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What graphic card do you own?

treelover said:
which 970 do posters have, noise would be an issue for me.
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Mine is an EVGA. I wanted the Gigabyte or MSI (as they both look way cooler) but Amazon were out of stock on the day I bought all the bits. For me - it's silent. The games I play aren't demanding enough for the fans to actually switch on :cool:
 
In my PC I have a 2Gb GTX670, in the other PC I have my old HD5850.
Won't be able to afford to upgrade for at least 2 years without a lottery win, so that will have to do.
 
1gb gtx550ti CUII and due to blasted car repairs will be stuck with it (and therefore crysis 3 and DA:I on the shelf) for the forseeable :(
 
Radeon 7970 3GB from just over 3 years ago, that consumed a fair chunk of my redundancy lets build a nice PC budget.

I've been burnt (not literally) by AMD cards plenty over the last 17 years, but at the time I went for AMD again because their performance with compute shaders (general purpose parallel computing using the GPU) was better regarded than Nvidias. And I've been having lots of fun developing with compute shaders in recent years, oh yes, realtime 3D fluid simulations that will be dancing to music come the end of this bank holiday weekend if all goes according to plan :)

For other reasons I'm hoping to be able to switch back to Nvidia when I get my next card, but for now I'm very happy that my 3 year old card can still handle the likes of GTA V without too much sacrifice of performance or fidelity. I think this is the first time I've bought a higher-end card without it feeling like a waste of money in the end/obsolete too soon.
 
HD7970M 2GB, got it about 2.5 years ago. I can play something like Dragon Age: Inquisition maxed out, I have to take a couple of things down a notch in some games now, but all in all it's been serving me well.

If anything I'd like a better cpu. Mine is i7 3630QM 2.4ghz. Not dreadful, but there are some games where more ghz would serve me better.
 
Vintage Paw said:
HD7970M 2GB, got it about 2.5 years ago. I can play something like Dragon Age: Inquisition maxed out, I have to take a couple of things down a notch in some games now, but all in all it's been serving me well.

If anything I'd like a better cpu. Mine is i7 3630QM 2.4ghz. Not dreadful, but there are some games where more ghz would serve me better.
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Agreed, I definitely think that these days my CPU is creaking a bit and causing a bottleneck in performance in some games. That would be the first component I would choose to upgrade in my current rig.
 
What's considered a good gaming County these days. Looked recently and prices don't seem to have changed much since when I checked last year! I'm using an E8400 at the moment, so a few years old!
 
I'm currently piecing together my new behemoth and went with...

Asus Radeon R9 290X

(I have to call it a behemoth, my current rig is 7 years old so anything 'new' is going to seem amazing :E)
 
I have a GTX770, forced into the buy because my old one died. It was quite cheap for the performance at the time.

Due to the restrictions old gen consoles put on game development, I don't think there was a great deal of point upgrading to the latest and greatest. My 460 was OK, I can't really tell if this is better?
 
Recently rebuilt my system with a 4690k CPU and an R9 380. I really wanted a 970 but I can't justify another £100 when I'm playing everything at 1080p on a 46" TV.
 
OK so ignore my post from may this year.

Husband's PC went belly up, turned out to be the GPU... As he has done a lot of overtime we have raided our piggy banks and I have on order a 4gb gtx970. He'll get my gtx670 as his games are typically less demanding. Still need a better CPU mind you, but that will have to wait until the next thing breaks!
 
ChrisFilter said:
Just a heads up that Nigel O'Hara, a jewellers (?!), are doing some weirdly cheap pricing on GFX cards right now. I've just ordered a 4GB R9 290X for £190. That's about £60 cheaper than the next cheapest supplier. They've got loads of Google seller ratings so they appear to be legit.

Am sending back my £180 R9 380.

http://www.nigelohara.com/asus-r929...EAKD3M_b_I-cYlhxsGoyRlBJMpRwj67nvYaAsfA8P8HAQ
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What a random find! They have the card I've got my wishful eye on for £40 cheaper than anywhere else. Let us know if they sting you for postage or any other issues...
 
Nope - all processed, no postage. Even got an extra quid off for liking them on Facebook.

They do say that there's a long lead time. Estimated delivery isn't until July 11th. I figure it's worth a punt. Paid by PayPal so there's some protection.

I found it via Google Shopping.
 
OK, GTX970 installed and running fine, bit noisier than the 670 but not bad at all.

Now can anyone tell me what the socket is on the back that looks like an HDMI socket but a bit smaller, is that HDMI 2 ??? I cannae plug the telly in (normal HDMI cable) and need to know what adaptor or cable to buy tomorrow :D
 
Epona said:
Now can anyone tell me what the socket is on the back that looks like an HDMI socket but a bit smaller, is that HDMI 2 ??? I cannae plug the telly in (normal HDMI cable) and need to know what adaptor or cable to buy tomorrow
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Sounds like DisplayPort.
 
You can get DisplayPort to HDMI converters for not much. Unusual not to have plain HDMI on a card but DP is needed for higher refresh/resolutions.
DisplayPort is asymmetric, there is also a mini-DisplayPort which is symmetrical and used on lots of Apple kit.
 
Lazy Llama said:
You can get DisplayPort to HDMI converters for not much. Unusual not to have plain HDMI on a card but DP is needed for higher refresh/resolutions.
DisplayPort is asymmetric, there is also a mini-DisplayPort which is symmetrical and used on lots of Apple kit.
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Right thanks for the tips, I will get under the desk with a torch (should have looked before installing, but I'm not taking it out again!) and see what I have back there.

EDIT: Hehe, using a bit of common sense (for once) I found what the ports are on a review site:

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Palit/GeForce_GTX_970_JetStream/3.html
 
Upgraded yesterday to a evga gtx780ti classified 3gb it's pretty phat to be honest but don't want to use it in this heat do will try and game a bit later
 
ruffneck23 said:
Upgraded yesterday to a evga gtx780ti classified 3gb it's pretty phat to be honest but don't want to use it in this heat do will try and game a bit later
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Open Hardware Monitor is free and an excellent utility for monitoring temperature and load over your entire system, I can highly recommend it :)

http://openhardwaremonitor.org/

EDIT: Also if you are just not wanting to raise the temperature in the room by 10 degrees by having it pumping out heat, I completely hear you on that :D
 
I was reading about DirectX 12 today, and how AMD cards wipe the floor with NVidia for a change. Do you think this is because they've been working with MS on the Xbox One and Mantle? Seems a bit iffy.
 
i think yours is the fastest card around , mine is the 4th :D

Ive just discovered a new resolution appearing in my games 2715x1527 , Dynamic super resolution ,apparently it upscale's the games then downscales them for a 1080p monitor or something. 780ti's , 970 and 980

http://techreport.com/review/27102/maxwell-dynamic-super-resolution-explored

I'ts not that stable on my card but I think that's just because its so hot at the moment, going to look for some more cooling , but it might have just saved me from going out and getting myself a new monitor.
 
I'm envious! I've never had a top one. Always mid-range. Always feels a bit shit to get recommended 'medium' settings when you've spent £150 on a gfx card. I'm hopeful that the 290x will get me a step further because I don't need anything beyond 1080p.
 
dont be envious , youve got a good card, i only got a really good deal on the ti or id still be on the 770oc which is about the same as your 290x i think, they are very good cards for what youre needing it for :)
 
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