always upgrade later!

>>323808726
>GTX 970 SLI 8GB
>8GB

I don't get it. I thought putting two cards together in SLI doesn't double their VRAM.
It'd still be 3.5 no matter what.

I just ordered a Sapphire 380X

Did I do good or am I memed

>>323816678

As it is fairly rare.

>>323816931

That is because there is technically 8gb of vram in the system (its why the 295x2 is marketed as an 8gb card and why the loltastic titan z is a 12gb card).

>>323817008

Best 1080p card right now. PRO TIP: when it turns up go into your overclocking software of choice and up the power limit to +50%.

You can thank me later.

>>323816603
Nice to see the pic I made being posted so often. Keep in mind that this specific review is from the GPU's release, and performance has increased significantly since then

>it's an amd shilling and charts posted a thousand times over thread

I miss good pc threads.

>>323816603
>The 7970 really is the greatest card ever built.

And it lives in the form of the 280X

It's a fantastic card but nowadays I'd pick a 380X over it because of power consumption and heat, and it's not THAT much worse

>>323817202
>That is because there is technically 8gb of vram in the system

It's still a very big issue using c-u-c-k-e-d ram even if it's combined 8gb. The CPU and mobo doesn't know it has 1gb of c-u-c-k ram. You will run into a shitload of problems when it access that bad ram. You should never sli a 970 because of this.

>not a 980ti
pleb

>>323817749
>nvidiot can't get over the fact that AMD is superior at certain prices

The 960 is a shitty card for the money and the 380 is simply superior, no matter how hard you try to convince yourself otherwise.

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>>323817749

I would buy a R9 390, but I don't have amazing air flow in my case and I don't want the GPU to melt. So I'm going with the 970.

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>>323817867

I'd pick the 380x too, simply because it supports freesync for vidya (280x only does for video playback) and a few other things.

However a cheap used 280x could be the steal of the century. Those cheap 290's that were floating around a few months back where staggering deals, 970 tier performance for what is now high end 960 money.

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>>323817749
please don't be sad

>>323818521
If you don't have good airflow basically every high end GPU is gonna get pretty hot, but I know you're just falseflagging

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>>323818696

The 970 is housefires next to the 390.

>>323814687
>implying msi isn't god tier
wew

>>323818227
>>323818356
>>323818578

I know they're better, I strongly recommend them. But holy shit it's fucking constant obnoxious fanboy bullshit and meme spouting, the brand loyalty is insane. I miss chill pc threads where people just suggested cases and upgrades and explained stuff to new builders without punctuating all their sentences with cück.

>>323818696
Well Anon, you got me. You really cannot be fooled. Well played.

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>>323818980
shure

>>323818920

The msi 390x (not the 390 though) is a thingy of beauty to behold as it shows what happens when you give zero fucks and just clock that shit up and sell it.

The msi 390x runs at a staggering 1100mhz and a voltage capable of feeding that yet remains fairly cool.

I almost bought a new graphics card last night, but I think it might be best to wait for pascal or whatever AMD might try to release to compete.

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Just got this in the mail this morning

I got the evga one and after a stiff overclock I can run most games at a lower res across 3 screens on high mostly around 45 fps.

Works fine for me.

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>>323819173

Word on the street is Polaris will release first.

>>323819275


See pic.

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I chose the 960 because Nvidia has more support and I'm familiar with them

>>323819379
Why am I looking at this pic?

What's the power draw on the r9 390? I just want a card for maxing out at 1080 60, but my PSU is only 600W and I hear they draw a fair bit of power.

>>323806191
Why suddenly /v/ has so many meme threads?

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>>323816906
>VR
who the FUCK cares about VR?

>>323819117
Ive gotten my 390 nonx to 1100 mhz on stock volts, 1100 mhz isnt that impressive desu

>>323819385
don't let the loyal amd fanboys hear that

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>>323808726
>mfw my brother owns a 950.

