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Hey folks,
I'm in the process of getting ready to upgrade my creaking Nvidia 970GTX, as I suspect it's either starting to fail, or there's a clash between my AMD motherboard and it's drivers that neither company wants to fix (Random hard system locks in specific games, that point to a driver failure the few times I can generate an Event Log error), and after much poking about, the Overclockers 6500XT seems to be the best bang per the buck under £200. However, I noticed that all the Benchmarking sites are listing an 8gb version, but the one here and at the low end of pricing everywhere seems to carry only 4gb. I'm not seeing an obvious comparison as to what else has been cut (number of ports at the back, down to 2 is at least visible... I might be able to get away with that, one for the main monitor, one for a VR kit) so does anyone have any experience in how close to the 8gb performance this is?
Also any other recommendations would be appreciated. I love Nvidia cards, and if I could be sure it wouldn't generate the same problem as above, I'd happily go for one of them around the same price. Buying former mining rigs is not a risk I want to take. Needs to be able to do 1920x1080 at 144hz to match my monitor. My hardware is;
Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
Raven Ridge 14nm Technology
RAM
16.0GB Dual-Channel Unknown @ 1197MHz (17-17-17-39)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. A320M-H-CF (AM4) 30 °C
Graphics
VG248 (1920x1080@144Hz)
4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (ZOTAC International)
Thanks all!
I'm in the process of getting ready to upgrade my creaking Nvidia 970GTX, as I suspect it's either starting to fail, or there's a clash between my AMD motherboard and it's drivers that neither company wants to fix (Random hard system locks in specific games, that point to a driver failure the few times I can generate an Event Log error), and after much poking about, the Overclockers 6500XT seems to be the best bang per the buck under £200. However, I noticed that all the Benchmarking sites are listing an 8gb version, but the one here and at the low end of pricing everywhere seems to carry only 4gb. I'm not seeing an obvious comparison as to what else has been cut (number of ports at the back, down to 2 is at least visible... I might be able to get away with that, one for the main monitor, one for a VR kit) so does anyone have any experience in how close to the 8gb performance this is?
Also any other recommendations would be appreciated. I love Nvidia cards, and if I could be sure it wouldn't generate the same problem as above, I'd happily go for one of them around the same price. Buying former mining rigs is not a risk I want to take. Needs to be able to do 1920x1080 at 144hz to match my monitor. My hardware is;
Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
Raven Ridge 14nm Technology
RAM
16.0GB Dual-Channel Unknown @ 1197MHz (17-17-17-39)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. A320M-H-CF (AM4) 30 °C
Graphics
VG248 (1920x1080@144Hz)
4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (ZOTAC International)
Thanks all!