Van Hellspit

Hi guys thanks for the reply a lot to take in and absorbed. All very informative. For them who asked my CPU IS THE i7 6800k, so I'm fairly sure it's not a bottleneck. Van.h

Hi all. Now this is in no way a bashing between AMD or Nvidea, I love and have had both makes of GPU, this is just a point about all high end cards, using my own experience. So basically I feel a little underwhelmed by my new upgrade. I went from an AMD 290x to the 1080Ti founders edition, the week they came on sale. I also upgraded my monitor from a 1080p Ben-Q 144htz to a 1440p 165hrz AOC Argon. I know I have doubled the amount of pixels on my screen and yes things do look a lot crisper and fresher, but I get around the same FPS as I did with the 290x as I do with the 1080ti at roughly the same settings. BF1 for example, On my old card at 1080p on ultra settings I got a solid 60-70 FPS, the new set up, with the slightly crisper graphics I get the same may be 10-15 FPS higher. I think as long as your over the golden 60fps then games are fully enjoyable and it gets a bit pointless. DOOM I got 200 fps on both cards OC on ultra settings. Its the same story for most games bar from a few increases in settings. Am I being silly, or doing something wrong?. I know that I've now future proofed myself for the years to come, but at a price of pretty much over £1300 I don't really see the worth in the upgrade (at least at this time) Plus there are still some games that I can max out ever setting. Tom Clancy The division being one, that's power hungry game is just insane. I would just others thoughts and feedback who have chosen to upgrade to the new high end generation of cards, weather they be the 1080/ 1080 ti, or the new AMD Vega Cheers Van. H

Man your old ;), I think its an age thin my friend. At 32 I'm still an avid PC gamer, but I get board after a few hours. Plus we have seen and played every type of game out there and regardless how fancy the graphics look, there still the same game. I think that's why I enjoy PUBG so much, a FPS but completely different to any game I played before. Same went for ARK survival evolved. Spent hours just sitting on a dino harvesting materials, at a nice slow old mans pace. So I think really or from my experience try different games.

All depends on your monitor and over all budget. If you can easily spare the further $100 then get the 1080. New architecture is always a win. But if the $100 could be better spent elsewhere and you only have a 1080p monitor (and don't plan on upgrading in the next 3 years), get the 980ti.

The 1080 will do 4k gaming but not at maximum settings and depending on the game (say AAA titles) not at the golden 60FPS. My advise is if your getting a 1080 then to go for a 2k or UHD gaming monitor. That way the games still look amazing, but you can run games on ultra at 60FPS and above. Truth is that max quality 60fps at 4k come from the higher end cards (1080ti) in SLI. I have a 1080ti at 2k and some games have trouble staying at 60 fps with all settings turned to high. Not very many though. I would rather go for less pixel density in a screen and of set that fro better graphics at a higher FPS Van.h

144hz monitor for sure. I recently upgraded from an AMD R9 290x (to a 1080ti) , which is the AMD equivalent of the 970. I had a 144hz monitor with that set up and that was an upgrade from a 60hz monitor. The difference is amazing. Once you go 144hz you will never go back. Plus the 970 will play Overwatch and PUBG no problem over 60fps, and the monitor will make the games look way more fluid and nicer. Van.h