New GPU

[big.rich1976]

Hi All,

I'm on the hunt to replace my 980GTX.. Skipping the 10xx series completely despite seeing the 1080GTX is still considered a great card. I've got a 4k monitor. I've seen the a couple of RTX demo's and must admit these look awesome(although not many supported games yet) I've always used Nvidia mostly but as i don;t upgrade yearly anymore i'm not against swapping to a different card. I don't want to be spending stupid amounts of money(i'm definately not buying a RTX 2080! What are people going for nowadays? Is raytracing the future?

Many thanks in advance.
Rich

 

[big.rich1976]

I'm a moderate gamer at best and i don't upgrade every 1- 2 years. I bought my last GPU when Doom came out in 2016. The CPU, memory and motherboard was done last year. I've got used to 60fps with my current setup on older games and i like the smoothness. I was thinking of making the jump to 4k but i'm not keen on the drop in frames and the price is quite prohibitive as well. I'm thinking 1440p(all new terms to me) is prob more realistic. I will take a look at this 5700 as i'm not adverse from moving away from Nvidia.

Anymore opinions from people? Price point i'm thinking of around £400 quid(tops)

 

[big.rich1976]

4k is definatly out of the window. My PC is not an out and out gaming machine. I'm happy with my mobo, cpu and i've just ordered 2tb SSD and 32gb of ram(i use photoshop a lot) In regards to my monitor, I don't think its either G sync or Freesync. Its a 28' Acer CB280HK. I will do some digging on the GPU and make sure it's the last part i upgrade.