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[Jaykay]

Muuuhuuhaaaa

As I mentioned in a previous thread you guys convinced me to get one, hopefully not long now. I have a modest setup just running GTX 660s in SLI so its not ideal. However, my lovely Mrs has agreed that I can get a new GPU as well if she can have equal money to get a new SLR camera... Well there goes our savings account lol.

So question is which GPU should I go for. Looking at -

Asus GTX 980 Direct CUII OC Strix 4GB
(although don't normally go for AMD) R9 295X2 which will mean needing a new PSU too
Wait for the GTX980Ti but is likely to have a mahooosive price tag and might not be out for ages.

Any thoughts?

EDIT ----- OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH! "Scheduled Delivery Date: Wednesday, 25/03/2015"

 

[Caspar]

Have you ever run seen ED on a DK2 before?

If not - make sure you sit on a towel or something similar because you're going to wet yourself in amazement!

I suspect shortly after you'll be thinking about that card upgrade to get best possible FPS.

 

[djbordie]

only 1 option man, nvidia.
stay far away from AMD thes days, specifically with the VR stuff.

there is good reason that Ovulus are showing off their cv1 and stuff with a gtx 980 or titanX...

your going to love it.

But 2x 660s with a small OC will push what a 980 can do.

your just missing some new tech/features.

I think your current rig will do just fine at medium-high, gtx 970 ish settings.

and you have 2 gpu, so maybe that will help with the SLI VR stuff.

in terms of the 980 strix, isnt the strix line the ones that have vcore issues? as in they can not OC well?

through my research the gigabyte g1 gaming is the single best 980 to get...if it can be afforded, but the strix OC is expensive too.
research that stuff.

i bought the zotac 980 amp omega, its on super sale right now. and it overclocked like a champ. great asic rating

 

[Spam]

Lets see how deep the rabbit hole goes.....

GPU? You may be fine with what you have.
You may want to go for a single GTX970. Or a Single 980. Or a pair of each. nvidias SLI VR drivers are apparently close but not mandatory at the mo. SLI is running ok for most.

Check out some of the tweak threads, some awesome setup advice now out there. This thread has some good tips.

Be prepared for some initial "eww ness" as the resolution isn't great. But also be prepared for some massive "omgwowness".

Also prepare to have your eyes forced apart as you get everything setup. Displaying a standard image in the rift is a pretty head tearing experience, with the left hand side of your desktop in your left eye and right side of desktop in your right eye....

Overall - it looks a bit rubbish. But its bloody fab.

Also, I have money riding on you trying to reach out for an imaginary house of cards very soon. Everyone does.

 

[djbordie]

hahaa ^

also think future...save your $$ for best possible for upcoming CV.

IE save for that titanX or dual 980s, etc.

thats why i got the 980 in the end, and planning on another when they hit $300-400 locally

also the OR guy said 980 or bust basically, and all the recent shows have been run on a 980.

 

[Jaykay]

Thanks for the reply's.

I went ahead and ordered the strix GTX 980 on recommendation from a mate who had a similar rig to mine. Also getting a AMD 8350 CPU

To top it all off it looks like it will all be arriving tomorrow

 

[djbordie]

productivity for the week....going going gone!...

 

[Jaykay]

productivity for the week....going going gone!...

Lol, I know, I'm already trying to figure out how to get at least some half days for work this week

 

[Voyager_NL]

I understand all the love nVidia is getting recently from OR users. Just don't think AMD is sitting silently in a corner sobbing over their loss.
They anounced the R9 390X at GDC and it might actually blow the recently anounced TITAN X out of the water. Time will tell. AMD WILL come with better VR support as part of this release that's a given.

 

[adoredtv]

I understand all the love nVidia is getting recently from OR users. Just don't think AMD is sitting silently in a corner sobbing over their loss.
They anounced the R9 390X at GDC and it might actually blow the recently anounced TITAN X out of the water. Time will tell. AMD WILL come with better VR support as part of this release that's a given.

They already have much better VR capability than Nvidia, it's just nobody realises it.

According to AMD, the 390X has specialised VR render modes and will support new dual-GPU modes (Valve already said it works and almost doubles performance while Nvidias (by their own admission) is 40-50% best case when it works).

I hate to say it but for VR, now is a bad time to be buying a graphics card and going Nvidia isn't the option I'd take regardless. It's probably 3 months until the 390X is out though, so I understand why people don't want to wait. If somebody really wants to try out the DK2 then go with a 970 at least, save some money instead of buying the 980 and then see what the 390X is like in June. It's not gonna be cheap though, could be talking £700 from what I hear.

 

[[VR] Mad Mike]

I understand all the love nVidia is getting recently from OR users. Just don't think AMD is sitting silently in a corner sobbing over their loss.
They anounced the R9 390X at GDC and it might actually blow the recently anounced TITAN X out of the water. Time will tell. AMD WILL come with better VR support as part of this release that's a given.

