New Graphics Card

The 780ti is a beast among cards. Goes head to head with a 7990 and is in benchmarks usually 35% faster than my 770.

 

$350 is my total max. 770 is pushing my boundaries, but I'm okay if it's truly better.

 

Well here's an idea of the performance of a 770. I get 89-96 fps max settings on Dry Rock Island 1360x768

 

I've done a fair amount of research on the 770 & 780 because I was planning on building this December, but that fell through. The 770 is a great card at both 2gb and 4gb. A lot say that the 2gb will be enough for future games @ 1080p, but I build to keep for years, and was looking at multi-monitor, so I looked at the 4gb. Then I came across a thread saying that the 770 was not fast enough to actually use the 4gb unless you sli'd it with one more 770 4gb. There is still debate on that topic. It has to do with bandwidth or something.

I figured for that price point I would just do a 780 and sli it down the road if I ever got the money again. The pros: faster, a balanced 3gb, and I can actually find a waterblock for it. Since then AMD released the R9 stuff and Nvidia prices went down a bit. Then I heard somewhere here about the 780ti releasing. I figure the prices of the other cards might go down a tiny bit when that releases.

Right now I'd wait for the 780ti to release and then see what you can afford. As always buy EVGA as I have been told by many. Then later on down the road when you can afford it sli the card. I wouldn't worry about that unless you are playing past 1080p resolution though.

...Can't believe I had to type this twice. Windows finished an update while I was typing and the message asking if I wanted to restart popped up right as I hit space. It restarted....

And like someone said, you can start out with the Evga 770 2gb and step up if you're not satisfied.

Oh yeah. To the best of my knowledge AMD has nothing like Shadowplay at the moment, but they are developing Mantle. Something to keep in mind.

 

Im happy with my Palit GTX 670 Jetstream

 

Mine goes to about 140F too under max load.. I don't worry at all because GPUs can easily usually up to 200f or higher without issues. (over 90c)

It's CPUs that shouldn't go above 160-170f (around 75c)

 

I'm selling my 560Ti for $125 soon, and I can't really be more than $200 out of my savings. I am trying to save money for college and I don't think spending $400+ on a graphics card is a smart idea.

 

I think the 280x is the better card, but I haven't researched much since the price drops. I know the r9 290 will be the best card in aftermarket if nvidia doesn't drop prices more. Wait for aftermarket 290s if the price is ok.

 

The 280X is a lot slower than the 780 in the benchmarks i've seen. I think the 770 is on par with it but maybe a little bit faster.

 

Get yourself a Sapphire R9 280X Toxic, they come pre-overclocked and they're really quiet & run cool(due to multiple fans).
Cheaper than the 770, quieter, and will probably beat it in most cases too due to the crazy stock overclock, 1150Mhz boost, compared to stock 280x which is 'up to 1000Mhz'.

The 280x is basically a faster version of a 7970. I own a 7970 Vapor-X myself and I can run anything I want. My FPS in BeamNG has never been below 60. I can max Battlefield 4 out @ 1080p 60FPS easily on a 64 player server.

Oh another thing, the 280X Toxic comes with 3 free games, worth well over $100 put together.

EDIT: Just noticed you mentioned recording too. I use Fraps, and it hardly effects my FPS, I can record at 60FPS. You can also use things like MSI Afterburner. So recording would not be a problem with a 280X, more of a problem if your CPU is bad

 

What quality and settings? I have an i5 2500k with 8GB(1866) RAM. So I don't think that should be lacking. Thank you for the reply.

 

Everything maxed at 1080p, all PostFX settings aswell. Runs buttery smooth.

And that CPU is great, I have a 4670k and 8gb 1333 RAM myself and it does everything perfectly.

 

Thank you sir. I love your content, keep it up!

 

not sure what you're doing right, but fraps generally destroys FPS. lots of video producers use dxtory for this reason. if you're writing to an SSD with a ridiculous processor in a game that doesn't use much CPU, then i guess it would be alright, but nvidia's shadowplay is completely foolproof (no fps loss, dedicated h264 encoder on the gpu itself) and is absolutely the next gen of recording/streaming. its feature to record in the background (into your ram!) and dump to disk the last x minutes of play with a hotkey... it's really good, and nvidia tech is only getting better.

i would be hesitant to buy an amd graphics card almost because of shadowplay alone.

 

Mantle is making me question everything... Mantle seems incredible, look it up

 

what about the noise do you want it to be a silent killer or something that just shouts you to death?

sorry I mean do you want it to be quiet or do you want it to be loud as hell...

 

I want the best bang for my buck. My 560Ti already sounds like a hair dryer, so how could it get worse?

 

nvidia is leading the way for open-source and linux drivers which will be huge in a few years when valve pushes gaming more and more away from windows. amd's mantle looks pretty cool, but it requires that game devs really utilize it to have any effect. if you play games like beamng often where the game is not a triple A industry-backed game, mantle is not going to affect your play at all. if you play primarily console-port games that use the popular game engines (unreal engine, frostbite, cryengine) then mantle might squeeze you out a few extra fps i guess - assuming those engine makers will utilize mantle. sadly, game devs can't just flip a switch and start utilizing mantle. it will be a LOT of work that will only affect a portion of the playerbase - lots of devs will just ignore it because their game already runs well.

i don't think developing a whole new API that requires game devs to divide their attention for both graphics cards is even a good idea. nvidia probably won't even attempt to create a competitor, because they just don't need to. for mantle to be truly successful, it would have to be adopted by a major player like microsoft or sony, which it probably won't be.

but then again, mantle has been announced very recently. i don't know all of the implications, who knows what will really happen. all i know is that nvidia gpu's will remain competitive, and if you're in the market *right now* nvidia is probably a better choice.

 

yeah from what JackFrags did a review on the 290X he said that thing sounded like a Jet aircraft engine at take off under full load...

 

I said wait for aftermarket. The 290 series is loud as heck.

While I doubt mantle will have even a semi public SKU soon, there might be one by late 2014. If it works like it should it could be amazing for beamng.

It can.