New GPU for PC

[scottyseng]

So shopping on Amazon (Sorry, stuck to Amazon because I have the Amazon store card for financing...otherwise I'd get Newegg).

 

I see the 1060 going for around $330ish (High, I know...they're around $280ish on Newegg). I also saw some used 980 Tis going for $340ish on Amazon. The 1070 is around $420 on Amazon.

 

I'm just looking for decent GPU to tide me over while I save up to buy a Quadro M4000 or the newer version of it.

 

I'm kind of leaning towards the used 980 Ti, but I just need something mid range to be honest, I'm running a 1440p screen, but the games I play shouldn't be hard to run at all, it's just the Neptunia Series (The newer Megadimension VII game has a min spec of a GTX 950)....my poor FirePro V7900 is getting low 20 to 15 fps constantly on 1080p (What I run the game at).

 

My brother has a 1060 that we just bought the other day and that one is pretty good, but they're kind of overpriced on Amazon at the moment. I see a lot of reviews to avoid the 3GB version of the 1060, so I'm ignoring those.

 

My PC does idle a fair bit though, as I'm usually just programming websites or doing work in non GPU reliant content creation.

[Electronics Wizardy]

6 minutes ago, scottyseng said:

save up to buy a Quadro M4000

Don't buy this. Its not any faster or better for waht your doing.

 

What are you doing?

 

Id buy 1060 depending of resolution and setting you want.

[aries757]

12 hours ago, scottyseng said:

So shopping on Amazon (Sorry, stuck to Amazon because I have the Amazon store card for financing...otherwise I'd get Newegg).

 

I see the 1060 going for around $330ish (High, I know...they're around $280ish on Newegg). I also saw some used 980 Tis going for $340ish on Amazon. The 1070 is around $420 on Amazon.

 

I'm just looking for decent GPU to tide me over while I save up to buy a Quadro M4000 or the newer version of it.

 

I'm kind of leaning towards the used 980 Ti, but I just need something mid range to be honest, I'm running a 1440p screen, but the games I play shouldn't be hard to run at all, it's just the Neptunia Series (The newer Megadimension VII game has a min spec of a GTX 950)....my poor FirePro V7900 is getting low 20 to 15 fps constantly on 1080p (What I run the game at).

 

My brother has a 1060 that we just bought the other day and that one is pretty good, but they're kind of overpriced on Amazon at the moment. I see a lot of reviews to avoid the 3GB version of the 1060, so I'm ignoring those.

 

My PC does idle a fair bit though, as I'm usually just programming websites or doing work in non GPU reliant content creation.

980ti

[Bronius]

Unfortunately, there's a lot of price gouging on Amazon in some cases. I have a 980 Ti and handles games fairly well on an 3440x1440 (Fallout 4 on ultra with modded HD textures runs very smooth). 

 

Linus did a video comparing GPU power with workstation grade GPU cards (Quadro) and gaming cards (GTX). If you're not doing anything autocad related or anything heavy production grade, stick to GTX cards. Sounds like you're mostly doing site programming?

[Pgat3000]

980ti is way more powerful than the GTX 1060!!

[scottyseng]

5 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Don't buy this. Its not any faster or better for waht your doing.

 

4 minutes ago, Bronius said:

Linus did a video comparing GPU power with workstation grade GPU cards (Quadro) and gaming cards (GTX). If you're not doing anything autocad related or anything heavy production grade, stick to GTX cards. Sounds like you're mostly doing site programming?

I usually do content creation work (Unity, Revit, 3DS Max, Maya, and programming...I'm really all across the board...working on indie games, blueprints for my dad's construction business, and websites for my friends). Hence the Quadro. My Firepro honestly handles my content creation workload fine (I'll just move over to the server when I need to use it), but it's getting eaten alive by what I thought would be a fairly easy game to run...

 

I originally got the FirePro because back in 2011, I had a Radeon HD 4850 and it kept crashing constantly on Revit / artifacted like crazy. FirePro fixed that.

 

I might just move the FirePro to the server and use it as a workstation and keep my desktop as a gaming PC.

[DarkBlade2117]

980Ti, also why do you need quadro, eheck even a titan XP is better unless you NEED, which is very rarely, 24GBs of VRAM.

[scottyseng]

4 minutes ago, DarkBlade2117 said:

980Ti, also why do you need quadro, eheck even a titan XP is better unless you NEED, which is very rarely, 24GBs of VRAM.

As stated above, I'm just being a bit picky on driver support for the content creation programs I run. I don't want to have issues with the programs I have (Also would like to have 10bit color output in the future). The Quadro M4000 is a 8GB card that's single slot...I never stated I was going for the top of the line Quadro M6000...

 

However, I'm not sure how good gaming drivers are these days since as you can tell, the last gaming GPU I ever had was the Radeon HD4850...from 2009...and this FirePro V7900 is like equal to a HD5850 (Actually less than that I think).

 

Though if I can get away with a 980 Ti and it works fine with my content creation programs, I'll be more than happy.

[Ierofanths]

I'd buy a non-ti used 980

[scottyseng]

3 minutes ago, Ierofanths said:

I'd buy a non-ti used 980

Cheapest I can see on Amazon is 285...I think I would take the hit and get the Ti version for $340 instead...

[DarkBlade2117]

1 hour ago, scottyseng said:

As stated above, I'm just being a bit picky on driver support for the content creation programs I run. I don't want to have issues with the programs I have (Also would like to have 10bit color output in the future). The Quadro M4000 is a 8GB card that's single slot...I never stated I was going for the top of the line Quadro M6000...

 

However, I'm not sure how good gaming drivers are these days since as you can tell, the last gaming GPU I ever had was the Radeon HD4850...from 2009...and this FirePro V7900 is like equal to a HD5850 (Actually less than that I think).

 

Though if I can get away with a 980 Ti and it works fine with my content creation programs, I'll be more than happy.

Get the Ti, and see how it does.

[grim46]

Hi I'm an competitive gamer from South Africa, As I am still a college student I don't have the money for a new or even high end  GPU my setup is as follows:

P7h55-M/usb3 Asus MB

with a i5-760 (LGA 1156)

8g Kingston 1333 Ram

7200rpm 2tb Segate HRam

and a msi gtx 750 TF oc (1g)

550watt PS.

and recently played BF1 and my PC absolutely SUCKED at play it hardly holding a constant 60fps at 1600x900. Now I could sell my card and buy a Zotac gtx 670 4g card would that be a "smart"  move?

[scottyseng]

5 hours ago, grim46 said:

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Hmm, personally, I would say how much is the 670? And you might consider a newer card to be honest. The 670 would be a tad slower...but honestly I would check the used market more...The 670 is kind of faster...but you're not going to see much of a difference...I also kind of find it hard to think that you'd be able to sell a 750 at a decent price these days...

 

8 hours ago, DarkBlade2117 said:

Get the Ti, and see how it does.

Ah, so the 340 dollar 980 Ti slipped away when I was in Calculus Class, however, a PNY 1060 6GB popped up for $269 ($249 + 20 for tax), thinking of getting that instead. A 980 Ti is netting around 360ish now...I'm leaning towards the 1060 now. Ah, it turns out that PNY card wasn't actually in stock (or it sold out while I was about to check out...). I just said screw it and got the 980 Ti for $360 used. I spent a hour just watching the GPU prices fluctuate like crazy on Amazon for the 1060...