2016 GPUs 1070/1080 and 480/490

[caLLous]

I'm toying with the idea of a mining box atm so no thanks, I don't want your Nvidia cards.

I'm sure you will be happier with the 1080 than the 970s although I await the "do I or don't I" comments next year when HBM2 lands.

 

[Wij]

okay I bit the bullet and got a 1080! I ended up with the Inno3D GeForce GTX 1080 - iChill X3 - 8GB. Those pesky review sites tell me I'll be fine with it for a good time to come and it should outperform my two 970's well enough. Although it was quite expensive at 700odd eurobucks (~3000 GBP) it was over 100 eurobucks cheaper than the Asus. Sooooo if anyone wants to take my 970's off my hands, I still have the boxes and everything. The cards work quite well for all their flaws tbh.

Same one as me.

 

[TdC]

I'm toying with the idea of a mining box atm so no thanks, I don't want your Nvidia cards.

I'm sure you will be happier with the 1080 than the 970s although I await the "do I or don't I" comments next year when HBM2 lands.

depends a bit on what monitor I'll have. I'm not entirely chuffed with this Acer XB321HK tbh.

 

[caLLous]

depends a bit on what monitor I'll have. I'm not entirely chuffed with this Acer XB321HK tbh.

LG just announced a deeply sexy 38" curved ultrawide (3840x1600!) but it only has FreeSync.

 

[dysfunction]

depends a bit on what monitor I'll have. I'm not entirely chuffed with this Acer XB321HK tbh.

Oh why not?
I was looking at getting that in the near future.

 

[TdC]

you can buy mine if you like

it's a beautiful screen, but it turns out I play a lot of WOT and the visuals in that are fairly uniform and static. This means I can see the refresh of the screen as ghosting and that annoys the heck out of me. in high (er) speed games like, err, well anything other than WOT I don't see it.

 

[dysfunction]

Hmmm...I may have to rethink that monitor then. I don't really want ghosting like that.
Does it do it when watching a video as well?

 

[TdC]

well to be fair, WOT is basically worst case material for this monitor. I don't even see the effect in a game like DOOM.

 

[dysfunction]

What monitor are you looking at to replace this one?

 

[caLLous]

It's still only in beta but there be some seriously unexciting figures from Nvidia's offerings in DX12 mode in Deux Ex. The 1080 actually got worse at 1080p, leading to the Fury X overtaking it. Across the board improvements from AMD and across the board meh from Nvidia.

 

[TdC]

What monitor are you looking at to replace this one?

sorry mate I missed your post. frankly, I don't know. ideally something with >= 100Hz, 4K, IPS screen, 34".

 

[TdC]

1080 is here! I'm getting a solid 60FPS in WOT on my 4K screen. PC is drawing something like 150-280 W from the socket. also, it's quieeeeeet. my "thank fuck it's summer" standing fan in now the loudest thing in the game room that is not speakers

only played WOT but will set up the card properly and play some other games to let you know. here's my unigine test run. latest is on the right, natch

 

[caLLous]

Do you still get the ghosting weirdness with the single GPU in WOT?

 

[TdC]

Oh good question! I'll check later this evening!

 

[caLLous]

How can a question be informative?

 

[TdC]

there's no "that's a good question" rating

 

[dysfunction]

Stop rabbiting and provide the answer!!

 

[TdC]

I've been playing for a couple hours and I haven't noticed it happen yet.

 

[TdC]

played some DOOM too. tbh consistent over-60FPS on 4K at my settings. I've even cranked up some things that I normally dial down like shadows and reflections. short term conclusion is that this gfx card is ridiculous and will basically do whatever I want.

 

[throdgrain]

Hold up - you're all buying 1080 Nvidias at £600 each?

I have a single GTX970 at the moment and it seems fine - I only have a 24" monitor mind you.

 

[Raven]

No, I bought a 980ti about 3 months ago for £600

/foolish

 

[Wij]

played some DOOM too. tbh consistent over-60FPS on 4K at my settings. I've even cranked up some things that I normally dial down like shadows and reflections. short term conclusion is that this gfx card is ridiculous and will basically do whatever I want.

Do you get graphical artifacts (random patterns briefly appearing) for about the first minute after booting up? Mine seems to :/

 

[ECA]

Hold up - you're all buying 1080 Nvidias at £600 each?

I have a single GTX970 at the moment and it seems fine - I only have a 24" monitor mind you.

I got a 1070 for £400 cuz I'm not a twonk.

 

[TdC]

Hold up - you're all buying 1080 Nvidias at £600 each?

I have a single GTX970 at the moment and it seems fine - I only have a 24" monitor mind you.

your old, old eyes have a natural form of anti-aliasing called cataracts

 

[TdC]

Do you get graphical artifacts (random patterns briefly appearing) for about the first minute after booting up? Mine seems to :/

not noticed that chumlar. what I do now recognize as a problem is that my monitor has an occasional flicker, where a vertical multi-coloured band appears at a random place on the screen for a brief instant. oh well, time to contact the place I got it from :-/

 

[Moriath]

Tried forza horizens 3 with my 760 at 1080p. Lots of low video memory messages.

Any one got a 970 second hand going spare?

 

[ECA]

Tried forza horizens 3 with my 760 at 1080p. Lots of low video memory messages.

Any one got a 970 second hand going spare?

I do.

 

[BloodOmen]

That Forza Horizens 3 looks alright, any good?

 

[Moriath]

I do.

Sent you a pm

 

[Moriath]

That Forza Horizens 3 looks alright, any good?

Well on my lappy it looks good 970m. On my desktop it stutters like feck 760

I only played the first few races but it works ok and looks sweet. Only thing i dont like is lack of real crash damage. But i think thats always been like that.

Handles ok on 360 controller or keyboard it seems.

Was a pain to get loaded didnt realise it check for gfx card driver version and win 10 version. So had to patch both after buying it before it would run. Sigh.