What card to get

[Barry]

Not posted for a long time as like took over

Well my Titan x went up in smoke last week so I'm in need of a new card

Not a huge gamer but would like to be able to play when I want to, the Titan was far more powerful than I needed (battlefield ect)

I don't really have a budget

Thanks for any advice

Barry

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

New Nvidia cards are launching in the next few months and you also have a 4K monitor,and we have just come off the mining craze too which jacked up prices,so I would wait a few months TBH and use a temporary graphics card for now.

[DanceswithUnix]

New Nvidia cards are launching in the next few months and you also have a 4K monitor,and we have just come off the mining craze too which jacked up prices,so I would wait a few months TBH and use a temporary graphics card for now.

You really expecting much better value for money out of the next generation of cards? Or stonking new features? If we are lucky we might see an 1180 that is as fast as a 1080ti. If an 1180 is the same cost as a 1080ti, then you might as well buy a 1080ti now. If the 1180 is the same cost as a 1080, then you save £250 (£500 vs £750) by waiting a few months for the 1180 to come out. Yay crystal ball guesswork

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

You really expecting much better value for money out of the next generation of cards? Or stonking new features? If we are lucky we might see an 1180 that is as fast as a 1080ti. If an 1180 is the same cost as a 1080ti, then you might as well buy a 1080ti now. If the 1180 is the same cost as a 1080, then you save £250 (£500 vs £750) by waiting a few months for the 1180 to come out. Yay crystal ball guesswork

We saw what happened to Kepler and Maxwell within a year of the replacement uarchs being released. Nvidia ray tracing stuff only works in hardware on volta and newer for example.

Wait until Metro:Exodus and the next TR release for example.

Unlike most enthusiasts on forums I keep cards for years so don't tend to buy cards at the end of their lifespan now especially Nvidia ones since we see a repeating pattern.

For me waiting a few months is nothing since cards last for years.

But then I am more patient than most!

[DanceswithUnix]

We saw what happened to Kepler and Maxwell within a year of the replacement uarchs being released. Nvidia ray tracing stuff only works in hardware on volta and newer for example.

Unlike most enthusiasts on forums I keep cards for years so don't tend to buy cards at the end of their lifespan now especially Nvidia ones since we see a repeating pattern.

For me waiting a few months is nothing since cards last for years.

Thinking about it, you get about 5 years of driver updates from the release of the card so we are about half way through that now.

Still, several months without a gaming card, *shudder*. If that happened to me I would be back on the family spare card, currently an AMD 260X.

Edit: Perhaps for 4K gaming a Vega 64 would work out. Prices are getting back to sane now, I am waiting to see how bad my car repair bill is to see if I can afford a Vega 56

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/gigab...gx-19n-gi.html

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Thinking about it, you get about 5 years of driver updates from the release of the card so we are about half way through that now.

Still, several months without a gaming card, *shudder*. If that happened to me I would be back on the family spare card, currently an AMD 260X.

Nah,top end performance only lasts for when the card is current,as Nvidia needs to sell the new gen and I have owned the last few gens of Nvidia cards too and you can see it happening.

At least for me £600+ is much money for a card which will be made EOL in the next few months,and as time progresses will start to loose performance.

Enthusiasts do this all the time though,they panic and rush into buying old tech at FULL PRICE close to a new launch and then within a year regret it.

Even if a GTX1080TI is 10% quicker than a GTX1180 at launch,expect things to go progressively in favour of the newer card over time.

Mining and AMD misfiring have meant graphics card pricing has gotten worse than a year to 18 months ago with a stronger pound now.

There are plenty of cards you can get second-hand which will do the trick. My old GTX960 4gb would still do the job even now if I dropped settings and resolution.

I run hypermodded FO4 which thrashes my GTX1080 at qHD. If that went kaput I would reduce the settings and res,and drop the graphical mods and use the GTX960.

No way am I paying £250 for a GTX1060 or RX580 now.

The added bonus of waiting is that deals will start to appear. Examples include GTX980TI cards for under £300 when the same cards were £500 to £600 a few months earlier.

The OP said they are not a huge gamer too,so they might as well wait IMHO!

[Barry]

The whole new Nvidia card coming out soon is bothering me abit tbh, I was expecting to get a couple more years out of my Titan before I needed something new

Currently I have put my old HD6950 in my system but it's not ideal having a max res of 1920x1080 but it still runs some of older games I play such as BFBC2/3

I have noticed a 1080 on scan for £460 and on very for £410

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Isn't your Titan X still under warranty??AFAIK,EVGA had longer warranties and they used to be transferable.

[Barry]

Came with a 3 year warranty that expired a month before it died

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I would seriously consider seeing whether you can get EVGA to at least try repairing the card,or even giving you a money off voucher for your next one. After all it was a very expensive card you bought!!

[Barry]

Little more detail, I got it used but as a 7 month old card (rma) and showing 909 days left on the warranty

The first thing I did when it died was to contact eVGA UK phone support which was a call centre based in India which where no help at all, then I contacted eVGA on their website with the reply from them

The product is already an RMA replacement and therefore the warranty starts with the shipping date from our warehouse of the original product. The orginal product is out of warranty as of now.

[DanceswithUnix]

Currently I have put my old HD6950 in my system but it's not ideal having a max res of 1920x1080 but it still runs some of older games I play such as BFBC2/3

That surprises me, are you using DVI/hdmi or something? I would have thought a card like that would have displayport or mini-dp? My son is driving a 4K screen using DisplayPort to HDMI adaptor which works OK and the adapter was pretty cheap from Amazon.

[Barry]

Yeah, currently using a HDMI lead as that's all I had to hand

[DanceswithUnix]

Yeah, currently using a HDMI lead as that's all I had to hand

Does the screen have a DP input? A cheap Dp/mini DP lead could make all the difference (my son is using a 4K TV on his PC so his options are limited hence the adaptor).

Edit: Oh, and there were two Titan X cards weren't there? If yours is out of 3 year warranty, I presume it is the Maxwell based one?

In which case, that looks about as fast as a 1070: https://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1941?vs=2059

[Barry]

Was the Maxwell yes, I just used HDMI as I had planned on visiting Scan or OCUK this week and get a replacement so spending more on extra leads was not something I had considered, I know the monitor has most connections and the GPU has a couple on mini DP's

[DanceswithUnix]

Was the Maxwell yes, I just used HDMI as I had planned on visiting Scan or OCUK this week and get a replacement so spending more on extra leads was not something I had considered, I know the monitor has most connections and the GPU has a couple on mini DP's

That's fair enough, the 6950 is a very old card about on par with modern IGP so I can understand not wanting to invest money in it I haven't seen a mini-dp port on a recent video card either they seem to just go with full sized connectors, so it wouldn't be that useful a lead to have long term (unless like us you have business laptops kicking around).

If the Titan X was really overkill in performance for your needs, then that puts you in RX580 territory: https://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1942?vs=2059
or the nearly as fast 6GB GTX 1060 (don't even look at the 3GB version specially with a 4K monitor). But *if* you can wait it out, it sounds like an 1170 might be your best bet. An 1160 will be along at some point, but they are some time after the xx70 and xx80 cards.