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PC_FTW
February 5, 2014 7:53:45 PM
My current build is:
MSI 970a-g46 Motherboard
AMD FX-6300
PNY 8GB RAM 1333 MHz
Thermaltake 500w PSU
MSI Radeon 7770 GHz Edition 1GB
I'm looking to upgrade my psu and graphic card when taxes come in. But at least under $300.
I currently know about the GTX 660 being priced around $189 on newegg and the 7870 around that too. But I'm having a hard time choosing which GPU to get. I game at 1080p. Games like Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Skyrim, and other fps games. The 7770 plays games good but I want something better.
MSI 970a-g46 Motherboard
AMD FX-6300
PNY 8GB RAM 1333 MHz
Thermaltake 500w PSU
MSI Radeon 7770 GHz Edition 1GB
I'm looking to upgrade my psu and graphic card when taxes come in. But at least under $300.
I currently know about the GTX 660 being priced around $189 on newegg and the 7870 around that too. But I'm having a hard time choosing which GPU to get. I game at 1080p. Games like Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Skyrim, and other fps games. The 7770 plays games good but I want something better.
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apcs13
February 5, 2014 7:59:22 PM
If you're into Battlefield definitely get the 7870, not only is it faster than the 660 but with the new Mantle API you should get even more gains in the future.
TBH that power supply might still work for you with a 7870, my friend runs a similar rig as yours except with a 6350 (higher consumption), 1600 MHz RAM (again, slightly higher consumption), and a green HDD (lower consumption), off of a Corsair CX500 PSU, and it works completely fine.
TBH that power supply might still work for you with a 7870, my friend runs a similar rig as yours except with a 6350 (higher consumption), 1600 MHz RAM (again, slightly higher consumption), and a green HDD (lower consumption), off of a Corsair CX500 PSU, and it works completely fine.
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gamerboy214
February 5, 2014 8:00:28 PM
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ferwindjacks
February 5, 2014 8:03:17 PM
PC_FTW
February 5, 2014 8:14:24 PM
ferwindjacks
February 5, 2014 8:17:41 PM
PC_FTW
February 5, 2014 8:18:53 PM
ferwindjacks
February 5, 2014 8:22:54 PM
PC_FTW
February 5, 2014 8:24:42 PM
apcs13
February 5, 2014 8:36:12 PM
ferwindjacks said:
Seriously consider the 760/770 though, great cards with great software, and tons of apps/games are optimized for Nvidia!Not biased at all, what I just stated is true.
Dude, you're recommending the guy a 770, when his budget for a GPU and a PSU is $300, a 2GB GTX 770 is $380 and he would need a better PSU for that card, thats probably around $450, which (if you didn't know) is more than $300 by a fair bit.
The cheapest 760 is $250, and he would want a better PSU as well with that, which pushes the cost to probably at least $320-330, which would be worth it if he can afford it, but that's the thing with budgets, you're supposed to stick to them.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy (and own) Nvidia products, but to say you're not being biased is a little misleading right now. A lot more games are actually going to be optimized towards AMD in the future, mostly because of the Mantle API being pretty successful for early software, and that both "next-gen" consoles are running entirely off of AMD components and architecture. Also, a lot of games aren't really "optimized" towards Nvidia per-se (a few are), but what I think you mean is that they provide more features with Nvidia, such as PhysX, 3D, adaptive V-sync, and the GeForce experience, etc. However, AMD is much better when you are on a tight budget, and Mantle is pretty enticing.
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apcs13 said:
ferwindjacks said:
Seriously consider the 760/770 though, great cards with great software, and tons of apps/games are optimized for Nvidia!Not biased at all, what I just stated is true.
Dude, you're recommending the guy a 770, when his budget for a GPU and a PSU is $300, a 2GB GTX 770 is $380 and he would need a better PSU for that card, thats probably around $450, which (if you didn't know) is more than $300 by a fair bit.
The cheapest 760 is $250, and he would want a better PSU as well with that, which pushes the cost to probably at least $320-330, which would be worth it if he can afford it, but that's the thing with budgets, you're supposed to stick to them.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy (and own) Nvidia products, but to say you're not being biased is a little misleading right now. A lot more games are actually going to be optimized towards AMD in the future, mostly because of the Mantle API being pretty successful for early software, and that both "next-gen" consoles are running entirely off of AMD components and architecture. Also, a lot of games aren't really "optimized" towards Nvidia per-se (a few are), but what I think you mean is that they provide more features with Nvidia, such as PhysX, 3D, adaptive V-sync, and the GeForce experience, etc. However, AMD is much better when you are on a tight budget, and Mantle is pretty enticing.
That's not the impression I get when I see the posts and threads from people having problems stemming from something that was delayed and full of bugs.
