Convince me to switch from AMD to NVIDIA

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shadow32

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Over the years I usually switched back and forth.

1st GPU I had was a really old passive cooled nvidia card, then I got a radeon x1650 pro, then a gt 240 512MB, and now a HD 7850 1GB (still shoot myself in the foot for not getting 2GB)

Seeing how AMD cards are low in stock and really expensive, NVIDIA is looking like a better choice. I honestly wasn't that impressed over the new AMD GPU's. They were the same re-badged old cards from years ago. IDK about mantle yet, it is only going to be for games that decide to use it and some programs cant be recorded without DirectX. Shadowplay sounds good if what I hear about 3-5 fps loss when gaming while recording.

Also what is this "geforce experience" I keep hearing.

How good do they overclock, and what are average temps for these cards.

I am looking at the GTX 760 since it is right in my price range:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127745

The 2 free games are a bonus too.
 
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todd1780
Reading this was what convinced me to start looking more seriously at what NVIDIAhas to offer.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107.html
With the huge jump in the mid to upper end AMD GPU prices (Damn bit coin miners), they have lost a bit of their price/performance lead. It seems the "sweet spot" GPU title is leaning towards NVIDIA these days. The GTX 760 was what I was planning to upgrade to as well. I also bought the HD 7850 1GB card, and I'm regretting it.
As for the "GeForce Experience", it basically applies optimal settings to all video games you have installed, based on the recommendations provided by NVIDIA. It also keeps your video card drivers up to date. Its a pretty cool application.
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cookybiscuit

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Geforce Experience is a load of crap that 'optimizes' your games for you. Basically it scans your system and sets the ingame settings for the games you have installed so it will run best on your hardware.

Overclocking is pretty decent, alot more restrained than with AMD which is both a plus and a minus. Bonus is that its practically risk free, downside is that you might not be able to shoot for those crazy high overclocks.
 
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Reading this was what convinced me to start looking more seriously at what NVIDIAhas to offer.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107.html
With the huge jump in the mid to upper end AMD GPU prices (Damn bit coin miners), they have lost a bit of their price/performance lead. It seems the "sweet spot" GPU title is leaning towards NVIDIA these days. The GTX 760 was what I was planning to upgrade to as well. I also bought the HD 7850 1GB card, and I'm regretting it.
As for the "GeForce Experience", it basically applies optimal settings to all video games you have installed, based on the recommendations provided by NVIDIA. It also keeps your video card drivers up to date. Its a pretty cool application.
 
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renz496

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personally i like to tweak the game setting myself so the 'auto-optimised' feature are useless to me. but i'm very interested with shadowplay. the performance hit is almost non-existence with shadow play. in that aspect it the difference between shadowplay and other game recording software are like night and day. some people complaining it doesn't have more advance feature like other recording software has but to me it is fine since shadowplay is free to begin with.
 
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