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Thanks for the post, I checked this morning and it wasn't available. My 90 days is up today so I figured I was just out of luck. Step Up processing!
GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 announced available May 27th
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Lame they are not including the 1070's in step up program. I am guessing they will add it closer to release date? I really want to upgrade from my 660 for blood and wine.
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For a 32 to 64 bit release you will have to reinstall., and jesus christ you need to reinstall anyway. Dont listen to anyones lies, get a cheap windows 7 key and upgrade it to 10. Privacy blah blah blah fuck it.
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Unless you are doing 4K gaming, no. If you are 1080 or 1200, there isn't any reason to upgrade over a 970 either. At 1200p I still run everything maxed with my 2500k overclocked to 4.5 and a 770 4gb. Save Witcher 3. Which runs pretty damn close to that though without frame hitching.
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It seems everything I've read about the 1080 is that while it's an amazing card compared to older stuff, it's only the first step for 4K/VR. Seems like unless you push your system NOW (Titan X/ SLI 980TI) there's not much point to 'future proofing' when by time that becomes standard in the industry, you'll need another generation or two up from it?
ronne
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4k is still a ways off from being a steady 60fps for big AAA games, yea. 1080ti whenever that comes out seems poised to be able to hold a steady 60 on a single card, but we shall see.
4k is still very much in its infancy right now anyway so I wouldn't really touch it for another couple of years. 1440/144 is where the goodness is at right now.
4k is still very much in its infancy right now anyway so I wouldn't really touch it for another couple of years. 1440/144 is where the goodness is at right now.
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Yeah I would say VR is more effected by Compute. I think the major thing to remember (in my opinion) is that the majority of PC games released today are least common denominated to the Xbox One or PS4. So while we see "some" improvements on the port depending on the third party doing it, what I think we are mostly seeing is just resolution increases. For me, I run dual dell 24" 1200p displays so my 770 tackles all of it with 4gb. Until I upgrade those, or there is substantial improvement in PC development, to me it just makes sense to upgrade my PC once every six years or so. Or until something chugs. Which hasn't happened yet.
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A 1070 is the sweet spot when it comes out next month, for $379 or so you will get 70% of a 1080 and a 40-50% bump over a 970 for the same price. g-Sync is the next sweet spot, it lets you run games longer without worrying about input lag and screen tearing, so while Wildlands may only run at 45 fps it will feel very close to 60 fps since you won't need to turn on vSync (more input lag) or lower features to get to 60 fps.
really though until Star Citizen I don't see anything that is going to stress out GPUs. There are zero VR games worth playing right now and it doesn't feel like that is going to change anytime soon, sadly. I haven't turned on my Oculus Rift in a week, its just a dead paperweight at this point.
really though until Star Citizen I don't see anything that is going to stress out GPUs. There are zero VR games worth playing right now and it doesn't feel like that is going to change anytime soon, sadly. I haven't turned on my Oculus Rift in a week, its just a dead paperweight at this point.
I kinda want to wait till later in the year, see what 144Hz monitors will be available at that point (i don't have one and i want a 24" IPS one, hoping one gets released soon ), see what AMD will have to offer, also see how the various MSI/Gigabyte/EVGA implementations will be, then buying the right monitor/card combo.
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Personally waiting to do the step up to the 1070 myself. The 1080 is nice for sure, but the price is absurd for someone not running VR or 4k/whatever. I just game 1080p with 144hz monitors and that's good enough for me.
ronne
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Gsync vs freesync: virtually identical technologies, gsync is just nvidia proprietary so $$. Nvidia cards also won't support freesync cause nvidia is cunts, AMD cards only, which unfortunately is pretty rough for freesync right now cause the AMD offering for high end GPUs is just objectively worse than the nvidia.
I'd buy this if it was 24'' and IPS. 27'' is just uncomfortably large for me, not to mention that the IPS version of this is quite expensive here in Europe.
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