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>>323819647

GCN's sweet spot is around 850mhz for temps vs power draw. 1100mhz out of the box is no joke.

However speaking of (core) clocks, fucking bring it motherfucker.

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>arguing about this shit a year after the fact

what have you people been doing

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>>323819385
Bought a 960 soon after it came out, pretty happy with it, although I'd get an r9 380/380x if I was buying now.
I think most people criticizing it fail to take into account that it's very light on power and can run on a weak PSU and has tons of room for OC, both features that the current AMD series lack.

>>323819647
Not every 390 can get to 1100, though

>>323817884
this nigga thinks he knows what he's talking about

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>new architecture
>14nm
>HBM 2

How fucked is noVidia?

What card should I get if I want to max Witcher 3 at 1080p 60? Hair works excluded of course. I tried playing it on my PS4 since my current card sucks, but it fucking hurt my eye playing it.
Obviously I'll be playing other games it's just I really want to play the witcher right now.

D R A G O N S D O G M A
R
A
G
O
N
S

D
O
G
M
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>>323820265
>implying nvidia hasn't been working on the same shit or something similiar
you have to be retarded to believe they're going to be fucked

>>323820265
Given how AMD has been failing to keep up with Nvidia flagship cards not likely. Although we won't know until these cards are released and we can get some unbiased benchmarks.

As long as I can watch my chinese cartoons I don't give a shit.

>>323806191
> Didn't upgrade to a 970 or 980 so he could future proof for VR.

>>323819829
That's the deal with the 390/x, they are 290/x that won the silicon lottery and have a godlike cooling solution (at least Sapphire and MSI does)

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>>323820265
not much, considering nvidia will have HBM and reduced manufacturing process next gen as well.

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>>323806191
Get max payne 3. Its awesome with this bad boy.

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>>323820639
>reference cooler
Please don't.

>>323820783
Not him, but I fucking love the look of the reference coolers on EVGA cards. Too bad they run hot as fuck.

My 960 has no problems maxing most games on 1080i except for arma.

I really hope polaris solves the problems with heat and power draw the r9 series has.

>>323820971
>anything from bohemia
You'll have problems with 2 980tis

>maxing
This doesn't mean anything nowadays, people just downgrade AA or some other shit and call it maxed, this or they don't even play with 60fps

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>>323820921

Hotter than an uber 290x lol.

So in games what options are the most resource heavy on your card besides shadows and AA?

>>323820971
>1080i
>i

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>>323820921
>Too bad they run hot as fuck.
Its weird. All my games ran fine until I played FEAR. Fear wouldn't run properly because it was overheating...a 10 year old game. I ended up buying a water cooler and now its fine but wtf technology.

>>323820971
40-60 fps?

>>323821151
This is true my coworker has a 980 and gets an avg of 40-45 frames in games with over 7 people. The frames seem to get worse the lower the settings are and he has an i7 6700

>>323821436
Probably a fucked up AA setting, I had the same problem with Sleeping Dogs and I figured out it was AA

>>323821580
Ill check that out thanks

>>323821273

Draw distance, reflections, some effects like DoF, physics objects like vegetation and shit.

>got mod to increase the grass rendering distance because of the shitty lod in witcher 2
>went from 60 to 15 fps in the kaedweni camp

>>323821179
I prefer to play at 30fps with good visuals than 60fps with bad ones. In fact, I tend to lock my framerate to 30 for smoother gameplay and less demand on my pc.

>>323821693
Just force AA, Tesselation and everything you can in your GPU driver settings and see it that helps, also cap the framerate

>>323821535
dude, back then Titan shat itself from Dayz.

>>323821436

Use rivatuner to limit the framerate.

>>323821471
Avg 60 fps with the tomb raider bench mark and 55 with dying light. 1080p auto correct fucked me. It handles everything I throw at it. Even witcher with hair works.

