Nvidia GTX 980 TI

[guncrasher]

tc the only way your 3k intel system would compare to an 1k amd system was it the rest of components were miles away.  the difference between an amd cpu and an intel cpu was about 100 buck, maybe 150.



semp

[TequilaChaser]

tc the only way your 3k intel system would compare to an 1k amd system was it the rest of components were miles away.  the difference between an amd cpu and an intel cpu was about 100 buck, maybe 150.



semp

I might have exaggerated there a little, semp.....

I did say Intel was better at video editing/compiling and the Intel system at the time had/has a thermaltake Level 10 GT case ( which are close to a $100.00 cheaper now verses when I purchased it) and 2 Blu-ray DL rewriters in it, the AMD system at the time had an antec 900 case ( has the same type Thermaltake case now ) and just an ASUS DVD DL 421bst model burner in it.......

I did spend quite a bit more building that old Intel i7 system verses the AMD.... both systems are over 4 yrs old and both still perform as good as the day I built them....

on the Intel system I had even originally put 2 SSD cm4 Crucial drives in it in RAID 0 mode..... it didn't need it, I ended up slowing both systems down in the BIOS to give a 10 second delay startup...

I do not and have not for over a decade use the windows logo screen, I want to see everything happening as my PC(s) starts up.....

yep the price is closer to the 3K mark if it didn't go over..... checking Newegg, it isn't letting me pull up either 4 year + order in my history....


TC

[Chalenge]

I set about trying to build the best systems I could. I settled on Intel.

However, it comes down to personal choice.

By the way, video editing/compiling/transcoding is moving onto the GPU more and more, but at this point Intel still has about a 30% advantage.

[BoilerDown]

1st off, you are the one who everytime someone says anything regarding AMD, you post a reply that talks crap about AMD and blow your holy whistle horn about Intel...

Hardly.  I don't check this sub-forum often enough for that.  And AMD makes fine GPUs, but their CPUs aren't worth it.  Maybe they were worth it (price/performance wise, but certainly not strictly based on performance) 4 years ago, as you keep citing chips four or five Intel generations ago (Sandy Bridge) for your Intel comparisons.

Today, Intel beats AMD in both best value and best performance.  For the money, you'd be dumb to pick AMD.  For gaming, you'd be dumb to pick AMD.  There's a case to be made for certain highly multithreaded tasks in a specific price range where maybe an FX-8320 or 8350 might beat Intel in price/performance benchmarks, but not in many real life scenarios, and not if you can spend a bit more than that.

I'm highly critical of AMD because they're screwing up the competitive nature of the CPU business that we depend on for good gaming CPUs.  When each new Intel generation only improves on the last by around 5%, its clear that Intel sees no need to push the technology because AMD is just that far behind.  Anyone who denies that this is happening is beyond delusional in their AMD fanboi-ism.

[TequilaChaser]

Boildown, I'll give it to you, I have not built a completely brand new from scratch Intel system in close to a year..only upgraded 3 or 4....and have only built 3 brand new AMD computers in the past 4 months....

Once again, I will say both Intel systems and AMD systems are both good at different things...

The rest we can simply and happily disagree....

Have a great day!

TC

[hgtonyvi]

I hope my 980 4gb card will work on aces high 3

[JimmyD3]

I hope my 980 4gb card will work on aces high 3

My GTX 980 works great. 

[Gman]

I have one box with SLI 980s, an x79 platform, and since SLI doesn't really appear to help AH much, I disable one card and just play with a single 980 (sometimes) - I checked out doing the same with the latest Alpha client last night, and with a single 980 I had everything cranked in 1440p w/Gsync enabled, and every setting maxed except environment, which is at 1 notch, and avg fps were I'd guess in the 90s, at times up to the max of the refresh rate of my panel (144hz online, 100hz offline in AH3), and some times down in the high 60s, but nothing lower than that.  At 1080P where most players will likely play, including me due to the target sizes being easier to hit, so far the Alpha plays fantastic with a single 980.  I'd played the first client with sli 970s and they were great too.

IMO so far a 970 will do the trick, Skuzzy has stated as much too, and I'd bet the new 960ti will too. 

[Dragon Tamer]

I used a GTX 750 paired with an i3 in my one computer and was able to hold 50-60 FPS on default settings (it will probably go lower with other people around as well). I have a 760 that I haven't bothered to try yet but I'm willing to bet I could easily max the settings and maintain a good frame rate. If you are looking for a super budget option, the new GTX 950 should be able to handle the game with medium to high settings at 1080p for around $130.