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mattyg

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Hiya folks

I could do with upgrading my 8800GTX:D

I currently only play Elite Dangerous on my Aorus X7 and I'm having issues with the install. That said I could do with installing on my desktop.

I only really need something to tide me over until the next era of cards come out then I'll move the "new card" over to my server and buy something that will last a number of years (8800GTX remember)

Any suggestions. I'd rather stick with Nvidia. Although I have had AMD before with no Issues
 

JediFragger

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Resolution? Budget? Imo an AMD 290 is hard to beat in the s/h market at the moment, damn good bang for buck and strong DX12 performance for the future too :)
 

mattyg

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Corsair 850w psu i7 something (sorry) X58 board
Resolution. Currently playing on an 24" NEC 1920x1200

no real budget. If it needs to be £250 then ok if I can get away with £100 great.
 

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I use a GTX 960 OC 4GB on my setup and play Elite at 1080p. I very rarely see it drop below the locked 60fps on highest settings.

I was in two minds at the time between the R9 380 and the GTX 960 but the 960 was cheaper at the time. I don't think there is much in it but from what I read the R9 380 just about has the edge.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £171.89
(includes shipping: £9.90)
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pmc25

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As with all recent history, the 380 is likely to get stronger and stronger, though. 960 will only get weaker.

Either get a s/h 290, or new 390. Alternatively wait for April / May and get a Polaris 11 for an extra £50-100, which probably matches a Fury X / 980Ti.
 

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Combination of improving drivers for AMD, NVIDIA purposely gimping or abandoning previous architectures to drive sales of new ones, and the NVIDIA's recent architectures being relatively bereft of forward looking features.
 

Gregster

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Elite doesn't need a big powerful GPU and can cope quite nicely on a 285/770. Horizons is a little more demanding though and can bring my Titan X down to around 60 fps but that is at 1440P with all the trimmings.
 

mattyg

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HHHmmmm Decisions decisions..

I'm currently using a Aorus 17" laptop with SLI GTX860M@1080. I take it pretty much all of the above will deliver similar performance on a desktop to what I have in the laptop
 

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ED isn't a very demanding game, With a 980 Ti at 2560x1440 I'm getting around 140FPS on average with everything maxed, AA set to SMAA and supersampling set to 1.0X and quite often seeing 200FPS in empty space.

At 1080P I've seen it shoot passed 300FPS easily using the same settings.
 
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