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Best Bang for Buck! Nvidia or AMD now..

Guys please don't bother with him again it just goes on for hours and he won't give up repeating the same thing. I learnt the hard way.
 
Reedweaver said:
Well I've learnt a lot from this thread.

1) The usual ATI or NVidia arguments are still there.
2) The usual "wait for another 3 months and the better cards are out" talk.
3) Thread hi-jacking and off topic posts are still there.

LOL

These are light hearted statements, and not meant to offend anyone.. x
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I'm afraid so, nailed it on all 3 counts! For some personal experience, I have 2 290s that I picked up 2nd hand for about £200 each, and they do run on the warm side (high 70s, but with a gentle fan profile), but a single card wouldn't be anywhere near as bad. I do envy the low tdp of the NVIDIA crowd sometimes, but I certainly don't have any issues caused by the heat. AMD cards are very good bang for buck now that the market is flooded with ex mining gpus, so it's easy to clean up on that front. If noise and heat really don't bother you then it's worth considering the red team for the awesome value.

Otherwise, the 970 dies represent great performance at a decent price and they run nice and cool and don't need kilowatt psus to go SLI.
 
Reedweaver said:
win8.1 - If you could see how Dead Rising 3 and Shadow of Mordor run on my PC now you would upgrade in an instance..lol

3 months of better gaming is what I'm looking for. With a view to upgrading the whole system in 8 months or so when the prices have settled. I'm running a 1156 motherboard with 2.0 PCI express..not great in this world.

The 970 suits my needs and fits the thread title perfectly. "Best Bang for Buck! Nvidia or AMD now.. ". :-)
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What did you go for or going for bud?
 
Reedweaver said:
Well I've learnt a lot from this thread.

1) The usual ATI or NVidia arguments are still there.
2) The usual "wait for another 3 months and the better cards are out" talk.
3) Thread hi-jacking and off topic posts are still there.

LOL

These are light hearted statements, and not meant to offend anyone.. x
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well the best bang for buck is a GTX 970 but with an old i5 2500/ mobo/RAM.
because you dont really need what we have to game really well.
 
Reedweaver said:
win8.1 - If you could see how Dead Rising 3 and Shadow of Mordor run on my PC now you would upgrade in an instance..lol

The 970 suits my needs and fits the thread title perfectly. "Best Bang for Buck! Nvidia or AMD now.. ". :-)
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Fair enough. Now : 970 for you but to anyone that can wait for the real high end cards - wait 3-6months for a sizable increase over the 970.
 
win8.1 said:
Fair enough. Now : 970 for you but to anyone that can wait for the real high end cards - wait 3-6months for a sizable increase over the 970.
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And 6 months after that will be another increase its how the pc world works, you could spend forever waiting or enjoy what you can buy atm, btw what new card is being released in 3 months?
 
As things stand I see the current "bang for buck" situation as this:

If you can afford £260+ then the GTX970 is the best "bang for buck" card out there at the minute.

If you can't then actually the best value offering I can see is an R9 280.
 
Well the MSI GTX 970 arrived yesterday, and I am extremely happy with it. Solid build, well packaged with Overclockers usual great service.

Performance is superb, even with my 2.0 PCI express and CPU/Motherboard. I had Dead Rising 3 on Low settings with my Xfire 5870s and I can now MAX out without any stuttering...

I'm looking to add the 1150 upgrades in about 3 months...
 
Glad you like it :)

Jump into the 970 owners thread and post what yours is boosting.

Most will go to 1500 with little effort.
 
I've just finished a clean install and new drivers. What are people sing at the moment for overclocking tools? MSI Afterburner maybe?
 
Reedweaver said:
Well the MSI GTX 970 arrived yesterday, and I am extremely happy with it. Solid build, well packaged with Overclockers usual great service.

Performance is superb, even with my 2.0 PCI express and CPU/Motherboard. I had Dead Rising 3 on Low settings with my Xfire 5870s and I can now MAX out without any stuttering...

I'm looking to add the 1150 upgrades in about 3 months...
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Think Dead Rising 3 probably don't even support crossfire that well considering it's Capcom...you were probably getting stuttering from crossfire, and the game most probably have scaling so poor, that you'd probably have better performance on a single 5870 (I recall reading that the game don't really benefit from muti-GPU). Also a game like Dead Rising is most probably more demanding on the CPU than other games (due to the number of zombies hordes), so you should try overclocking your CPU higher.

But yes the 970 is a great card for the price indeed.
 
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Marine-RX179 said:
Think Dead Rising 3 probably don't even support crossfire that well considering it's Capcom...you were probably getting stuttering from crossfire, and the game most probably have scaling so poor, that you'd probably have better performance on a single 5870 (I recall reading that the game don't really benefit from muti-GPU). Also a game like Dead Rising is most probably more demanding on the CPU than other games (due to the number of zombies hordes), so you should try overclocking your CPU higher.

But yes the 970 is a great card for the price indeed.
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Yes, I took one 5870 out to be able to run DR3 in low settings. With 2x 5870s in my machine the game was un-playable. Huge stuttering and freezes...
 
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Sod it...I'm going to pull the trigger on this today... :-)

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im running 6970 crossfire and im not upgrding until witcher 3 comes out early next year... i will however be upgrading my whole system moving to maxwell...
 
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