Graphics Cards

Which do you have?

Are you upgrading to any of the new cards that've been announced? If so, what vidya are you looking forward to maxing out?

I've got a stock 660ti, and I'm upgrading to a 1080 FTW.

Looking forward to maxing out GTAV and Witcher 3.

>660ti

So I assume you play at 1080p 60fps?

The gtx 1080, and the gtx 1070 as well, are completely, utterly overkill for 1080p 60fps gaming. These cards are 1440p or 144hz cards. I mean it's your money, but just know you're wasting your own money by buying graphics cards that overkill for 1080p 60fps.

not op, but going with a 1070 and 144hz is my plan

I hope you have a good cpu and motherboard to support that fucking card.

I play 1080p at whatever my card can manage. I am getting a 1440p 144hz monitor. I'm super stoked.

Same here
I wonder will my 3570k be a bottleneck?

CPUs bottlenecking GPUs are much leas of an issue these days.

You should be fine.

Have a Sapphire Tri-X 290 here.
Gonna get that sweet sweet 490 once it's announced.

Is the 480 supposed to be on par with a 390x?

I love my 780ti.

I just splurged and bought all new computer parts today

>tfw I was considering a 390x before the 480 was announced

That price point, so good.

If I'm gonna get a GTX 1070 and I need a GPU now, can I buy a 970 from EVGA's site and then use their step up program to upgrade to a 1070 when they're released? I'm getting extremely impatient and I don't have a GPU right now to play precious vidya.

I want to build a desktop after 12 years. I'm only gonna be on 1080p 120 because that's all my tv shows. My friend said I could do well with R9 290x or 970. Is those good cheap cards, don't want to spend more than $250 (ebay or newegg).

Well, go on, show us.

I'm going to buy the 480 and hope to get 1440p at 60fps steady

Am I wrong to think this is a possibility?

I have a 980 Ti. Pic related to be specific.

Not upgrading this year since I have absolutely no reason to. I play on 1080p 60hz TV.

The 1070s come out on the 10th, you can wait two days man.

Yes.

Have 770 with 2 gigs. It's a pain in the ass that games require a shitton of vram I don't have, so I'm planning on getting 1070

what are you basing this off of? No benchmarks out yet

I want the ACX cooler though, fuck stock coolers. And it's gonna be like a month before they're released, tested, good drivers, and all that shit.

390 here. I should be fine for a while.

1080 and a i7-6700K along with it along with a new case and mobo. Upgrading from fairly old shit and a 970 which barely run games well with my new 1440p monitors

I don't think you'll be able to do 1440p 60fps maxed in newer games, but with some settings turned to high instead of ultra you might hit it.

>built my computer last year
>300 series gets announced
I fucking hated myself for a good month.

Then yeah, you can do that, I think. Make sure to read all the info they have on the step up program to be sure you're doing it right. I've never done it, myself.

I have a 4GB GTX 680. I'm hopefully going to be upgrading to a GTX 1080 in a few months, with a waterblock to add it to my custom loop (my GTX 680 is air cooled). This venture might get costly because I'll probably also need to add a 120x120mm radiator to my loop to compensate for the additional heat (I've got a D5 pump though, which should have no trouble driving a CPU, GPU and 360mm worth of radiators). I'll probably do it as a Christmas gift for myself. Hopefully by then there are some good waterblocks available.

Man, I've always thought watercooling was neat, but I've never OC'd hard enough to need it.

My 290 can't get any drivers to install. Even tried new BIOS. Still no luck. I shipped it to my bro in AUS for warranty. He's planning to wait this June for 480.

I'm a poorfag who still uses a GT630

well with 1080 you can 1080p 60fps for pretty much the next decade so I don't know if it actually is a waste

I'm upgrading to a 1070 from intel HD 4000

With 1070 too, actually. Maybe not on ultra, though. It's just ~20% slower

thinking of getting my first gaming pc for when the 480 comes out, how good do you figure the Witcher 3 would run with a 480 and an i5 6500

I have pic related. Since I play 1080p 60 Hz it's ok, although it's definitely starting to show it's age with the latest games.

