Hardware & Technical The Graphics Cards discussion thread

High end GFX rigs?

  • Yes

    Votes: 49 44.5%

  • No

    Votes: 30 27.3%

  • Maybe

    Votes: 18 16.4%

  • Why are you asking this?

    Votes: 13 11.8%
  • Total voters
    110
  • Poll closed .

Patrick_68000

Patrick_68000
Dejay said:
I would recommend waiting for the geforce 800 maxwell gpus. If the OR turns out to be 1440p@96hz the gt 780 might not be enough for the next generation of games. You have time until ED, OR and GF800 comes out. Price/performance will come down.
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The second generation of Maxwell risks to be popular. For the power, the temperature and the energy saving
 

Myspace Kaitsu80

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Build your own cheap rig

Holy Moley! :eek: :D

I need a new PC!
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I bought to my very old big case year ago (ASUS) P8Z77-V LK motherboard (promise that VIRTU MVP "boosts your discrete graphics card up to 60% beyound its original performance" and "3X faster video conversion while retaining 3D and gaming performance" and other sounded tempting for somebody who really doesn´t understand technical stuff).

With it I bought i5-3570K (LGA1155) 3.4 GHz and 8 GB of (DIMMs DDR3) RAM. Games, even Mass Effect 3 runned very nice with processors own integrated Intel HD 4000 iGPU.

At december for alpha start I bought (ASUS) GeForce GTX680-DC20-2GD5 (DirectCU II OC 2GB GDDR5) 1084MHz (default before OC), quiet and cool.

I have played alpha at highest settings from big TV screen with nothing to complain, and I havent even overclocked anything yet, ever, that will be nice option in future if I notice planets are hard on GPU or Oculus Rift and 3D needs that. GPU came with GPU Tweak that is easy and handy way set GPU´s Memory Clock MHz (I see max 8508 MHz) or GPU Boost Clock MHz (I see max 1434 MHz), and also fan speed, to desirable levels. Same thing with CPU, it´s made overclocking in mind

My experience is that sum here is better than many better parts would have been if not totally compatible with each others, as my systems parts are boosting and supporting each others, lots of options to also turn on from BIOS different boosts easy.

When I bought these, it was all decent average price level, would assume same or much lower now. For some this tech might feel already old and not compatable with new tech in even near future perhaps (I have no idea if Oculus Rift will work on my station but see no reason why not, lot´s of 3D that and that in GPU update patches from NVIDIA GeForce Experience).

Just a reminder that best money/value gameing rig is one you have built yourself (just remenber BIG enough power source, 700 seems ok to my rig), and that when building it get to know what you want and how your parts go for it AND together, go through all comments in amazon.com about products and so on.

My rig might be hard to rebuild anymore though, might be differences to find new parts (dont buy used) as they are couple years old tech already and obviously have been and even still are very popular (GTX680´s especially on my notions, and benchmark tests propably also explain why).

Good Luck in getting computer right just for you! :D

(...and, fly DANGEROUS! :cool:)
 

Rog

Rog
Ipecac said:
I have a GT780, is that good?
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MSI GT780?

Apparently, the two GPU options were either GTX 560M or GTX 570M and the native screen resolution is 1920 x 1080.

You will probably be OK, but you might have to turn down some of the details.
 

Tharsys

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I have r9 290 Gibabyte, and hope for future Mantle and TrueAudio support :smilie: Core i7 is also ok, but I think I should expand my 8GB RAM. I'm not sure how much - just normal 16GB or invest for the future and put at once 32GB.
 

Memnoch

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That card really shouldn't be considered a gaming card, although it can certainly do it in spades. It's really a compute card, like the Tesla range. We have a few of those at work.
 

Nagual

Nagual
Got a new GTX 770

Just upgraded from a HD6450 to GTX770..

Frame rates are terrible, used to be maybe 9 fps, now 60fps... :D No idea how my eyes are going to handle the extra data... :D

No longer playing at 720p, min settings.. now a happy 1080p max on all settings... :)


I am a happy Pilot!
 

metanoia

metanoia
Don't worry, you'll still be able to relive the old times every so often, especially in ID with multiple capital ships during rutting season.
 

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
Nagual said:
Just upgraded from a HD6450 to GTX770..

Frame rates are terrible, used to be maybe 9 fps, now 60fps... :D No idea how my eyes are going to handle the extra data... :D

No longer playing at 720p, min settings.. now a happy 1080p max on all settings... :)


I am a happy Pilot!
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very nice. You want to dig out any games you have which handle physx, they offer some nice eye candy.

Metro 2033
Metro LL
Mirrors Edge
Batman AA, AC, Origins
Borderlands 2
War Frame

spring to mind, there are a few others.
 

Wolfs Spirit

Wolfs Spirit
you should adress the bottlenecks in your new setup first and that's probly not the GPU
Besides for the price of one industrial GPU ,( because thats what it is and it's useless to have those in your gaming computer) i can build 2 extreme gaming systems , or 1 mega computer with a 6 monitor setup :D
the system i just build is one of the better but only cost around 1000 bucks.. if i had 5k to spend .. would have the best gaming computer in the world
 
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