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[Dees nutz]

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[VenomSpice]

i don't know if you are able to or not, but if you save a few more dollars, you can get the 1070 when it comes out. its only $379

[Hackentosher]

Yeah you'll be fine. But don't get a 970 as the 1070 just came out (if you can't tell by all the damn 1080 and 1070 posts in the new thread thing right there --->)

[Mohenjo]

3 minutes ago, scottpockets said:

Okay, so here is my question(s)

I have an ASUS P8H77-V motherboard. https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P8H77V/overview/

I'm wanting to upgrade my GTX 550 TI to a GTX 970 or better.

 

CAN I UPDATE THE GRAPHICS CARD?? I understand I might not get the full potential unless I update the RAM and maybe the CPU as well.  

 

I'm running the current specs

Intel Xeon E31220 @ 3.10 HGz

16GB of Vengeance RAM

and a 1000w modular power supply

 

 

Thanks,

 

Scott

Yes, your cpu is not bad even now! I would recommend waiting a week or so and getting a 1070! 

[Bananasplit_00]

get a used 970 or a new 1070, depending on what you want to spend and what you will be doing, the rest of the specs seems fine tbh so just go for it  

[Malaki Titi]

If you can't wait, buy a 970 at Fry's.

They have a 30 day return policy.  If the 970 drops in price, you can get the difference back and keep the 970.

If the 1070 is just a complete boss, return the 970 and buy the 1070.

They have no restocking fee.

[Arc_Jester]

13 minutes ago, Hackentosher said:

Yeah you'll be fine. But don't get a 970 as the 1070 just came out (if you can't tell by all the damn 1080 and 1070 posts in the new thread thing right there --->)

They are not out yet they have just been unveiled.

[Hackentosher]

2 minutes ago, Arc_Jester said:

They are not out yet they have just been unveiled.

Right, but honestly, what the fuck are the chances that it wont run PCIE 3.0 as an interface? Like Nvidia had demo machines at the launch event and unless they're also getting into the motherboard business, I seriously doubt it would use anything else.

[Arc_Jester]

5 minutes ago, Hackentosher said:

Right, but honestly, what the fuck are the chances that it wont run PCIE 3.0 as an interface? Like Nvidia had demo machines at the launch event and unless they're also getting into the motherboard business, I seriously doubt it would use anything else.

I never said anything about it not using PCI-e, obviously it uses PCI-e 3.0 since 4.0 hasn't been released yet and no one has bothered to implement 3.1 + anything PCI-e is backwards compatible with previous revisions.

[Hackentosher]

Just now, Arc_Jester said:

I never said anything about it not using PCI-e, obviously it uses PCI-e 3.0 since 4.0 hasn't been released yet and no one has bothered to implement 3.1 + anything PCI-e is backwards compatible with previous revisions.

But still, PCIE is backwards compatible, as you mentioned, so there's literally no reason why a 970 wouldn't be perfectly fine in the OP's situation. 

 

Sorry, this felt really hostile as I wrote it, I guess I just ingested a lot of NaCl recently