PC GAMING / UPDATING THREAD

Should I buy it?

As someone who has been a loyal nvidia customer for years, I haven't even considered radeon
Can someone please tell me what's the pros and cons? I wanna upgrade but I feel I might need a change from nvidia
*Rendered from my Nvidia® graphics card

Reference design is ass on every card.
Don't do it.

Can you then assist me with, what should I buy and why?

>tfw dickhead manager at bestbuy denied my 1080 on last night's price error
I never fucking get lucky on these things
God damnit

For which games?

>People actually buy a new GFX card every gen.
If you have a previous gen card, wait for the next gen

You can get a used 980 for that price.

>People actually buy a new GFX card every gen.
And they don't even know for what. They're comparing specs all day long.

Where?

Play once in a while Dota or League whenever a friend asks me to, besides of that just new stuff like Witcher 3 or D44m, I just want a card that can run anything on ultra, 1080p and near to the 60fps meme mark.

better drivers (yes! you read that correctly)

More future-proof due to hardware scheduler/dx12 superiority.

Your card will not LITERALLY CATCH ON FIRE

larger memory busses so you can actually enable some form of non post-processing bandwidth

You aren't giving your money to a company so scummy that APPLE LITERALLY WON'T DEAL WITH THEM

More vram, the base model 1060 only comes with 3 gb.

Honestly the 470/480 are really good cards

Ebay, Craigslist, reddit hardwareswap

I'd wait for the 490/490x personally.

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>it's just good
You sold me

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I switched from a 650 to a 380 and it's not that bad but I've gotten more driver crashes in a year than I did with nvidia for like five
Performance is fine, it's a space heater, but I've ran into more driver issues and incompatibilities
If I bother getting a new card it'll definitely be a 1060 or 1160

Now you're trolling.

No dude I'm not I just dont want to overpay for hardware.

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Large decrease in performance with latest nvidia drivers. The 900 series were consigned to legacy drivers a while back.

amd cards have hardware schedulers and have demonstrated clear increases in performance in direct x 12 relative to nvidia.

Some evga cards have literally caught on fire.

Another objective hardware measurement.

Nvidia knowingly shipped faulty chipsets in the 2011 model macbook pros. Apple now only uses amd gpus.

The base model 1060 does only come with 3gb of vram, which many modern games exceed at 1080p, to say nothing of future games.

I know you are probably trolling and/or stupid, but I wrote in the hopes some other person might make a better purchase because of it.

I've had a 290 for two years and had one crash, and there was a hot fix for the driver the next day.

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I was thinking about getting a 470 but the 1050ti is a bit cheaper

I have a 970 what do

wait for the 1170

Upgrade in 2 years or whenever your personal game of the century releases. Whichever comes first.

Wait until true 4k 60fps capable cards come.

Buy an 8gb 480, just not that reference design unless you're running a small case or crossfire and rear exhaust is best. Otherwise, go aftermarket. I got a sapphire 8gb 480 for $239 a bit ago and love it, plenty of other good aftermarket cards out there as well

970 is about on par with the 1060/480, maybe slightly less. Unless you're planning on going top tier like a 1080 just wait it out, 970 is still a pretty solid card for most games

Mostly support for dx 12, but that also mean you have to give in, be M$'s bitch and install botnet 10

Can you share the pic of it user please. I have a case with a lot of room

>tfw build a PC for my gf with my old PNY 970 and shitty I5 and giving myself a 1070 and an OK I7

Like a pic of it in my build or just a standard picture of the card? Most non-reference design cards will have 2 fans on them