New graphics card info needed

[preyfear]

hey peeps im new here , i am need ing a bit of help /knowledge if poss so here goes,

just bought myself asus crosshair v formula, amd bulldozer 8120 and 16gig of corsair 1600mhz ddr3 mem, atm waiting for my cm stormtrooper case, but what im wanting to know is what gpu card to go for atm i have a nvidia 9800gt 1024mb card which when it boots up says its a prototype not sure what thats all about maybe someone on here knows , anyways would like to know what would be a good option to go for atm im saving so any help would be appreciated.

thanks for listening /reading my post and cant wait for your replies

till then prey out.

 

[Kyze]

Depends on what u want to use it for, which games especially.

Maybe you take a look at the 78XX or even the 79XX for the little extra performance.

 

[preyfear]

Depends on what u want to use it for, which games especially.

Maybe you take a look at the 78XX or even the 79XX for the little extra performance.

yes its for games

rage bf3 batman aa and also anything that is upcoming , and that will last me for atleast 5yrs thats what im looking for as i wont be upgrading again for about 5yrs hope this helps a bit more

 

[PetrolHead247]

What's your budget? Also, do you run multiple monitors?

 

[jits h]

If you don't plan on upgrading on anytime soon, I think you would be better off getting the new 79XX series, a 79XX card would easily future proof you for quite sometime, but as petrolhead said, we need to know how much your willing to spend

 

[JezEngland]

2 x the best GPU available will be a good run for 5 years gaming and we will be on DX 12 or 13 by that time

 

[I Hunta x]

2 x the best GPU available will be a good run for 5 years gaming and we will be on DX 12 or 13 by that time

not realy essential, i was running an 8800gt up until january (4 1/2 years old roughly) and there wasnt anything it failed to run at 1080p and that wasnt even the top performer of the series.

@ op, a 2nd hand 580 can be picked up for around £200-250 and will last a fair while if thats within your budget,

 

[preyfear]

no i wont be running more than 1 display and no budget was gonna save for it which ever card i go for not entirely sure who to go with these days amd or nvidia was thinking around £700.00 mark

 

[alicarve]

go for the 680 or the 7970

 

[PetrolHead247]

680 or 7970 or you could go for 2 7950's, but make sure your PSU can handle it

 

[preyfear]

680 or 7970 or you could go for 2 7950's, but make sure your PSU can handle it

atm i have 850 psu guess im probably gonna have to get a new psu if go get either of these cards.

thank you all for your quick replies much appreciated.

 

[MaXiMiZe]

Welcome

 

[WillSK]

atm i have 850 psu guess im probably gonna have to get a new psu if go get either of these cards.

thank you all for your quick replies much appreciated.

If you get the 680 i'm pretty sure you won't need a new PSU for SLI as it consumes less power than the 580 for example. As for 2 7970's you might do but i'm not sure

 

[JezEngland]

A concern is with the memory. I don't understand this: I run 2 480's and MSI AB shows each cards memory being used, so for example: GPU 1 memory usage: 1400MB, GPU 2 memory usage: 1400MB, so I equal that to 2800MB = 2.8GB, but other forum member informed me that MSI AB is wrong, that only 1 cards memory is being used so it's only 1400MB, and it is not possible for both cards memory to be used because SLI is not designed like that.

So I think if that is true you could get a new 4GB GTX 680 for £500! Then get SLI later, so you have 4GB memory.

If it isn't true, get a standard GTX680 2GB the still go SLI later, so you have 4GB

 

[preyfear]

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A concern is with the memory. I don't understand this: I run 2 480's and MSI AB shows each cards memory being used, so for example: GPU 1 memory usage: 1400MB, GPU 2 memory usage: 1400MB, so I equal that to 2800MB = 2.8GB, but other forum member informed me that MSI AB is wrong, that only 1 cards memory is being used so it's only 1400MB, and it is not possible for both cards memory to be used because SLI is not designed like that.

So I think if that is true you could get a new 4GB GTX 680 for £500! Then get SLI later, so you have 4GB memory.

If it isn't true, get a standard GTX680 2GB the still go SLI later, so you have 4GB

thanx jex ill look into that.

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also thanks to all for there input anyone have links to these vid cards that have been mentioned in this post, would be appreciated . again thanks peeps

prey out

 

[I Hunta x]

A concern is with the memory. I don't understand this: I run 2 480's and MSI AB shows each cards memory being used, so for example: GPU 1 memory usage: 1400MB, GPU 2 memory usage: 1400MB, so I equal that to 2800MB = 2.8GB, but other forum member informed me that MSI AB is wrong, that only 1 cards memory is being used so it's only 1400MB, and it is not possible for both cards memory to be used because SLI is not designed like that.

So I think if that is true you could get a new 4GB GTX 680 for £500! Then get SLI later, so you have 4GB memory.

If it isn't true, get a standard GTX680 2GB the still go SLI later, so you have 4GB

The reason you dont add both cards memory together is because both cards need the same information loaded into their own memory, so whats stored in card 1's memory is also in card 2's memory, so that each card can address the information from its own memory instead of the other cards memory.

Basically ,say a game needs 1gb of memory and you have a 1.5gb card, that card will load all 1gb of the info thats needed into its own memory.

Now say you add a 2nd card in, because of the way 2 cards work together they basically do half the work each, both cards will load that 1gb into its own memory and will do half the work each.

So card A will essentially be doing frames 1 3 5 7 9 ect and card B will be doing 2 4 6 8 10 ect,

 

[preyfear]

ok thank you all for youre input , stuck between either 2 590's or 2 680's xd

 

[oO_KoPiTe_Oo]

I'd go for 2 590's myself

 

[I Hunta x]

I'd go for 2 590's myself

NO, terrible scaling in 99% of games.

2x 680 will demolish them in pretty much everything INCLUDING 3dmark, and 3d mark 11 has pretty good support for 4 GPU cores.

3d mark11 P scores on an identical system.

1x 590 = 9k

1x 680 = 9.5k

2x 590 = 13.5k

2x 680 = 15.5k

BF3 also only just gets slightly less fps from 1x 680 than 1x 590 iirc, with it being something like 55fps for the 680 to 60 fps on the 590 or somewhere around that mark for 1080p on Ultra.

 

[MaXiMiZe]

7950 for me