Good Graphics Card

[Reel_Jida_Hours]

I want a graphics card, what should I get? My friend said I should also get a GPU, but I'm not sure what that is, can anyone tell me?

[gammatsunami]

GTX 1080

GPU is a graphics card

[Reel_Jida_Hours]

1 minute ago, gammatsunami said:

GTX 1080

GPU is a graphics card

Oh, haha, thanks for that man.

[Kurt101]

a good cheap card that is coming out soon is the rx 480 would recommend that, its about $200

[Murasaki]

5 minutes ago, Reel_Jida_Hours said:

I want a graphics card, what should I get? My friend said I should also get a GPU, but I'm not sure what that is, can anyone tell me?

Depends on what you are using it for.

Also what are your pc specs?

[l__T__l]

what's your budget and are you going to use it for games or computing?

[gammatsunami]

No problem

 

You didn't mention budget. GTX 1080 is the tippy top and the best.

 

If you have a budget, an AMD 480 is awesome.

[Kurt101]

2 minutes ago, gammatsunami said:

No problem

 

You didn't mention budget. GTX 1080 is the tippy top and the best.

 

If you have a budget, an AMD 480 is awesome.

truth indeed

[The Realist]

4 minutes ago, gammatsunami said:

GTX 1080

GPU is a graphics card

Nah man why not 1080's in SLI just to spice things up?

[Kurt101]

1 minute ago, The Realist said:

Nah man why not 1080's in SLI just to spice things up?

if i won the lottery i would have 4 1080s in sli with an intel xeon 22core

[gammatsunami]

7 minutes ago, The Realist said:

Nah man why not 1080's in SLI just to spice things up?

He did not mention a budget, so

[The Realist]

1 minute ago, Kurt101 said:

if i won the lottery i would have 4 1080s in sli with an intel xeon 22core

You cant have 1080's in 4 way SLI...LOL

[Kurt101]

you cant? haven't been paying attention just thinking back to 4 titan x in sli

[TheRandomness]

What's your budget?

8 minutes ago, Kurt101 said:

a good cheap card that is coming out soon is the rx 480 would recommend that, its about $200

It's already retailing for $180 to $260

[SpeederT12]

Depends. A graphics card is the big swaggy powerful... Card, that you put in your pc. A gpu stands for Graphics Processing Unit, and is the hearth of the graphics card. A lot of people use the word gpu when they mean graphics card (not every time though) because they are basically the same thing. When you buy a graphics card you have a gpu in it.

15 minutes ago, Kurt101 said:

you cant? haven't been paying attention just thinking back to 4 titan x in sli

Nvidia killed off 3 and 4-way SLI because they were unstable and the benefits for having 3-4 graphics cards are too small to account for the price you pay for 4 cards. Nv also officially supports ONLY 2-way sli, although the 3-4way configurations can still be achieved kinda unofficially when you use the old 3-4 way bridges. Nvidia now says that we should use the new high bandwidth bridge or the old LED bridge for optimal performance. Old flex bridges hinder performance a bit, but you can use 2 flex bridges to almost match a led or hb bridge

[Kurt101]

3 minutes ago, SpeederT12 said:

Depends. A graphics card is the big swaggy powerful... Card, that you put in your pc. A gpu stands for Graphics Processing Unit, and is the hearth of the graphics card. A lot of people use the word gpu when they mean graphics card (not every time though) because they are basically the same thing. When you buy a graphics card you have a gpu in it.

Nvidia killed off 3 and 4-way SLI because they were unstable and the benefits for having 3-4 graphics cards are too small to account for the price you pay for 4 cards. Nv also officially supports ONLY 2-way sli, although the 3-4way configurations can still be achieved kinda unofficially when you use the old 3-4 way bridges. Nvidia now says that we should use the new high bandwidth bridge or the old LED bridge for optimal performance. Old flex bridges hinder performance a bit, but you can use 2 flex bridges to almost match a led or hb bridge

I am experienced with computers, its just i have not been paying much attention to the 1080 as im waiting for the 1080ti, because of this i did not realise they cut the 3-4 way sli support. I just assumed it would carry on the support from the titan x and 900 series.

[SpeederT12]

1 minute ago, Kurt101 said:

I am experienced with computers, its just i have not been paying much attention the the 1080 as im waiting for the 1080ti, because of this i did not realise they cut the 3-4 way sli support. I just assumed it would carry on the support from the titan x and 900 series.

Fair enough. 1080ti, a gamer's/enthusiast's wet dream...

[Kurt101]

1 minute ago, SpeederT12 said:

Fair enough. 1080ti, a gamer's/enthusiast's wet dream...

Agreed lol, 1080 nice step, 1080ti...... revolutionary.