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AMD is releasing the HD8000 line in January. Nvidia is releasing the GTX 780 line in March. Should I upgrade my GTX 680 to the HD8000 in January, or should I go SLI?
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Rumors suggest that the next line of video cards will only provide about ~15% increase in performance.Do we even know anything about the HD 8000 series yet? How could someone even make that recommendation?
AMD is releasing the HD8000 line in January. Nvidia is releasing the GTX 780 line in March. Should I upgrade my GTX 680 to the HD8000 in January, or should I go SLI?
http://wccftech.com/amd-hd8000-sea-island-15-percent-performance/how do you know this? sources?
I can get a second Galaxy GTX 680 for ~$375 from Amazon. Add on a Twin Turbo II to make it cool and quiet, and I'm sitting around $425. The new cards will cost about $530 shipped, if the last generation was any indicator.
Seems like I should just go SLI and upgrade the GPU in 2014.
AMD is releasing the HD8000 line in January. Nvidia is releasing the GTX 780 line in March. Should I upgrade my GTX 680 to the HD8000 in January, or should I go SLI?
Clearly I'd prefer not to wait Currently my fps drops to < 30 in Starcraft 2 when playing 4vs4 at 1080p on max settings. That's too much decrease in performance, and I'm not interested in changing the graphics settings just for when I play 4vs4.How about waiting until its actually available?
Clearly I'd prefer not to wait Currently my fps drops to < 30 in Starcraft 2 when playing 4vs4 at 1080p on max settings. That's too much decrease in performance, and I'm not interested in changing the graphics settings just for when I play 4vs4.
Same cpu OC as me - I take it you have a GTX 680? I was considering a cpu upgrade, but I'm not sure what's truly an 'upgrade' from a 4.7GHz i5.I am pretty sure those drops are CPU related. Lately I play the 4v4 crapfest instead of the usual 1v1 goodness and have such drops even on low 1080p settings. 2500k @ 4.8 GHz.
I am pretty sure those drops are CPU related. Lately I play the 4v4 crapfest instead of the usual 1v1 goodness and have such drops even on low 1080p settings. 2500k @ 4.8 GHz.
Same cpu OC as me - I take it you have a GTX 680? I was considering a cpu upgrade, but I'm not sure what's truly an 'upgrade' from a 4.7GHz i5.
Probably wont even need to upgrade then. A pair of GTX680's is a MONSTER amount of muscle and should probably still be plenty capable in '14.
It looks like Haswell releases in April 2013. I think I'll plan on upgrading cpu and video card around April-May of 2013. Will the new cpu work in the same socket as the i5 2500k, or will it require a new motherboard?The performance drop you're referring to is almost certainly CPU related. Unless you've somehow hacked MSAA or SSAA 16x into SC2, that game is a joke for a 680 at 1080p.
Turn off HT, make sure your CPU is not throttling, etc. You can't upgrade until Haswell.
Just Starcraft 2, but I believe that is CPU bound. I will play Farcry 3 now that I just realized it has been released. lolWhat do you have that the GTX680 won't run??? I am a fan of AMD but in your situation I would wait until AMD releases and then see what happens to the price of the GTX680. This is a "tock release" from both companies so the biggest thing will be lower power requirements and a small increase in speed. The AMD 9000 series and the GTX 800 series is where the significant speed advantages are suppose to occur. Also, what resolutions are you running?
About maxing out Farcry 3... IN the campaign I am running it maxed out with a pair of ATI/AMD 5870's. It is made more for stealth than run & gun. I do not play multiplayer so that may be a different story. Crysis 3 IS going to need mega horse power in both the GPU & CPU arena. However, that is not suppose to be released until the last part of Q1 or early Q2. If you are a Crysis player then that is what I would look at before making any final decisions.
I am pretty sure those drops are CPU related. Lately I play the 4v4 crapfest instead of the usual 1v1 goodness and have such drops even on low 1080p settings. 2500k @ 4.8 GHz.
Applying bloated AO hardly makes a game worth "maxing out." Reminds me of Bokeh in Just Cause 2 or Depth of Field in Metro 2033.Far Cry 3 TODAY requires 680 SLI at 2560x1600 and you still cannot max it out
Applying bloated AO hardly makes a game worth "maxing out." Reminds me of Bokeh in Just Cause 2 or Depth of Field in Metro 2033.
True. Actually you can turn everything to max on FC3 and get very good frame rates, the only setting NOT "maxed out" is 8 x MSAA, they used 4 x MSAA in the [H] review.
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