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Hi peoples,

I'm currently fixated on Elder Scrolls Online. My current GPU is a GTX 1050 TI. It used to work perfectly on a 1080p 23" screen, but Evetech's Black Friday deal on the DELL S2817Q 28" was irresistable. The 1050 TI is now valiantly struggling to drive both the 28" in 4k and the 23" in 1080p.

What would a good replacement be? Ideally a 1080 would be nice to have, but I find it difficult to motivate spending so much on a screencard. I'll probably be able to scratch enough together for a 1070 in a month or two; will that be up to the task?

Then, I have an old Sapphire AMD Radeon HD7750 (passive cooling) in a cupboard. Will it be worthwhile putting that in, running the 23" screen from that and the 28" screen from the 1050 TI until I can afford a replacement for the 1050 TI?

Thanks!
 
Even 1070 will suffer at 4k, some games will play decently.

The 1080ti can handle decent amount of games at 4k.
 
I run a 1070 oc at 4k and there are very few games i can run at 4k with any eye candy on. Older games work fine but for any current gen title you'll need a 1080Ti to get reasonable frames.

Volta isn't far away now - why not wait? We're still paying premium prices for Pascal cards even though they are just about end of line due to the over demand caused by those evil miners. xD
 
shel0319 said:
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Volta isn't far away now - why not wait? We're still paying premium prices for Pascal cards even though they are just about end of line due to the over demand caused by those evil miners. xD
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Because I don't keep up with development in the GPU world. I'll go and google up Volta - wasn't aware that a new range is on its way. Do you know if there are any indication of better prices, though?
 
Tacet said:
Because I don't keep up with development in the GPU world. I'll go and google up Volta - wasn't aware that a new range is on its way. Do you know if there are any indication of better prices, though?
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No, most are expecting Volta to be more expensive than the current graphics cards.
You might be able to get a "cheap" second hand 1080 as people will be selling them to get the "newest and greatest" cards.
 
Tacet said:
Because I don't keep up with development in the GPU world. I'll go and google up Volta - wasn't aware that a new range is on its way. Do you know if there are any indication of better prices, though?
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2080ti FTW :twisted:
 
Johnatan56 said:
No, most are expecting Volta to be more expensive than the current graphics cards.
You might be able to get a "cheap" second hand 1080 as people will be selling them to get the "newest and greatest" cards.
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Yeah, I saw that. Volta seems pretty interesting, if it does give the speculated performance increases, some of the lower (read cheaper) Voltas might actually deliver similar performance to the 1080. Either way, seems worth it to wait a few months more to see what happens.
 
1080Ti is the only card that can run 4k at 60fps high settings for most games.

That said, 1440p looks better on a 4K monitor than 1080p does on an 1080p monitor, so you can also run it like that and still get a better experience than you had before.

You could always justify the purchase by mining with the card when you don't game, thereby offsetting some of the cost or even making a profit....
 
Tacet said:
Yeah, I saw that. Volta seems pretty interesting, if it does give the speculated performance increases, some of the lower (read cheaper) Voltas might actually deliver similar performance to the 1080. Either way, seems worth it to wait a few months more to see what happens.
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I cant imagine a new range would be cheaper if compared directly to the product its replacing i.e. 1070 vs 2070 etc. but one thing is certain the price/performance will increase dramatically which is what matters most.
 
shel0319 said:
I cant imagine a new range would be cheaper if compared directly to the product its replacing i.e. 1070 vs 2070 etc. but one thing is certain the price/performance will increase dramatically which is what matters most.
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Exactly. Making new numbers up here, but if the 2050 ti outperforms the 1080 ti, and is priced similarly to the current 1070 ti, then it will be worth it for me.
 
with gpu prices the way they are now seek a 980 gtx or a 1050gtx . if you are a 1st time builder with nothing go with amd apu such as the 2400g as its both GPU+CPU for low price...then wait it out for crypto market to go bust :}
 
NEOSEPHIROTH said:
with gpu prices the way they are now seek a 980 gtx or a 1050gtx . if you are a 1st time builder with nothing go with amd apu such as the 2400g as its both GPU+CPU for low price...then wait it out for crypto market to go bust :}
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Huh your comment makes no sense.

-He has a 1050 ti
-A 980 can barely run 4k and a amd APU can barely run games at 1080p.
-When the crypto market goes bang it's gonna be flooded with low/Mid good 1080p cards, nothing that runs 4k comfortably. Heck even a 1080ti battles to run 4k properly.

Did we read the same post
 
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