Is a 970 still the best card to get for £220?
Is a 970 still the best card to get for £220?
Nicholas Lopez
Jeremiah Cruz
no
Adrian Ortiz
I don't know
Carter Garcia
Yes
Jonathan Bailey
maybe.
John Ward
No, you fucking dumbass. An RX 480 or GTX 1060 are both around the same price and far better buys. The used market is even better right now. I picked up a mint condition R9 290X on eBay for £135 a few days ago.
James Watson
Ì looked at 1060 benchmarks and it didn't look much better, I'll look into it a little more but couldn't find a reason to buy it over the 970.
Landon Parker
Yes, if you want to be stuck with DirectX 11 till' you buy a new one...
Justin Gomez
The 1060 is roughly equal to the 980, i.e. 10-15% faster than a 970. It also has 6GB VRAM instead of 3.5GB.
Gavin King
I'm flipping a coin tomorrow on a sapphire nitro for £240 or EVGA SC 1060 for £254.
Ian Gonzalez
No.
Either a RX 480 or a 1060 would be a better choice now.
Jeremiah Diaz
It never was the best card in its price range.
Christopher Harris
£200 you mean
Nathaniel Powell
Depends on what games you play. That 3.5 limit is going to fuq you over if you want to play AAA titles in 2016/17
Easton Moore
>That 3.5 limit is going to fuq you over
no it won't. it hasn't and never will be a problem. post me some legitimate proof with sources to back it which proves it's ever been a problem.
>inb4 mirrors edge
it's been patched to work perfectly on 4gb cards at hyper settings.
Liam Perez
Tomorrow's my personal deadline to stop me putting shit off.
Cooper Morris
check ebuyer you can get a 970 for 200 or check ocuk you can get a 1060 for 235. don't ever touch a 480 since it's 270 currently and performs way worse than the 970 and 1060.
Hunter Jackson
Rise of the tomb raider uses upwards of 7Gb on my 1080 at 1080P.
3.5Gb is gonna eventually be an issue
Benjamin Hall
>Is a 970 still the best card to get
yes
Anthony Richardson
Jaxon Morgan
>my card
runs nice and cool friend. should be solid for the next 18 months.
Juan Roberts
sounds like a shit game
on overwatch ultra setting and 1440p i only use like 1.3gb
John Collins
>radeon
>better than anything
Asher Roberts
buy rx 480
James Flores
>no it won't. it hasn't and never will be a problem. post me some legitimate proof with sources to back it which proves it's ever been a problem.
GTA V.
produces lots of microstuttering once over the threshold. hell this can happen even at sub-1080p too.
to it's credit, it's a fantastic overclocking card, but i don't see it lasting much longer after this year.
Samuel Carter
Mind you much longer in Sup Forums perspective is turning things down to medium.
If you gave a console user a computer with a gtx 970 their mind would still be blown next year if they didn't know the specs.
I'm pretty sure if no problems pop up with whatever I buy I won't really care for a long time.
Isaiah Reyes
Ah yes, I forget how demanding overwatch can be.
Luke Bennett
no. i play gta online with several 970 owners and not a SINGLE one has ever had this problem.
Brayden Watson
>sounds like a shit game
Yea because it's a shit game to you means you should tell other people to buy a 970 and when a game runs badly on it you will tell them....Oh it's a shit game. You're a lot of fucking help.
Juan Long
OW also has like No HD textures.
ROTTR is actually an excellent game solid 8.5/10.
But it is true, new games are Unoptimized.
Crysis 3 uses 2gb and looks far better.
But with consoles using 8gb of slow Vram, new games are gonna use 6gb+
Christian Bell
did ark's DX12 patch come out yet and fix _anything_?
Colton Clark
I think what ever I pick after years of console gaming to a 750ti I'll be happy.