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Gtx 980 isn't that what you already have ?
New graphics card for an older PC
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Your simplest bet is the RX 9060 XT. BTW latest news from Paul's Hardware is that DDR4 prices are about to increase sharply.
Rather than the 980 I would look at the Titan X (essentially a 12 GB 980 Ti). They're available from about £130 second-hand.
a short stint away?..that cpu was released in 2012. What exactly does an 'extended period away' entail then...a few decades?
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Prisona short stint away?..that cpu was released in 2012. What exactly does an 'extended period away' entail then...a few decades?
If you play a lot of games or use the card to max than the efficiency of the older cards and price of wattage because the saving some what moot. But you said you don't, so it should be fine. It all depends on the budget. You should really state your budget. Anyhow a 9060 XT seems overkill for that PC.
Yeah.
I thought OP's main goal was to push the resolution up from 1080p, so I can't see how replacing a card that didn't perform well enough, for another one that's the same, is going to meet this goal.
It doesn't HAVE to be a 4K capable card, but at least one that can use modern upscaling technology (subject to compatibility with the older games).
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What the heck did I write? That makes little sense.
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Thanks all for the input, I have secured a used NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4GB which is ample for my needs.
There seems to have been some confusion through the thread but yes my old 980 died a death, and for info my short stint away was 3 years working away, I never said the PC was new when I left!
Thanks all for the helpful input.
There seems to have been some confusion through the thread but yes my old 980 died a death, and for info my short stint away was 3 years working away, I never said the PC was new when I left!
Thanks all for the helpful input.
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get a used RTX 3080 within your budget limits imho
look for second hand rx 6800xt or 6700xt, if you want new rx 9060xt, but make sure you don't buy 8GB vram gpu.
if this is too much then a rx 6600 xt which is roughly a 1080ti level performance should allow some older titles at 4k even. My 1080ti to did fine at 4k with dying light, dark souls 3, sekiro, doom 2016, etc, you would be surprised how much you can play with 1080ti level card. I would no go any further back than this, cards are getting old and will die on you.
if this is too much then a rx 6600 xt which is roughly a 1080ti level performance should allow some older titles at 4k even. My 1080ti to did fine at 4k with dying light, dark souls 3, sekiro, doom 2016, etc, you would be surprised how much you can play with 1080ti level card. I would no go any further back than this, cards are getting old and will die on you.
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thats nothing - i'm using a 4070 super on my 4790k
Impressive! One of the best CPU's of all time.thats nothing - i'm using a 4070 super on my 4790k
I upgraded my 4930k PC from Sli 970 cards to a single 3070 and although the CPU is definitely a bottleneck, I've gained some performance and fps increases. I expect a 4070 would work as well as confirmed by aardvark.
Played Robocop Rogue City and was getting 40 to 45 fps at 1440p before I realised the new driver has dlss 4.0 (not upgraded drivers for 2 years!) And after clicking some buttons in the Geforce program I was getting 55 to 60fps and the graphics looked the same to me. Not sure if it dialed down some settings or not but it played great.
I keep getting the itch for a big upgrade as well but just don't use my PC enough to justify it.
Played Robocop Rogue City and was getting 40 to 45 fps at 1440p before I realised the new driver has dlss 4.0 (not upgraded drivers for 2 years!) And after clicking some buttons in the Geforce program I was getting 55 to 60fps and the graphics looked the same to me. Not sure if it dialed down some settings or not but it played great.
I keep getting the itch for a big upgrade as well but just don't use my PC enough to justify it.
Recently upgraded my 4790K after 8 years to AMD 9700X, cost a pretty penny with the all the other additional components but definitely worthwhile.I upgraded my 4930k PC from Sli 970 cards to a single 3070 and although the CPU is definitely a bottleneck, I've gained some performance and fps increases. I expect a 4070 would work as well as confirmed by aardvark.
Played Robocop Rogue City and was getting 40 to 45 fps at 1440p before I realised the new driver has dlss 4.0 (not upgraded drivers for 2 years!) And after clicking some buttons in the Geforce program I was getting 55 to 60fps and the graphics looked the same to me. Not sure if it dialed down some settings or not but it played great.
I keep getting the itch for a big upgrade as well but just don't use my PC enough to justify it.
Respectfully the advice you asked for is probably not the advice you need. I know you said you only wanted a GPU, but consider that you can get a lot more for around your budget, and throwing money at a dead platform is probably not the best idea.
I did a quick/dirty upgrade last week for a friend, grabbed a used Ryzen 3600, 16GB RAM and B350 motherboard for £110 and a 3060 TI for £150, he had a case/PSU/cooler and SSD similar to yourself, so all in all £260 and a massive uplift in capability, modern OS comparability (win10 is EOL in October, though support can be extended for free for a year) and it’s now capable of playing current gen stuff at 1080 easily - you’d jump 4 GPU generations, at least 5 CPU generations and one memory generation to ‘current’ for basically what you wanted to spend on a GPU.
I did a quick/dirty upgrade last week for a friend, grabbed a used Ryzen 3600, 16GB RAM and B350 motherboard for £110 and a 3060 TI for £150, he had a case/PSU/cooler and SSD similar to yourself, so all in all £260 and a massive uplift in capability, modern OS comparability (win10 is EOL in October, though support can be extended for free for a year) and it’s now capable of playing current gen stuff at 1080 easily - you’d jump 4 GPU generations, at least 5 CPU generations and one memory generation to ‘current’ for basically what you wanted to spend on a GPU.