Upgrading for 4K

Shlouski

Shlouski

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I've recently bought a 4k monitor, but unfortunately my system isn't up to 4K and on all but older games I get low frame rates. I think my rig is fine (in my sig), but I'm open to suggestions how to improve it, but I think only a new graphics card is necessary. What upgrades do you guys think are going to give me the best 4k experience?
Money isn't an issue (within reason), but I don't like multi card configurations, so no sli or crossfire please.
 
Depends on the game I guess and what quality settings you want. Ultra, high, medium etc. If your not getting the settings you want. 970, 980 or 980Ti would be a very nice upgrade. Depends what you can afford. i have no problem with SLI, only 1 game i play has issues with it.
 
tylerjrb said:
Depends on the game I guess and what quality settings you want. Ultra, high, medium etc. If your not getting the settings you want. 970, 980 or 980Ti would be a very nice upgrade. Depends what you can afford. i have no problem with SLI, only 1 game i play has issues with it.
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I'm happy sli works for you, but every crossfire or sli setup I've had or come across has been a micro stuttering, buggy nightmare :(.
I want to have the best single card possible for 4k, I've heard a little about amd's new range, I'm not sure how good they are. Is the 980ti better than all the titans?
 
Shlouski said:
I'm happy sli works for you, but every crossfire or sli setup I've had or come across has been a micro stuttering, buggy nightmare :(.
I want to have the best single card possible for 4k, I've heard a little about amd's new range, I'm not sure how good they are. Is the 980ti better than all the titans?
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In single core format. Apart from the Titan X yes. The Titan X is only slightly better in game and has 12GB VRAM. Even then an overclocked 980Ti is faster than a stock Titan X, in some cases even overclocked. for the extra cost not worth it, 6GB VRAM is still plenty enough for 4k gaming.
 
tylerjrb said:
In single core format. Apart from the Titan X yes. The Titan X is only slightly better in game and has 12GB VRAM. Even then an overclocked 980Ti is faster than a stock Titan X, in some cases even overclocked. for the extra cost not worth it, 6GB VRAM is still plenty enough for 4k gaming.
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I have been looking at some benchmarks, seems most of the 980ti is the same or a tiny bit fast than the titan X at 4k, the r9 fury x is about the same price here as the 980ti, but its slower and the r9 390x seems to be the best bang for buck, but is the slowest out of these 4 cards. So I'm thinking 980ti and I'm also thinking of building a completely new rig and letting family and friends use my current one for lan gaming.
 
I would agree that only a GPU upgrade is required. I can't believe that the GTX 680 is now 3 and a half years old, time flies! Upgrade to a GTX 980 Ti and see if that improves performance.
 
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