Say Sup Forums, I'm seriously thinking about getting a gtx 1070, it's seems to be a decent jump in performance from my dusty 770. Might experience a little bit of bottleneck with my fx8350, but it shouldn't be anything to worry about considering it's OC'd to 4.6 GHz.

I was wondering though: when are third party 1070 gonna hit the market? I know the official release date of the reference 1070s is June 10th, but I'm not getting that impotent fanlet cooler.

It's called future-proofing. The 1070 is an extremely cost effective card that will guarantee you'll run ANYTHING at 1080p60fps for years to come.

There are benefits to water cooling even if you don't OC-- the biggest one being that you can have the fans run at a very low RPM which makes the performance whisper quiet.

Ouch. Have you only ever had onboard?

GTX 970 aka "Meme card"

it runs everything I throw at it,
no plans on upgrading anytime soon.

yessir. I'm ready to see the light.

I also only had dial-up internet until 2012 when I moved out on my own

I have a 970

I use three 1080p displays

I'll buy a new card once they make a $300 one that average games are capable of 4k/60fps

Eh, the fans on my rig are already almost noiseless even at higher speeds. Honestly I'm pretty amazed at how far fan tech has come since the days of jet engine FX 5800s. But still, fair point.

1070 can't even hit 60 w/hairworks.

i have an xfx 1gb radeon 7850

I think ill upgrade to an r9 480x for $200

im a poor college student so im not sure if its worth it.

That's not really a valid metric. Hairworks is poorly optimized gimpworks and doesn't even look good.

Oh, man. I wish I could experience the joy and ecstacy you're in for for the first time again. Cherish it, man. And don't forget it's okay to cry a little.

>Which do you have?
Poorfag

I'm getting a 1070. Currently using integrated. graphics because I've built my rig but the graphics card isn't out yet.t

>Got a 2k overclocked 165hz monitor on sale for dirt butt fucking cheap due to coupons and memorial day sale.
Predator XB1
>Got a GTX 1080 founders edition and already tested out DOOM and Overwatch at 2k resolution.
>Never hear the fan.
>Fucking never have a frame stutter.
>Dosent even heat.
>Slap it back down to 1080p cause I dont notice a difference but the monitor is a fucking dream.
I think my old monitor was total garbage, frame tearing, everything, but this motherfucker everything's just head shots, fantastic refresh rate.

I was gonna buy but didn't know

>richfag reporting in

My HTC Vive gets here on friday. I'm pretty hyped.

I have a Titan X for my Alienware laptop.

It's not even true, too.

At 1080p, the 1070 is always between 65-75fps.

Assuming you have a top, top line CPU because fuck Witcher 3 and it's cpu requirements.

We can't know, there aren't many benchmarks for the cards out. You'll definitely be able to handle it at 1440p 60fps at medium/low settings at worst.

>playing games in anything but 4k

wew lad.

>tfw going from a 570 2.5 to a 1070

No more 720p gaming for me.

Also, my air conditioning costs will go down.

If you buy any card from nVidia before they actually give you 2x performance over Maxwell AND HBM then you are simply retarded. The AMD competitor to the 1070 is only 200$ and has HBM right now.

Not saying AMD is good, but nVidia is shit tier right now.

>1070/80
>1080p 60fps over the next decade

Nvidia marketing actually did manage to bring literal retards from consoles to PC. Well done

>The AMD competitor to the 1070
Stop pushing this meme.

Everyone knows that the 1070 is a tier higher and performs as fucking such.

No cards hit reliable 60fps in all games at 4K yet. As soon as they do I'll be on board.

>don't want to spend more than $250

>Playing in garbage 4k when you can play in 8k.
>He didnt buy a $8,000 Sony 8k TV this year.

>Everyone knows
Prove it then.

I'm a poorfag and not paying more than $200 so I'm upgrading from a 660GTX to a rx480 which should be a three-fold jump in performance.

>tfw won't even need a GPU to play games in a few years because everything will be in 8K
:^)

They'll be sold out, jackass

Oh shit, really? I'm on a 780m right now.