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apcs13
February 5, 2014 9:10:16 PM
Mousemonkey said:
apcs13 said:
ferwindjacks said:
Seriously consider the 760/770 though, great cards with great software, and tons of apps/games are optimized for Nvidia!Not biased at all, what I just stated is true.
Dude, you're recommending the guy a 770, when his budget for a GPU and a PSU is $300, a 2GB GTX 770 is $380 and he would need a better PSU for that card, thats probably around $450, which (if you didn't know) is more than $300 by a fair bit.
The cheapest 760 is $250, and he would want a better PSU as well with that, which pushes the cost to probably at least $320-330, which would be worth it if he can afford it, but that's the thing with budgets, you're supposed to stick to them.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy (and own) Nvidia products, but to say you're not being biased is a little misleading right now. A lot more games are actually going to be optimized towards AMD in the future, mostly because of the Mantle API being pretty successful for early software, and that both "next-gen" consoles are running entirely off of AMD components and architecture. Also, a lot of games aren't really "optimized" towards Nvidia per-se (a few are), but what I think you mean is that they provide more features with Nvidia, such as PhysX, 3D, adaptive V-sync, and the GeForce experience, etc. However, AMD is much better when you are on a tight budget, and Mantle is pretty enticing.
That's not the impression I get when I see the posts and threads from people having problems stemming from something that was delayed and full of bugs.
A majority of people have had fair success with the API, and while a fair amount still have issues, it's still to be expected with new software on beta drivers. Besides, when it does work, it works fairly well, and that is what I was referencing.
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apcs13
February 5, 2014 9:22:21 PM
Mousemonkey said:
Time will tell of course but I have doubts that it is the "next big thing" that you seem to be touting it as and there has been very little to suggest that consoles will have any bearing on how it turns out despite them having AMD kit inside as both MS and Sony use their own API's respectively.I never touted it as the "next big thing", I don't think it's anywhere near the "next big thing", I just said it will boost performance and will make the AMD card a little faster in gaming scenarios with Mantle implementation. Both the Xbox One and PS4 implement DirectX in some ways, and PS4 also uses OpenCL, so its not like they have crazy foreign API's anyways. The fact that both use AMD architecture will most likely boost AMD in the future (educated hypothesis) because the new consoles are not nearly powerful enough to keep up with modern gaming, so there will have to be heavy optimization for the consoles and therefore heavy optimization for AMD hardware, causing better performance.
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apcs13 said:
Mousemonkey said:
Time will tell of course but I have doubts that it is the "next big thing" that you seem to be touting it as and there has been very little to suggest that consoles will have any bearing on how it turns out despite them having AMD kit inside as both MS and Sony use their own API's respectively.I never touted it as the "next big thing", I don't think it's anywhere near the "next big thing", I just said it will boost performance and will make the AMD card a little faster in gaming scenarios with Mantle implementation. Both the Xbox One and PS4 implement DirectX in some ways, and PS4 also uses OpenCL, so its not like they have crazy foreign API's anyways. The fact that both use AMD architecture will most likely boost AMD in the future (educated hypothesis) because the new consoles are not nearly powerful enough to keep up with modern gaming, so there will have to be heavy optimization for the consoles and therefore heavy optimization for AMD hardware, causing better performance.
As questions have been raised about AMD's lack of multi threaded support at the driver level and if that is their reason for pushing Mantle I wouldn't be so quick with the "educated hypothesis" that every game dev will be jumping on the Mantle bandwagon, chances are they will only jump if paid and AMD's pockets are not the deepest ones out there, as far as PC's are concerned MS rules the roost and that means DX.
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apcs13
February 5, 2014 9:38:40 PM
Mousemonkey said:
apcs13 said:
Mousemonkey said:
Time will tell of course but I have doubts that it is the "next big thing" that you seem to be touting it as and there has been very little to suggest that consoles will have any bearing on how it turns out despite them having AMD kit inside as both MS and Sony use their own API's respectively.I never touted it as the "next big thing", I don't think it's anywhere near the "next big thing", I just said it will boost performance and will make the AMD card a little faster in gaming scenarios with Mantle implementation. Both the Xbox One and PS4 implement DirectX in some ways, and PS4 also uses OpenCL, so its not like they have crazy foreign API's anyways. The fact that both use AMD architecture will most likely boost AMD in the future (educated hypothesis) because the new consoles are not nearly powerful enough to keep up with modern gaming, so there will have to be heavy optimization for the consoles and therefore heavy optimization for AMD hardware, causing better performance.
As questions have been raised about AMD's lack of multi threaded support at the driver level and if that is their reason for pushing Mantle I wouldn't be so quick with the "educated hypothesis" that every game dev will be jumping on the Mantle bandwagon, chances are they will only jump if paid and AMD's pockets are not the deepest ones out there, as far as PC's are concerned MS rules the roost and that means DX.