>>323821745
I don't mind 30fps as long as I don't see the difference to 60fps (like with variable framerate) because when comparing the two 30fps looks really bad

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this is my build
>inb4 medium range card and high end CPU and needlessly high RAM memory
i must say i am satisfied. i will updrage some day, but for now i'm ok. i built this as basically a MGS V machine, on september 1st. it runs it maxed out at 60fps 1080i.
surprisingly enough, same goes for fallout 4. i just have to lower god beams a little, and i get 55-60 fps pretty much everywhere

i would get a amd card but i dont want to start a house fire

>>323822012
>1080i
what

>>323822012

Where all these interlaced resolutions coming from, when did they start existing again.

>>323822156
1080p.

Seriously are AMD drivers just fucked? I keep try to lock Just Cause 3 at 30 fps, but I can shit in the drivers it doesn't do anything in game. This includes stuff like trying to force AA, AF, or vsync in other games too.

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>>323822012
>medium range card and high end CPU
Was this a pre-built?
Now be honest, it's okay if you haven't built anything before.


Kind of rustles my jimmies when I see pre-builts advertised as "super future-proof monsters" with skylake i7's and fucking 750ti's in them.

>>323822493
wanna rage a bit?
i'm kind of impaired with this shit, didn't want to mess things up.
so i gave a guy i know who build PC's 1000 bucks (900 euros) and that's what i have now.
heh.

>>323822315
>he fell for the AMD meme

do amd cards really cause house fires?

Why buy a pc to play bad console ports and Indy trash that can run on a toaster. All the best titles are almost a decade old. But theirs always early access trash

>>323822639
If it has a good PSU then it's actually nice, a 960 will do good now and later down the line you'll only need a GPU upgrade.

>>323822829
>theirs
console poors everyone

>>323822493
well its not THAAAAT BAAAD.

if your gpu is too slow you can always lower the settings. but most of the time if cpu is bottlenecking youre fucked anyway. also some games like source and source2 based games are cpu heavy, not gpu.

but yea.. i7.. thats fucking useless

>>323822639
if that $1000 included the monitor I'd say that's not even remotely bad considering you're europe

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I was literally about to buy a GTX 960 but judging by the tone of this thread should I get something like a 280x instead? Or maybe even a 750ti until better cards come down in price?

Guys, what's the best bang for your buck 900 series card?

>>323823061
But I have a pc that I spent 600 euro on just to play cs go and league every other games just feel as if it was made to play on a console. Maybe one day you will have the disposable income I have.

>>323823093
>also some games like source and source2 based games are cpu heavy, not gpu.
Only if you have a really terrible CPU, I could run any source game with a phenom x4 with no problems

>>323823434
fool me once shame on you

>>323822315
>I keep try to lock Just Cause 3 at 30 fps
Use rivaturner

>>323823204

380 or 380x are around the same price range as the 960 I think.

>>323823204
amazing, you read the thread and also didn't read it simultaneously

>>323823204
If you want 0 problems, plan to OC and your PSU is on the weak side - get a 960

If you can deal with some games running badly on day one, can accept the speeds you get out of the box and just want good price/performance - get R9 380

>>323823158
no monitor. got a cheap samsung monitor later. thanks, man. i'd add the guy also gave me 3 years of warranty.

>>323823341

None of them really. 970 or 980ti I guess by default because the 980 is overpriced and the 950 and 960 are underpowered.

>>323811259

So... okay?

>>323823341
Nvidia GTX R9 380

>>323823204
If you want your gfx card to have a heat stroke 7 months down the line go ahead get an r9 series card. After you can sit on the phone with the horrid customer service while he tells you to just uninstall and reinstall the drivers.

>>323823460
depends where you aim at.

Like I have [email protected] but I cant run TF2 at 144fps+ sometimes it just drops and my GPU usage is nowhere close full. I only get great frames with a config that removes eyes from chars and whatnot. Dota 2 is also impossible to keep in such numbers. Drops below 80 in fights. And all Borderlands games get bottlenecked by it. Many console ports struggle to run high fps too.

