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Hello everybody,
I'm looking for a graphics card for 1080p gaming (my monitor is actually 1680x1050@60Hz EIZO, wouldn't call it a gaming display). I play a lot of FPS or third-person games and my GTX 650 doesn't cut it when it comes to maxing out the settings e.g. in Tomb Raider. I have an Intel i7 3770 and lots of RAM. I have only one monitor and I don't use multiple graphics cards etc.
Should I wait for GTX-970 (I was thinking about the EVGA ACX 2.0 one) or should I just go for a card that's available now, assuming it will do just fine for my needs? If it's the latter, which one?
PS. I don't like very noisy cards.
Thanks
I'm looking for a graphics card for 1080p gaming (my monitor is actually 1680x1050@60Hz EIZO, wouldn't call it a gaming display). I play a lot of FPS or third-person games and my GTX 650 doesn't cut it when it comes to maxing out the settings e.g. in Tomb Raider. I have an Intel i7 3770 and lots of RAM. I have only one monitor and I don't use multiple graphics cards etc.
Should I wait for GTX-970 (I was thinking about the EVGA ACX 2.0 one) or should I just go for a card that's available now, assuming it will do just fine for my needs? If it's the latter, which one?
PS. I don't like very noisy cards.
Thanks
igano
October 15, 2014 4:43:05 AM
askara
October 15, 2014 2:47:59 AM
RobCrezz said:
askara said:
Ghost24 said:
Get the Asus Strix one if you don't like noisy cards, until a certain degree it doesn't even start the fans
is this not the case for all 970?
No, The Asus Strix is the only one with the 0db mode AFAIK..
actually thats not true atlease the MSI 970 has the same feature(not the EVGA 970 tho). not sure about any other card like Gigabyte
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Like the ASUS card, the GTX 970 Gaming 4G features a semi-passive mode, which it calls Zero Frozr. It's something MSI first brought to the market in 2008 (it's keen to clarify that it hasn't copied the ASUS Strix cards here). The temperature cut-off points are similar to the ASUS card – between 60 and 65°C, the fans will spin up; once the GPU drops to about 50°C, they're no longer needed. This carries benefits for noise production, efficiency and fan lifespan
Ghost24
October 15, 2014 2:47:13 AM
RobCrezz said:
askara said:
Ghost24 said:
Get the Asus Strix one if you don't like noisy cards, until a certain degree it doesn't even start the fans
is this not the case for all 970?
No, The Asus Strix is the only one with the 0db mode AFAIK..
Actually I believe I read somewhere that one of the EVGA ones is capable of this with an update.
But the Strix does it out of the box.
askara
October 15, 2014 2:29:51 AM
Best solution chosen by igano
Ghost24
October 15, 2014 2:12:10 AM
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