NVidia is delaying their new GPU until 3rd quarter
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bought my Palit NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Gamerock for around that a while back - great card and quiet too (-:
That would be one I would like, but those are a bit more expensive. The one I am looking at is pretty much a reference card with a different cooler.
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in the current climate that is probably ok... and i forgot where i left my time machine so i probably cant point out much better that is in stock.
but.... personally i just could not bring myself to pay that for a card which was over £100 less at back end of september last year before the miners as well as a temp shortage of memory meant things went haywire.
I want to upgrade too but unless my current card actaully packs up and forces my hand, i am stubbornly going to wait for the prices to come down........... the bubble has to burst at some point..... right?
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Through a friend of mine, I was able to snap a 1060 6gb FE from the German Nvidia store.
It should be a nice upgrade from the 960 4gb, which on the other hand can be still sold at a decent price. To be honest, the 960 does an adequate job in my current build (i7700k and 16gb ram), but I feared that with the Q4 update, it will be out of depth.
I think the 1060 will be just fine until something like a 2080ti hits the market, once I want to treat myself with a top tier card.
Edit: got here via the homepage, I just realized this the VR section.
I'm a 1080p 60hz peasant.
It should be a nice upgrade from the 960 4gb, which on the other hand can be still sold at a decent price. To be honest, the 960 does an adequate job in my current build (i7700k and 16gb ram), but I feared that with the Q4 update, it will be out of depth.
I think the 1060 will be just fine until something like a 2080ti hits the market, once I want to treat myself with a top tier card.
Edit: got here via the homepage, I just realized this the VR section.
I'm a 1080p 60hz peasant.
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in the current climate that is probably ok... and i forgot where i left my time machine so i probably cant point out much better that is in stock.
but.... personally i just could not bring myself to pay that for a card which was over £100 less at back end of september last year before the miners as well as a temp shortage of memory meant things went haywire.
I want to upgrade too but unless my current card actaully packs up and forces my hand, i am stubbornly going to wait for the prices to come down........... the bubble has to burst at some point..... right?
I hope so. I need to upgrade for the Pimax 8k. At the moment I have an i5 2500k at 4.4ghz and an AMD Fury. I don't think either of those are going to be strong enough (they are okay for the Oculus).
So my present thinking is to upgrade to a new Ryzen 2600x/2700x in April and then save for a new GPU and hope they go down in price with the hope my current GPU will handle the Pimax 8k but at very reduced graphical settings. Maybe sell my AMD Fury on ebay. Hoping for at least £200 for it. It's better then an AMD580 and GTX 1060.
Through a friend of mine, I was able to snap a 1060 6gb FE from the German Nvidia store.
It should be a nice upgrade from the 960 4gb, which on the other hand can be still sold at a decent price. To be honest, the 960 does an adequate job in my current build (i7700k and 16gb ram), but I feared that with the Q4 update, it will be out of depth.
I think the 1060 will be just fine until something like a 2080ti hits the market, once I want to treat myself with a top tier card.
Edit: got here via the homepage, I just realized this the VR section.
I'm a 1080p 60hz peasant.
lol yeah what is considered high end for 1080p is not comparable to VR, VR kind of rips up the rule book at has a whole new minimum spec..... that said your 1060 should be ok for the oculus rift CV1 at least.
You're probably right. Hopefully, I'll have sold my old house by then and have a little extra cash for luxuries.
Yep, it's either your kidney or house. But to be fair, they have gone down in price a bit lately, but still not enough. The 1080ti is around the £8-900 mark instead of the £11-1200 mark. Still need to go down further though.
Might be heading down even further... Been seeing where Bitcoin and others took a beating yesterday. Wonder how long before eBay gets flooded with cards...
Already is. There are tons of cards on ebay obviously from miners as they are selling 3-5 cards at a time.
Why would be likely to return once we have got it? Not that you can with a kickstarter.
With the early reviews and having owned the PiMax 4K my strong bet is that it will be a piece of junk and not even remotely compare to the Rift or Vive. I too am enticed by the promise of 200 degree FOV but given games have to support it, there's still very noticeable screen door, major issues with the edges of the optics and the stupid use of LCDs over OLED I believe many will be very very disappointed by it. If I'm wrong on all these counts I'll happily eat my words and order one but I seriously doubt that'll be the case.
When the 4K was announced it was very similar - oohs and ahhs that it was going to remove screen door and be everything we really wanted in 1st gen. It turned out to be awful, beyond terrible software, incredibly cheaply made, horrible quality LCDs, worse god rays and screen door was still there. I've owned it, the Vive, PSVR, Samsung Odyssey and Rift - and nothing comes close to the Rift when you fact in everything. Feel free to read my extensive review on the Odyssey if you'd like.
For me personally, the odyssey has proven better than the rift. I don't get any sort of eye strain from the odyssey like I did the rift, it's way more comfortable in that regards. I couldn't use the rift for more than an hour without having to take a break from eye fatigue due to how hard it was to read text. With the odyssey it's really not bothered my eyes at all and on top of that colors are way nicer and space is actually black. I haven't really noticed many software issues yet after playing with it for a few hours. The god rays are different, and at first I thought they were worse but I'm kind of getting used to them so maybe they aren't really worse, just different. I still have about 25 days or so left before I can take it back and I haven't decided if this is an experience I want to live with yet, but I can say I'm happier than I was with the rift so far.
I'm not sure how the Rift makes the top of your list "when you fact[or] in everything". You mention the 4K's "terrible software", yet the Oculus Rift has had major software issues: It won't run with current NVidia drivers, there are black screen issues with Win10 Creators Update, and the expired certificate failure (which requires changing the computer's date to be back-dated).
I am hoping the Pimax 8K is good. If not, I'm OK with that (since I understand what being a Kickstarter backer entails). The thing is, none of the currently available VR headsets are "good enough" in my opinion, so I'm willing to take a chance on one which might be.
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