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| Thread ID: 135199 | 2013-10-07 04:56:00 | Gaming PC Build! Need advice :) | LiMiT (16997) | Press F1 |
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| 1355272 | 2013-10-09 01:17:00 | Just saying the 760 is quite a pointless buy atm, in fact buying any of the new AMD or Nvidia cards is almost completely pointless unless your going for the best. Due to all the retailers trying to sell stock you can pick up a AMD 7950 for about $60 less than the 760 and the 7950 has better performance and more vram. Im by no means an AMD fan boy but as it has been for the past few years if your going for something that isnt the best card on the market you will almost always get better bang for you buck from AMD. The truth of it is that lower prices are all AMD can really offer in competition to Nvidia who was previously holding back as to not drive their competitor out of the market. Aswell as this if AMD's new api called mantle becomes a success you will be wanting an AMD card. |
Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1355273 | 2013-10-09 02:10:00 | This is what they said... HI Blake yea, i can free change the ram to 2 x 4Gb, just leave a note on the delivery note area i just saw you upgrade the Graphic card, Would recommend upgrade the PSU to 550W Continuous 80 Plus Silver or 650W Continuous 80 Plus silver, cause the 600W Max is none 80 Plus, continuous power is less than 500W, |
LiMiT (16997) | ||
| 1355274 | 2013-10-09 04:27:00 | Still no mention on the brand... which actually matters a *lot* when it comes to PSU's. Last thing you want is for it to fail, go BANG, and take out your graphics card etc on its way out... |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1355275 | 2013-10-09 04:55:00 | Still no mention on the brand... which actually matters a *lot* when it comes to PSU's. Last thing you want is for it to fail, go BANG, and take out your graphics card etc on its way out... "If" its from the shop mentioned in the original post 2moro & it Looking at their site the Wording ( as how they are described) they are FSP's |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1355276 | 2013-10-09 06:58:00 | Ill confirm it with them.. FPS is good? What amount of watt would suit this build? | LiMiT (16997) | ||
| 1355277 | 2013-10-09 07:16:00 | Brand new AMD cards coming to PB Tech on Sunday, 260, 270, and 280X series | darkoverlord123 (16996) | ||
| 1355278 | 2013-10-09 07:32:00 | Are they better then GTX 760? | LiMiT (16997) | ||
| 1355279 | 2013-10-09 07:58:00 | The 280X should be, the others won't be. The 280X is effectively a 7970. Whether they're better value, depends on how much they release at here. As Slanky pointed out, you can get a 7950 for ballpark same price as a 760, and they're very similar in performance - so much so that which is better varies from game to game. Personally, I tend towards nVidia for graphics cards, simply because all my experiences with owning AMD GPUs has been negative (and I'm actually quite the AMD fanboy, went over 10 years without buying an Intel CPU until fairly recently). | inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1355280 | 2013-10-09 20:48:00 | Yeah the only reason to get the amd one is if you need the vram or need to save some money. Plus if mantle becomes a thing it would be quite nice to have an AMD card. | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1355281 | 2013-10-09 22:18:00 | I wouldn't call a 760 pointless, in the Nvidia range it's the best bang for buck you can get and until these new AMD cards are available so we can look at prices there is currently nothing commonly available at it's price point ($430-$450 approx) that's any better. yes a 7970 or 280X is better, but they cost more also and compete with the GTX770 not the 760. If the 280X is available at the same price sure, otherwise I'd stick with the 760. With any hardware but PC's especially there is always something better coming, you just have to pick the best deal at the time when you are looking and be happy. Maybe at times like this were the cards are only a week or two away it's worth waiting, but prebuilt systems make take a while to show up with the new cards as well. I got my 7970 about 2 weeks before the 760 was released, otherwise I'd have a 760 myself. Yes it's a little slower but much better value and good enough for the 1080P settings I use. OT: The way things are going I may have to stop building PC's for a while, the last few "upgrades" haven't really been needed so I may be down to just a graphics card evey 18 months or so until games catch up to current hardware, depressing I love building my new machine most years. Maybe I should start saving up for a high end beast in a couple of years :) |
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