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Upgrading GPU - It's time!

CrabCrust

CrabCrust

CrabCrust

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It's finally time for an upgrade. My trusted 970 is now struggling to supply me with smooth gameplay. All my settings are having to be set to low.

My budget is around £800 but I've been thinking that with my requirements, I might not need to spend that much. I don't play on 4k (still rocking a 1920x1080 monitor) but I do play racing car simulation games on my Oculus Rift. One of the games in rFactor2. I'd also like to start playing more games in the future.

I have always had nVidia cards and I would prefer to stick to that. The wife wants me to get the BEST I can for the budget and I've always got this thing of thinking 'oh just another £50 would get me a ...' but I need to erase this mindset.

I know that the 2080ti is out of range, and to be honest, £1100 for a card is never going to happen. I then thought that perhaps I could get a 2080 Super but I need you lovely lot to tell me that I don't need that.

I've been looking at this - https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus...ddr6-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-43j-as.html

And with the Asus trade in, it seems I can get £105 cashback! The only thing holding me back is that I won't be able to upgrade again for at least another 5 years! This has to last me. Any advise will be appreciated. But again, I'd prefer to stick to nVidia.
 
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Wow so many replies and help. It’s great to see so many concluding that getting two cards is better than throwing it all into a 2080ti.

I am thinking this now -

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus...ddr6-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-43h-as.html

and with the £105 off it’s only £545. Thoughts? I can’t see the difference between the 2080 Super and the one above to warrant the price difference.

I will eventually get a higher resolution monitor.
 
It’s true that I’ve never witnessed 4K game play. I’ll admit that I’m quite clueless with all this.

I’m probably also over thinking it all! I’m tempted to just get a 2070 super and be done with it. I highly doubt I’m going to be purchasing a 4K monitor any time soon and all of the benchmark videos I watch, the games still pull high FPS.

when it comes to performance in Rift, well I’m equally as clueless. My current thought process is get a 2070 super and adjust the quality of settings so it’s nice in VR, or spend the extra £140 and get a 2080 super.

I can’t wait any longer as the wife wants me to get one now so we can start saving for other things.
 
I wish I could give you a good reason, but I can’t. I’ve just always had nVidia, I’ve recently done a poll without a community of Rfactor2 drivers, who are all kitted out with motion rigs etc, and everyone voted they had nVidia.
 
Low settings are fine, I’ve disabled the majority of items on track and it loses the immersion. So I’m ready to put things up and switch grandstands and environmental items back on. hence the reason I want to upgrade

i7 8700k
32gb of ram
 
Right. I have just had a go at iRacing and it averaged at 89fps. With my 970. I've also found out that RF2 works really well on high settings with a 2070 super (albeit not on Ultra, but I've been told that you'd probably need 34 2080ti's to do that!)

So, budget wise, I am going to go for the 2070 Super. And after speaking to the wife, she said I can do this again in 3 years. So every 3 years I will just do this.

So, what 2070 Super for about £650 maximum (that's just for budget) would do me the best. I don't want to worry so much about temps. I don't plan to Overclock myself as I have no idea about overclocking.
 
The £645 was more of a safe threshold. Of course I don't want to throw money away. I just knew that if I said £500 nobody would recommend cards for £569 for example :)
 
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