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DaPayne

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In my living room I have a computer attached to my TV, I don't use the HTPC a whole heck of a lot but I just upgraded my TV to a Vizio 4K TV.
Right now the system is.

256 SSD
Gigabit to SAN(I have a iSCSI mount that acts like a local drive)
GTX 760 2GB
i7-4770
16GB RAM
Gigabyte MB

I did have a 1080p display on it, and just bought the new TV tonight. Which video card would you get, or would you just SLI another GTX 760 to the the one system? I rarely if ever play games on the system, primarily it is used for watching You Tube/Plex/Web Surfing. In eight months I have only played Titanfall about 3 hours LOL. Sometimes I run OSX on the system I know SLI doesn't work that well with OSX, which doesn't concern me that much.

While the system is down I may put a i7-4790 processor in it and load Windows 10 onto it.
 
Does the TV have displayport? How much of a priority is actually gaming at 4K and with what settings/games?

If the answer to the above two is no or very low you might just want to wait for the GTX 950. It'll have HDMI 2.0 so you can get 60hz at 4k. It will also have HEVC hardware decoding for videos. It'll be the cheapest and lowest power card to hit those two criteria. Performance wise it'll be roughly the same as the GTX 760.

Not sure about the driver situation though if you need to run OSX.

Beyond that then the options are more numerous and you'll need to make more decisions. 4K gaming still requires compromise even at the high end.

SLI wouldn't benefit you other then gaming, so if you barely play then that would be pointless.
 
No DP on the TV, it does have a 60Hz HDMI which the GTX 760 will push to it. It won't do 60Hz under OSX.

OSX is just a sometimes deal on that machine.

If performance is going to be about the same I am just going to stick with the 760 or put a 980 reference that I have in it.

Yeah gaming is nil on this system.
 
You can run a 8800GT on that system if you don't want to game. I think your cpu does most of video processing.
760 will be more than enough for your needs. Getting another one would make no difference except increasing heat and power bill.
 
You should get something that supports:
HEVC (H.265)
HDCP 2.2
HDMI 2.0

so something like a 960 or wait for the 950 if it supports those features
 
If that TV does 4:4:4 at 60Hz, it's best to get a GTX 960 or wait for the 950 if you don't plan on gaming much.
 
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