Gypsy Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 Prices are dropping like proverbial rocks as the next gen (1100 series) are getting closer to release. GTX 1080s ( good ones) can be hard for under MSRP. I almost pulled the trigger on a Zotac 1070 70ti, hesitated until it went off sale only to see it retailing less than the sale price. Looking now at Gigabyte GTX 1080s for what I was willing to pay for the 1070 ti . The 1080 Tis are still high. Think I will wait a couple of weeks and track the prices between Newegg and Amazon. I think I have my temp issues with my 1060 under control in DCS so I can wait a bit. CLoD, BoX and 1946 put no strain on the 1060. But I also want a 1440p 144hrz or 4k 27-32" monitor so I am gonna need a stronger card to keep the FPS where I want them. May strain my I5-6600, but my older B150 motherboard may not handle to much more... ain't it fun? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gypsy Posted July 28, 2018 Author Share Posted July 28, 2018 Prices have "stabilized" some since NVIDIA keeps dragging out the release of the next gen cards <sigh>. On the bright side, 1080s and 1070 TIs are within 30-40 USD of each other in some cards so I have more choices/decisions to make. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2. Administrators Jabo Posted July 30, 2018 2. Administrators Share Posted July 30, 2018 On 7/21/2018 at 7:14 AM, Gypsy said: ain't it fun? Always Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DD_Sheriff Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 So... I want to update from my GTX 1050TI to say... a 1070TI or better but it appears they barely have 1 or maybe 2 HDMI ports. I am running on 3 monitors at the moment and dont know how to work around this problem .. may multiport or some such thing. Cant seem to find a quality card with at least 3 ports. Any ideas ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2. Administrators Jabo Posted July 31, 2018 2. Administrators Share Posted July 31, 2018 My Gigabyte GTX 980Ti has two DVI ports and an HDMI port which seem to work together happily enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gypsy Posted July 31, 2018 Author Share Posted July 31, 2018 9 hours ago, DD_Sheriff said: So... I want to update from my GTX 1050TI to say... a 1070TI or better but it appears they barely have 1 or maybe 2 HDMI ports. I am running on 3 monitors at the moment and dont know how to work around this problem .. may multiport or some such thing. Cant seem to find a quality card with at least 3 ports. Any ideas ? I just bought a Gigabyte GTX 1080 G1 Gaming and it has 3 display ports 1.4, but only one HDMI port. During my research I did come across some cards that had 2 HDMIs and 2 DPs, but never saw 3 HDMIs. Have you thought about running display ports if your monitors have them available? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gypsy Posted July 31, 2018 Author Share Posted July 31, 2018 (edited) Well for good or bad, I made my decisions. As I said in my reply to Sheriff, I chose a Gigbyte GTX 1080 G1 Gaming. It dropped to $30 USD below MSRP overnite so I jumped before they start running out of stock like I am seeing a lot of the high end cards doing. They may go down more but it was well below my threshold price. I had been watching this card for a bit (Thanks Fen). This is one of the few 1080s that uses only one 8 pin power connector so I don't have to dig into the dungeon of my case to switch cables to a 6 pin/8 pin. Only requires a 500w power supply and I have a 550w 80+ gold Evga. Now if my lowly B150 MSI Bazooka Plus mother board will be happy with the step up from my GTX 1060 to the 1080. On the monitor front. I had narrowed down my selection to a MSI 27" 1440p, 144hrz, 1ms, curved VA panel with AMD Freesync (doesn't, of course, work with NVIDIA) and a Dell 27" 1440p, 144hrz, 1ms, flat TN panel with Gsync. I currently have a 24" TN panel, 144hrz, 1ms with Freesync so I am familiar with the color limitations of TN panels. The thing that made my decision was BestBuy had a one day sale dropping the price on the Dell from 599USD to 379USD ($10 less than the MSI). Gsync adds $100 USD to the cost of all monitors it seems. Hope it's worth it. Shortly the fun of the upgrade will start. On a side note, my wife hinted that she wanted to learn how to "fly". Well, I will have a card and a monitor for the basis of a new build ?. Edited July 31, 2018 by Gypsy spelling and adding stuff 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum FoolTrottel Posted July 31, 2018 1. DDz Quorum Share Posted July 31, 2018 w00t! Good show, new stuff == nice! And next, before you know it, we get to welcome our new member DD_MissussGypsy !! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gypsy Posted August 4, 2018 Author Share Posted August 4, 2018 Well I think I am gonna be happy with my monitor and graphics card choices. Barring any malfunctions everything is working out as I hoped it would. Running DCS on high/ultra settings, the lowest FPS I saw on the Normandy map was ~80fps and the highest temps were ~64C. That's about double the FPS and 10 degrees cooler than my GTX 1060. I think I will quit boring y'all with this stuff now, but DCS brought the "pseudo techie" out in me. At least now I can concentrate on learning how to fly, shoot and bomb! Carry on. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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