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What graphic card do you own?

ruffneck23 said:
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.
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There is actually one faster. The Titan X (lol). The 980ti is basically a Titan X with half the VRAM.
 
yeah of couse forgot about the titan x, but still , i was playing GTA V in 3640 x 2160 this morning on a 1080p telly and it ran ok :D
 
The GTX 970 arrived today. Crashes every time I ran a game. Was about to RMA it when I noticed the fan wasn't spinning. Flicked it and it spun into life. Fingers crossed I don't have to do that every boot.
 
ChrisFilter - the GTX970 is not supposed to do fan action until it hits 67C, but the fact that you are crashing when you play a game indicates that it is not spinning up as intended.

I'd send it back before anything gets damaged from overheating!
 
After checking to make sure you don't have any cables getting in the way of the fans and that your PSU is adequate (the 970 is very efficient and a good brand of 650W PSU should be ample).
 
Yeah, definitely not spinning up as it should, and cables and PSU are fine. Will return to Amazon for a refund and have bought a secondhand MSI 970 off eBay. Seems widely regarded as the best version, alongside the Gigabyte.
 
Epona said:
After checking to make sure you don't have any cables getting in the way of the fans and that your PSU is adequate (the 970 is very efficient and a good brand of 650W PSU should be ample).
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The power consumption of the GTX 970 is well under 150W so any decent PSU of 400W or more should be good.
 
ChrisFilter said:
Very, very impressed with the MSI 970. Quiet as a mouse. What a novelty compared to the AMD hoovers!
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I'm very pleased with mine (I have a Palit Jetstream one), even when it ramps up during gaming it is not too bad, and when I'm not gaming it is lovely and quiet. Up until the recent upgrades we had an HD5850 in OH's PC and it sounded like concorde taking off all the time, was hard to hear the telly over it. I think I'll be sticking with nVidia, at least for a while.
 
Regular 660 GTX. Was tempted to get a 970, but haven't found a need for it really.
 
Try going into the nvidia control panel / manage 3d and try and set the dsr ( dynamic super resolution ) control on , it will enable you to play higher resolutions on a 1080p , if it struggles but you
Like the extra resolution upgrade :)
 
Just got an ASUS GTX970 4Gb Strix :D DA:I here I come :D.

But - I still have to do a reboot before I play Crysis 3 on full spec to avoid slowdown (looks gorgeous when up and running though).

I've got 16gb RAM and a quad core 3.2Ghz i5 so I'm wondering what is causing this; any ideas?
 
(with apologies to pseudopsycho)

Now is a bad time to buy a graphics card. Both Red and Green teams will be releasing their new architectures this year, which (finally) will be built on a smaller fabrication process. This will probably mean a doubling of effective graphics power at the same price point/power draw, compared to the current generation. There hasn't been a leap like this in a long long time. Worth waiting for.
 
I got a 980Ti 6GB in November. I knew about the upcoming releases but I needed/wanted something then and there, so I got it. Very happy with it so far.
 
Crispy said:
(with apologies to pseudopsycho)

Now is a bad time to buy a graphics card. Both Red and Green teams will be releasing their new architectures this year, which (finally) will be built on a smaller fabrication process. This will probably mean a doubling of effective graphics power at the same price point/power draw, compared to the current generation. There hasn't been a leap like this in a long long time. Worth waiting for.
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Arse

but then again I've been waiting nearly a year for the free readies so in another 3 - 4 I'll be buying again :facepalm:
 
Crispy said:
(with apologies to pseudopsycho)

Now is a bad time to buy a graphics card. Both Red and Green teams will be releasing their new architectures this year, which (finally) will be built on a smaller fabrication process. This will probably mean a doubling of effective graphics power at the same price point/power draw, compared to the current generation. There hasn't been a leap like this in a long long time. Worth waiting for.
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Disagree. There'll be no desktop releases before the end of summer at the earliest. AMD's going small/mobile first by mid-year with desktop midrange to come later and NV has nothing until end of the summer and probably leading with Big Pascal (top end).

Now is a fine time to buy still. I just wish I'd bought a year ago and enjoyed a year of the current stuff.
 
Although I bought a PS4 a few years back I'm starting to think about a basic/mid range graphics card for my PC to play a few titles on that. However it seems the trend for mining is keeping prices high. You cant find a gtx 1060 for anywhere near the price many sites have reviewed them at!
 
SMB2030N on Intel G41 Express Chipset (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM 1.1)

It isn't very special, when sprog wants to play games he whinges !!
 
Integrated has come a long way, but it still has a long way to go. Not counting the quite expensive CPUs with embedded RAM, the best of them is about as fast as a mid-range card from 7 years ago. And they're unlikely to get vastly quicker from here, because of limited memory bandwidth. There will be faster integrated GPUs, but they'll be the ones with embedded or HBM RAM on them and they won't come that cheap. Which is a good solution for laptops, but on a desktop it's still going to make more sense to spend that extra on an actual card.
 
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