I wasn't even really touching on Mantle in that last paragraph, neither console supports Mantle and probably won't ever, or at least for a long while. I was talking about better game optimization for AMD specific hardware, not Mantle.
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apcs13 said:
ferwindjacks said:
Seriously consider the 760/770 though, great cards with great software, and tons of apps/games are optimized for Nvidia!Not biased at all, what I just stated is true.
Dude, you're recommending the guy a 770, when his budget for a GPU and a PSU is $300, a 2GB GTX 770 is $380 and he would need a better PSU for that card, thats probably around $450, which (if you didn't know) is more than $300 by a fair bit.
The cheapest 760 is $250, and he would want a better PSU as well with that, which pushes the cost to probably at least $320-330, which would be worth it if he can afford it, but that's the thing with budgets, you're supposed to stick to them.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy (and own) Nvidia products, but to say you're not being biased is a little misleading right now. A lot more games are actually going to be optimized towards AMD in the future, mostly because of the Mantle API being pretty successful for early software, and that both "next-gen" consoles are running entirely off of AMD components and architecture. Also, a lot of games aren't really "optimized" towards Nvidia per-se (a few are), but what I think you mean is that they provide more features with Nvidia, such as PhysX, 3D, adaptive V-sync, and the GeForce experience, etc. However, AMD is much better when you are on a tight budget, and Mantle is pretty enticing.
apcs13 said:
Mousemonkey said:
apcs13 said:
Mousemonkey said:
Time will tell of course but I have doubts that it is the "next big thing" that you seem to be touting it as and there has been very little to suggest that consoles will have any bearing on how it turns out despite them having AMD kit inside as both MS and Sony use their own API's respectively.I never touted it as the "next big thing", I don't think it's anywhere near the "next big thing", I just said it will boost performance and will make the AMD card a little faster in gaming scenarios with Mantle implementation. Both the Xbox One and PS4 implement DirectX in some ways, and PS4 also uses OpenCL, so its not like they have crazy foreign API's anyways. The fact that both use AMD architecture will most likely boost AMD in the future (educated hypothesis) because the new consoles are not nearly powerful enough to keep up with modern gaming, so there will have to be heavy optimization for the consoles and therefore heavy optimization for AMD hardware, causing better performance.
As questions have been raised about AMD's lack of multi threaded support at the driver level and if that is their reason for pushing Mantle I wouldn't be so quick with the "educated hypothesis" that every game dev will be jumping on the Mantle bandwagon, chances are they will only jump if paid and AMD's pockets are not the deepest ones out there, as far as PC's are concerned MS rules the roost and that means DX.
I wasn't even really touching on Mantle in that last paragraph, neither console supports Mantle and probably won't ever, or at least for a long while. I was talking about better game optimization for AMD specific hardware, not Mantle.
Oh please, in your earlier post you quite clearly mention it :-
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A lot more games are actually going to be optimized towards AMD in the future, mostly because of the Mantle API being pretty successful for early software, and that both "next-gen" consoles are running entirely off of AMD components and architecture.
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apcs13
February 5, 2014 9:49:48 PM
Mousemonkey said:
apcs13 said:
ferwindjacks said:
Seriously consider the 760/770 though, great cards with great software, and tons of apps/games are optimized for Nvidia!Not biased at all, what I just stated is true.
Dude, you're recommending the guy a 770, when his budget for a GPU and a PSU is $300, a 2GB GTX 770 is $380 and he would need a better PSU for that card, thats probably around $450, which (if you didn't know) is more than $300 by a fair bit.
The cheapest 760 is $250, and he would want a better PSU as well with that, which pushes the cost to probably at least $320-330, which would be worth it if he can afford it, but that's the thing with budgets, you're supposed to stick to them.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy (and own) Nvidia products, but to say you're not being biased is a little misleading right now. A lot more games are actually going to be optimized towards AMD in the future, mostly because of the Mantle API being pretty successful for early software, and that both "next-gen" consoles are running entirely off of AMD components and architecture. Also, a lot of games aren't really "optimized" towards Nvidia per-se (a few are), but what I think you mean is that they provide more features with Nvidia, such as PhysX, 3D, adaptive V-sync, and the GeForce experience, etc. However, AMD is much better when you are on a tight budget, and Mantle is pretty enticing.
apcs13 said:
Mousemonkey said:
apcs13 said:
Mousemonkey said:
Time will tell of course but I have doubts that it is the "next big thing" that you seem to be touting it as and there has been very little to suggest that consoles will have any bearing on how it turns out despite them having AMD kit inside as both MS and Sony use their own API's respectively.I never touted it as the "next big thing", I don't think it's anywhere near the "next big thing", I just said it will boost performance and will make the AMD card a little faster in gaming scenarios with Mantle implementation. Both the Xbox One and PS4 implement DirectX in some ways, and PS4 also uses OpenCL, so its not like they have crazy foreign API's anyways. The fact that both use AMD architecture will most likely boost AMD in the future (educated hypothesis) because the new consoles are not nearly powerful enough to keep up with modern gaming, so there will have to be heavy optimization for the consoles and therefore heavy optimization for AMD hardware, causing better performance.
