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Forums - PC Discussion - Help me choose a Geforce Card (and things to go with it)

VAMatt on 21 June 2017
Vor said:
If your GPU budget is $500 I suggest you to buy GTX 1080 even if you don't care about 4k. You know, for futureproofing your rig. Well unless you intend to save some money for other thing which in that case, yes the 1080 is overkill.

I disagree.  You'd be better off to spend $250 on your card now, then upgrade in 3 years for whatever the best $250ish card is at that point.  The 1080 is huge overkill right now.  Also, this gives you some built-in insurance against card failure.  



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FallingTitan on 21 June 2017
Pemalite said:
FallingTitan said:

yeah exactly wat i was thinkin. But i've always been a AMD guy...this i5 was my first intel chip.  Because well amd was failing.  Now they seem back to the good old days so my next rig will go back to amd my fav. <3

 

but im so impressed with my i5 4690k. 

 

If i needed a comp today i'd get the R5 1600x and oc.

The R5 1600X is a great chip, but I would go for the cheaper R5 1600 and overclock or jump up to the Ryzen 7 1700.
Sadly though, Ryzen doesn't clock well, chips seem to top out at around 4ghz.
So Intel will have a performance edge in gaming for a long time to come yet, untill games start being built with 6+ threads in mind of course.

That could be years away though.

I tend to prefer Intel for my CPU's/Motherboard due to the generally higher warranty length on some boards, overclockability and (And up untill recently...) performance.

AMD is my go-to for GPU's, mostly because of multi-monitor support.

yeah seen some vids with linus the OC isn't that great on the ryzen but the future ones maybe. I just always was amd guy because i was always broke and saved cash and back in the good ol days they used to oc very well.