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Paul MaudDib posted:The speculation is that it won't affect existing NVIDIA pricing though - it's meant to slot between the 980 and the Titan X both in terms of performance and retail cost. I have to wonder how big a market that actually is. The 980 is already near the top of what's sensible for the majority of discrete GPU-buyers.
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I thought a 970 paired up with an i5 2500K @4.2Ghz would be able to run GTAV more or less maxed out at 1080p. I was wrong.  Inconsistent framerate, drops down to the 30s at times. So weird.
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betterinsodapop posted:I thought a 970 paired up with an i5 2500K @4.2Ghz would be able to run GTAV more or less maxed out at 1080p. The first patch out absolutely tanked framerate and it's been like that since. The game at release ran smooth as hell. Knowing Rockstar they probably implemented anti-cheat or something with the first patch. Here's the patch notes from the first patch: quote:GTAV PC Patch 1.01 (online 1.24) Party Plane Jones fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Apr 23, 2015 |
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Apr 23, 2015 15:11
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Seriously inconsistent. I also have a 2500k (@4.6 ghz) but only a 270x 4GB so I figured I'd need to turn the settings WAAAY down to stand a chance at playing 2560x1600. Turns out the game itself runs well on some high settings thanks to all my VRAM but the opening cutscene at the therapist's office runs like poo poo no matter what settings I use so that part in and of itself is useless in gauging gameplay performance for me.
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Apr 23, 2015 15:21
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betterinsodapop posted:I thought a 970 paired up with an i5 2500K @4.2Ghz would be able to run GTAV more or less maxed out at 1080p. I've got a non overclocked 3570k and a 770 and can run it at 40-60 fps with everything on very high and the sliders maxed so that seems odd. Maybe I just notice the frame dips less. One thing that really helped my frames actually was running it on an ssd. Given how well gta runs on my 770 actually I'm thinking I might not bother upgrading to a 970 for the Witcher 3.
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Hello thread. Two weeks ago I posted here about an issue with my Titan X. Where overclocked it performed nicely until the next day when the card started to do half-second "distorted screen blips" whenever it booted 3DMark (and eventually any 3D program) and was consistently dropping in performance all throughout the day. Everybody came to the conclusion that the card was bad, and so I made a RMA and waited two weeks to get a new card. In the process, I was using my 780 as a replacement and it worked fine as there was no graphical defects or drops in performance. Now that I got my new card, a day after putting it in and using stock settings it's showing the same symptoms as the other card. I want to scream. 
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Apr 23, 2015 18:23
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Mutation posted:Hello thread. Are you still overclocking it ? Mine is overclocked with a custom bios and has 0 issues. I can't imagine you got 2 cards in a row that are bad. Is your power supply up to the task?
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Apr 23, 2015 18:27
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It's not overclocked, and the PSU is a 750W XFX Gold Standard whatever: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817207029 It's reputably known as the second best PSU on the market.
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Apr 23, 2015 18:30
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Did you check the serial before you sent the card. Its not uncommon for cards deemed "fine" and sent back during the RMA process
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Apr 23, 2015 18:50
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The card came back in a whole new package, but let me check the serial number. edit: the serial numbers are different. Automata 10 Pack fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Apr 23, 2015 |
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Apr 23, 2015 18:54
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Hi guys, I'm considering upgrading my graphics card. I want to go from an MSI Twin Frozr R6950 to a Gigabyte GTX 970 (which will run me like $300 on Newegg). My current setup is pretty decent with the games I usually play (tf2, dota 2, league, etc.) but I've basically given up on running more recent games at high settings at high framerates. I just want to check before I get any buyers remorse: is the upgrade that I'm going to get by shelling out $300 on a video card rather than the $200 I did 2 years ago going to show me really significant improvements? Or is the difference going to be marginal enough that I should skip on upgrading video cards for another year or two?
