GTX 1070 Or New PSU with RX 480?

[Mac070]

So basically i have a budget of $375. I currently run the Raidmax Vampire 700W 80+ Gold Modular Continuous. Should i just buy a 1070 and keep the Raid max psu or should i buy a seasonic and a RX 480 and crossfire down the road?
Thanks- Just wanna get some more ideas

 

[n0ns3ns3]

get the 1070 and upgrade your PSU to something better if ad when you have the budget for that.

 

[Mac070]

Well should i purchase the GTX 1070 first?
and upgrade the power supply later?

 

[turkey3_scratch]

The Vampire at least isn't junk like Raidmax's other stuff.

 

[Mac070]

So should i be fine with the 1070 running on it?

 

[n0ns3ns3]

it will run.
just would not trust it to do so for long time.

 

[Mac070]

I mean i kinda wanna just get a RX 480 since im kinda a AMD fan . Then crossfire them later on giving the 1080 a run for its money. AMD has always had good scaling

 

[n0ns3ns3]

really ?
I like the scaling with CF https://youtu.be/DUCZmit99v0?t=5m5s . not that nvidia is much better.
Honestly, i'm not a fanboy, i get whatever does best for my money. AMD is not the case on both CPU and GPU for last decade.
You can go whatever route you want, IMHO multi gpu is not worth the trouble when there are single cards for similar performance.
I can totally understand 2xGTX 1080 for maxed out 4k with minimum 60FPS, but otherwise it's not worth it.

 

[Mac070]

Thats the RX 470 and AMD has most likely patched that. I mean i dont have enough money for the 1080 . I do for the 1070 but i dont want to risk it on this power supply. Thats why i want to get the RX 480 with a seasonic.
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I mainly play Battlefield 1 , Battlefield 4 , Rocket League , Black Ops and GTA 5 on a 2560x1080. So wouldnt the RX 480 be enough for 1080p on those games to max them out?

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Yeah the RX 480 is perfect for 1080p.

 

[Mac070]

Well I'm on a LG Ultrawide 29" 260x 10 80
I want to max out my games on 1080P . So the RX 480 will be good enough and I can add another one if I wanted ?

 

[turkey3_scratch]

"maxing out" is never even a good idea. There's always settings like that kill performance and FPS while offering not too much improvement to the visuals. What's smart it to enable the highest graphics improvement / performance toll ratio settings and disable the lowest graphics improvement / performance toll settings. There are always going to be games you can't max out.

The only purpose of maxing out games it to gain mental satisfaction that you are maxing out games; 5 years ago, we loved maxed out games so why should we consider that graphical quality any less today? It's the machine. It's what the graphics companies want everyone to think. If people just realize that graphics look beautiful on medium even, then there won't be such a dire need for everyone to get max settings!

Think of the future. Max settings today are low settings in some number of years. So why do we even bother thinking max settings look nice at all today? Because in 5 years, when low = 2016 max, we will be thinking, "ugh, I don't want low settings" but if they are the equivalent of max settings today why do we want max settings so bad if we know they are actually low-end? 480p movies look a lot more real than 4K maxed out games still.

Okay my rant is done.

 

[IAEInferno]

"maxing out" is never even a good idea. There's always settings like that kill performance and FPS while offering not too much improvement to the visuals. What's smart it to enable the highest graphics improvement / performance toll ratio settings and disable the lowest graphics improvement / performance toll settings. There are always going to be games you can't max out.

The only purpose of maxing out games it to gain mental satisfaction that you are maxing out games; 5 years ago, we loved maxed out games so why should we consider that graphical quality any less today? It's the machine. It's what the graphics companies want everyone to think. If people just realize that graphics look beautiful on medium even, then there won't be such a dire need for everyone to get max settings!

Think of the future. Max settings today are low settings in some number of years. So why do we even bother thinking max settings look nice at all today? Because in 5 years, when low = 2016 max, we will be thinking, "ugh, I don't want low settings" but if they are the equivalent of max settings today why do we want max settings so bad if we know they are actually low-end? 480p movies look a lot more real than 4K maxed out games still.

Okay my rant is done.

I agree.

 

[Mac070]

Well what settings Kill FPS and proved no visuals. And what settings are good to turn up that give visuals? I mean i want to play 1080p with almost all of the visuals i can turn on to make the game look really realistic.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

That's the thing, you just play around with stuff. But stuff like multi-sampling, god rays, and heavy anti-aliasing can really kill performance.

 

[Mac070]

Ok well it seems like you know what what your talking about . Ill pick up an RX 480 (Since im an AMD Fan) and crossfire later. Anyways i noticed your profile says Power Supply Master, so ill ask you. Is this https://www.amazon.com/Seasonic-M12II-620-BRONZE-SS-620GM2/dp/B003HE260I Enough for crossfire?
Thank you sooo much!

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Ok well it seems like you know what what your talking about . Ill pick up an RX 480 (Since im an AMD Fan) and crossfire later. Anyways i noticed your profile says Power Supply Master, so ill ask you. Is this https://www.amazon.com/Seasonic-M12II-620-BRONZE-SS-620GM2/dp/B003HE260I Enough for crossfire?
Thank you sooo much!

Yep.

 

[IAEInferno]

Ok well it seems like you know what what your talking about . Ill pick up an RX 480 (Since im an AMD Fan) and crossfire later. Anyways i noticed your profile says Power Supply Master, so ill ask you. Is this https://www.amazon.com/Seasonic-M12II-620-BRONZE-SS-620GM2/dp/B003HE260I Enough for crossfire?
Thank you sooo much!

Just to warn you though, some games don't work well with multi GPU's which is why I would recommend saving for the 1070 and a new PSU instead.

 

[Mac070]

Yah but listen when it does work ill be getting performance nipping at the heels of the 1080
Now the very few games that dont support it i wont even play
Now games that will support it but not the best. Ill still most liekyl be getting the performance of the gtx 1070.
Still even one single RX 480 sounds like plenty for me.

 

[Mac070]

Ok well it seems like you know what what your talking about . Ill pick up an RX 480 (Since im an AMD Fan) and crossfire later. Anyways i noticed your profile says Power Supply Master, so ill ask you. Is this https://www.amazon.com/Seasonic-M12II-620-BRONZE-SS-620GM2/dp/B003HE260I Enough for crossfire?
Thank you sooo much!

Yep.

Thanks that should be all

 

[IAEInferno]

Yah but listen when it does work ill be getting performance nipping at the heels of the 1080
Now the very few games that dont support it i wont even play
Now games that will support it but not the best. Ill still most liekyl be getting the performance of the gtx 1070.
Still even one single RX 480 sounds like plenty for me.

Yeah the RX 480 would be enough for 1080p gaming and be better on Directx 12 but a Crossfire is what I'm not really into, but it's your choice and I respect that.