Don't forget anything relatively new will need DDR4, not DDR3. I think you're talking i5/7 2x00 and older. Anything after than needs DDR4Originally Posted by Blerpa
Don't forget anything relatively new will need DDR4, not DDR3. I think you're talking i5/7 2x00 and older. Anything after than needs DDR4
My desktop PC is an AMD A8-6500 and my laptop has an i5 3437U... DDR3 territory. Plenty of PCs around are still running on DDR3... actually almost all my friends with gaming desktops have mobos with DDR3, bar one that has built a new PC recently. Ironically they have SSDs, i5 or i7 and new vga cards on them like GTX 1060 or 1070 but ram is older.
Still rocking my same rig... SSD, i5-4690k, 1070FTW and two sticks of 8GB DDR3. Can play most things at 1440p, high settings, and good frame rates. For what's it's worth.
Also, I feel like RAM is definitely not cheap anymore. Prices have gone up since I last purchased. I purchased this in 2015 for $118.99. It's 2018 and $127.99. It was $151.99 just a month ago.
Also holy crap it was $58.99 at one point before skyrocketing back up. Sheeeit.
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Ok so Nvidia has unveiled its new RTX series of graphics cards, starting with the new RTX 2070ti available for $499 all the way up to the RTX 2080ti Founders Edition for $1199 (US pricing). Availability around late Sept-early Oct.
The cards will offer real-time ray tracing, demos of which you can see by clicking: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL-...1omSDSz48AML-g
They’re gunna make your HDR monitors and TVs look reeeeeeeaaaallly good.
Another neat feature will be a USB-C VirtualLink port, for single cable VR headset connections.
Microsoft is offering up a DirectX Ray Tracing API called DXR and most of the big game engines will include some sort of Ray tracing support before the year is out. Game support will come from Battlefield V, PUBG, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Metro Exodus, Mechwarrior V, FFXV, etc.
Personally I love the super clean look of the case designs. The aftermarket brands will look rather more gaudy.
Right on, so the market soon will be interesting: 1070 and 1080 cards in discount and used.
No need to spend such shitload of money on the new cards.
Raytracing aside... 2080 is pushing 14k gigaflops versus 10k gigaflops of 1080. Unless you play 4K and very intensive games you will be well served by 10xx cards or even 970 or 980.
Move along, not much to see here.
Yeah the top end is way out of my market. A 1080ti sells for about $1300 here, while a 2080ti will be almost $2k.
I think prices for last-gen cards will stay roughly where they are, unless pressure from the cheaper 2070 forces prices to drop a little.
I think I’d probably go for a 2070.
Assetto Corsa Competitzione on UE4 with RTX support.
Maybe within the next 12 months…
I've had a 1080 for 2 years (didn't think I had it that long). The 2xxx are intriguing. But I don't know what I'd do with the 1080.
The RTX cards look like beasts. (of course, that's always the case when a new gen comes out).
Yet so far it seems the new RTX can't do 4K at stable 60fps with most demanding games. Lame.
Really?
Is that with RTX on or off? Because surely the new 2080 would be able to do a stable 4K/60 on current non-RTX titles.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonev.../#69e871e41558
Not even 1080p with 60fps.
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