660 Ti Upgrade Recommendations

[grss1982]

Hi LTT,

 

I'm rocking the following setup and plan to upgrade the video card. Budget is $200.

 

CPU: i7-3770

MOBO: B75MA-P45

RAM: 2x8GB HyperX RAM DDR3-1866

HDD: 1TB HDD (Have a SSD ready to upgrade to though.)

PSU: SeaSonic S12II Series S12II 620 Bronze

GPU: ASUS GTX 660 Ti DirectCU II (GTX660-TI-DC2-2GD5)

 

The games are fairly tame compared to what others play here.  Mostly TBS and spectating DOTA 2.

 

The TBS games are as follows:

XCOM: EW

XCOM 2

BattleTech

 

I game at 1080p and I'm open to turning off some eye-candy.  But I still struggle with XCOM 2 in maps with a lot of fire effects or when there's a lot of effects going off.  I'm also foreseeing similar problems with BattleTech.

 

I plan to upgrade the video card to remedy this and hopefully when I get off my lazy ass and play other AAA titles of the TBS genre.

 

I've actually seen local deals on used GPUs like an RX 570 4GB ($145) or a GTX 1060 6GB ($190).

 

Are any of those a good upgrade path for me?

 

I must admit though that part of me thinks this might be the wrong way to look at this issue and instead I should upgrade to a newer setup like maybe an AMD Ryzen with a boatload of cores for the current games I play?

 

Thanks in advance for any advice/guidance.

[Canada EH]

970ti is the value option now!

[Cereal5]

1 minute ago, Canada EH said:

970ti is the value option now!

This is not a GPU

 

You can get an RX 580 new in the US for around or under $200. That should last you a while at 1080p. I would try to find that instead of a used GTX 1060. You can also look for a used GTX 980 Ti, which should run you about $250, those are a fair bit better than the 580/1060.

[Canada EH]

4 minutes ago, Cereal5 said:

9780ti is the value option now!

fixed

[PeachyUwUSenpai]

the gtx1060 is the better route pretty much always reason to go amd gpu these days is if your going to do linux based distros( due to driver compatibility)  for windows 1060 is your best bet of the options you listed

[LukeSavenije]

9 minutes ago, Alaradia said:

the gtx1060 is the better route pretty much always reason to go amd gpu these days is if your going to do linux based distros( due to driver compatibility)  for windows 1060 is your best bet of the options you listed

Well, a 580 and 1060 go on par, just the cheapest is the best

[PeachyUwUSenpai]

Just now, LukeSavenije said:

Well, a 580 and 1060 go on par, just the cheapest is the best

it depends on what you want to do with it nvidia cards give a lot more options in the long run and as i stated of the ones listed and based on a 570 being 145 i wouldn't be surprised if the 580 was the same price as a 1060. i also wouldn't call them on par the 1060 is about 3-6 percent better in most realistic workloads 

[LukeSavenije]

4 minutes ago, Alaradia said:

it depends on what you want to do with it nvidia cards give a lot more options in the long run and as i stated of the ones listed and based on a 570 being 145 i wouldn't be surprised if the 580 was the same price as a 1060. i also wouldn't call them on par the 1060 is about 3-6 percent better in most realistic workloads 

Well, look at solidworks for example, that works way better on amd

[PeachyUwUSenpai]

1 minute ago, LukeSavenije said:

Well, look at solidworks for example, that works way better on amd

 

weird all of what i've read says the opposite. though either way as i said realistic workloads a person looking for a gaming gpu doesn't care about solidworks performance 

[LukeSavenije]

1 minute ago, Alaradia said:

 

weird all of what i've read says the opposite. though either way as i said realistic workloads a person looking for a gaming gpu doesn't care about solidworks performance 

It was just a example, I am a user of both, but I don't have those 2 cards

[grss1982]

Thanks for the comments, everyone. I am leaning to a 1060.  I've also seen used RX580 for $250 in my locale.

 

I'm surprised though no one suggested it could be my processor in general that's holding me back considering that the games I play use the Unreal 3.5 and Unity engine.  It's really a non-issue with the games I play?

 

I have seen by the way a Zotac GTX 970 AMP 4GB at roughly $160 in my locale.

[i_build_nanosuits]

21 hours ago, grss1982 said:

CPU: i7-3770

MOBO: B75MA-P45

RAM: 2x8GB HyperX RAM DDR3-1866

 

 

I game at 1080p and I'm open to turning off some eye-candy.

Thanks in advance for any advice/guidance.

i would go with a cheap RX /480//580/590 8GB card for 1080p and 3770

[Turtle Rig]

Grab a 970 GTX or 1060 .... shouldn't be that big of a bottleneck as your CPU is holding you back a little.  However if it's OCed that will help.

[gbergeron]

21 hours ago, grss1982 said:

Hi LTT,

 

I'm rocking the following setup and plan to upgrade the video card. Budget is $200.

 

CPU: i7-3770

MOBO: B75MA-P45

RAM: 2x8GB HyperX RAM DDR3-1866

HDD: 1TB HDD (Have a SSD ready to upgrade to though.)

PSU: SeaSonic S12II Series S12II 620 Bronze

GPU: ASUS GTX 660 Ti DirectCU II (GTX660-TI-DC2-2GD5)

 

The games are fairly tame compared to what others play here.  Mostly TBS and spectating DOTA 2.

 

The TBS games are as follows:

XCOM: EW

XCOM 2

BattleTech

 

I game at 1080p and I'm open to turning off some eye-candy.  But I still struggle with XCOM 2 in maps with a lot of fire effects or when there's a lot of effects going off.  I'm also foreseeing similar problems with BattleTech.

 

I plan to upgrade the video card to remedy this and hopefully when I get off my lazy ass and play other AAA titles of the TBS genre.

 

I've actually seen local deals on used GPUs like an RX 570 4GB ($145) or a GTX 1060 6GB ($190).

 

Are any of those a good upgrade path for me?

 

I must admit though that part of me thinks this might be the wrong way to look at this issue and instead I should upgrade to a newer setup like maybe an AMD Ryzen with a boatload of cores for the current games I play?

 

Thanks in advance for any advice/guidance.

GTX 1060 is what you need.

 

a gtx 970 would also be a good upgrade

[grss1982]

On 12/1/2018 at 11:39 AM, i_build_nanosuits said:

i would go with a cheap RX /480//580/590 8GB card for 1080p and 3770

I just got offered a Powercolor RX580 Red Devil and a Sapphire RX580  Nitro Plus.  Which one's better?  There's supposed to be a Golden Sample of the Red Devil but what I was offered was just a garden variety version.

[grss1982]

On 12/1/2018 at 11:39 AM, i_build_nanosuits said:

i would go with a cheap RX /480//580/590 8GB card for 1080p and 3770

Thanks for the suggestion.  I actually went with this: http://sapphirenitro.sapphiretech.com/en/580-8.html

 

Got it used for $200 (US). Got it from a friend who was using it for mining for less than 6 months. He's bugging out of mining while he can still sell his 580s.

 

 

But now I'm having a crisis with the PSU I have.