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What brand and series of GPU do you guys use to play for all the games?

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  • ParahdoksParahdoks ✭✭
    edited September 2016
    I had the nVidia GTX 690, which to my knowledge was technically an SLI 680+680, right? I gave that one to my girlfriend to replace her AMD R9 240. The 690 had been in service to my computer for about 4 years, if I can remember correctly.

    Before giving the 690 to my girlfriend, I got the Gigabyte GTX 1060, and so far, I am incredibly impressed. I love it! For the price, it's also a card that can't be beat in the nVidia market, if you're looking at mid-priced cards (I think I got it for about USD$279).
  • ShowtekShowtek ✭
    Parahdoks wrote: »
    I had the nVidia GTX 690, which to my knowledge was technically an SLI 680+680, right? I gave that one to my girlfriend to replace her AMD R9 240. The 690 had been in service to my computer for about 4 years, if I can remember correctly.

    Before giving the 690 to my girlfriend, I got the Gigabyte GTX 1060, and so far, I am incredibly impressed. I love it! For the price, it's also a card that can't be beat in the nVidia market, if you're looking at mid-priced cards (I think I got it for about USD$279).

    last time gtx 690 is a beast!
    I just change my GPU from RX480 to GTX 1080 today and i can tell nvidia is still leading.
    Bcoz of the physX and the Gsync. Nvidia somehow winning.
  • NopiNopi ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 2016
    As I said I have a GTX 680. I know, or assume, that Tera doesn't benefit from SLI. How did Tera play on a 690? DId it go single card mode? Or by being pankaked together, is 690's SLI forced to always work?

    I have very little experience with SLI. In fact, my first and only SLI config was a set of 8600 cards back when Elder Scrolls Oblivion was a thing and Crysys 1 was still a new game. That's also when I learned the hard truth that many games out there still can't utilize SLI at all, and that with it enabled, the game performance was actually lower.
  • ParahdoksParahdoks ✭✭
    Nopi wrote: »
    As I said I have a GTX 680. I know, or assume, that Tera doesn't benefit from SLI. How did Tera play on a 690? DId it go single card mode? Or by being pankaked together, is 690's SLI forced to always work?

    I have very little experience with SLI. In fact, my first and only SLI config was a set of 8600 cards back when Elder Scrolls Oblivion was a thing and Crysys 1 was still a new game. That's also when I learned the hard truth that many games out there still can't utilize SLI at all, and that with it enabled, the game performance was actually lower.

    I think that it only benefited from the entire card. The card has 2 GPU's, yes, but if I'm not mistaken, the game reads both as one, so I think you can utilize the 690 to it's potential. It worked pretty damn good, too. It actually was not too much worse than my 1060. The 1060 gave me quite a significant boost, yes, but it wasn't a difference of like 20-30 FPS or anything. With the 690, I was still able to do Imperator HM without much issue. To be completely honest, too, the biggest difference I saw was that my 1060 gave me a more significant boost when I was streaming, over my 690, unless I'm going crazy lol.
  • NopiNopi ✭✭✭✭✭
    Parahdoks wrote: »
    Nopi wrote: »
    As I said I have a GTX 680. I know, or assume, that Tera doesn't benefit from SLI. How did Tera play on a 690? DId it go single card mode? Or by being pankaked together, is 690's SLI forced to always work?

    I have very little experience with SLI. In fact, my first and only SLI config was a set of 8600 cards back when Elder Scrolls Oblivion was a thing and Crysys 1 was still a new game. That's also when I learned the hard truth that many games out there still can't utilize SLI at all, and that with it enabled, the game performance was actually lower.

    I think that it only benefited from the entire card. The card has 2 GPU's, yes, but if I'm not mistaken, the game reads both as one, so I think you can utilize the 690 to it's potential. It worked pretty [filtered] good, too. It actually was not too much worse than my 1060. The 1060 gave me quite a significant boost, yes, but it wasn't a difference of like 20-30 FPS or anything. With the 690, I was still able to do Imperator HM without much issue. To be completely honest, too, the biggest difference I saw was that my 1060 gave me a more significant boost when I was streaming, over my 690, unless I'm going crazy lol.

    So that would put the xx90 as a better version of SLI? or has SLI improved so much that even having two cards, more games that don't officially use it can see it as a single more powerful card? I can't update my hardware right now because of poor, but I might need an update soonish when the 680 gets the potato denomination on more modern games.
  • HysphericalHyspherical ✭✭✭
    Nvidia GTX 650. Shadowplay was great but the new GeForce Experience is all kinds of screwed up.
  • FebbyFebby ✭
    EVGA GTX 980 FTW.
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