Hey, Lewders! I know for a fact that some of you are great when it comes to PC building and tech. I was wondering if you could offer suggestions on buying a new video card. I currently have a machine that was built for a media hub only, but its slowly becoming my main PC. Anyway, the video card I have right now is utter shit and its only even in my machine because the motherboard's on board video didn't want to work with Linux. Here's a screen cap of my "Windows Experience." It makes me cry.... help me out here... I get crazy screen artifacts, and I can't even launch Photoshop 100% of the time. Cost isn't too much of an issue, but I want one that meets the system specs for the upcoming Oculus Rift I currently have 8 GM of RAM and an Intel Processor. [spoiler] before you bag on my computer specs, remember it was originally just for music and stuff!!! >_< [/spoiler]

iirc adobe likes nvidia so that's a start

Nvidia gforce gtx 970 is a good card for its price.

16481 Nvidia gforce gtx 970 is a good card for its price. you're the second person to reccomend that and it even fits with @Desu 's suggetion so...... Thanks!

Before you get into graphics cards, what processor do you have? Knowing the rest of your specs would help in making sure that the gpu you do eventually get will not be bottlenecked.

Rii wrote Before you get into graphics cards, what processor do you have? Knowing the rest of your specs would help in making sure that the gpu you do eventually get will not be bottlenecked. Check his score. It's a 7.3 I'm betting it's like an i5 or so. Plenty of juice.

If you're on a budget and don't demand games to be maxed out at 1440p+, then you should take a look at the new Nvidia 950 for $160 which just game out a few days ago. edit: nvm if price isn't an issue then go for the 970 then lol. Unless OP has a celeron then bottlenecking shouldn't be much of an issue.

@losi @Rii I'm actually using an i3! I will have to upgrade becasue Oculus reccomends i5 or better, but I have been pleasantly surpirsed with the performance with the i3 thus far. Also, the second I consider replaceing the motherbooard, I will immediately find myself building an entirely new computer (this one is only 3 - 4 months old!)

suicid3Panda wrote @losi @Rii I'm actually using an i3! I will have to upgrade becasue Oculus reccomends i5 or better, but I have been pleasantly surpirsed with the performance with the i3 thus far. Also, the second I consider replaceing the motherbooard, I will immediately find myself building an entirely new computer (this one is only 3 - 4 months old!) What mobo do you have? Can it support an i5? Gimme the part number and I can figure out the chipset and stuff for ya.

https://www.piriform.com/speccy/download It wuld be nice if you ran speccy and screenshotted your specs, please and thanks.

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losi

cortz wrote
https://www.oculus.com/en-us/blog/powering-the-rift/

Following that, if you want the 'recommended' rift experience you'll want to upgrade to an i5 and grab the 970 while you're at it.

He bought a 970 last night.

Biggest_Mike

I have a ATI Radeon 5450 HD 1gb card and it works nice for Photoshop/vegas... It also works for my quad boot system having Windows 10, Windows 7 (for game recording requires 32bit win 7), Ubuntu 14.04LTS and OS X Snow Leopard.

Kieru

16497
Many rendering applications like to use Nvidia's CUDA cores. The GTX 970 is a fantastic
card for the price. But for raw performance, the R9 390 (same price) will beat the

Feel free to PM me all your questions if you want any help. I build pc's.

I can help you pick what board partner you'll like. EVGA, Zotac, MSI, Powercolor,
Gigabyte, etc.

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cortz

Yeah AMD really fucked up with the 390X/390 this time around.

Teardown's reveal it's actually the exact same as the 290X, and all the 'performance' came in the form of drivers which people found out by forcing a 390X driver onto the 290X and it turned out to be exactly like the 390X.

Even funnier is that the 290X is a copy of the even older Radeon 7970 core (which is like 3-4 years old now)

And so they're somehow expecting people will buy a $400 card that's basically using 4 year old tech.

Also didn't know OP already bought the 970, right on with that then.

losi

Kieru wrote
16497
Many rendering applications like to use Nvidia's CUDA cores. The GTX 970 is a fantastic
card for the price. But for raw performance, the R9 390 (same price) will beat the
970. Feel free to PM me all your questions if you want any help. I build pc's.

I can help you pick what board partner you'll like. EVGA, Zotac, MSI, Powercolor,
Gigabyte, etc.

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I said 390. Not 390x. Plz read better.

suicid3Panda

Yep, with all of your help, I was able to make my well informed purchase. Thanks everyone!

I went with this card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127850&cm_re=970--14-127-850--Product

But one last note before this thread turns into a shitstorm....

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Thanks Nanako-chan <3

losi

suicid3Panda wrote
Yep, with all of your help, I was able to make my well informed purchase. Thanks everyone!

I went with this card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127850&cm_re=970--14-127-850--Product

But one last note before this thread turns into a shitstorm....

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Thanks Nanako-chan <3

I'd love to see some pics when it comes in! Great purchase!

suicid3Panda

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Again, thank you to everyone who helped me through this.

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losi

suicid3Panda wrote
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Again, thank you to everyone who helped me through this.

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IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL.

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