Hardware & Technical Advice needed: Temporary GPU

excalibus

excalibus
I needed to replace my old cards for horizons... I went with a single GTX970, and it's fantastic IMHO, playing in 1080 on ultra and smooth as silk and it was within the budget :)

and my pc is a core2duo (quad core) system... and the game as I said, plays smooth as silk and on ultra settings... planetary landings are fun :D
 
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MickyG1982

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Zazzilas Arden said:
If you absolutely must wait for the new cards, I would suggest getting a GTX 750 Ti by Zotac as your temporary. It handles Elite Dangerous fairly well. Only costs 104 USD or 90 quid from Amazon.
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Seconded on the 750ti. While I own a lesser 750 vanilla it seems perfectly capable of running Horizons, even with a paltry 1Gb. You will not be able to play it at max settings however & will have to expect lower frame rates on planets even with detail turned down.

Don't expect a powerhouse of a machine & you will not be disappointed.
 

MickyG1982

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Tiamat said:
I'll put my vote behind this one. I have been running an EVGA 2Gb equivalent for months at 1920x1200 with ultra settings and it is a great little card for the money. Framerate on planets was a little low but it was easily playable. It doesn't even need external power connectors!

I personally wouldn't use ebay as you never know what you are going to get and I would be gutted to spend even £100 and end up with a card that won't do the job.
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Kind've what happened to me with an AMD r9 270 that I bought from Amazon Warehouse deals last year. The AMD based system that I built this time was a real pig to get up & running, not least because I had to buy an elderly APU to update the BIOS on my FM2 socketed motherboard to allow it to run a processor that it specifically stated it was compatible with! But anyways, by the time I had sorted that problem out & realised I had a dud card it was too late to return it. I then went out & bought a cheap graphics card (a vanilla 750) just so I could get the system to run & do some gaming.

It has constantly surprised me ever since. Being able to fire along on all cylinders with GTA V & now ED horizons too. I am looking for a decent replacement & of the same mind as you, holding off till either Nvidia or AMD come out with something new. By which time I might well be doing yet another build to go with it!
 
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