I'm looking to upgrade my GPU. I only plan on playing on 1080 and at the moment I have a 60hz monitor. Should I get the 1070 for this or the 1080 for ultra 60+fps? I am also running an i5 3.4 with 8gb of ram. I know I need 8 more GB of RAM and I plan on purchasing that with the GPU. But at the same time if I need to upgrade my CPU I'm not sure if I should do that first (which will involve a new motherboard and a whole different set of ram sticks, along with a new CPU cooler) or if I will be fine with an i5,a new GPU (1070 or 1080) and 16gb of total ram(can only support ddr3 with my motherboard). Please any help would be appreciated!
GTX 1070 or 1080 for 1080p gaming? And more..
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SidBurton
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If you have enough money for the 1080, then I'd suggest going for that.
http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-1080-vs-GeForce-GTX-1070
1080 beats the 1070 quite fairly, in terms of performance I hear it's a decent card with the right system.
http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-1080-vs-GeForce-GTX-1070
1080 beats the 1070 quite fairly, in terms of performance I hear it's a decent card with the right system.
Ali Tauseef
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Even a GTX 1050 ti is good enough for 1080p ultra gaming. And your i5 could bottleneck the 1080. Why not upgrade your CPU to an i7 with a 1070? Prolly will cost you less than a 1080 alone.
chemmajorp53
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Well if you can afford the 1080.... maybe a GTX 1070 and a 144hz or 1440p monitor? You really won't notice enough of a difference between gtx 1060 and 1070 on 1080p60 to justify the price difference to be honest, at least make the upgrade worth it.
I decided and chose to upgrade my motherboard, cpu and ram right now. new cpu to an i7 7700k kabylake, motherboard MSI z270 Krait Gaming and 16Gb coarsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 memory. All games seem to be playing alot better but now i have a problem with everything freezing and having to reboot my pc to unfreeze.... not sure what the problem is.. for now tho when it comes to GPU i think i will wait a bit, maybe once the 1080ti comes out for all companies some price drops will happen with the 1070 or 1080..
chemmajorp53
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The 1070 and 1080 aren't going to drop until the next generation of cards are on the horizon, they don't have any competition.
hmm well then i guess ill see where i stand with money when i decide to upgrade. I feel going with a 1080 will be the best future proof choice if i decide to upgrade monitor to game at higher resolutions. Maybe even the 1080ti. once i figure out my current issue with games freezing i will look more into it.
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