As questions have been raised about AMD's lack of multi threaded support at the driver level and if that is their reason for pushing Mantle I wouldn't be so quick with the "educated hypothesis" that every game dev will be jumping on the Mantle bandwagon, chances are they will only jump if paid and AMD's pockets are not the deepest ones out there, as far as PC's are concerned MS rules the roost and that means DX.
I wasn't even really touching on Mantle in that last paragraph, neither console supports Mantle and probably won't ever, or at least for a long while. I was talking about better game optimization for AMD specific hardware, not Mantle.
Oh please, in your earlier post you quite clearly mention it :-
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A lot more games are actually going to be optimized towards AMD in the future, mostly because of the Mantle API being pretty successful for early software, and that both "next-gen" consoles are running entirely off of AMD components and architecture.Dude, calm down please, I did clearly mention it in an earlier post, but I never said that it was the "next big thing", nor that it was used in consoles. You were referring to my previous post, not my first, in your last comment, which is when I only talked about game optimization, not mentioning a single thing about Mantle. I'm not trying to "wriggle out" of anything, all I'm saying is that due to multiple factors an AMD GPU might work out pretty well for the OP to get. I think you need to take a breather, my friend.
Plus, on another note, your comment about AMD being bad with multiple threads on a driver level makes absolutely no sense. Why would AMD, who specialize in making cheap multi-core CPU and sell them as their main processor line, make bad multi-core drivers? That's entirely wrong sir, and I'm not trying to start an argument here, I just don't want anyone to be talked out of buying a great product because they got misinformed.
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apcs13
February 5, 2014 9:57:49 PM
Mousemonkey said:
I think you need to learn to read, I said you seem to be touting it as the next big thing not that you said it was the next big thing, a subtle difference.Thanks for insulting my intelligence, that makes you seem like a great guy with a legitimate argument! It's pretty much the same thing, so I saved a little time and neglected to re-read the entirety of all your inaccurate rants to copy exactly what you said, my dearest apologies. I'm going to stop replying to you now if you don't mind, you are clogging up this thread and not helping the OP in any way, so I think it is a waste of all of our lives. Good day, sir.
OP, sorry about all of that. If $300 is the roof of your budget, either the 7870 GHz, 7950, or GTX 760 seems like a good deal at the moment
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apcs13 said:
Mousemonkey said:
I think you need to learn to read, I said you seem to be touting it as the next big thing not that you said it was the next big thing, a subtle difference.Thanks for insulting my intelligence, that makes you seem like a great guy with a legitimate argument! It's pretty much the same thing, so I saved a little time and neglected to re-read the entirety of all your inaccurate rants to copy exactly what you said, my dearest apologies. I'm going to stop replying to you now if you don't mind, you are clogging up this thread and not helping the OP in any way, so I think it is a waste of all of our lives. Good day, sir.
OP, sorry about all of that. If $300 is the roof of your budget, either the 7870 GHz, 7950, or GTX 760 seems like a good deal at the moment
Thank you for confirming that you didn't bother to read and as for any inaccuracies, time will tell.
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smeezekitty
February 6, 2014 12:11:30 AM
PC_FTW
February 6, 2014 1:33:27 AM
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OP, sorry about all of that. If $300 is the roof of your budget, either the 7870 GHz, 7950, or GTX 760 seems like a good deal at the momentThanks ill look into those but last I checked the 7950 was going for 419 on newegg. Maybe cause of the new r-series. But I'm not sure. But I will definitely check out the 760 and 7870.
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apcs13
February 6, 2014 8:34:13 AM
PC_FTW said:
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OP, sorry about all of that. If $300 is the roof of your budget, either the 7870 GHz, 7950, or GTX 760 seems like a good deal at the momentThanks ill look into those but last I checked the 7950 was going for 419 on newegg. Maybe cause of the new r-series. But I'm not sure. But I will definitely check out the 760 and 7870.
Ah, that's very strange. I saw one for $299 but checking again shows that it is out of stock. The 7950 is no where near worth $400, as the GTX 770 is less and greatly outperforms it! You're correct, and the Rx equivalent to that I think would be somewhere between the R9 270X and the R9 280X, and the 280X was $299 back in November, but is now unfortunately around $450. I guess that means the 7870 GHz is your best bet, because while you could get a GTX 760 for around $250-270, you would want to upgrade your PSU, which would put you over-budget.
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February 6, 2014 11:02:54 AM
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