NeutralHatred Posted May 14, 2016 Report Share Posted May 14, 2016 (edited) I'm not highly advanced in hardware so, here's list of my current build. Assuming I'm not forgetting anything in that list; should give anyone a general idea of my PC. Today, Doom was released and a couple weeks ago, Battleborn was released. The latter, I've been able to run on high with no issues, even though my GeForce Experience is telling me to put it on low... could just be the program; seems buggy at times. However, for Doom, I have to put it on Medium (with a few settings at low or off such as shadows and blur. The latter I generally turn off anyway just because no thanks). In doing so, I can maintain a solid 40-43 FPS. It still looks good but, I'm beginning to think my card may be coming up due for an upgrade. Dying Light is actually at high settings but with a few tweaks and that will occasionally have some video freeze ups at times. That could just be optimization on the developers end, despite the game being designed with Nvidia hardware, which is odd... As you can see in the list, I'm using a GTX 660 which has served me very well for a few years. So, I'm hoping for some ideas on an upgraded card, assuming that may be my issue. As I stated, I'm not that great with hardware, especially graphics cards. I suppose I could try using two cards as well. Though, given the age of my card, I'd probably be better off just upgrading it. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks! EDIT: Just noticed I was using this list for future upgrades at one point. In my current build, I'm using an i5-4670 and only 8 GBs of RAM (Same RAM type just.. half.) Edited May 14, 2016 by NeutralHatred Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnFlower Posted May 14, 2016 Report Share Posted May 14, 2016 Budget? Requirements? Requirements include but not limited to: number of monitors (and their connections), resolution of monitors and desired fidelity at said resolution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroPenguins Posted May 14, 2016 Report Share Posted May 14, 2016 ^I have a GTX 680 and it doesn't play minesweeper at all. I have $1000 AUD budget, any ideas @JohnFlower? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeutralHatred Posted May 14, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2016 4 hours ago, JohnFlower said: Budget? Requirements? Requirements include but not limited to: number of monitors (and their connections), resolution of monitors and desired fidelity at said resolution. Ah, yes. Forgot to mention budget. Well, I was hoping to keep it around $200-300 or less, if possible. Or closest to that range as possible. I only run one monitor right now at 1920x1080, which I'd like to run games at that resolution as well. The whole purpose is just gaming; I don't do any kind of streaming or recording and my CPU handles any re-encoding I may do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroPenguins Posted May 15, 2016 Report Share Posted May 15, 2016 You might as well get the new GTX 1070 for $349 USD if you can afford $300 USD. You can probably get some good deals on Maxwell based cards when the new GTX 1000 series starts rolling out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cesario Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 On 5/15/2016 at 3:22 PM, ZeroPenguins said: You might as well get the new GTX 1070 for $349 USD if you can afford $300 USD. You can probably get some good deals on Maxwell based cards when the new GTX 1000 series starts rolling out. Im in the process of putting together a new pc and with the new nVidia cards due out in a matter of weeks, if you have the money for the GTX1070 this would be my pick too. But in saying that as well, prices for 970's will be dropping soon as they are currently around the same price as the 1070 is forcast. Yes the 970 is 'last gen' but still handles todays (and tomorrows) applications very very well and you might be able to pick it up very cheap. Just be thankful your not on AUD as our exchange rates are terrible, rivals those pesky canadians. My mate is currently playing doom on a very similar setup (except has a 970) and it looks very pretty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroPenguins Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 11 hours ago, Cesario said: Im in the process of putting together a new pc and with the new nVidia cards due out in a matter of weeks, if you have the money for the GTX1070 this would be my pick too. But in saying that as well, prices for 970's will be dropping soon as they are currently around the same price as the 1070 is forcast. Yes the 970 is 'last gen' but still handles todays (and tomorrows) applications very very well and you might be able to pick it up very cheap. Just be thankful your not on AUD as our exchange rates are terrible, rivals those pesky canadians. My mate is currently playing doom on a very similar setup (except has a 970) and it looks very pretty I'm on AUD, assuming if you haven't noticed my previous post about my GTX 680 and $1000 AUD budget joke to @JohnFlower... I'm honestly not going to upgrade until I start seeing some HBM2.0 GPUs. But that would be a waste, as I only play Dota 2 and CS:GO these days... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLastOfUs Posted May 31, 2016 Report Share Posted May 31, 2016 1080GTX or wait for 1080GTXTi. The Ti is coming and it will have 12GB VRAM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroPenguins Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 (edited) I did say the new AMD RX480 is a great deal and it's due to be out by the end of the month, especially if you need it soon. Edit: It's $199 USD Edited June 5, 2016 by ZeroPenguins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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