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PC upgrade, looking for new GPU?
Before you read anything I tried to find General Help but looks like with new PMC it was removed and only has Minecraft/Help section so I am posting this to Discussions/General for that reason.
Hello!
I do now know if this is correct sub to post, sorry if not in advance!
I bought my PC approximately 4-5 years ago and I think my GPU is slowly dying. It is still working but very often I get load of graphical glitches in games, fps drops and lots of heat in my room (there is a lot of ventilation around the PC).
The specs are here:
As you see its not something amazing but it plays newer games at decent FPS. As I am not a PC techie I do not know what GPUs could be added instead of my current one so I am seeking out for help here as I heard GPU prices are going CRAZY because of all the miners(those crazy people) and I want to buy a new affordable GPU that could last me next few years and play games before they go up even more.
Hello!
I do now know if this is correct sub to post, sorry if not in advance!
I bought my PC approximately 4-5 years ago and I think my GPU is slowly dying. It is still working but very often I get load of graphical glitches in games, fps drops and lots of heat in my room (there is a lot of ventilation around the PC).
The specs are here:
As you see its not something amazing but it plays newer games at decent FPS. As I am not a PC techie I do not know what GPUs could be added instead of my current one so I am seeking out for help here as I heard GPU prices are going CRAZY because of all the miners(those crazy people) and I want to buy a new affordable GPU that could last me next few years and play games before they go up even more.
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The best graphics card with Intel Core i7-4770 @ 3.40GHz according to thebottlenecker.com is the GeForce GTX 780 Ti
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If you can wait another month or two, you should. GPU prices are slowly dropping as mining growth is slowing. Just recently GTX 1050 Ti prices dropped below $200, but that's still a lot more than the $150 MSRP.
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Agreed
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your pc is already a beast, but if you want it even better go with GTX 1060, or if ur rich get GTX 1080
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I think my GPU might be dying.
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just get gtx 1060 and youre good
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Is it cheap? Currently browsing on phone. I am on 200-300e budget.
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Depends, it seems to fluctuate between $260 and $300, but you are talking about another currency...
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depends on how much money you have
you cant just go "i want a gpu" because them someone will go get a 1080, get a titan
but as other people have said 1060/1070 are pretty solid right now, no point going for a 3gb 1060 if you want it to manage you over the years, a 6gb 1060 is £279.00 from Nvidia directly rn https://www.nvidia.co.uk/buy/graphics-cards/geforce/gtx-1060/
an 8gb geforce gtx 1070 from nvidia directly is £379.00 and will last longer across the years
https://www.nvidia.co.uk/buy/graphics-cards/geforce/gtx-1070/ but are almost always sold out because bitcoin miners eat them up, however since bitcoin is slowly dying its worth keeping an eye out
(linking directly from Nvidia store because third party sellers are crazy overpriced rn)
graphics cards are pretty expensive right now because miners have ruined the market, its worth waiting a while for the bitcoin fad to die off, it will, its being banned/restricted in the countries that power-mine bitcoin and we are waiting for Nvidia's thingy to do with limiting sales to go out as well as the change to their EULA to ban bitcoin mining with their cards
as for ram, DDR4 ram is pretty standard in price, its about £60-£70 ish depending where you get it from (i got mine from amazon it and was less than it is now, but its on sale now, or look on another site)
however there is no point getting DDR4 ram because your motherboard only supports DDR3 and you'll have to buy a new motherboard to mount DDR4 ram on it
you cant just go "i want a gpu" because them someone will go get a 1080, get a titan
but as other people have said 1060/1070 are pretty solid right now, no point going for a 3gb 1060 if you want it to manage you over the years, a 6gb 1060 is £279.00 from Nvidia directly rn https://www.nvidia.co.uk/buy/graphics-cards/geforce/gtx-1060/
an 8gb geforce gtx 1070 from nvidia directly is £379.00 and will last longer across the years
https://www.nvidia.co.uk/buy/graphics-cards/geforce/gtx-1070/ but are almost always sold out because bitcoin miners eat them up, however since bitcoin is slowly dying its worth keeping an eye out
(linking directly from Nvidia store because third party sellers are crazy overpriced rn)
graphics cards are pretty expensive right now because miners have ruined the market, its worth waiting a while for the bitcoin fad to die off, it will, its being banned/restricted in the countries that power-mine bitcoin and we are waiting for Nvidia's thingy to do with limiting sales to go out as well as the change to their EULA to ban bitcoin mining with their cards
as for ram, DDR4 ram is pretty standard in price, its about £60-£70 ish depending where you get it from (i got mine from amazon it and was less than it is now, but its on sale now, or look on another site)
however there is no point getting DDR4 ram because your motherboard only supports DDR3 and you'll have to buy a new motherboard to mount DDR4 ram on it
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Your CPU would hold a better card back- I'd just buy another of the same card you have now. If you're intent on upgrading, take a look at the NVIDIA 1050 GTX.
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Is my GPU that good? I never really know, I mean it played all the games on medium/high with 60 fps but somewhere it struggled.
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Parkinson's law, adapted:
"A program's memory usage will expand as to fill whatever space it's allotted."
Stupid programmers will always find a way to make a machine with 1,000,000,000+ transistors have performance issues.
Was the GPU actually dying (read: hardware failure) or is it having issues with new games?
"A program's memory usage will expand as to fill whatever space it's allotted."
Stupid programmers will always find a way to make a machine with 1,000,000,000+ transistors have performance issues.
Was the GPU actually dying (read: hardware failure) or is it having issues with new games?
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It has a lot of graphical issues, certain games that had been working fine have FPS drops, noticeable like from 60 to 30 and under... I mean I am up for any programs if somehow magically they can check state of my GPU.
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1060 gtx (6gb version) is currently the best you can buy in terms of price/power ratio. Important for a gpu selection is that your cpu is not too weak for it - but that is not the case here.
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So if I got you right my CPU is good for times to come, right? And what about RAM? I heard DDR4 is a thing now but it costs arm and a leg.
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does the cpu still keep up with your demands?
yes - no need to upgrade
no - time to upgrade - do research in your price range
yes - no need to upgrade
no - time to upgrade - do research in your price range
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ever thought of going GTX?
i sugest a 1060 because im pretty sure you have a 3.0 pci port for graphix :P
i sugest a 1060 because im pretty sure you have a 3.0 pci port for graphix :P
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How are the prices going? Cant currently check due internet limitations on phone, barely loaded PMC.