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Re: GPU Help
« Reply #15 on: March 06, 2015, 01:44:32 am »
Multi GPU's are better than any single graphics card. So in my opinion, you should get 2 nvidia gtx 670's or something like that, and it will by far beat any of the top graphics cards.

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Re: GPU Help
« Reply #16 on: March 06, 2015, 02:13:30 am »
Well, you really don't need an amasing GPU to be able to play those games. I am using a MSI Radeon HD 6570 1gb Stealth Edition and it runs a lot of newer games on medium-high settings with some tweaking. I would watch some YouTube videos on certain cards running some of the games you want to play and see for yourself. (Keep in mind that you want to check their specs before you make your decision. Someone could be running some pretty high quality equipment with a shitty GPU.)

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Re: GPU Help
« Reply #17 on: March 06, 2015, 12:01:21 pm »
After some consulting I've learned that the Radeon r9 290 is better than the 970 in pretty much every way. I retract my 970 recommendation. Get a 290.

Again though, a top of the line card is pretty unnecessary. Unless you're going to be upgrading everything else on your computer bottlenecking is going to become a problem, as riddlez said.
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Re: GPU Help
« Reply #18 on: March 06, 2015, 02:34:30 pm »
After some consulting I've learned that the Radeon r9 290 is better than the 970 in pretty much every way. I retract my 970 recommendation. Get a 290.

Again though, a top of the line card is pretty unnecessary. Unless you're going to be upgrading everything else on your computer bottlenecking is going to become a problem, as riddlez said.

Think long and hard on the AMD-NVidea issue. It is a shitty situation, but at the moment, developpers 9Not just Unisoft) seem to support NVidea over AMD. It usually causes AMD cards to run worse than their NVidea counterparts.
Though AMD cards come a lot cheaper.
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Re: GPU Help
« Reply #19 on: March 06, 2015, 02:40:06 pm »
Developers support Nvidia because they have more money to pay them to do so.

It is true that in most cases Nvidia makes better cards, but in the current high end GPU market, AMD has Nvidia beaten with this card.

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Re: GPU Help
« Reply #20 on: March 06, 2015, 02:51:32 pm »
There has been alot of speculation with the 970 though, NVidia has been getting shit for the card not coming as advertised, Something about the last almost 1gb of memory not being used even when under full load?

Still a great card though, Personally im going for a 980 just because i want to keep my new PC for a few years without making major upgrades unless needed.

The last 500mb vram uses a lower speed than the other 3500mb. Using it would actually slow down your games but it is almost never used unless you game on something bigger than 1080p. So yes, it is techincally a 3.5gb vram card and a lot of people feel cheated by the fact Nvidia advertised it as 4gb. But like I said, unless you go above 1080p there shouldn't be any problems.

It all comes down to what you are planning to do exactly with your GPU and what you prefer to spend your money on in the end.
I've been on a 970 since December, and it runs like a charm. Those last 500MB really doesn't make a difference.

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Re: GPU Help
« Reply #21 on: March 06, 2015, 03:59:29 pm »
There has been alot of speculation with the 970 though, NVidia has been getting shit for the card not coming as advertised, Something about the last almost 1gb of memory not being used even when under full load?

Still a great card though, Personally im going for a 980 just because i want to keep my new PC for a few years without making major upgrades unless needed.

The last 500mb vram uses a lower speed than the other 3500mb. Using it would actually slow down your games but it is almost never used unless you game on something bigger than 1080p. So yes, it is techincally a 3.5gb vram card and a lot of people feel cheated by the fact Nvidia advertised it as 4gb. But like I said, unless you go above 1080p there shouldn't be any problems.

It all comes down to what you are planning to do exactly with your GPU and what you prefer to spend your money on in the end.
I've been on a 970 since December, and it runs like a charm. Those last 500MB really doesn't make a difference.
It's not that 3.5 GBs is a little...
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Re: GPU Help
« Reply #22 on: March 06, 2015, 04:04:32 pm »
I think the differnce between NVidia and AMD is pretty big DEPENDING on what you are going to do with it, Nvidia you get things like Shadowplay etc. which is worth going that little bit more just for that.

Not to mention AMD has been getting a little shitty with optimization for games over the last 5 ish years.

I think its more personal preference, If you have the money go NVidia, If you dont go AMD. AMD is so much more bang for buck style where as NVidia is power.
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Re: GPU Help
« Reply #23 on: March 06, 2015, 06:28:50 pm »
Nvidia is the superior choice as of now, and that's not because they are actually better but because they have bribed pretty much everyone to let games run better on their hardware.

So unless AMD thinks up something that can break up that monopoly, they are kinda screwed.
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Re: GPU Help
« Reply #24 on: March 06, 2015, 06:40:46 pm »
I will never go for AMD because my dad once told me he had 3 AMD computers that burned down (not over-cloacking). So from personal experience I rather use Nvidia, but I am not a fanboy, I know AMD has some good cards.
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Re: GPU Help
« Reply #25 on: March 06, 2015, 07:20:19 pm »
After some consulting I've learned that the Radeon r9 290 is better than the 970 in pretty much every way. I retract my 970 recommendation. Get a 290.

Again though, a top of the line card is pretty unnecessary. Unless you're going to be upgrading everything else on your computer bottlenecking is going to become a problem, as riddlez said.
It varies a huge amount between games. In some the 290 has an edge of up to 10 fps, in others the 970 has an edge of up to 20 fps, and in other games they run practically identically.
The majority of 1080p gaming benchmarks I've seen have the 970 running ~10 fps higher than the 290. That being said you can get the 290 a fair bit cheaper. Depends what your priorities are.

Personally I'd say get the 970, or wait for the next gen from AMD. Waiting for the next release is always a good idea, because it could well force prices down on existing cards (like the 900 release did) and you'll get a better deal, even if you don't get the latest card.