gpu upgrade

[mackay_jason]

i have an amd a10 7800 radeon r7  12 g ddr3, gtx 960 gddr5, i want to up grade gpu to watch 4k vids on my 4 k tv, will my pc work with a newer card

[Streetguru]

23 minutes ago, mackay_jason said:

i have an amd a10 7800 radeon r7  12 g ddr3, gtx 960 gddr5, i want to up grade gpu to watch 4k vids on my 4 k tv, will my pc work with a newer card

4K videos from what service? If it's streaming it's most likely not better than 1080p streaming.

[mackay_jason]

17 hours ago, Streetguru said:

4K videos from what service? If it's streaming it's most likely not better than 1080p streaming.

downloads mostly, i get 300 mbs with my  fiber op

[Streetguru]

7 minutes ago, mackay_jason said:

downloads mostly, i get 300 mbs with my  fiber op

And you can't run the 4k files with VLC or whatever on your current PC?

[_Aontaigh_]

If you're looking to upgrade your GPU now it would be extremely beneficial to wait a tad longer until the release of Turing (i.e. 11XX or 20XX Series) which are more than likely going to be released at the end of this month around Gamescom. 

 

Source: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-gpu-release-date-rumors-2018,37391.html

 

You will have plenty of options around that time (i.e. purchasing one of the new cards, picking up a used current generation one, a new current generation one in clearance sales, etc.)

 

Also, that processor is going to very much limit the potential of a "beefy" GPU.

[mackay_jason]

8 hours ago, Streetguru said:

And you can't run the 4k files with VLC or whatever on your current PC?

i can but its not 4k my pc only does 1080 on the output, my tv will upscale but i want the best 4k i can get for movies and youtube from my pc

[Streetguru]

1 minute ago, mackay_jason said:

i can but its not 4k my pc only does 1080 on the output, my tv will upscale but i want the best 4k i can get for movies and youtube from my pc

You mean you need HDMI 2.0?

What budget/country?

[mackay_jason]

1 minute ago, Streetguru said:

You mean you need HDMI 2.0?

What budget/country?

in canada .... i want 4k vids from my pc on my tv, not even worried about games , im a ps4 guy

[mackay_jason]

Just now, mackay_jason said:

in canada .... i want 4k vids from my pc on my tv, not even worried about games , im a ps4 guy

$$$$ not tooo much a problem

 

[Streetguru]

8 minutes ago, mackay_jason said:

in canada .... i want 4k vids from my pc on my tv, not even worried about games , im a ps4 guy

You can just connect your PS4 to your PC over a network and stream the files through it I'm pretty sure, or just put them on a flash drive and open them on the PS4?
 

 

[mackay_jason]

Just now, Streetguru said:

You can just connect your PS4 to your PC over a network and stream the files through it I'm pretty sure, or just put them on a flash drive and open them on the PS4?

idk never tried ill look into it

[Streetguru]

1 minute ago, mackay_jason said:

idk never tried ill look into it

Or hook up an external hard drive to the PS4 and run them through that

[Streetguru]

2 minutes ago, mackay_jason said:

idk never tried ill look into it

Otherwise the cheaper HDMI 2.0 GPU is the GT 1030
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814932004

Or if you're feeling crazy switch to an R3 2200G PC and have it be totally fanless.

[mackay_jason]

Just now, Streetguru said:

Otherwise the cheaper HDMI 2.0 GPU is the GT 1030
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814932004

Or if you're feeling crazy switch to an R3 2200G PC and have it be totally fanless.

fanless?

[Streetguru]

1 minute ago, mackay_jason said:

fanless?

An R3 2200G is a CPU + Decent GPU in one 65W chip, so you can slap a giant air cooler on it and not need any fans to keep it cooled.

[mackay_jason]

2 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

An R3 2200G is a CPU + Decent GPU in one 65W chip, so you can slap a giant air cooler on it and not need any fans to keep it cooled.

thinking new board as long as i can use ddr3 ram and hard drives

[Streetguru]

10 minutes ago, mackay_jason said:

thinking new board as long as i can use ddr3 ram and hard drives

You would have to buy DDR4, although the new CPU would be like 50%+ faster or something, iGPU would be a downgrade naturally

Would have to double check motherboards for HDMI 2.0 looks like a lot of them support it, though they only list HDMI 1.4b, maybe because of the older APUs on AM4 only supported that HDMI.
 

[mackay_jason]

2 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

You would have to buy DDR4, although the new CPU would be like 50% faster or something, iGPU would be a downgrade naturally

Would have to double check motherboards for HDMI 2.0 looks like a lot of them support it, though they only list HDMI 1.4b, maybe because of the older APUs on AM4 only supported that HDMI.
 

i am no computer nerd by any means i just wank 4k thew my pc for as cheap as i can go using what i have if pos

[Streetguru]

5 minutes ago, mackay_jason said:

i am no computer nerd by any means i just wank 4k thew my pc for as cheap as i can go using what i have if pos

Then just buy a GT 1030 or RX 550 for like $90, they're still horribly overpriced. Should be $60, but they have HDMI 2.0

 

Or if you occasionally play PC games, get a GTX 1050ti for like $169, RX 560s/GTX 1050s are overpriced as well
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/NndFf7/zotac-geforce-gtx-1050-ti-4gb-mini-video-card-zt-p10510a-10l