>>323823617
all those parts would have come with manufacturer warranty regardless

>>323823993
I've had a r9 series card for one year and a half now, and it's still working perfectly.

>>323824028

Neither /v/ nor /g/ understand the concept of software bottlenecks. Its why ARMA can't really be fixed - it has to be brute forced.

>>323824042
sure, but he even gave me warranty from viruses and stuff. also, he does cocaine, so he may just accept any bullshit i'll say and fix my machine.

>>323819537
Because nvidia's dx12 support dosent include ansyc compute which a key component

>>323824172
On all my first builds I went with an r9 all but 1 pc has had issues.

>>323818562
>>323817867
>Tfw I got my 280x for $180 back in 2014
Feels fucking good.
This bastard can still breeze through some games at 1440p60.

>>323823204
just get a ps4

>>323806191
Is that Melonpan? I would've thought a guy who owns that amount of anime merchandise and actually hires prostitutes to hang around with him at children's paddling pools would be able to afford more than a 960.

>>323819275
>getting a top tier card when a new gen will arrive in a few months

>GTX 960
>2016
Do you live in Africa or something?

I hope you will find some food and do not starve overnight, my prayers are with you.

>>323823592
>If you want 0 problems
No such thing

>>323822148

Your memes are getting stale.

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>>323816603
>tfw trying to run GTAV on a R9 270X
>tfw all the microstutter from the fps dipping and rising all the time
>tfw not enough VRAM for all the pretty graphics at good fps

>>323826230

Problem with charts like that - while they hold some basis in truth - is that DX in general is setup to cache as much memory as it can get its hands on. Some games are particularly bad for flushing their cache leading to insane vram usage.

>>323826230
>He doesn't have a 3 GB GPU at the very least
Anon, what the fuck?

>>323826230

So if you set everything to the highest quality, it will eat up 7.8 gigs of VRAM?

>>323826693
Its a mistake I'll not make twice.

A question that needs to be asked... will the 980 Ti end up getting gimped like the 780 Ti once the Pascal cards come out?

>>323826798
By the time it's worth it for you to upgrade you won't even be able to, as I'm sure most GPUs will be 4 GB at that point.

>>323826230

I can visualize my old laptop struggling to get 3 fps in Ultra quality GTA V

I'll never know how it would have worked because the laptop died

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>>323806191
STALKER trilogy. A true must-have for PC owners.

Consult this Starting Guide,
then see the /vg/'s huge Stalker General for more tips and links: >>>/vg/stalker

Play in the release order. Start with no mods - only latest patch, OR get the full "Starter Pack" first; these contain bug-fixers and light visual mods that can help performance as well.
Leave big overhauls for later playthrougs. Avoid the "Complete" -mods. Always play on MASTER difficulty for best realism and atmosphere, and disable crosshair.

Don't give up in the beginning! The starting gear sucks ass and first area is quite boring.

>>323806834
wrong on all the others except cheap. TW2 is the worst in its series.

Wtf it's literally op in the pic

>>323826893
But will 4GB be enough then?

>>323826920

I tried Stalker once and I'm sure I would have dumped a million hours into it if my old toaster didn't struggle to run it at acceptable framerates

I'm getting a decent PC soon and Stalker is on my "games to get immediately after installing and setting up everything" list

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Reminder that if you have a mid or lower end processor like i3 or i5, AMDs drivers will kill it.

>>323823585
I do my best anon. I do my best.

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>>323827187
Must've been one helluva toaster, since at least on the DX8 mode (static lighting), my 2012 craptop with i3 @ 2.1ghz + HD 3000 + 6GB DDR3 gets around 70fps average, with Vsync off, med-high settings, native 1366x768 res, using Starter Pack's mods. My desktop with i5 2500+GTX 560ti+8GB does the same on all high and DX9 FDL.

That being said, STALKER's relatively calm and slow tempo makes it very playable even at lower framerates, IMO.

