New video card

[bobbystahr]

Looking at a new system and this card advertises VR ready and is under $300.00...comments please. And if this is posted in the wrong place please move.

http://www.gizmag.com/nvidia-gtx-1060-vr-ready/44233/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=f29288c722-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-f29288c722-92151817

[fuzzyEuclid]

While I don't have one of Nvidia's new cards, I can say the 10xx series (1080, 1070, and now the 1060) are using some damned impressive technology. If my GTX970 wasn't delivering for me, I would pick one up even though I can't afford it right now. That said, I run a DK2 (which is less demanding than the consumer rigs I imagine) off my 970 and it works rather well. The massive improvement of the 10xx series is amazing, well beyond the typical bumps you get with the yearly card releases, and if it's sharing the 1080's attributes, it even runs at a cooler temperature. So what i'm saying is...

Pick it up without looking back. I will say this before you hit the buy button: give the 1070 a once-over - typically Nvidia's mid-level cards are the best bang for the buck.

Now if you could only convince the TG crew to implement CUDA rendering, you'd be even happier VR or no (and I'd buy one of those cards myself before I finished reading the announcement).

[bobbystahr]

While I don't have one of Nvidia's new cards, I can say the 10xx series (1080, 1070, and now the 1060) are using some damned impressive technology. If my GTX970 wasn't delivering for me, I would pick one up even though I can't afford it right now. That said, I run a DK2 (which is less demanding than the consumer rigs I imagine) off my 970 and it works rather well. The massive improvement of the 10xx series is amazing, well beyond the typical bumps you get with the yearly card releases, and if it's sharing the 1080's attributes, it even runs at a cooler temperature. So what i'm saying is...

Pick it up without looking back. I will say this before you hit the buy button: give the 1070 a once-over - typically Nvidia's mid-level cards are the best bang for the buck.

Now if you could only convince the TG crew to implement CUDA rendering, you'd be even happier VR or no (and I'd buy one of those cards myself before I finished reading the announcement).

Thanks fuzzy....as it'll be going in a totally new box I may go for the mid range but it was the VR ready part that intriqed me about this card...
The purchase is not imminent so I'll await a few more replies before going further.

[DannyG]

I am running dual 660TI's I am happy with them, I am not a big gamer, but when I do play battlefield or similar it does the job. No upgrade for me until TG starts using GPU for rendering

[bobbystahr]

I am running dual 660TI's I am happy with them, I am not a big gamer, but when I do play battlefield or similar it does the job. No upgrade for me until TG starts using GPU for rendering

dual as in 2 actual cards? They run used from $100.00 - $150.00 on e bay, slightly more on amazon and not available at this time on the GeForce page.
I tend to not want to buy used or refurbished as there's no way to tell how much life they have but those are fairly cheap prices on e bay..Comment on used/refurbished please.

[Oshyan]

The 10xx series will be your best bang-for-buck for a new rig; I wouldn't bother with used or older cards, the 10xxs are a great value and offer other benefits over older hardware. AMD presents some viable options too, but from latest benchmarks I've seen they are not beating Nvidia at present, except perhaps very slightly on price, and in general Nvidia has a better track record for driver quality and stability. The 10xx cards are also cooler running and use less power, as fuzzyEuclid mentioned, which will be nice for any new build (makes the whole machine easier to cool). All newer cards from both Nvidia and AMD will be "VR ready", they're just saying that specifically about the 1060 because it's a lower-end card but still capable, and also for buzz marketing.

- Oshyan

[bobbystahr]

The 10xx series will be your best bang-for-buck for a new rig; I wouldn't bother with used or older cards, the 10xxs are a great value and offer other benefits over older hardware. AMD presents some viable options too, but from latest benchmarks I've seen they are not beating Nvidia at present, except perhaps very slightly on price, and in general Nvidia has a better track record for driver quality and stability. The 10xx cards are also cooler running and use less power, as fuzzyEuclid mentioned, which will be nice for any new build (makes the whole machine easier to cool). All newer cards from both Nvidia and AMD will be "VR ready", they're just saying that specifically about the 1060 because it's a lower-end card but still capable, and also for buzz marketing.

- Oshyan

Thanks Oshyan, my thoughts exactly re: used/refurbished. Thought that may have just been a buzz generator on that GeForce ad as I can't see a modern card idnoring V R. Appreciate the feed back.

[zaxxon]

Good to see you're on the hardware upgrade path. Lots of choices. The new 10XX cards look really great for the prices. I had bought a GTX 980ti not that long ago for about $670, now the 1070 out specs it for around $430, damn. However that card was for UE4 and GPU rendering apps. Using it with T3 and T4 is really overkill at this point, as my other two machines are running 4 gig GTX 960's.  TG doesn't really use the GPU that much at present as the RTP uses the CPU, so depending on your budget the number of cores and RAM may be more important. The 4 gig GTX 960 is currently available for around $170, but if you also play video games then a 10XXX board would definitely be the way to go. My 2 cents worth. 

[bobbystahr]

Good to see you're on the hardware upgrade path. Lots of choices. The new 10XX cards look really great for the prices. I had bought a GTX 980ti not that long ago for about $670, now the 1070 out specs it for around $430, damn. However that card was for UE4 and GPU rendering apps. Using it with T3 and T4 is really overkill at this point, as my other two machines are running 4 gig GTX 960's.  TG doesn't really use the GPU that much at present as the RTP uses the CPU, so depending on your budget the number of cores and RAM may be more important. The 4 gig GTX 960 is currently available for around $170, but if you also play video games then a 10XXX board would definitely be the way to go. My 2 cents worth. 

Ah now that's good advice. All I use my computer for is TG, PS and music writing. Never been a gamer. People ask me  "Do you play XXXX?" and I say "Sorry, I play play guitar"  That $170 ish number is right in my ball park as I'd prefer 16-32 G RAM and a quad processor. Seems more to my points. Definitely worth more than 2 cents t'me...thanks. Dunno why I even worried about the VR stuff, I don't even have a gol durn shoe phone and they seem to need that at my entry level.

[bobbystahr]

Guess this should be a hardware thread. Any recommendations on an economical/affordable when combined with a 4 upgrade, cpu purchase?