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  1. RyanMacRocks
    Just curious. I was gonna see what they were selling for, $120 actually looks like the average price. I'm surprised people aren't buying new 370's for the same price instead tbh.
  2. RyanMacRocks
    Sometimes I build second computers and sell them to friends who want gaming PC's. The "second PC" in my sig is actually not mine, its one I just sold to a friend. I am also going to sell my scrapyard PC to a friend once its complete. Mostly just because building PC's is fun. I would probably keep them around for BOINC and Folding@Home if I had the money, however I don't, so I usually build a PC, sell it, then get just enough to build another and keep repeating it.
  3. RyanMacRocks
    I still think the 8800 will beat Intel HD graphics, I noticed a performance increase of about 40 FPS in CS:GO when switching between the Intel HD Graphics on my 4590 to a Radeon HD 4650 (really low end card) when my 7970 was broken.
  4. RyanMacRocks
    It's all good. To be honest, I didn't even pay attention to the new GPU's coming out until yesterday when I was reading about them.
  5. RyanMacRocks
    Uninstall current Nvidea drivers, then switch the cards out and reinstall drivers. Just select Geforce 8 series from the Nvidea website.
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    Yep. Normally I would say you made an excellent GPU choice, but its not exactly a great time to buy a GPU since the new ones are just coming out!
  8. RyanMacRocks
    Basically that's like filling one glass of water to 3/4 full and one 1/2 full and saying "well the glasses are the same size so its the same amount." Just because it has the connectors that your GPU, motherboard, and hard drives need doesn't necessarily mean it can power all of them.
  9. RyanMacRocks
    Depends on how much of a rush you're in. From what I've herd Nvidea reference coolers really aren't that bad (especially compared to my reference 7970 lol).
  10. RyanMacRocks
    Return it and wait until new AMD cards are released and private reviews for the GTX 1070 and the equivalent AMD card are released, then buy the better of the two (AMD or Nvidea) for price to performance. Or just pick up a 970 or 980 if you can find a really good deal).
  11. RyanMacRocks
    They don't beat the 780.. (actually the 7970 is about 80% the performance of a 780), they beat the 680, 770 (rebrand of 680), and 960 (rebrand of 770). They technically aren't rebrands, they are on different architectures, but each time a new architecture comes out the previous highest card is equivalent to the second highest card in the new architecture (ex. GTX 970 is roughly equivalent to the GTX 780)
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    lol ya forgot about that, I guess I did hear something about the 10 series having improved SLI scaling...is that true?
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    I doubt you will do be doing very much VR with that chip.. Oculus Rift/HTC Vive minimum CPU requirement for AMD is the FX-8350 which is basically about 2x more performance than your CPU. I would consider saving up for a while, then selling your current system and building a new system with something like an i5 6500 and a GTX 1070. If you only want to upgrade just the GPU for 300 pounds I would wait until the 1070 comes out and buy that. However, there will be a ton of bottlenecking. Basically what I'm saying here is your budget for a GPU is too high for your current system (because bottlenecking), and too low to build a new computer that will beat it.
  14. RyanMacRocks
    Ok, selling on eBay then?
  15. RyanMacRocks
    Agreed. You could probably get that much if you sold them on eBay, however idk if you could get as much for them on Craigslist or a similar local site. One of the advantages/disadvantages of Craigslist is things seem to go for less (higher risk for the buyer though). I bought a 7970 for $85 (really good deal), so I would not really feel comfortable buying a 270x for over $100, especially since the R7 370 is $120 new currently. Just my own opinion though, if you can get $120 for it, awesome!
  16. RyanMacRocks
    Yeah, probably best to wait. The 1070 will also probably be a little bit cheaper (maybe $350 instead of $379) and you could also sell your 8320/motherboard/270x if you wanted to and make some extra cash. You could probably get around $200-$250 for the motherboard, CPU, and GPU combined.
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    IMO, not worth it to SLI 3-4 cards anyway, anything over 2 GPU's in SLI and you get very diminishing returns. Probably the best GPU setup you can get right now while still being reasonable would be two 1080's in SLI.
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    I have an AMD card, so I've never tried it, but I've heard shadowplay works great, since you have an nvidea card. If not, I would use OBS, all screen recorders are going to be performace hogs, but OBS is as lightweight as possible for a screen recorder + lots of options for bitrate, encoding, etc.
  19. RyanMacRocks
    GTX 1080 should beat the 970's by quite a bit after SLI performance scaling...maybe if SLI gave you the full power of each card they would be almost equal but I would prefer the 1080.
  20. RyanMacRocks
    If you are willing to spend the extra money, a 1080 will deliver a significantly better experience form what I've heard so far, but the 980 Ti will still be a great card for many years (more than enough) so I would say both are equally good options, just depends on how much you want to spend.
  21. RyanMacRocks
    According to Nvidea, the GTX 1070 is equivalent to a Titan X ( I have no idea whether that is true or not, saw on Twitter last night). However if it is, your 8320 would probably be doing some significant bottlenecking on your gpu, in which case I would upgrade to Skylake. If I were you I would probably buy a 6600K instead of 6700K and use the 270x in the meantime while saving up for a 1070.
  22. RyanMacRocks
    Try using it without the Razer software and a generic mouse to try to isolate the problem.
  23. RyanMacRocks
    Your current power supply us probably fine, if your looking to make it cheaper though, I have a EVGA 600B (80 Plus Bronze) that I am happy with and have had no problems with, they are pretty cheap with good quality. They also have a 700 Watt one if you would prefer it.
  24. RyanMacRocks
    1. PCIe 2.0 is more than enough for the 960, 3.0 is not required. 2. There shouldn't be any bottlenecking, the FX-8350 is a plenty capable CPU and some people even use 980 Ti's with the 8350. 3. The 460W power supply is probably enough, but I would recommend getting a ~$40 500 or 600 Watt one by a reputable brand to be safe. Happy upgrading!
  25. RyanMacRocks
    I really hope this is a joke, if not then buy a used q6600 PC and add in a 750 Ti or R7 250.
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