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Apr 23, 2015 18:56
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cerious posted:Hi guys, I'm considering upgrading my graphics card. I want to go from an MSI Twin Frozr R6950 to a Gigabyte GTX 970 (which will run me like $300 on Newegg). My current setup is pretty decent with the games I usually play (tf2, dota 2, league, etc.) but I've basically given up on running more recent games at high settings at high framerates. Video cards are not getting cheaper. As nodes keep getting smaller and smaller, prices just keep going up and up. The 970 is pretty much the best price/performance card you can buy right now and should serve you for a few years. It'll be a huge upgrade from a 6950.
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That is an insanely large jump in graphics grunt. Worth every penny. Also: get another MSI Twin Frozr. Also worth every penny.
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cerious posted:Hi guys, I'm considering upgrading my graphics card. I want to go from an MSI Twin Frozr R6950 to a Gigabyte GTX 970 (which will run me like $300 on Newegg). My current setup is pretty decent with the games I usually play (tf2, dota 2, league, etc.) but I've basically given up on running more recent games at high settings at high framerates. I upgraded from a 6970 to a 970 and it was more than worth the upgrade, everything doubled or tripled in performance and I could not be happier with my purchase, since you are upgrading from an even lower end card you should see an even larger performance increase than I did. Get a 970, be happy.
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AVeryLargeRadish posted:I upgraded from a 6970 to a 970 and it was more than worth the upgrade, everything doubled or tripled in performance and I could not be happier with my purchase, since you are upgrading from an even lower end card you should see an even larger performance increase than I did. Yeah so after you said that I checked the dates, and I didn't realize that I was making essentially a 3-year upgrade, not a 2-year upgrade like I thought I was. Consider me convinced, which is now even better considering I'm going to upgrade my CPU by an even larger margin (from an i5 670 to an i5 4690k, which is something like 4.5 year difference between release dates). cerious fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Apr 23, 2015 |
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Apr 23, 2015 19:48
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veedubfreak posted:Video cards are not getting cheaper. As nodes keep getting smaller and smaller, prices just keep going up and up. The 970 is pretty much the best price/performance card you can buy right now and should serve you for a few years. It'll be a huge upgrade from a 6950. Just think, a 750 Ti beats the pants off a 6850. Just imagine what a 970 will do.
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cerious posted:Yeah so after you said that I checked the dates, and I didn't realize that I was making essentially a 3-year upgrade, not a 2-year upgrade like I thought I was. Consider me convinced, which is now even better considering I'm going to upgrade my CPU by an even larger margin (from an i5 670 to an i5 4970k, which is something like 4.5 year difference between release dates). Wow, yeah that is going to be a massive upgrade to both GPU & CPU, you'll be really happy with both of those upgrades I think. 
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Yeah that'll be nice
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Apr 23, 2015 20:04
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Thoughts on the Gigabyte GV-N75TOC-2GI? I'd like something with dual HDMI outputs and the selection seems to be pretty slim.
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Are you sure you need dual HDMI? You can just use a passive DVI to HDMI converter if you're only concerned with video, not audio or the more exotic features of HDMI.
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xcore posted:Titan X is obviously pretty new but when is the "next gen" expected from each team? GM20x is already their 'next-gen.' Pascal isn't due until 2016. They know there's no rush to get it out for Q1 or Q2 '16, so my guess is we'll see the GTX 1070/1080 (a guess) around the same time in 2016 that we saw the 970/980 in 2014.
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I think nvidia's gonna do new numbers or skip to 1100s, because having a nvidia 1080 when 1440 and 4k is all the rage will make their sales dept flip their poo poo.
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Truga posted:I think nvidia's gonna do new numbers or skip to 1100s, because having a nvidia 1080 when 1440 and 4k is all the rage will make their sales dept flip their poo poo. Yeah. Wikipedia has it listed as the 1000 and 1100 series, so I went with it. They'd be an idiot not to go to a simple "4K" nomenclature: nVidia GeForce GTX 4K 8, then they could ditch the "Ti" bullshit and make the mid-stream refresh the GTX 4K 8.5 (or Ti 8  ). Use 2KM and 3KM for laptop/mobile parts that don't have to power a 4K screen, and 4KM for those that can or do.Also, as for my saying to 'expect' Pascal around September '16, I have absolutely no loving evidence to support that. I'd just assume since we're expecting the 980Ti around that time this year that they'll try to hit it for Pascal the following year. I do somewhat doubt we'll get another '970' out of the Pascal launch at first, though. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 11:35 on Apr 24, 2015 |
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I'm in the process of planning out my new PC as my 5 year old machine, with a graphics revamp along the way, is showing its age now. I'm planning on getting a 1440 monitor and was looking to pair that with a 970. Obviously nothing is future proof, but is there any reason to think a 970, and adding a second for SLI in the future won't handle 1440 resolution at a decent quality for 'a while'?
