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Hi everyone,

I am planning to upgrade my gtx 760 but is it smart to buy a 1050ti or 1060 now or should I wait? I've read somewhere that in the early fall there could be a pascal refresh but there is no conformation about that... I am not waiting for Volta cause it aint coming very soon...

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Depends on what you're looking for. Pascal is coming up to it's aniversary soon. You'd have to imagine nividea has something in the pipeline to match up with the latest AMD cards hitting the market if only to maintain the media cycle. But yeah, the same advice holds. If you can get a great deal on a card buy it. If you can't then wait for the next cycle of cards. They'll either be so much better you won't care, or they'll drive the price of the current gen down.

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3 minutes ago, slightlyjaded said:

Depends on what you're looking for. Pascal is coming up to it's aniversary soon. You'd have to imagine nividea has something in the pipeline to match up with the latest AMD cards hitting the market if only to maintain the media cycle. But yeah, the same advice holds. If you can get a great deal on a card buy it. If you can't then wait for the next cycle of cards. They'll either be so much better you won't care, or they'll drive the price of the current gen down.

Well not that AMD put so much pressure on Nvidia, Vega isn't really what I expected and can you guess when those new cards could be announced?

4 minutes ago, TheOriginalHero said:

Buy from amazon uk if they ship to you

They don't ship to Belgium... 

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Volta is quite a way off, earliest I can see it arriving is that it's announced at CES 2018, so Q1-Q2 release. We know NVIDIA won't be launching anything before the holidays at least 

I spent $2500 on building my PC and all i do with it is play no games atm & watch anime at 1080p(finally) watch YT and write essays...  nothing, it just sits there collecting dust...

Builds:

The Toaster Project! Northern Bee!

 

The original LAN PC build log! (Old, dead and replaced by The Toaster Project & 5.0)

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"Here is some advice that might have gotten lost somewhere along the way in your life. 

 

#1. Treat others as you would like to be treated.

#2. It's best to keep your mouth shut; and appear to be stupid, rather than open it and remove all doubt.

#3. There is nothing "wrong" with being wrong. Learning from a mistake can be more valuable than not making one in the first place.

 

Follow these simple rules in life, and I promise you, things magically get easier. " - MageTank 31-10-2016

 

 

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1 minute ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

Volta is quite a way off, earliest I can see it arriving is that it's announced at CES 2018, so Q1-Q2 release. We know NVIDIA won't be launching anything before the holidays at least 

And do you have any idea for the pascal refresh? Or is that a fake rumour?

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Depends on what Pascal card you are getting. If it's 1070 or above level then I'd say go for it. Otherwise, just the 900 series will do.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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Just now, Lou said:

And do you have any idea for the pascal refresh? Or is that a fake rumour?

I'd say that's fake seeing as I have never hard of it, it's not on any road map I have ever seen and it feels pretty unlikely 

I spent $2500 on building my PC and all i do with it is play no games atm & watch anime at 1080p(finally) watch YT and write essays...  nothing, it just sits there collecting dust...

Builds:

The Toaster Project! Northern Bee!

 

The original LAN PC build log! (Old, dead and replaced by The Toaster Project & 5.0)

Spoiler

"Here is some advice that might have gotten lost somewhere along the way in your life. 

 

#1. Treat others as you would like to be treated.

#2. It's best to keep your mouth shut; and appear to be stupid, rather than open it and remove all doubt.

#3. There is nothing "wrong" with being wrong. Learning from a mistake can be more valuable than not making one in the first place.

 

Follow these simple rules in life, and I promise you, things magically get easier. " - MageTank 31-10-2016

 

 

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10 minutes ago, Lou said:

Well not that AMD put so much pressure on Nvidia, Vega isn't really what I expected and can you guess when those new cards could be announced?

They don't ship to Belgium... 

late in the cycle to announce this year. I'd have expected to hear something by now if they were going to hit the october- december launch window. Maybe febuarary, but they might delay it a bit longer to see what else AMD has in the pipeline. The vega cards didn't challenge their gaming line. They did do interesting things in the professional lineup however. anything that isn't cuda optimised those cards were better.

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Just now, Lou said:

And do you have any idea for the pascal refresh? Or is that a fake rumour?

I don't think so. Nvidia has ditched making refresh since the 900 series, Maxwell cards. In the past, old architectures like Fermi (4xx and 5xx) and Kepler (6xx and 7xx) got used for 2 generations, but Maxwell only appeared in one generation. I think Nvidia is not taking AMD lightly (unlike Intel hue hue hue) and will keep making progress in architecture.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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