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New PC on order
Veica:
I had a GTX 970 and I enjoyed it while I had it. I only had it for a year and half before it started to die. Painful artifacting and frequest DirectX errors/crashes.
I replaced it with a 6GB GTX 1060 for a few months and then went up to the 1080, so now I've got the 1060 in a box rotting away in case this card dies too...
I'm a little iffy on recommending the GTX 970, depending on how hard you plan to push it. The card has a VRAM configuration of 3.5GB + 0.5GB; accessing that last 0.5GB partition, depending on the quality of the chips used, can be anywhere from a 1-3% performance hit or more.
Blub:
--- Quote from: Piglet on November 11, 2020, 12:02 ---One of these? https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gtx-970.c2620
My old card was a GTX 960 and it's now in my boy's machine. He really could do with something a little faster. What do you want for it? :P
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I've not yet made up my mind about it, but if you are intressted I'm sure we can figure something out. If I can give it to someone who I know puts it to good use I'd like that, it's a bit of a special topic.
--- Quote from: [MiA]Latte on November 11, 2020, 17:39 ---I had a GTX 970 and I enjoyed it while I had it. I only had it for a year and half before it started to die. Painful artifacting and frequest DirectX errors/crashes.
I replaced it with a 6GB GTX 1060 for a few months and then went up to the 1080, so now I've got the 1060 in a box rotting away in case this card dies too...
I'm a little iffy on recommending the GTX 970, depending on how hard you plan to push it. The card has a VRAM configuration of 3.5GB + 0.5GB; accessing that last 0.5GB partition, depending on the quality of the chips used, can be anywhere from a 1-3% performance hit or more.
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I see what you mean but I never ever pushed this card and the whole machine to its limits because I never played very demanding games nor did any foto/video editing. So I have no idea if these problems would also appear here. Basically I am really pleased with it because it is the most silent GPU I've ever had and never caused any issue.
I think I'll open a separate thread and let you guys know what kind of "make one out of two PCs" I'm having in mind - maybe you have a better idea.
Stealer:
Just bit the bullet, for the missus' rig. Just got a prime B-450 plus and ordered her a 2600x, only a step up from my 350 plus and 1600, which is a couple of years old now. Hopefully I can get her into Red dead 2, as her current rig can't run it without big fps drops :(
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