Gaming PCs Thread...time for a sticky / running thread?

[Guvernator]

Yep agreed, wouldn't pay a grand for one but it usually only takes about 6 months or so before they get to more reasonable price levels.

[Zod]

I finally bought a 1080 in November. When I checked my account at overclockers, I saw that it cost me £170 more than I paid for my 980 almost exactly two years before. I don't remember such a big price jump in graphics cards at any point in the last 15 years. My 980 cost only £45 more than my 680.

[Digby]

Guvernator said:

Although it will then mean I have a proper 4K capable card so would need to upgrade my monitor too.....and the cycle is never ending!

That will very much depend on the game, how much effort the developers put in and whether you want max details etc I would think.

A single 1080ti probably still isn't going to play everything at 4K with max details even with FSAA disabled.

I have two 980ti's in SLI, they will run GTAV all maxed at 4k, Project cars at 4k (no FSAA, low FSAA or only FXAA) and a few other titles. Even with those, you may still sometimes discover an area or situation that drops frames and would require a tweak (often one which I admit isn't easy too spot such as less sharp shadows or MSAA on shadows etc) On other games, to keep that magical 60+ fps, or avoid stuttering when turning etc, you either have to turn details down or simply run at 1440. That can be developer related, or simply not enough BHP for 4K and all the candy.

Given the 1080ti is reported to be more or less the same as the Titan X and the Titan X doesn't always beat 980's in SLi, I don't think it's going to tear up the 4k rulebook just yet. I would be prepared for some required tweaking, anyway.

But to be honest, the PC games market has a history of doing this for those who want to be at the leading edge. Just as you get the horsepower to run at a res you want with all the details (even the hard to spot subtle ones), out comes a game that pushes your hardware to such extremes, that you have to make adjustments even with high end equipment. The types of games you go back to a few years down the line just to max out on newer hardware!
Then, just as you do that, 8K res becomes the norm...



The prices don't surprise me much, either.

I remember a mate paying 150 quid for a 2 meg upgrade on a Matrox card decades ago!
Almost 20 years ago, we walked out of PC world with three Voodoo 2 cards which cost us over 850. The Voodoo 1 before that cost us £249
My original first Geforce cost me over £200 back in 99.
A Geforce 2 cost me around £280.
A GeForce2 Ultra cos me £400 a year later...

I agree the piss is taken with prices (I feel sorry for Titan owners!), but I don't see anything new, really.

That's probably why I completely gave up on buying new. As an example, I purchased two 970's mint with receipts for £250 less than they would have cost in the shops. I sold those on and purchased two mint 980ti's with receipts for £500 and sold the 970's for £300. My advice would be to let some other upgrade junky fork out, live with what you have for now and move in when they move on.

[130R]

There was no 1080 Ti announcement at CES

[130R]

anonymous said:

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You can buy a GTX 1080 right now

[V8A*ndy]

My last build was in 2003 with an AMD XP 2800. It still works 100%


Time for an upgrade me thinks.....

The Ryzen Hype has certainly pinged my Radar.

[Art0ir]

I'm hoping my OC MSI 980ti will last me another year or two. Really isn't fazed by anything currently out there.

[Jinx]

anonymous said:

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cough

[TX1]

Been meaning to build a new pc for ages however I have lost my enthusiasm for playing games so I just keep putting it off.
Also the price of graphic cards now is a blinkin piss take, like Digby I owned both the Matrox and Voodoo cards which at the time where top of the line.
Now its £600 and upwards for a card thats going to last a while.

[Art0ir]

Prefer to pay as you go game? Pretty novel (yet oddly obvious) use for DaaS.

http://www.universityherald.com/articles/58878/201...

[rex]

Built this earlier this year. Was originally a Dell inspiron. Play a lot of project cars and running 4 screens. 1080 was still hotting 84 degrees. Decided to hard line watercool it. Now runs at 43 degree max even after 2+ hours of play. 600mm of radiators and 8 fans.









Sorry about sideways images

[130R]

Discovered a slight problem with the Oculus. I'm playing Subnautica and having to stop after an hour each time because it gives me motion sickness It seems like I'm not the only one with this particular game and I'm definitely not buying Adrift for this reason ..

[PeterY27]

Hi

I have a sim setup that I'm trying to sort at the moment we are running a SimPit 180 screen with twin Acer Z650 projectors running a GTX1060 6GB graphics card.

At the moment we are struggling to get the graphics card to the resolution that we need, currently we are at 3840x1080 but we really need to get to 4096x1536 for the screen as advised by the SimPit guys.

Does anyone have any experience of setup up multi projectors on a curved screen or experience of the graphics card and know how I can force the resolution to what we need?

[130R]

PeterY27 said:

Hi

I have a sim setup that I'm trying to sort at the moment we are running a SimPit 180 screen with twin Acer Z650 projectors running a GTX1060 6GB graphics card.

At the moment we are struggling to get the graphics card to the resolution that we need, currently we are at 3840x1080 but we really need to get to 4096x1536 for the screen as advised by the SimPit guys.

Does anyone have any experience of setup up multi projectors on a curved screen or experience of the graphics card and know how I can force the resolution to what we need?

Looking at their website that is the max resolution with NVIDIA cards. Probably because you are using two 1080p projectors and to upscale the image they are using something like Virtual Super Resolution (VSR) which is AMD technology. The NVIDIA equivalent is Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR) which maybe isn't supported.

[Jezz172]

My new build:


I7-7700k Kaby Lake CPU - overclocked to 5GHZ
Asus ROG Maximus IX Motherboard
32GB Corsair Vengance 3200MHZ DDR4 Ram with lowered timings
2 x Asus GTX 1070 GFX cards - both overclocked by 20%
256GB Samsung M2 hdd
2 x 256 GB SSD drives
2 x 500GB Sata 3 disks for backups / work
850W Corsair PSU

Custom Watercooling by yours truly.
All in a Thermaltake P3 open case - that's why it has no sides

It's on the workbench as I was flushing the new coolant through and my carpet doesn't react well to blue coolant :lol
I'm changing the case soon though so I can run bigger rads and cooling

[130R]

Looks good. Did you buy a pre-binned CPU or just find it did 5GHz anyway?

[Jezz172]

Stock they're 4.2 but I set it manually to 5.1 now

[130R]

Jezz172 said:

Stock they're 4.2 but I set it manually to 5.1 now

Yeah but I think only about 45% of them can do 5GHz so I was wondering if you bought one that was pre-binned (pre-tested and known to be able to hit those clock speeds) because I've seen overclockers selling these. Otherwise it looks like you got a good one in the silicon lottery.

[Jezz172]

Ahh I see yeah you have to buy the K series.
I've pushed it to 5.5 so far but left it at 5 so I don't kill it

[skinnyman]

Can someone sanity check my purchase? I've been after a gaming PC, but haven't been into PC gaming for 10yrs+, so went for the 2nd hand eBay option rather than building my own, just bought this:

CPU - i7 4790k
GPU - MSI GTX 970 Twin Frozr edition (4GB)
MB - Gigabyte Z97 Gaming 3
RAM - 8GB Corsair Vengeance 2400mhz
SSD - 250GB Samung Evo 840
HD - 1TB Seagate Barracuda
PSU - EVGA 500W
Case - NZXT H440

Paid £600

Going to throw another 8GB of ram in there and pair it with a LG ultrawide screen monitor.