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@jay.mack | |
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about 4.5 years ago i knocked up an i7 920/hd5870 build. in that time i have used it for 3dsmax, gaming, fractal art and media. its still running rock solid 3.6 on stock volts so still stands up to the newer i5's in some respects. what i wanna do is throw a couple of hundred at it and double the gpu power with a single high end card. but i have choices. i can spend 300-350 on an R9 290x or go to 475 and get a 780ti. i even considered sli-770's... or my final option wait till october/nov to see if the maxwell cards arrive as some predict. reasoning more gpu for the money, lower power consumption (300w+ for a gpu is getting ridiculous)... anyways suggestions/ opinions? |
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@brett82 | 30 July 14 |
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780ti would be my choice but i would just wait now for maxwell high end cards.
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@spartan2 | 30 July 14 |
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I7 920 is still surprisingly fast especially at gaming. Largely because it has so much memory bandwidth from that unique triple channel setup. I have seen it match and even beat an FX8350 on games @ stock 2.67ghz despite the fact it is nearly 6 years old. It should have no major problems with any of the faster single cards when it's overclocked like that.
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@jay.mack | 30 July 14 |
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yeah mate its never let me down for gaming. my quandary is, on 3ds max you can change the default renderer to nvidia cuda based. which means i can take advantage gpgpu render, so potentially much faster over all render times, resulting in cheaper running cost but a much higher inital cost. the r9 is much cheaper, but runs hot, offers no advantage in 3ds max but is very grunty in current games. 90 pcnt of the ti's performance for 70 pcnt of the cost is a tempting saving... |
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@spartan2 | 31 July 14 |
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Always had Nvidia for a long time now as my primary choice. They are usually a bit more expensive for similar performance I freely admit that but I see a value of it elsewhere in general compatibility and baseline performance.
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@norega | 31 July 14 |
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I would personaly wait until the new nvidia cards h*t the market .
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@spartan2 | 31 July 14 |
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It should be 2 months. Mid October at the latest.
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@jay.mack | 1 August 14 |
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yeah , had a chat with a mate last night and his conclusion was the same as yours its to close to a new iteration release, so il be waiting... |
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@nobyboy | 1 August 14 |
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Id still be waitin now if i took that advice a year ago
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@norega | 1 August 14 |
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Im waiting even though i have a 780 ,I will ofload it and get something new maybe 
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@nobyboy | 1 August 14 |
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isnt the 780 a beast how will you top that |
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@nobyboy | 1 August 14 |
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im not gonna upgrade my pc for a long time. duno how long a 760 4gb will last me
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@spartan2 | 1 August 14 |
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New cards should have 4gb of VRAM too. Pretty much required these days with the latest high end games because of the consoles. I warned this a year ago. Bet that 4gb serves you well on watch dogs. 3.5gb vram can be used ultra and msaa at just 1080p...don't buy anything with less than 4gb now. GTA5 is probably gonna be the same. |
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@nobyboy | 2 August 14 |
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will the 760 drop in price even more when the new cards come out? is it worth buying another and putting 2 in my pc
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@jay.mack | 2 August 14 |
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unlikely. both amd and nvidia eol old cards very quickly 1s the new generation arrive. theres no reason for them to drop prices when there replacing there entire product line every 2 years. the cards come out and are at a premium for the first 5-6 months, then they settle down to RRP and the last 6-8 months you may get a bargain here and there but generally prices will stay pretty much the same.
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@jay.mack | 2 August 14 |
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been saying similar over at toms. over the next 2 years we are gonna see the demand for higher amounts of vram as the consoles develop there api's they will start using most of there shared ram for gfx.
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@norega | 2 August 14 |
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@ nobyboy - 1.08.14 - 10:02pm isnt the 780 a beast how will you top that It is a beast but if i sell now i can get good money for it towards the new card .Did the same with my cpu recently ,sold my 4770k for 210 and got a 4790k for 230 so 20 pounds for a slightly faster but better cooled cpu makes sense . |
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@norega | 2 August 14 |
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@ jay.mack - 2.08.14 - 12:51pm been saying similar over at toms. over the next 2 years we are gonna see the demand for higher amounts of vram as the consoles develop there api's they will start using most of there shared ram for gfx. Think everyone has been saying this for sometime now even my 780 struggles in some games at 4k .Need more vram and more gpu muscle |
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@newt182 | 2 August 14 |
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@ jay.mack - 2.08.14 - 12:51pm been saying similar over at toms. over the next 2 years we are gonna see the demand for higher amounts of vram as the consoles develop there api's they will start using most of there shared ram for gfx. Only because we are being scammed by Nvidia and AMD. They pay the developers to purposely make the games run not quite so good so they can force us to upgrade every year or so. We will easily be on 16GB VRAM by the end of this gen of consoles. |
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@norega | 2 August 14 |
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18 month upgrade cycle sounds about right to me
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@lrdbyron | 16 November 14 |
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jaymack norega and spartan still here, thought yall on consoles by now. well nvidias new cards are out now amd to follow, im currently on 2x R9 290x and very happy had 2x 780 ti's aswell but have to admit mantle is worthit no direspect to nvidia the 780s are good but for some reason the games i play plays smoother on the amd cards than on nvidia (just my 2 cents)
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