Right now I have a single MSI superclocked gtx 660 in my i5 3570k, 8gb ram pc. The minimum requirements haven't been revealed yet, but I'd like to be able to play Fallout 4 on 1080p ultra (no msaa) smoothly. My gtx 660 is the recommended gpu for GTA 5 but yet is only the minimum gpu for Witcher 3 (can still play it smoothly on medium from what I've played)
Sometime I'm planning on getting another 8gb stick of ram, personally feeling cramped with 8gb ram now, games using more, and chrome with tabs open is a memory hog.
Has anybody had major problems with SLI? I heard in recent years SLI scaling has been great in the high 90s% if not 100%, my PSU is the 750w gold rated Corsair hx750, so more than enough room.
I'm just personally not a HUGE gamer like I used to be, I can't justify something like the gtx 980 for example, and I also NEVER plan on going above a single 1080p monitor for gaming, and I'm perfectly fine with NEVER using MSAA to help the FPS too.
I thought of getting a gtx 970, but honestly the whole 3.5gb vram thing left a very sour taste in my mouth. I was rocking an hd 7950 before, but, kept having driver issues, and just happened to find a gtx 660 cheap. I can get another one for about $100, and I've read that two GTX 660 in SLI is about as good as a single GTX 970 (or at worst a gtx 780, which I KNOW is good enough to run 99.5% of games on 1080p ultra)
I'd even get a non superclocked gtx 660 cheap and slightly overclock it, although I read on another forum once in SLI/Crossfire, core speeds don't matter much at that point.
I basically just want something cheap that can run stuff on 1080p ultra single monitor, I'm not trying to go all overkill, but I'm not sure if the game will even be optimized, I've steered away in recent months from AAA releases on pc. I personally feel the requirements are too high, when yet they'll run perfectly fine on the much weaker consoles, but I guess that's a whole other topic...
So, it comes down to only $100 for another gtx 660 to get gtx 970/780 performance, or ~$350 for a single gtx 970, I guess 3.5gb should be good for many years on 1080p. I know my i5 3570k will be good for many more years even on stock, there's still plenty of people out there gaming on the old i7 920s for example. CPU improvements have largely stagnated since sandy bridge in 2011....the recent huge surge in GPU(and vram...) requirements for sloppy unoptimized pc ports is what concerns me now.
Sometime I'm planning on getting another 8gb stick of ram, personally feeling cramped with 8gb ram now, games using more, and chrome with tabs open is a memory hog.
Has anybody had major problems with SLI? I heard in recent years SLI scaling has been great in the high 90s% if not 100%, my PSU is the 750w gold rated Corsair hx750, so more than enough room.
I'm just personally not a HUGE gamer like I used to be, I can't justify something like the gtx 980 for example, and I also NEVER plan on going above a single 1080p monitor for gaming, and I'm perfectly fine with NEVER using MSAA to help the FPS too.
I thought of getting a gtx 970, but honestly the whole 3.5gb vram thing left a very sour taste in my mouth. I was rocking an hd 7950 before, but, kept having driver issues, and just happened to find a gtx 660 cheap. I can get another one for about $100, and I've read that two GTX 660 in SLI is about as good as a single GTX 970 (or at worst a gtx 780, which I KNOW is good enough to run 99.5% of games on 1080p ultra)
I'd even get a non superclocked gtx 660 cheap and slightly overclock it, although I read on another forum once in SLI/Crossfire, core speeds don't matter much at that point.
I basically just want something cheap that can run stuff on 1080p ultra single monitor, I'm not trying to go all overkill, but I'm not sure if the game will even be optimized, I've steered away in recent months from AAA releases on pc. I personally feel the requirements are too high, when yet they'll run perfectly fine on the much weaker consoles, but I guess that's a whole other topic...
So, it comes down to only $100 for another gtx 660 to get gtx 970/780 performance, or ~$350 for a single gtx 970, I guess 3.5gb should be good for many years on 1080p. I know my i5 3570k will be good for many more years even on stock, there's still plenty of people out there gaming on the old i7 920s for example. CPU improvements have largely stagnated since sandy bridge in 2011....the recent huge surge in GPU(and vram...) requirements for sloppy unoptimized pc ports is what concerns me now.