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    JarlOfBacon
    jhonny got a reaction from JarlOfBacon in What is the better gtx 980 ti?   
    The Zotacs are sexy, and the straight black/ carbon fibery look may go well with your set up, but the best fit would be classy or strix and as stated, stay away from strix.
     
    also from an availability point of view, good luck finding any higher end evga not sold out, where as the Zotacs just always seem available somewhere.
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    RobTapps
    jhonny got a reaction from RobTapps in Cheapest 8GB gpu?   
    second vote for the 390, cards been killing it in the market, and the improved bits over the 200 series make it worth the money, unless you can get a killer deal on a 290x
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    jhonny
    jhonny reacted to SteveGrabowski0 in Recommendations for Computer Upgrade   
    a Xeon E5450 is in no way comparable to an i5-4690k, I don't know where that came from. The 4690k at stock gets almost twice the Passmark score a Xeon E5450 does. Xeon E5450 is more on par with an Ivy Bridge i3.
     
    source: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=1236&cmp[]=2284&cmp[]=1472
     
    You need a new board, new CPU, and new RAM. This would be a good upgrade for $800
     
    PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant   CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($189.99 @ NCIX US)  Motherboard: ASRock H97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($72.99 @ SuperBiiz)  Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($44.49 @ Newegg)  Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 4GB Superclocked ACX 2.0 Video Card  ($491.99 @ NCIX US)  Total: $799.46 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-26 20:04 EDT-0400  
    This is assuming your case can handle ATX boards. Or you could go much cheaper with a GTX 970 for most of the performance of a 980. This would be my recommandation:
    PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant   CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($189.99 @ NCIX US)  Motherboard: ASRock H97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($72.99 @ SuperBiiz)  Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($44.49 @ Newegg)  Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 4GB WINDFORCE Video Card  ($350.99 @ NCIX US)  Total: $658.46 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-26 20:08 EDT-0400   You probably won't get 60 fps locked ultra on Witcher 3 at that resolution (which is 85% of 1080p), as my 970 gets 60 fps high on Witcher 3. But almost everything else you'll get 60 fps ultra as long as it's not a CPU bottlenecked game like Arma III.
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    Lolzious
    jhonny got a reaction from Lolzious in Who is the fanatic, really? Yes, it's one of those threads again   
    To recommend a card we need more info. Are you 4k? What size is your build? do you want to crossfire or SLI in the future? We gotta know more because there really is no end all card in the market. Even ignoring performance as a whole some people will take a 5 fps hit for a card that looks god damn bad ass.
     
    Ohh and BTW Nvidia drivers aint that grand either, took me a week to make an SLI set up work compared to plug and play on crossfire
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    don_svetlio
    jhonny got a reaction from don_svetlio in Who is the fanatic, really? Yes, it's one of those threads again   
    To recommend a card we need more info. Are you 4k? What size is your build? do you want to crossfire or SLI in the future? We gotta know more because there really is no end all card in the market. Even ignoring performance as a whole some people will take a 5 fps hit for a card that looks god damn bad ass.
     
    Ohh and BTW Nvidia drivers aint that grand either, took me a week to make an SLI set up work compared to plug and play on crossfire
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