Nvidia GTX 750 ti?

[Spartan 363]

Well I can't afford a titan since I don't have a job at the moment (still in Uni).

 

Anyways, I went browsing again and found a 660 for quite the price:

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125443

 

Think this will last me a couple years while playing high-end games on high graphics?

 

Or this one:

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130826

If you plan to have your future GPU for a few years, I would highly recommend a GTX 770 4GB/AMD 280X 3GB as games from 2 years from now will benefit from the 4GB of VRAM.  Both of these cards offer similar performance, just that the GTX 770 enjoys PhysX for games that support it (Batman games for example).  The GTX 770 has 1 more GB of VRAM and is also cheaper vs the 280X being a bit more with only 3GB of VRAM, the AMD will perform a bit better in Skyrim, but the GTX 770 performs better in Battlefield.  In the end, both cards perform similar, just some games favor AMD vs others favoring Nvidia.

 

Here is a review from AnandTech (trusty source) on the performance of these cards.

 

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7400/the-radeon-r9-280x-review-feat-asus-xfx/12

 

 

These are some of the cheapest offers I found for the cards.

 

AMD 280X 3GB

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127759

 

Nvidia GTX 770 4GB

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500303

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Well I can't afford a titan since I don't have a job at the moment (still in Uni).

 

Anyways, I went browsing again and found a 660 for quite the price:

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125443

 

Think this will last me a couple years while playing high-end games on high graphics?

 

Or this one:

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130826

If you plan to have your future GPU for a few years, I would highly recommend a GTX 770 4GB/AMD 280X 3GB as games from 2 years from now will benefit from the 4GB of VRAM.  Both of these cards offer similar performance, just that the GTX 770 enjoys PhysX for games that support it (Batman games for example).  The GTX 770 has 1 more GB of VRAM and is also cheaper vs the 280X being a bit more with only 3GB of VRAM, the AMD will perform a bit better in Skyrim, but the GTX 770 performs better in Battlefield.  In the end, both cards perform similar, just some games favor AMD vs others favoring Nvidia.

 

Here is a review from AnandTech (trusty source) on the performance of these cards.

 

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7400/the-radeon-r9-280x-review-feat-asus-xfx/12

 

 

These are some of the cheapest offers I found for the cards.

 

AMD 280X 3GB

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127759

 

Nvidia GTX 770 4GB

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500303

 

 

In this case i agree if you look at the prices Nvidia offers more bang for buck. But this seems so strange is newegg expensive?

 

I bought a 290x which blow the 770 or 780 to oblivion on benchmarks, but payed for my 290x custom MSI 498 euros prolly around 530 dollars.

 

Europe seems cheaper then US.

 

But if i look at the prices here 280x is very expensive compare to nvidia cards this only becouse of mining?

 

This whole mining sucks and specially for AMD and enthausiast gamers who now can't afford a 280x becouse the sprices sky rocked

 

Here in holland 280x msi gaming 3gb cost 285 euros

 

The 770 MSI gaming 4gb cost 370 euros

 

Mycom retailer.

 

http://www.mycom.nl/componenten/videokaarten

 

Seems something going on in US pc market with videocards?

 

[Spartan 363]

It's mostly the whole mining craze that's causing the prices to skyrocket.  I think with Nvidia Maxwell launching soon, it could lower the prices of AMD cards as Maxwell is said to perform MUCH better than the Kepler architecture for cryptocurrency mining (stupid...).

 

The worst thing is that most AMD cards that are bought are for mining and then dumped on Ebay after 6 months and they are at the end of their useful lifespan (cards).  I feel sorry for those that buy them because they fail soon after, that's how much abuse those mining cards go through.

 

That's capitalism for you

 

Newegg.com is one of the best sites to go to, they can be a bit expensive, but also have good deals, you just have to wait and find the deals when they pop up.  Also, newegg is a reliable place to buy from and customer service is good for RMA's and such, but GPU's are a bit frustrating to RMA due to this stupid mining craze.

 

 

[Minoumimi]

if you get the 750 ti

get the 750 ti boost  

because the 750 ti is really not that good for the price, the Boost has a 760 chip in it, and really is a tiny step in price

if not go get the asus gtx 760 a few bucks more really worth it..

we can do 3d modeling like a boss! buuuut we too stupid to know how to do it ! haha

Still those cuda cores helps with bandicam gpu recording for now.

and asus has 3 year warranty just that makes me drool

And those Heatsinks!!

 

And ya...we owned 3 evga and we always always had overheating problems...we have 7 fans in the pc...

We since switched to Asus DirectCU and with 2X gtx 760 overclocked running full blast 100% load they never get above 60c. even when its 45c outside 

 

Our evga's though...9800 gx2 when both gpu was on with only 2x AA at 25% load.. both gpu was topping 75C...that was a 600$ card back then...like really

we switched thermal paste and removed the metal cover on it and it still would always run over 90c in most games

 

and our Evga Gtx460 Burned in 3 weeks playing tera..we even under clocked the card..

but it did seem to be a 460 model problem more then evga since Nvidia almost threw up laughing on the phone when we told them. saying yaaaa the 460 is.....so if they say it themself

 

gigabyte seems to have quite a similar heatpipe cooling but..

our motherboards have been asus since the day i can remember and so was a simple choice to go with asus

since asus is red anyways and our pc is black and red, gigabyte blue hardware doesn't fit the theme!

 

But Asus or Gigabyte heatpipe cooling is by far the best if you do not want to resolve the water and all that crap

since we liked that directCu so much our cpu was also at 90c XD

So we bought a Eve 212 hyper and it droped to 32c !! so we overclocked cpu by 25% and now it runs at 45c will blast!

 

Those Heatpipes!! really does the job..evga always does closed box...its soooo

[deathparade]

I am personally using a EVGA GTX 660 SuperClocked

And running skyrim in 1920 X 1080 highest with some heavy mods on 40-60 FPS could be more if i didn't have this shitty AMD FX-6100 CPU i think