>>323823204
really dont bother with amd

frame times are shit, and so too are heat, drivers and power consumption

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>>323828208

>tfw haven't upgraded in forever but constantly tell myself "i'll just wait for the new cards"

i feel like now its too late and i might as well wait but i've been telling myself this for awhile now.

I have to go out tomorrow and buy a new power supply, I hope I can find one that works with my current hardware. I'm also afraid of taking out my old one and putting in a new one.

>>323828313
Muh 3.5gb etc.

>>323828385
work on wood/plastic
wear a static arm band
stand on an anti static mat

if you do those things you'll never zap your pc

>>323828821
I have like 2/3 of those, I'm sure it will work out fine.

>>323827557
Are you fucking kidding me, I have an i5 3470 and R9 270X Sapphire, and I get good FPS in Fallout 4 and decent in GTAV, unfortunately any Sweet FX or Reshade preset drops fps by 10 or more.

>>323828821
>never used any of that
>no problems ever
I still ground myself like every 5 minutes just to make sure

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>>323828687
Denial is not just a river in Africa, Nvidicuck.

>>323829502
Also by good FPS I mean 60-50, with dips as low as 48 in some areas.

SweetFX doubles the dip amount to unbearable mid 30's at times and so does any kind of MSAA otherwise the fps hovers around the 50s but the texture loading fps dip is far more noticeable when it dips to 40s.

>>323828313
>watch dogs 4k 4xMSAA ultra

>chartfag meme posters back again

Thread was going too well I guess

>>323829862
Why the fuck would anyone play on any res beyond 1080 when its already difficult to get stable 60FPS on ultra with MSAA in modern games?

I tried Virtual Super Resolution in GTAV and the performance impact was worse than having MSAA 2x on.

48fps is not the fucking standard we should be going for here.

>>323830150
>I tried Virtual Super Resolution in GTAV and the performance impact was worse than having MSAA 2x on.
No shit anon, it's basically downsampling, of course it's more demanding.
That said, I can pull off a near constant 60 FPS at 1440p in GTA V on an R9 280x.

>>323830150

Speaking of downsampling, I heard someone say that downsampling from anything other than 4k for 1080p will look worse. Any truth to that?

>>323830697

No

1440p is the same aspect ratio as 1080p so why would it look bad

just got my wife's son a 960 and he's been loving 200+ FPS in CS:GO.

>>323831347
This meme is stale anon.

I was thinking of getting an i5 6600k this summer, what mobo should I get?

>>323831919
yea but it still makes me laugh and i never really got to use it.

Nano or Fury?

>>323832932

Are you building a very small PC? Because that's basically the only reason you'd ever want to get a Nano. Performance wise they're almost identical

>>323826230
Had the same problem with my old 7870, setting texture to medium fixed it though

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I just brought a 970 Gigabyte.
How fucked am i?

>>323836198
Not that fucked.

>>323837470
I was plannig a new pc and i'm not that interested into new cards and shit
I brought it along a i7 4970K

>>323836198

3.5 GB of VRAM is still enough for most games and if you put memes aside it's a pretty fast card.

>>323836198
risitas_la_paellera.mp4

>2016
>people still buying 960s

for what purpose, it's a terrible card

I mean I'm no AMDrone but nvidia simply is shit at that price range

>>323836198
Its the king of 1080p, nuff said.

>>323841018
well this generation's *60 card is cheaper than the class equivalent in AMD (r9 380) for about the same performance difference. only problem with the 960 is that the 950 has better price per performance on stock clocks.

and its not only raw hardware that you pay for, nvidia are more on their toes when it comes to drivers support.

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>>323808721
have the 380 (internet shilled it to me)

drivers keep crashing
it drains power like society drains my soul

>>323842190
>lying on the internet

>>323836198
I run everything on 1080p at 60+ fps with mine and never above 65C

What's the best build I can do for $1000? No monitor needed.

>>323826230
>REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE