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Just now, FrozenSpark said:

I have one and its OC'd to 1556Mhz and runs every single AAA game i have (including Mad Max, GTA V, BF4, Tomb Raider, And Almost Max In ARK Survival oh and also Witcher 3).

Yup, so do I. It struggles with The Division.

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On 4/4/2016 at 11:03 AM, dizmo said:

Yup, so do I. It struggles with The Division.

Maybe u havent OC'd yours as high as mine then :3 because i got The Division with my GPU and i get Max settings with 2xAA 45-60FPS 1080p ;P

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2 minutes ago, FrozenSpark said:

Maybe u havent OC'd yours as high as mine then :3 because i got The Division with my GPU and i get Max settings with 2xAA 45-60FPS 1080p ;P

 

What 970 do you have and how high did you OC it?

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23 hours ago, Xtreme Gamer said:

 

What 970 do you have and how high did you OC it?

I have the Gigabyte Gaming G1 GTX970

Here: http://www.jw.com.au/gigabyte-gtx-970-4gb-gaming-graphics-card-gv-n970g1-gaming-4gd-p-55139

And it was my first time overclocking a GPU so i dont know? i just followed a tutorial and it was the absolute best i could get with MSI Afterburner.

I also OC'd the ram 100Mhz

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8 minutes ago, FrozenSpark said:

I have the Gigabyte Gaming G1 GTX970

Here: http://www.jw.com.au/gigabyte-gtx-970-4gb-gaming-graphics-card-gv-n970g1-gaming-4gd-p-55139

And it was my first time overclocking a GPU so i dont know? i just followed a tutorial and it was the absolute best i could get with MSI Afterburner.

I also OC'd the ram 100Mhz

 

What do you think? Go for 970 or 980 or wait for pascal?

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On 4/4/2016 at 11:20 AM, Xtreme Gamer said:

 

What do you think? Go for 970 or 980 or wait for pascal?

970 when the new GPU's some out because it will be cheap!

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1 hour ago, FrozenSpark said:

970 when the new GPU's some out because it will be cheap!

 

I was considering for a bit to go with 2 way 960 sli but stopped that thought due to possible incompatibility for my game and editing programs. For th 970, which due you recommend? Reference or non-reference?

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On 4/4/2016 at 3:45 PM, Xtreme Gamer said:

 

I was considering for a bit to go with 2 way 960 sli but stopped that thought due to possible incompatibility for my game and editing programs. For th 970, which due you recommend? Reference or non-reference?

DONT GET REFERENCE! They have bad overclock! Get the MSI or Gigabyte version!

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Not worth going from 960 to 970. 

I'm going from 760 to 1070(X70) at least to have a noticeable improvement. 

 

If Pascal wasn't few months away from release then going for 900 series would be totally reasonable and my suggestion number 1.

 

That said, my 769 can still play 1080p at 60fps. Not on ultra nor high settings but combo of medium/high. 

 

I doubt your CPU is bottlenecking u at anything and therefore I don't recommend upgrading it as impact would be minimal. I would say hold that thought until next year when Intel releases new gen cpu. i7-3770k still has all the horses you need for gaming.

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14 hours ago, Xtreme Gamer said:

Which upgrade should I do first? Cpu motherboard and possibly ram? Or the GPU? Some of the games this year say that it needs a minimum of a 4th Gen cpu and a gtx 760 or something like that. All I want to do is be able to play the game at 1080p and a minimum of 40-50 fps hopefully 60fps. I currently have a i7 3770k and a gtx 960 strix. I do want to upgrade but I don't know if I should do the gpu first and go 970, 980 or wait for pascal. Or go for a newer cpu. I am hesitant on skylark because of the price of i7 skylark and the ram. What do you guys think? Besides gaming, I am also gonna do premiere pro after effects and photoshop. And general stuff too.

ffs..sitting here with a fx-8350 and a 760 like, "this is decent, I'm content with this, maybe new GPU whenever Pascal comes out but still." 

 

as as of right now, you'd be fine with everything CPU wise, and for a long time. it's a K series so you can overclock it whenever it becomes a bit outdated, so I would wait for Pascal and get the mid range/high end card, if it's a improvement from the 980 and 980ti.

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9 hours ago, Xtreme Gamer said:

 

I was considering for a bit to go with 2 way 960 sli but stopped that thought due to possible incompatibility for my game and editing programs. For th 970, which due you recommend? Reference or non-reference?

please never get a reference. Not that good of temps, terrible over clocks, not very pretty either. 

 

evga and MSI are some some good brands to look at.

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