Oh no....another spec me thread

[Shelster]

Has been a very long time since I ventured into a gfx card and have been thinking of an upgrade.

At present I have a 7970/ 280 in crossfire. Both are watercooled. I game using Eyefinity at present so 5760x1200 is normal. Main games are Elite Dangerous, Star Citizen, EVE and the odd fps for fun.

Do not have any loyalty, I just need to be able to use all my screen real estate and be able to look at fitting a water block in the future. Also want to stay with a single card solution.

Budget is £350 but could possibly stretch a wee bit higher if the card will last me the amount of time this pair has

Cheers

 

[Deleted member 87287]

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[Plec]

As above - you can pick up a GTX 1070 for ~£335 and if you're quick you can get a free copy of Honour or Ghost Recon, worth £40 (although you will need to check if this deal is still going).

Not really another card to match the speed with your budget - it's a great card too - fans don't spin (totally silent) when idle and not that noisy when at load (I have the MSI GTX 1070 Armour OC) very impressed at the speed for the money.

 

[longqoo]

Stretch to £400+ to get RX480x2 maybe?

 

[Deleted member 87287]

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[Shelster]

Cheers all

Have decided to go for a Gigabyte 1070 G1 so will see how things fair with that

 

[Gregster]

Cheers all

Have decided to go for a Gigabyte 1070 G1 so will see how things fair with that

Good shout on that. I have the G1 1080 and runs nice and cool and quiet.

 

[Shelster]

G1 arrived today and fitted.

Liking it so far. Have run 3d Mark on it and compared to my old cards in x-fire have jumped from 4283 up to 5819. Realise this is synthetic, so will be doing some judicious real life gaming tests to see how it fairs, but think I will be more than happy with my purchase

 

[TrojanWhore]

would you mind checking what boost clocks the card holds once warmed up?

I have the same card and in the OC profile on the gigabyte Xtreme gaming engine, mine holds 1898MHz around 67 degrees. I was kinda hoping for more, as many 1070/1080s seem to hold above 2k MHz

tried manually overclocking, and couldn't seem to get much over 1936 stable

 

[Shelster]

would you mind checking what boost clocks the card holds once warmed up?

I have the same card and in the OC profile on the gigabyte Xtreme gaming engine, mine holds 1898MHz around 67 degrees. I was kinda hoping for more, as many 1070/1080s seem to hold above 2k MHz

tried manually overclocking, and couldn't seem to get much over 1936 stable

Sure thing...when I work out where that is. Will get somehting up by the end of the weekend

 

[Shelster]

not tired it on gaming, but hav ebeen doing some coin mining and the gigbyte thingy reports back as 1595/1785 with current 1595 and temp at 55c. Probably of no use for you sorry. Will be doing some gaming tomorrow at some point so can get some other numbers up

 

[Panos]

Has been a very long time since I ventured into a gfx card and have been thinking of an upgrade.

At present I have a 7970/ 280 in crossfire. Both are watercooled. I game using Eyefinity at present so 5760x1200 is normal. Main games are Elite Dangerous, Star Citizen, EVE and the odd fps for fun.

Do not have any loyalty, I just need to be able to use all my screen real estate and be able to look at fitting a water block in the future. Also want to stay with a single card solution.

Budget is £350 but could possibly stretch a wee bit higher if the card will last me the amount of time this pair has

Cheers

Wait for Vega. Ain't worth to change now with a GPU that came out last year like the 1070