Only worth picking up the card for 1440p. 270s, even, are very capable cards for 1080p. Unless, of course, you want the higher refresh rates for gaming.
Only worth picking up the card for 1440p. 270s, even, are very capable cards for 1080p. Unless, of course, you want the higher refresh rates for gaming.
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Will upgrade to a 980 when I change my monitors for higher resolution.
I would replace my reference r9 290 with this but I've moved away from desktop gaming and have a small AMD A10 7850k in a streacom F1C EVO (slightly modified as I cut a 120mm fan hole in the top for more ventilation) which I find pretty decent for living room gaming, so I doubt I will be investing in another high end GPU for the foreseeable.
well with a PC upgrade started and GTA V release for PC on its way a GTX 970 may be the only way to go
I hope I can pick one up at x-mas, my 660 GTX is starting to get out of date... lol...
As a non gamer there seems little reason to move to a 970 let alone a 980. The 970 seems to be priced circa £250 upwards, thats a large outlay.
Still like the advancements in graphics technology which eventually spills down to lower priced cards.
Not at anything like current prices, no..... it's time to have your say: will you be upgrading to GeForce GTX 980/970?
Hopefully I can get a 970, upgrading from a 670 :-)
If my budget allows it xD Currently on a 7870 and an FX8150, might need an upgrade for that too
Well I've had the 970 in my PC for a day now. Performance is great as expected, it's near completely silent and the temps are really low - I've not seen it hit 55 degrees yet (bear in mind that's the Gigabyte G1 with aftermarket cooler). All around it's a really, really nice card and I'd highly recommend it to anyone who needs an upgrade.
Ummm.
I probably should've elaborated a bit on my first comment. I'm not especially looking to upgrade graphics at all, but especially not at anything like those prices.
On lower end cards, it'd depend on what they cost, compared to what they give me that I need.
I don't watch films, TV, etc on my PC ever, and have no intention of doing so. Even if I did, I'm not remotely bothered even about HD, let alone higher resolutions, and the only reason I have HD TV and recorder is that pretty much everything does these days. I also don't have Bluray, and other than PC optical file storage, no interest in getting it. So a card's ability to render high-res video is of no interest.
Then, there's gaming. Well, I'm extremely jaded on the gaming front. After being an enthusiastic gamer for, well, several decades, the industry has managed to thoroughly put me off, through what I find to be unacceptable limitations, most notably Steam. I know all the advantages, and without wishing to really go into it all over again, the inferences of Steam in DRM are enough that, for me, it's a non-starter. I've never had a Steam account, and on principle, never will. If that means never playing games that require it, oh well, so be it.
Finding a game that, first, appeals to me and, second, doesn't have Steam (or similar, like EA) requirements has become so much of a pain that, to be honest, I've given up even looking. So, until (and if) games appear on a site like GOG, I don't give them a second thought.
And so, of the games I do play, so far my rather antiquated current card (couldn't tell you what it is eithout looking it up, but suffice to say, about 6 year old Radeon) hasn't let me down.
So .... I'm given to wonder what even a lower-end Maxwell card what give me that, a) I need, and b) justifies whatever even a lower-end card costs?
And that's a genuine question, Aidan. Maybe I'm missing a trick, because I confess to a broad absence of knowing anything much about more modern cards than the old Radeon I've got, but even at £100, what do I gain that matters, given the above? Even if it's £50, it's still a waste of £50 unless there's a benefit I'll actually notice, be it performance or energy efficiency.
Put it this way. My broadband is theoretically 16Mb, but in reality I get about 4Mb .... with a tailwind. If I change supplier, I could probably get 30Mb, and at much the same cost. But I haven't bothered. Why? Because even that 4Mb doesn't really limit me, other than very occasionally making a big download (like an OS release) slower. But the couple of times a year I do it make it a non-issue for me. Changing would give me a much faster connection, but my demands on it wouldn't go up. It's a bit like someone that never does more than 20mph upgrading a 150mph BMW to a 200mph Ferrari .... nice and shiny to show off with, but in reality, makes no difference getting from home to supermarket.
That it is. Actually, bar the odd old game which wont even try to run with non-nVidia/Radeon GPU because of lousy validation code, you might even get playable frame rates with the IGP in haswell CPUs. Still, if £50 gets you a passively cooled, higher performing card that scales its clock according to load to save electricity much better, it *may* be worth it, possibly.
Maybe. If I was either gaming a fair bit or even using the PC a lot. As it is, at least currently, I'm not on the PC much. Most forum stuff is done on the tablet, and I might turn the PC on for an hour a day, or an hour a week.
Things that need the PC, like document archiving, or other things that require peripherals running Windows still get done on the PC. But some of that is still done on old, and I mean Athlon XP type of old, or older. So unless I get multiple Maxwell cards (if they'd fit in all PCs, which they wouldn't, I'm sure) it'd only be relevant to a couple of more modern PCs, by which I mean Q6600 and DDR2 era machines. And I don't even use those that much these days.
In truth, short of a current card dying, or me spec'ing out an entire new PC, I struggle to see me upgrading graphics card at all. Time will tell, I guess.
If, and it's an extremely speculative if, my Steam objections were overcome, and I could buy into a range of modern games without those issues, I'd buy a high-end gaming rig. But, I'm not holding my breath, and short of that, I doubt any energy savings would justify even £50.
Seems very expensive for whats not even a top end card, this is the mid / high end chip.
Ill wait and see what the 980 TI brings tbh.
I seem to remember they did this with the 780, release it then a few months later come out with the 780ti
They look interesting, but no as I only got 2x 780ti cards a few months ago.
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