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Apr 24, 2015 12:45
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GPU nomenclature is the biggest pile of bull. Let's leave it at that. Still though Nvidia's current nameing scheme is probably the most sane GPU names have ever been.
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Has there been a more confusing and meaningless naming scheme than AMDs current one? They're selling VLIW5, GCN 1.0, GCN 1.1 and GCN 1.2 cards under the 200-series brand, with lower numbered cards often having newer generation architectures with more features than higher ones 
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repiv posted:Has there been a more confusing and meaningless naming scheme than AMDs current one? Woah, you're right. OK, so nobody's going to buy those cards because they're ultra-low end in the stack, and I didn't even know they existed, but yes, that's an absolute clusterfuck. The 300 series needs to be GCN 1.1 and 1.2 parts only, in my opinion. It's annoying GCN 1.0 isn't getting VESA Adaptive Sync. Rigged Death Trap posted:GPU nomenclature is the biggest pile of bull. Although not the worst, it is a bit bizarre that 7xx and 9xx straddle each other, with the 750 being a Maxwell card, but the 760 and 780 not being Maxwell, but the 960, 970 and 980 being Maxwell. HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 13:15 on Apr 24, 2015 |
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repiv posted:Has there been a more confusing and meaningless naming scheme than AMDs current one? Don't forget that RX XX5 is sometimes better than RX XX0x (265 is faster than 260x), and sometimes worse (285 is slower than 280x). And the fact that the card that is two 290x's has an additional 5 in there just to confuse people.
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Nvidia's current lineup isn't totally innocent - there's the Maxwell-based 750ti.
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Both "suck". One is far worse than the other though.
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Can you even buy the Terascale R5 series cards at retail? Also, my prediction for Nvidia's next GPU nomenclature: GTX X.60, X.70, X.80.
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Kazinsal posted:Can you even buy the Terascale R5 series cards at retail? Yes, in fact, they are probably one of the easiest cards to find retail because Best Buy carries them in practically every store. Which is pretty lol
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HalloKitty posted:Although not the worst, it is a bit bizarre that 7xx and 9xx straddle each other, with the 750 being a Maxwell card, but the 760 and 780 not being Maxwell, but the 960, 970 and 980 being Maxwell. There's some logic there: the 750ti is first generation Maxwell, which to the end-user is closer to the 700 series in features since it lacks MFAA, HEVC and HDMI 2.0.
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Party Plane Jones posted:The first patch out absolutely tanked framerate and it's been like that since. The game at release ran smooth as hell. I got so screwed by this. It halved my framerate. I went from reliably 100-120fps to 50-60fps. I have no idea what they messed up, but they need to fix it.
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The patch is actually a PSA by Rockstar trying to convince you to stop giving them money for making the same game since San Andreas but with more checkboxes filled.
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cisco privilege posted:The patch is actually a PSA by Rockstar trying to convince you to stop giving them money for making the same game since San Andreas but with more checkboxes filled. Cool, since GTA3 proper is the last game I actually bought. I still have San Andreas on my shelf that I picked up when Circuit City closed for like 5 bucks.
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cisco privilege posted:The patch is actually a PSA by Rockstar trying to convince you to stop giving them money for making the same game since San Andreas but with more checkboxes filled. Its funny because it is a good game, better then San Andreas even!
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Dunno if this has been posted yet but.... http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton-shilov/supply-of-amd-radeon-r9-390-series-may-be-constrained-report/ Apparently, 390 supply might be low for a while even after release, because of slow HBM production.
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Truga posted:Dunno if this has been posted yet but.... The story of AMD. Slow to market, good product, no supply. They just can't manage to win. Gonna be a shame if they do manage to go under.
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