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Thanks guys. Good to know a 159.00 card would give me a lot better performance than my old 2012 card.
BTW, what is a good AMD/nVidia card under 200.00? Or is spending 200 a waste of money and I need to spend more?
I'm going to eventually upgrade my old monitor and I will probably do so with a 144hzmodel at 1080.
Hey, I didn't know that. I keep all of my cards for trouble shooting problems. I have two others right now, one an old what, nVidia Gforce 7800 OCed card, lol. I still have my behemoth nVida GTX 295 dual GPU card. That thing would make a great boar anchor. It weighs enough. Thanks for the tip. I wonder if the GTX 295 is worth anything?When you find something don't haphazardly throw that card out. You would be surprised what they can fetch on eBay. They do great FP64 work for distributed computing
Hey, I didn't know that. I keep all of my cards for trouble shooting problems. I have two others right now, one an old what, nVidia Gforce 7800 OCed card, lol. I still have my behemoth nVida GTX 295 dual GPU card. That thing would make a great boar anchor. It weighs enough. Thanks for the tip. I wonder if the GTX 295 is worth anything?
The hd7950 is still a fairly stout card and also has a TON of overclocking headroom. If you overclock you're looking at 20-30% bump in performance.
You can definitely still play a lot of modern titles with medium settings on.
Wait for 5600xt and see how it does vs the 1650 super.
Oh, that GTX 295 card was a power f-ing hog when running full out. I wouldn't have replaced it but the games i wasplaying backwhen I did, in 2012,stopped coding for it's dual GPU. Otherwise, it was blowing toplevel brand new cards in 2012 completely away with raw FPS at any setting. It's Direct X was old though.I can't really say project wise, but if you have free power most Nvidia cards are decent. I think that one is quite a bit older than most I am familiar with.
Edit: not saying Nvidia cards are miserable with power.. lol. I meant that card in general. No different than the 7990's for instance being a dual AMD card.. power consumption is high.
How much would I have to spend to get high settings to play well 1080 today, with at least a two year life span until the next card upgrade?
You could have an old i5 or a brand new i7 and it wouldn't make a lick of difference with that gpu. Heck in most cases even an old i3 would not be any sort of limitation with a GPU that old at 1080p.I'm still comfortably running a 760gtx.. most will laugh, but as a 4gb card, with a powerful CPU behind it, it runs pretty well.
You could have an old i5 or a brand new i7 and it wouldn't make a lick of difference with that gpu. Heck in most cases even an old i3 would not be any sort of limitation with a GPU that old at 1080p.
Something like the GTX 1650 Super would literally be 2.5 times faster and I would consider that the minimum for newer demanding games at 1080p and 60+ fps.
It's ok. I grew up playing games at 30fps with a 300 ping. 60 fps at medium quality works for me. I rarely game, mostly just DC.
Thanks guys. Good to know a 159.00 card would give me a lot better performance than my old 2012 card.
BTW, what is a good AMD/nVidia card under 200.00? Or is spending 200 a waste of money and I need to spend more?
I'm going to eventually upgrade my old monitor and I will probably do so with a 144hzmodel at 1080.
How much would I have to spend to get high settings to play well 1080 today, with at least a two year life span until the next card upgrade?
Right now I am only going to play Mortal Online, Eve, and Mech Warrior Online.Just curious, what CPU are you combining this with?
Also, probably the most important question, what games do you play?
Right now I am only going to play Mortal Online, Eve, and Mech Warrior Online.
I'm assuming that AMD's drivers are just one download now, even for old cards like my 7950, so just download the latest all in one drive?
Did that last night, thanks. Don't know if I care for the driver interface. Why does everything have to look like a cell phone PlaySkool app these days?They have a common interface, just head to the website, select your card on the drop down menu, and you’re good to go.
PowerColor AMD Radeon RED Dragon RX 580 8GB GDDR5 1 x DL DVI-D / 1 x HDMI / 3 x DisplayPort Graphics Card (AXRX 580 8GBD5-3DHDV2/OC ) $169.00 !!!Get something cheap and sufficient now (RX 580/590 8Gb which are super-cheap new meaning less than $200) and wait for Ampere coming april 2020. Even the low end of that line of graphics card from Nvidia will trounce anything high end now.
It does Freesync.
Whew! Almost dumped a steamer right there!It does Freesync.
Here is the Red Dragon RX 580 8Gb in action running Ultra 1080p
What kind of FPS do you get if you lower it to High instead of Ultra?
I did two more videos with one being Ultra with lower FOV and here is High settings for you .. I remember Max was the highest settings once so your card didn't get slower as Ultra was just a step above it really in HD form .
I with someone had the 7950 and could post a few videos of it's performance.
i just upgraded from this card last year. got many years of gaming out of it, so i remember quite a few titles that it can play well on medium - high settings(shadows/antialiasing off or low of course) and get 50-60 fps:
DOOM 2016
battlefield 5
battlefront 2
mechwarrior online
cs:go
lotr: shadow of war
vermintide 2
evil within 2
warhammer total war
thats about the limit for that card, but a lot of decent gaming was done.
That came up in the thread about Nvidia's K/D "study." Some clown in there was saying how hardforum was declining because there weren't any enthusiasts who see the need for high end hardware like 240Hz+ gaming screens. I was thinking to myself, there's a lot of things computers can do other than play games...
Unless you remember trying to play online games via dial-up, or having to trick a broadband internet connection into thinking you were actually on a LAN, or remember using 3rd party apps to join servers (Gamespy)...get off my lawn .
I'm still comfortably running a 760gtx.. most will laugh, but as a 4gb card, with a powerful CPU behind it, it runs pretty well.
You could have an old i5 or a brand new i7 and it wouldn't make a lick of difference with that gpu. Heck in most cases even an old i3 would not be any sort of limitation with a GPU that old at 1080p.
Something like the GTX 1650 Super would literally be 2.5 times faster and I would consider that the minimum for newer demanding games at 1080p and 60+ fps.