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Need Help Pc Upgrade

What should I upgrade?

  • The GPU

    Votes: 4 50.0%

  • The Processor

    Votes: 7 87.5%

  • The Motherboard

    Votes: 6 75.0%

  • My RAM

    Votes: 4 50.0%

  • The Case (Haf 932)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    8
Glad your feeling better mate, also glad to see your doing some research! :onya

Yeah, the Pascal will be a beast of a card, I don't think it will be worth anywhere near the price they will be asking for it though. A GTX 980 ti would be great, it all depends on how much they drop the price though, it shouldn't be long before we have an idea though!
 
I did a little bit more research and maybe the Pascal will even be released in May!! I can't wait!

EDIT: I did even more research and now they said it would be presented in April at GTC (No clue of what it is, but I think some convention about GPU's).
 
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Nope. May it is!
I have done some research and it does sound like a great card to have, but I don't know if I can fit it in my budget.
Mayble the GTX 1070 will fit better and if not, I'll just take the GTX 980ti. It would probably work perfectly on every game I play. Usually I don't play the newest games. Maybe the newest game I play now, is Scrap Mechanic (Great game, by the way!).
 
TechnicJelle said:
Mayble the GTX 1070 will fit better and if not, I'll just take the GTX 980ti. It would probably work perfectly on every game I play. Usually I don't play the newest games. Maybe the newest game I play now, is Scrap Mechanic (Great game, by the way!).
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If you're not looking to play the newest games at max settings, maybe you should consider getting something cheaper than a 980ti? It seems like overkill to me, since it's a very high-end card. I'd recommend a GTX 960 or similar card for less graphics-intensive games, or if you don't mind playing newer games at medium/high settings. If that's not quite powerful enough for your tastes, a GTX 970 would definitely be the best all-round choice, in my opinion; not quite as powerful as the 980, but very good value for money.
 
GTX970 is fine for any game, I've an old 3770 1155 i7, 8GB of RAM, and there is nothing I cannot play at an acceptable level.
I've run my own computer business for the last 16 years, and doing it on the side since the C64, and in that time found two types of buyers, the one's who want the job done with no fluff and those who want bragging rights.
 
But the thing is that I don't play games only.
I render selfmade animations and pictures too. And the better GPU I have the faster the rendering goes.
My parents are not so happy when I have to render through the night.

There is VR, which I want to try later too and that needs a good computer too.

And I do not really care about max settings at 4k and 144 Hz, 1080p 60fps and even the lowest settings would good enough for me. It would be cool to try better, but then it is, indeed, only for the bragging rights.
 
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Armada said:
If you're not looking to play the newest games at max settings, maybe you should consider getting something cheaper than a 980ti? It seems like overkill to me, since it's a very high-end card. I'd recommend a GTX 960 or similar card for less graphics-intensive games, or if you don't mind playing newer games at medium/high settings. If that's not quite powerful enough for your tastes, a GTX 970 would definitely be the best all-round choice, in my opinion; not quite as powerful as the 980, but very good value for money.
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I was thinking about getting the 960 instead. But then I saw the price of the 970, and there is not that much difference with the price of the 960.
Later I heard the new GPU line was coming out so most likely the price of the 980ti willen drop and won't be much more expensive then the price of the 970 is now.

I have been thinking today about what if I would buy the parts, but not the GPU yet, so I can save up and, later, get a really good one.
 
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TechnicJelle said:
But the thing is that I don't play games only.
I render selfmade animations and pictures too. And the better GPU I have the faster the rendering goes.
My parents are not so happy when I have to render through the night.
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In most cases, I believe it's the CPU that improves render time, not the GPU. Only specific renderers like Nvidia Iray make heavy use of the GPU, but you're more likely to use something like Mental ray, which uses the CPU.

Rendering overnight is indeed a pain, but sometimes it's the best option. I had to render around 2700 frames of an animation a few weeks ago for my degree, and I did that with three or four overnight rendering sessions to make sure my PC was free to use during the day in case I needed to change anything.

TechnicJelle said:
There is VR, which I want to try later too and that needs a good computer too.
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In that case, you'll need a 970 or better for the optimal experience.
 
Armada said:
In most cases, I believe it's the CPU that improves render time, not the GPU. Only specific renderers like Nvidia Iray make heavy use of the GPU, but you're more likely to use something like Mental ray, which uses the CPU.
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But with the program I use to make my animations (Blender), you can choose yourself what you want to use. Default is indeed the CPU but you can change it to using the GPU, instead. And I believe the GPU would be the fastest for some animations.
 
I came up with another question:
What are your experiences with cooling?
Because I don't have any, and I find the choice between aircooling and watercooling very difficult.
 
TechnicJelle said:
I came up with another question:
What are your experiences with cooling?
Because I don't have any, and I find the choice between aircooling and watercooling very difficult.
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For gaming a $50 coolermaster CPU cooler is plenty, even for light to medium overclocking if your case is decent, heavy overclocking I'd use water cooling for sure.
 
Thanks!
I think I won't do (much) overclocking anyway.
 
Do others have any tips, tricks, advices or experience about cooling they want to share?
 
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Now that the new GTX 1070 is released, I'm thinking of getting that one.

Any opinions on that?
 
AMD recently announced the RX 480, which might be worth looking at since it will cost about half as much as the GTX 1070 when it launches at the end of this month.
It's a Polaris GPU that's VR capable, and apparently its performance could come close the GTX 980 at high clock speeds.

If you'd prefer to spend more, the 1070 will probably serve you well. However, if you'd rather save some money and still have a very powerful card, the RX 480 might be just what you're looking for. ;)
 
TechnicJelle said:
Now that the new GTX 1070 is released, I'm thinking of getting that one.

Any opinions on that?
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Careful...you could play that game indefinitely. A newer/better card comes out end of next month, then as you're about to pull the trigger on that, news comes out that a couple months later, something even better, and even a little cheaper, so you wait on that one. Time draws near, anxiously ready to buy, oh wait, another is coming out soon, and it could be awesome, better wait for that one....and on and on it goes, and you never get a new card LOL
 
ChezJfrey said:
Careful...you could play that game indefinitely. A newer/better card comes out end of next month, then as you're about to pull the trigger on that, news comes out that a couple months later, something even better, and even a little cheaper, so you wait on that one. Time draws near, anxiously ready to buy, oh wait, another is coming out soon, and it could be awesome, better wait for that one....and on and on it goes, and you never get a new card LOL
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You are not wrong! :rofl :rofl :rofl
 
Right now I have an AMD card and I don't like the software bundled with it.
Nvidia, however, has great software.
 
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