Desktop Computers

Unless DirectX 12 changes everything and actually makes multiple cores useful for gaming. It would be nice.

Fractal Define R5 is on sale today for $80 on SlickDeals FYI. I have two of them now. Great cases.

Looking at a GPU upgrade, as guild wants to play BDO. I have a 760 atm. I am looking around $300 range, so a 970 or r9 390. How do these compare? Seems odd that the AMD cards can have 8GB VRAM comapred to the 4 for nvidia cards but for the same price range. Plus it seems VRAM is getting more important in games, curious if I am better off getting a AMD card this time around.

Hard to spend $300 on a GPU when pascal should launch sometime this year (prolly 2nd half).

Yeah I'd hold off until pascal if I were you. If you can't, take the 970. What resolution do you game at?

Flipmode_sl said:

Yeah I'd hold off until pascal if I were you. If you can't, take the 970. What resolution do you game at?

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1900x1200. I could wait, but that's a long wait and not sure how my 760 is going to handle bdo.

Especially as I will be playing for the GvG, so lots of particles and don't really want people popping into screen cause I couldn't load them.

I got the game you were playing confused. I read BNS instead of BDO. No clue why. But yeah, it's pretty graphically intensive. Pascal should be out end of March for the lower cards and summer for the big boys. I expect shortages and price premiums too. If you have some cash to burn, a 970 would be just fine for that resolution.

Yep, 970 will do great @ 1200p, it does great with my 1440p monitor.

Yeah if guild didn't decide to do BDO I would of waited.

Guess I will look for a 970. Was only curious about AMD since same price range but I can get 8gb vram instead of 4.

Buy my used 980gtx for 300$, it's only like 8 months old!

There's some crazy shit right here. The Sega IMB Terradrive is awesome.


I was building my own PCs in the 90s and I don't remember hardly any of these monstrosities. I did have a girlfriend whose family had a Gateway Destination though. I always had a bigass Computer Shopper magazine permanently parked in my bathroom each month. Quality toilet reading.

Ronne_sl said:

Buy my used 980gtx for 300$, it's only like 8 months old!

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It's tempting, but I'm wary of things like this. Since if something goes wrong, I'm shit out of luck and out a decent chunk of money.

I really didn't want to upgrade, but finally gave in. My current rig (3770k, Z77 MB, 16G DDR3) started acting up. I would get short 1-2 second video freezes in game a few times a day. Then it progressed to Win10 equivalent of BSOD + reboots. The final straw was it seems like my onboard audio died entirely. It reports nothing is plugged into the ports, when it clearly is. Tried reinstalling audio drivers to no avail.

Anyway, I decided to try something new with a micro-ITX build. I went with a i7 6700k, Asus ROG Maximus Gene VIII mb, 32G DDR4 memory, 512GB Samsung 950 Pro M.2 SSD, Corsair 350D case, and Corsair H100i GTX cooler. Planning on re-using my Corsair AX1200i PSU and SLI 980Ti vid cards.

Mist_sl said:

Intel Core i7-6700K 8M Skylake Quad-Core 4.0 GHz LGA 1151 91W BX80662I76700K Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 530 - Newegg.com

6700K available for under 400 dollars... lol.

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Yeah..was waiting for prices to come down on these a bit more but got tired of waiting. I seem to recall they were around the $380 mark at one point last year. Going from an i7 920 (1366 socket\x58 chipset..2009) to this. Should be significant performance improvement. Should last me just as long I'd think. Also wanted to get one of the Samsung 950 m2 drives but decided to hold off and wait for prices to come down. Gotta think prices will drop on those significantly at some point.

They have been like 329$ in store at Microcenter forever if you live near-ish to one.

If anyone is doing a budget PC build or want to upgrade their laptop memory, there are a fewG.Skill DDR4 Memory sticks on sale today.

I have to say eVGA has a great warranty/RMA process. The fans on my 780 GTX died so it would overheat in a few minutes and die when playing graphics intensive games. I went through basic trouble shooting steps myself. Submitted a RMA request and within 1 hour I was approved for a replacement with a 980 GTX FTW without any back and forth about the issue. So a nice free upgrade and no hassle in the process.