Time for a PC upgrade. Ideas? - by SubJeff
Renzatic on 14/12/2016 at 23:27
A 1070 is perfectly fine. It's at least as fast the high end 980ti's of the last generation, but with comparatively better performance gains from DX12 applications. It'll only fall short if you intend on playing games in 4k, which, hell, even the current high end cards out now struggle with.
SubJeff on 15/12/2016 at 18:28
So the highest end cards are these 1080s? It's an odd number to choose since it's the same as a common screen res (1080p).
The 1070s are expensive enough. It'll be the most expensive gfx card I'll have bought.
Renzatic on 15/12/2016 at 20:40
The highest of the high end are the Titan cards, and you'd be dropping at least a grand on one of those. The brand line, from top to bottom, goes something like :Titan, x80, x70, x60, etc. etc. The 70's usually offer the most bang for the most buck of all their cards. They're the best performing, and the most future proofed for the price.
And yeah, right now GPUs are about the most expensive they've ever been. You'll be dropping a bit if you want a good one.
Gryzemuis on 17/12/2016 at 00:52
Quote Posted by SubJeff
It's that GFX card that's bothering me now. Is it fast enough?
Another way to look at it, is asking yourself: "if the gtx1070 isn't fast enough, then what card is fast enough ?". The answer is: that can only be the gtx1080. Because there is only 1 videocard in the world faster than the gtx1070. That fact should tell you that the 1070 is a pretty fast card. :)
SubJeff on 17/12/2016 at 18:10
Yeah, I think I'm going to go for it. I need some more opinions though.
SubJeff on 17/12/2016 at 18:27
So apparently there are some BIOS bugs with those KRAIT mobos.
I've been suggested an Asus Z170-A ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£129.95 @ Amazon UK) or Gigabyte GA-Z170XP-SLI ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£116.70 @ Aria PC) over at Tom's Hardware.
Matthew on 18/12/2016 at 15:30
I'm not really a fan of the Asus board that I have in this current system; rightly or wrongly over the years I've gotten the impression that things keep going wrong with it.
Renzatic on 18/12/2016 at 16:37
I have a Gigabyte board, and other than this one really, really strange incident a couple months back where it decided to quit reading any ram in any slot other than in Bank 0, which I fixed by reflashing the EFI ROM (don't ask me, I still can't quite figure it out), it's been pretty solid.
SubJeff on 19/12/2016 at 23:03
I think I have to be careful with the Mobo as I'm planning on a Hackintosh.
