Is a 780ti a good upgrade over GTX 480 running in SLI?
My PC is quite old, Bloomfield gen CPU. I had the 480, and was lucky enough to find another 480 reference card on Craiglist for $25, so now I have SLI, but unfortunately most games I play do not natively support SLI, and forcing it on does not show much of an improvement.
So I am looking for a nice single upgrade card (possible SLI in the future) that beats my current setup, and will work with my current hardware.
I would like to keep it cheap, around $100.
Ian Kelly
780ti is around 15% slower than 980 in DX11. IT should be ok for 9xx series intel CPUs.
Caleb Gutierrez
How about a pair of 680s? I see some being sold for $200
Cameron Roberts
bump
Lucas Price
RX480
Matthew Myers
A 290x murders a 780ti, has the extra gb of vram and should be same sort of money (potentially cheaper due to the overvalued nature of a lot of ex flagship Nvidia cards).
Owen Phillips
I am an nVidia fan boy, and I will never use ATI ever again.
infact, using ATI in the past, late 90's to about 2008 turned me into an nVidia fan boy.
Colton Allen
You already tried SLI once and it didn't work for you.
Hunter Morris
Nvidia literally gimps old card drivers, this is not a meme.
Youre better off with an AMD GPU.
Brandon Adams
>Gtx 480 >In SLI How has your house not burnt down
Jaxon Harris
I figure a single 680 would perform better than a single 480. $200 for two cards seems like a good deal. A few games I play do support SLI too. How so?
I dont even run the heat right now. My PC keeps my room warm, rest of the house is at 58F, my room is a coozy 75F
Austin Scott
mentally retarded much
Gavin Perez
>480 is already obsolete eat shit, AMD
William Reed
no. spend a little extra and get a second hand 980ti or a gtx1070.
Landon Parker
My budget is $100. What do you mean by a "little extra" 980ti are going for $350+
James Bennett
I think he confused GTX 480 with RX480.
Either buy GTX 1050 for like 120 or an RX 470 4gb for 170.
Or look for a used 960 or 950. All are good upgrades.
Luis Hernandez
This. Get the RX480 8GB. GTX 1060 if you absolutely must go Nvidia.
Cooper Morris
Upgrading to SLI later on is NEVER a good idea. Don't buy old cards either, so no 780Ti. Just buy something new. I don't know what an old 780Ti goes for, but you're better off with a RX 480. I'd probably go with AMD at RX 480 level and below and with NVIDIA if you're looking at something 1070/1080 level. You seem to keep your cards for a very long time and AMD cards have definitely aged better than NVIDIA, so I'd say RX 480 is the card for you.
Dominic Clark
I would prefer to find a used, super cheap, Flagship version.
Lucas Nelson
I run quad monitors. I need SLI.
Brayden Watson
Why does a poorfag go multi display?
Henry Murphy
because displays are super cheap on black Friday, more than half off. Running 4x U2412M that I paid $150 each.
I spend like $2k on a new PC build once every 6-8 years, and upgrade it with top end components when they hit low, low prices.
I dont game much, or do studio work, so performance is not a biggie.
Chase Cooper
>75 >cozy how's it like living in hell?
Colton Morgan
They release driver updates that reduce the performance of the cards, it's well known. The 780 to used to contest the 980 when it was released but now it's always slower by around 10%. Also get rid of your irrational amd hate, ati sucked dick in drivers but that's changed quite a bit. NVIDIA drivers are still king but amd's are good enough for gaymen and unlike NVIDIA, their cards actually get better after updates.
T. Gt 540 poorfag that got gimped
Michael Morgan
75F too hot?
It does get hot in my room, I open the door and vent all the heat out, and then start over again. It sits around low 70's otherwise.
Logan Stewart
Do you have concrete proof of Nvidia gimping cards or just your subjective experience?
Luis Cooper
>nVidia fanboy die
i have both that i was going to do tests with to see which is best, despite having a 290X 8gb :3 lucky me i got my 780TI for $185