You know what feels really shady about them selling it that low.

That they almost know its a fucking flop and they just want to sell as many as they can to poorfags until they announce the ultra 480 for $500

Just did a semi-major upgrade and sold my 980 Ti for $550 to get a GTX 1080, got a new case, and some better RAM then what I had previously (32GB is absolutely overkill, but RAM prices for DDR3 are so cheap right now, fuck it).

I do like the 1080 and I have not had the issues other have. However, if you can get a 980 Ti for $350 new or used, or a 1070, you are good. It boils down to your resolution at the end of the day, and framerate you want to play shit at.

i don't get the appeal of the 1070 and 1080.

according to steam hardware surveys, virtually no one games at higher than 1080p. those cards are built for 1440p, using them for 1080p shittery is just consumerist waste.

these cards are in a weird spot where they're too powerful to be useful to 95% of pc gamers. there's never going to be a time in the next 5-6 years where a gtx 1080 is appropriate for 1080p 60fps gaming.

i7-2600k + GTX 560

I was going to buy one of the new cards but Denuvo hasn't been cracked so there's no point.

VR user. VR.

is this thing worth getting If I'm going with a 970 and an i5 6500

Why the fuck do you need 9 tb of storage?

Not really. Nvidia game themselves more time to produce the 1070, and uses more readily available parts than the 1080 (namely gddr5 vs gddr5x). They might sell out, but it won't be as bad as the 1080.

Doesn't matter.

With your CPU, you'll be bottlenecked by anything more than a 980.

No point.

VR ready and 8k output, and 8k tv's already exist for insane amounts of money, monitors are in the next year.

>3D

user, stop. Go ultrawide.

They're for the VR retards to run their PS2 games at stable 90.

They're too powerful for 1080p ultra but not powerful enough for shit like hair works and downsampling. They're shit for 1440p too because GDDR5X isn't good enough.

They are cuck cards and you should not buy them, but everyone will anyway because they're retards.

Plus, all the aftermarket boards will be made in greater numbers for the xx70 cards.

Allegedly, EVGA is launching an aftermarket 1070 the same day that the reference comes out.

but much like resolutions higher than 1080p, no one is buying VR stuff.

for good reason too. VR is entirely minigames and little tech demos. in terms of gaming, it's just as gimmicky as the wiimote/psmove/kinect because it doesn't allow for proper movement of your character, which limits the amount of games that can be made for it.

user.. Don't question it.

8Gigs of VRAM. More power to play unoptimized games at 60fps. You can downsample other games.

1440p and 4k monitors haven't taken off because there wasn't the graphics cards to power them. This fixes that, especially with the 1070 making 1440p gaming cheaper.

I hope you're right

Yeah, I mean, I really really hope it's legit and a fantastic card and gives nvidia competition, but something about it has me thinking we'll be seeing a higher than normal failure rate.

>9?
>5+5+3+3+1

I also have a 24TB NAS, and that reason would be 2160p video production and 3d rendering. It's like no one here uses their PC for their job.

>FTW

KYS underage fag

How did you manage to fill 8 tb with memes

i feel like there's already been a bunch of cards with 8gb of vram, and that you don't need to blow $700 dollars in order to get 8gb

>cuck cards
We are not talking about your business card.

>yfw EVGA is by far the best brand

Gaming on a 60in 4k tv
290x
8350
16gb ram
6tb storage

>using "kys"
>calling anyone underage

There was no Nvidia cards with 8gb that cost $400.

http://www.abt.com/product/98940/LG-98-Silver-UHD-8K-LED-Smart-HDTV-With-WebOS-3.0-98UH9800.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=sc&utm_campaign=98UH9800&camptype=cpcUSGooglePLA&kwid=productads-adid^85724744524-device^c-plaid^43593727632-sku^98940-adType^PLA

>Not spending 79k on a 8k LG tv for the GTX1080 card to play vidya.

kys

>tfw you phone has more RAM in it than this card

1. VR
2. 1080p/144hz/144fps
3. 8K out