Need Help Buying New GPU

[noseguard13]

So I just discovered how much the RX 400 and 500 series cards were going for on ebay and listed my rx 470 immediately. Currently, the highest bid is $320 and I might even get around 350 for it, but there have been similar cards go for around $400. So I've been looking to get a gtx 1060 but don't know really which one. Which is the best card in the $200-300 price range that I should get and that is actually available?  (It would be nice to pay around 250-275 but don't really want to go any higher).

[shadowbyte]

probably a used 980ti, something like a FTW or G1 Gaming card

overclocked, it's equivalent to a 1070

[noseguard13]

1 minute ago, shadowbyte said:

probably a used 980ti, something like a FTW or G1 Gaming card

overclocked, it's equivalent to a 1070

 

The problem is that i only have a i3-6100 in my PC. Anything more, even if I could buy it, would be bottlenecked by my CPU.

[Ordinarily_Greater]

5 minutes ago, shadowbyte said:

probably a used 980ti, something like a FTW or G1 Gaming card

overclocked, it's equivalent to a 1070

Yea, and better than three sli 970

[Ordinarily_Greater]

4 minutes ago, noseguard13 said:

 

The problem is that i only have a i3-6100 in my PC. Anything more, even if I could buy it, would be bottlenecked by my CPU.

GTx 970 then

[Shiv78]

5 minutes ago, noseguard13 said:

The problem is that i only have a i3-6100 in my PC. Anything more, even if I could buy it, would be bottlenecked by my CPU.

Doesn't matter, a bottlenecked 980Ti is better than a 1060 anyway. At least if you get the 980Ti you can upgrade your CPU later without having to upgrade your GPU again.

[noseguard13]

I'll keep a look out for both of those cards. If I were to get a new one, what would you recommend?

[Shiv78]

1 minute ago, noseguard13 said:

I'll keep a look out for both of those cards. If I were to get a new one, what would you recommend?

Save up a bit for a 1070, if your card goes for $350+

[Maigus]

I think the cheapest 1060 you can get is a "KFA² GTX 1060 3GB" for around 200€ 

[noseguard13]

3 minutes ago, Shiv78 said:

Save up a bit for a 1070, if your card goes for $350+

i3 with a 1070 lol....

[Maigus]

Just now, noseguard13 said:

i3 with a 1070 lol....

 

But Shiv78 is right, a bottlenecked graphics Card is better in your case since you pretty much have to upgrade your cpu at some Point in the near future 

[noseguard13]

Kinda laughing how I spend around $450 for my first build and with only like $200 more I can turn this into a high end pc

[Ordinarily_Greater]

1 minute ago, noseguard13 said:

Kinda laughing how I spend around $450 for my first build and with only like $200 more I can turn this into a high end pc

With $300 too, well the member of PC gaming just got  an upgrade

[noseguard13]

1 minute ago, Ordinarily_Greater said:

With $300 too, well the member of PC gaming just got  an upgrade

Screw it. Scraping all the parts to make a new computer... lol

[Maigus]

1 minute ago, noseguard13 said:

Kinda laughing how I spend around $450 for my first build and with only like $200 more I can turn this into a high end pc

 

I wouldn't call that high end, i spent around 1.900$ on my current pc and i dont think ist high end, high end imo is running 2 graphics Cards, but thats just my opinion  

[Ordinarily_Greater]

Just now, Maigus said:

 

I wouldn't call that high end, i spent around 1.900$ on my current pc and i dont think ist high end, high end imo is running 2 graphics Cards, but thats just my opinion  

Now my opinion, high end PC is using 850W> PSU and contains 2 Video Cards like what you said and 32GB Of RAM. Not leaving at least Ryzen 8 Core

[Ordinarily_Greater]

4 minutes ago, noseguard13 said:

Screw it. Scraping all the parts to make a new computer... lol

If you can get GTx 970 ACX 2.0 or twin frozr for $150 and managed to go for i7 i think it is great

[Maigus]

1 minute ago, Ordinarily_Greater said:

Now my opinion, high end PC is using 850W> PSU and contains 2 Video Cards like what you said and 32GB Of RAM. Not leaving at least Ryzen 8 Core

 

I agree, thats a high end set up!

I mean im in the top 14% of 3D Mark Time Spy Benchmarks but if you consider the gap between me and the top 1% you can say my pc is pretty far from high end 

[Maigus]

3 minutes ago, Ordinarily_Greater said:

If you can get GTx 970 ACX 2.0 or twin frozr for $150 and managed to go for i7 i think it is great

 

He has an 6xxx Series cpu, i think the i7 6xxx and 7xxx are pretty expensive and an i5 would be enough anyways if the pc is just for gaming 

[Ordinarily_Greater]

2 minutes ago, Maigus said:

 

I agree, thats a high end set up!

I mean im in the top 14% of 3D Mark Time Spy Benchmarks but if you consider the gap between me and the top 1% you can say my pc is pretty far from high end 

I think high end is ten percent

[Ordinarily_Greater]

1 minute ago, Maigus said:

 

He has an 6xxx Series cpu, i think the i7 6xxx and 7xxx are pretty expensive and an i5 would be enough anyways if the pc is just for gaming 

But how about the GTX 970? I think it can last for three years for the performance

[noseguard13]

1 minute ago, Ordinarily_Greater said:

But how about the GTX 970? I think it can last for three years for the performance

Doesn't the 1060 3gb beat the 970 though

[Maigus]

1 minute ago, Ordinarily_Greater said:

I think high end is ten percent

You could say that yeah, but you have to consider the gap, im around 7200 at top 14 percent, the top 1 percent have a score of around 13.000 if i remember correctly 

 

1 minute ago, Ordinarily_Greater said:

But how about the GTX 970? I think it can last for three years for the Performance

 

Yeah the gtx 970 is fine, i have one in my old pc that my gf is using and the pc can run pretty much every game on high Settings 60fps 

[Gohdan]

Are the R9 290x going for more than they should be right now too because of mining?  I've been looking at upgrading to a GTX 1070 or 1080 myself and I see the 290x listed for 250-400+ on eBay, more than I expected for a 4 year old card.

 

FWIW, the rest of my PC is an i5-6600k @ 4GHz and I use a 1440p Qnix monitor that caps out around 110hz.  So no freesync or G-sync but I'm definitely bottlenecked by gpu.

[Ordinarily_Greater]

1 minute ago, noseguard13 said:

Doesn't the 1060 3gb beat the 970 though

Umm, the 1060 is more expensive so you could not compare those.

 

but AMd succeeded to beat GTX 970 with 390X