EPTI didnt know about gpu power difference. It may be impactful. Those games were probably cpu bottlenecked
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EmKey
Korea (South)631 Posts
I didnt know about gpu power difference. It may be impactful. Those games were probably cpu bottlenecked | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20344 Posts
On September 14 2016 23:07 EmKey wrote: I think its currently close in 1080p but the difference may grow in the future when the game requirements change. IIRC in some games fps gain will be nearly nonexistant in 6gb vs 3gb but people say games will be more demanding memory wise in the future. So paying these 20-30% more (or w/e the diff is) for 6gb the next 1-2 years probably not the best idea but if you stay on it for 4-5years it may "pay off". It's actually probably less than a 10% performance loss. There are ~1.11x less core but the memory stuff (l2, rops, bandwidth etc) is untouched so the performance per core will be higher and it could be more like a 5% loss. VRAM capacity alone will not affect FPS in a meaningful way unless you're using too much VRAM on the card - at which point you'd get high load times, stuttering etc that would make gameplay unpleasant regardless of the framerate | ||
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GreenHorizons
United States24342 Posts
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trifecta
United States6795 Posts
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Doodsmack
United States7224 Posts
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Cyro
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arb
Noobville17922 Posts
idk he wants to push the budget so i dont think anything is too high. next week is when he's building it, monday i think. | ||
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Divine-Sneaker
Denmark1225 Posts
You say he has a monitor, what resolution and refresh rate? Both are pretty important for choosing components. What does he want to play, triple A's in shiny graphics? Comp settings CS/Overwatch/SCII etc. Also, where is this even taking place. The assumption is probably murica, but the prices change pretty drastically outside of the US. | ||
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arb
Noobville17922 Posts
On September 25 2016 21:32 Divine-Sneaker wrote: You're probably gonna have to give more information than that, ala the formatting. You say he has a monitor, what resolution and refresh rate? Both are pretty important for choosing components. What does he want to play, triple A's in shiny graphics? Comp settings CS/Overwatch/SCII etc. Also, where is this even taking place. The assumption is probably murica, but the prices change pretty drastically outside of the US. Not really sure what monitor tbh. I think he was wanting to dual monitor so maybe throw one in there also. Only plays WoW and wants to play at max settings too i know that for sure. Also yes, Murica | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20344 Posts
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supremej
Netherlands7 Posts
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GreenHorizons
United States24342 Posts
If I can't find the 8-pin cords that came with my power supply, how would I go about replacing them/would I need to? EDIT: Link for PSU EDIT2: If it matters, the 6 pins have 3 yellow wires each. EDIT3: Looks like this would do the trick? | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20344 Posts
you shouldn't use an adapter like that to add extra pins for power | ||
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GreenHorizons
United States24342 Posts
On September 27 2016 20:44 Cyro wrote: The "8-pins" are 6+2 pins you shouldn't use an adapter like that to add extra pins for power From what I read the two other pins in this case aren't actually for power. The 6pin (in my case but not every) already has 3 12v lines, which is the same as an 8 -pin. I mean I'd prefer not to, but it seems people are doing it without problems (so long as they aren't trying to use it on a 350W PSU or whatever). | ||
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Shield
Bulgaria4824 Posts
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Divine-Sneaker
Denmark1225 Posts
As for the 1080, it is pretty stupidly expensive, and a lot more so than the two previous generations of x80's were at launch for no particular reason other than because Nvidia can. | ||
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GreenHorizons
United States24342 Posts
On September 28 2016 18:16 Divine-Sneaker wrote: Everything is significantly cheaper in the US because of the taxes we pay, that they don't. As for the 1080, it is pretty stupidly expensive, and a lot more so than the two previous generations of x80's were at launch for no particular reason other than because Nvidia can. Because there is no competition for the 1080. What I don't understand is how there can still be 2gb 750 ti's on "sale" at over $200. | ||
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ComaDose
Canada10357 Posts
Decent price point compared to buying the pieces separately (add 10% discount to bring it to $1000 CAD even) Comes with Windows 10 which saves me pirating windows 7 / paying for windows 970 vs 1060/1070. almost the same price point makes me want to just build it myself. Apparently the power source is absolute trash. It's not for me which is why the budget is tighter and desire to build myself is lower but I would appreciate feedback either way! relevant posts | ||
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trifecta
United States6795 Posts
On October 01 2016 03:32 ComaDose wrote: Any thoughts on this prebuilt? http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=7_1203_1446_1448&item_id=090721 Decent price point compared to buying the pieces separately (add 10% discount to bring it to $1000 CAD even) Comes with Windows 10 which saves me pirating windows 7 / paying for windows 970 vs 1060/1070. almost the same price point makes me want to just build it myself. Apparently the power source is absolute trash. It's not for me which is why the budget is tighter and desire to build myself is lower but I would appreciate feedback either way! relevant posts just use the pcpartpicker entry level guide as baseline (as has been suggested before). currently it's ~750CAD. your premade has a cpu one tier higher for +250CAD. a windows 7 key is roughly 20USD if you know where to look. | ||
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Cyro
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