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DonFerrari on 17 August 2020
ruffy37 said:

how much does a rx 570 cost overthere? I think that the minimum I would go for a gpu nowdays. but only because of the proper 8gb vram.

Much more than I'm willing to pay =p

My plan is by April-May next year during my usa trip buy a good card for about 200USD and a PS5. Then I'll sell this one I bought now for a price that will probably be higher than I paid.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

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DonFerrari on 17 August 2020
BraLoD said:
DonFerrari said:

Wasn't even think about buying, but a friend sold his and was asking about if rtx would be worth and we told him to hold because of Dolar, and on meanwhile to look for some cheap one that could hold until next year. Another friend suggested 1650 Super or 5600XT, 1650 Super was about R$1100,00. Then someone posted a mercadolivre offer for 970GTX (R$800), and I looked on shopee to see how much would be a new one over there, and found this deal from an unknow brand. But since the core is still the same it should work fine if they deliver what they promised. Already eager to test.

My GPU is now over 2K, I got the Asus Tuf version, my build was all made up with similar pieces in mind, the gpu and motherboard are the tuf line from asus and the ram and ssd are from xpg, with the ram also being tuf and everything aura sync compatible just for that useless but pretty rgb haha.

Was a really nice thing to build my first pc this year, the only thing I didn't like was the cheap cpu cooler from the 3600, they should be ashamed to ship it with a cooler that is clearly inferior to what the cpu demands.

The first PC I built was when I entered university, were months researching to get the best bang for buck on the average priced parts.

This desktop now I'm mostly building for my wife to edit in photoshop. Actually I built it about 2 years ago, but had 4Gb of ram and integrated GPU. So now I bought this GPU, 16Gb of DDR4 2400 that is the limit for the Mobo and a A1000 240Gb from Kingston to be the boot drive.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

DonFerrari on 17 August 2020
BraLoD said:
DonFerrari said:

The first PC I built was when I entered university, were months researching to get the best bang for buck on the average priced parts.

This desktop now I'm mostly building for my wife to edit in photoshop. Actually I built it about 2 years ago, but had 4Gb of ram and integrated GPU. So now I bought this GPU, 16Gb of DDR4 2400 that is the limit for the Mobo and a A1000 240Gb from Kingston to be the boot drive.

Could still easily use it for gaming like that.

Yep, perhaps some nextgen cheap 3rd party games.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

EricHiggin on 18 August 2020

Since you didn't specify good or bad... well... lol

Good luck!



Srex117 on 18 August 2020

Great GPU. It could easily get you throught next 2 years of next gen if it was a gpu with at least 6gb of vram. I am sure when next gen start system req. for games will be much same as today. So most of decent gpus will do great in next 3-4 years. Some ppl forget that next gen target 4k/60 and RT so if you dont mind playing in 1080p with high settings you even dont need anything better then rx580 or gtx 1060.



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Peh on 18 August 2020

Isn't the GTX 970 the one where Nvidia fucked up the VRAM?



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DonFerrari on 21 August 2020
shikamaru317 said:

You’re doing better than me, I still have a 950. Will upgrade to mid-range GeForce 30 series or Radeon RDNA 2 GPU sometime soon probably, once one is available for like $250 or less. Also have to upgrade my motherboard, CPU, RAM, and storage when I do upgrade, because I only have a 2014 i3, 8GB DDR3, and a 1TB 7200 RPM hard drive currently. Probably should get a new case as well, since this one is so old that it doesn’t even have USB 3.0 ports. And a new power supply, preferably a modular one, since this one isn’t. All in all going to end up setting me back like $800 probably when I do upgrade.

Hey man look up shopee...

A1000 N2 from Kingston I paid like 40USD for 256Gb

16Gb of DD4 2600Mhz (or 2400???) for 80USD

This GPU was like 80 USD as well.

My MB is fairly decent and my i5 is gen 8.

So I think I'll do fine with it.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

Bofferbrauer2 on 21 August 2020
DonFerrari said:

Shopee had one in an incredible promotion for GTX970 with 4Gb of GDDR5 on 128bit bus core clock 900Mhz and 192 steam cores, memory clock 4100Mhz PCI-Ex16 3.0 accepting DirectX 12, with shipping cost and discount I paid R$280 (about 52USD) and will even have a cashback of 5 USD.

It does have the HDMI, VGA and DVI outputs and is manufactured by daphne, wish me luck. Will test when it arrives and tell how it gone.

The previous SSD A400 from Kingston was delivered and spec matched.

Ehm... If those specs are correct you've been had.

GTX 970 never shipped with a 128bit bus, they all came with their weird 224+32 (3.5GB +512MB) bus.

192 streaming cores is way too low, too, GTX 970 comes with 1664 of those.

Finally, the GTX 970 had a base clock of 1050 Ghz and a turbo of 1178 as it's base specs.

So, what I fear you got there was a slightly overclocked GTX 630 with GK 107 core design (there are other variants based on Fermi's GF 108), which normally came with 875Mhz and GDDR3 instead of GDDR5 but there are GTX 640 GPUs based on the same chip with GDDR5, and the rest of the specs fit.



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DonFerrari on 21 August 2020
Bofferbrauer2 said:
DonFerrari said:

Shopee had one in an incredible promotion for GTX970 with 4Gb of GDDR5 on 128bit bus core clock 900Mhz and 192 steam cores, memory clock 4100Mhz PCI-Ex16 3.0 accepting DirectX 12, with shipping cost and discount I paid R$280 (about 52USD) and will even have a cashback of 5 USD.

It does have the HDMI, VGA and DVI outputs and is manufactured by daphne, wish me luck. Will test when it arrives and tell how it gone.

The previous SSD A400 from Kingston was delivered and spec matched.

Ehm... If those specs are correct you've been had.

GTX 970 never shipped with a 128bit bus, they all came with their weird 224+32 (3.5GB +512MB) bus.

192 streaming cores is way too low, too, GTX 970 comes with 1664 of those.

Finally, the GTX 970 had a base clock of 1050 Ghz and a turbo of 1178 as it's base specs.

So, what I fear you got there was a slightly overclocked GTX 630 with GK 107 core design (there are other variants based on Fermi's GF 108), which normally came with 875Mhz and GDDR3 instead of GDDR5 but there are GTX 640 GPUs based on the same chip with GDDR5, and the rest of the specs fit.

Seems like in China they have made some odd versions. There is a 5Gb 1060 or 1080.

When it arrives I'll test and do some verification on it, and post here. But yep I'm very aware that I'll receive something less than 970, but in the end it was a 52USD card, in Brazil I would have to pay 3 or 4 times this for this board. I plan to buy a decent 200USD in USA and sell this one



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

Skeeuk on 21 August 2020

970 is an excellent card I remember division 1 my r9 280x had fps drops but when I bought a 970 it was super smooth



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