I think at GDC oculus were actually demoing with an AMD GPU. Dont get me wrong I am in the green camp myself - GTX980 - but I do agree here. going forward i expect AMD to feature strongly in the VR future too.

for me the decision was all about physx. The fact that right now NV also offer the best VR experiences too was the cherry on the cake.

enjoy your new GPU

 

[Jake_blakeson]

Congrats OP, once you get the Rift working it is awesome. Make sure to spend some time setting it up and you will be happy with it, if you rush you may get it to work but you won't be happy with it.
I just got my Rift, and I am building a new rig for it, an I7 4280 6 core, on a 2011 v3 motherboard, 16 gb DDR4 ram 4 chips for the interlacing, H100i water cooler, 240GB SSD, with a GTX980. I currently have an R9 270 4 gb amd card and the oculus works fine on it but Nvidia has a couple of features that are specifically mentioned by oculus that help framerates and studder problems PhysX, so I went with the GTX980 instead.

 

[Jake_blakeson]

They already have much better VR capability than Nvidia, it's just nobody realises it.

According to AMD, the 390X has specialised VR render modes and will support new dual-GPU modes (Valve already said it works and almost doubles performance while Nvidias (by their own admission) is 40-50% best case when it works).

I hate to say it but for VR, now is a bad time to be buying a graphics card and going Nvidia isn't the option I'd take regardless. It's probably 3 months until the 390X is out though, so I understand why people don't want to wait. If somebody really wants to try out the DK2 then go with a 970 at least, save some money instead of buying the 980 and then see what the 390X is like in June. It's not gonna be cheap though, could be talking £700 from what I hear.

What is the 390x going to cost, any hints by AMD ? If they are comparing it to the Titan X my guess is it will have quite a price tag. When or if I am ready to go to something like a Titan or 390X I am sure there will be much better VR capable cards. I suspect even the mid upper level graphics cards in the future will feature VR enhanced performance, especially since there isn't a consumer VR headset on the market as of yet, luckily if you build a nice computer now it should be just a video card swap you'll have to do in the future.

 

[catanonia]

Has it arrived yet ?

 

[adoredtv]

What is the 390x going to cost, any hints by AMD ? If they are comparing it to the Titan X my guess is it will have quite a price tag. When or if I am ready to go to something like a Titan or 390X I am sure there will be much better VR capable cards. I suspect even the mid upper level graphics cards in the future will feature VR enhanced performance, especially since there isn't a consumer VR headset on the market as of yet, luckily if you build a nice computer now it should be just a video card swap you'll have to do in the future.

The rumours say "over $700" which will be around £700 UK probably.

 

[Jaykay]

Has it arrived yet ?

hehe nope but the UPS site says it's out for delivery today. It's being delivered to my home and my Mrs is in waiting for it. I had my new CPU and GPU delivered to work, which have arrived. Just waiting for her phone call now

 

[spacescrub]

Last 10 years I 've had Nvidia and AMD.
Nvidia was just easy and simple.
AMD gives problems for some people some of the time.
Nvidia just felt like better quality parts and drivers.
AMD is not worth the hassle.
Also dont trust that AMD company. Tries to install some nasty stuff.

 

[[VR] Mad Mike]

I must admit my experiences of ATI/AMD and Nvidia is that generally NV are way better at driver support than AMD. Even if you have not experienced this yourself, to call anyone who has an idiot is pretty daft.

 

[adoredtv]

no need to be rude........ I must admit my experiences of ATI/AMD and Nvidia is that generally NV are way better at driver support than AMD. Even if you have not experienced this yourself, to call anyone who has an idiot is pretty daft.

Depends on what you mean. No question that Nvidia has better (at least earlier) SLI support in games but their multi-monitor is a joke compared to Eyefinity.

Nvidia has had how many card-killing drivers in the past few years?

Nvidia 320.18 WHQL Display Driver is Damaging GPUs

WARNING! NVIDIA 196.75 drivers can kill your graphics card


Remember the Vista issues?

Vista-capable lawsuit paints picture of buggy NVIDIA drivers




How is that possible if Nvidias drivers are so good? At least 2 (possibly 3) card killing drivers and that Vista fiasco in recent years. ATI and AMD never killed cards or found themselves cited in lawsuits yet this "driver" stuff persists.

Now if AMD graphics drivers were that bad they wouldn't have 2 cards in the Mac pro surely? You think Apple would tolerate bad drivers in their premium product? This stuff is just logic.

 

[djbordie]

amd has gone the way of the dodo...for gaming that is

nvidia has the market share, the power, the cash. they put their tech in to the game devs hands and it pays dividends for us.

look at the whole amd FX cpu's...basically cheap cpu's with good specs... but to those who arent savvy, they take the specs at face value.
the single core performance which 99% of games require these days is very poor compared to intel...thus the recent problems with AAA titles and amd cpus vs intel. look at far cry 4, dying light specifically anyone with amd rigs 5 ghz 8core, etc got 20 fps...but anyone with an 2500k @ 4.5 ghz were getting 100 fps....insanity but true

then there is the GPU's which im not too familliar with the differences, but there is good reason they are using 980s and titan X for oculus CV demos at the recent shows...
the flagship amd card right now is not as powerful as a $350 gtx 970...