I was thinking about building a pc for the first time but the graphic cards are so expensive

I was thinking about building a pc for the first time but the graphic cards are so expensive.

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You can build a pc without one, don't you know.

RX 470 isn't expensive

neither are used GTX 970's

If you want to go even lower grab a Powercolor Red Dragon RX 460 just to get your feet wet. You can pull 60fps in modern games if you sacrifice down to medium/normal quality settings.

How important are the GB option on graphics cards? I can get a GTX 1060 3GB for $300 dollars (seems reasonable), but the 6GB is over is $450.

Also what the fuck am I looking at with these options?

graphics cards are comparativly cheap right now

>cheap
>australia

$1300 for a 1080? Fuck dat

This is now a tech feels thread

>tfw did a lot of research eight years ago and built a great computer that lasted a long time
>now want to build a new one, but lost track of technology and doesn't know what the good stuff is anymore

Depends on your screen resolution
The VRAM is for storing frame images, for 1080p 60fps 2gb is ok
For 1440p you'd want 3gb for 1440p 120fps you'd want 4gb or higher
For 2/4K you'd want 8gb

What games do you want to play, what's your screen resolution, and what's your budget?

It depends on your screen resolution, anti-aliasing level, the size of in-game textures and shadow maps, and how many full-screen shader effects (framebuffer) your games use.

For a 1080p display running your average game at high settings without mods, 3GB should be plenty. Chances are you won't be running 4K Ultra settings and mods on a 1060 at playable framerates, so the use of an extra 3GB are questionable.

Read the sticky.

The 3GB 1060 is a gimped card. It has less cores and slower VRAM than the 6GB. Add to that a lot of modern games are already using 4GB of RAM, you're buying something you'd need to change in a year.

If you have $300 buy an RX 480 8GB.

Do not listen to this idiot, they have literally no idea what the fuck they're talking about. Modern games can use more than 3GB at 1080p, and with the fact that most newer mid-range cards have 4-8GB or VRAM means developers will continue to require more VRAM at lower settings, going forward.

Add to that the fact that they didn't realise 1440P is 2K, and it just goes to show how little they really know.

If only you used the 30 seconds you took to shitpost in this thread, to look at logical increments instead.

Modern games can use more. They don't, though. Not unless you set the gfx settings to push it that high.

I read the sticky. It did nothing for me.

>using a graphics card
>not directly interfacing with the computer using your mind

I'm going to get a new monitor.

Whole pc, maybe, 500-750? I'm not sure (canadian though).

Overwatch recently. The Witness. Not Crysis.

But probably not 4k.

Shit korean porn on youtube is like 1440p.

Keep saving up till you have $1500 CAD. You're just gonna end up with something mediocre if you need to buy a monitor in that budget.

Things have actually narrowed down a lot. If you actually want to have a good time, get an Intel CPU, otherwise you're you're Ass MaD
AMD makes almost no high-end hardware these days. Fanboys keep saying that they'll make a comeback, but every push forward is met with an assraping from Intel or Nvidia. At least you can speculate on their stocks.

RAM is so fast that doesn't matter much, any cheap kit of DDR4 will do, but 3000Mhz and faster can be useful in Skylake systems running certain games like Fallout 4.

Get EVGA for power supplies. Phanteks, Fractal Design and NZXT are today's popular case makers.

Get a nice and fast but also cheap SSD from A-data, Samsung or Sandisk, like the X400.

Noctua makes the best CPU coolers, so long as you don't have autism and/or OCD.

Okay well it was an arbitrary budget.

I can spend $1500. What do you want me to get?

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Something like that would last you a long time, and play pretty much any game 1440p maxed out at 60+ FPS.

If you're dead set on getting a monitor, you could swap the 1070 for a RX 480.

Oh, wow. Thank you.

Also didn't know about this site.

The first pc is always the hardest. Once you set sail you can upgrade here and there as needed.

Graphics card are the most important bit for vidya and always take priority when thinking about upgrades. To some extent, your graphics card IS the measure of your pc's performance. The other bits are just to make it functional.

So get the best one you can afford and build the rest cheap (but reliable) around it. Of course CPU is important as well but the old i5 2500 does the job so you can save there too.

what resolution is your computer display? What kinda games do you intend to play? You might not need an expensive card

Overwatch is probably the most taxing.

I'll be getting a new monitor, probably 1440. Higher than that is too expensive.

Over watch isn't actually that taxing at all. And it only uses about 1.5GB VRAM at 1440p. The fact that the game will automatically lower and increase settings on the fly according to the frames you're getting helps a lot.