Recent content by TTtheTremendous

Will do, thanks so much for the tip. Appreciate it! :)

Thanks alot, this was really helpful to know. I think what I'm going to do is keep my eye out for a 290 level card, see how prices go around Black Friday. Ofc if I see something really good around the 390 level i might consider that too but most likely Ill go with a 290. Thanks so much...

Well I hoped that overclocking only the cpu would increase the performance just enough to catch up with whatever card i go with (but I'm still confused how to tell if the power requirement would be too high? Are sites like pcpartpicker not accurate enough?) Depending on well my overclocked 6300...

According to pcpartpicker the 390 would bring my power load to 510w http://pcpartpicker.com/p/MNbvMp (note the link includes not my current psu but one I'm considering if i go with the 390) Wouldn't that be cutting it too close? I don't know anything about the technicalities, is pcpartpicker...

Oh ok, I'm sorry I guess I was confused over what reference model actually means lol! & yes I am most likely going to wait til Black Friday :)

I'd like to but I'm poor lol. Honestly tho I don't think I'd ever get a higher range gpu than $350ish. I'm thinking it'd be worth it to upgrade now anyway since I could get a really decent improvement over my 660. And I'm really looking forward to play Fallout 4 haha.

Hm I thought as long as I avoided a reference model the 290 would be ok. Are all 290s that bad with cooling? Can you explain the Turbo duo? (honestly I'm not even sure why exactly it is that reference cards are so bad with cooling lol)

Good point!! I almost forgot about that for awhile lol

Nice that's what I'm hoping for. But I think I had trouble bc of my motherboard maybe? I've got the Asus m5a97 r2.0

Yeah, I’m thinking that I’ll check the Black Friday sales and compare between the 290 and 390/ 970. How much of a price difference/reduction would you say would be worth it to get the 390 or 970 over the 290?

I most likely won't have to worry about it then? Bc even the lower end cards I'm considering are 3gb+ Again, I know there's no way to know for sure but it gets me nervous lol. I’d like whatever I get to be a good solid choice for years more.

Well either way I do plan on waiting for Black Friday deals or even the Christmas season so there's no rush. (Who knows, I may even change my mind completely after seeing how I can run Fallout 4) That link is actually one of the exact 290's I was looking at. It seems to be particular cheaper...

Besides upgrading CPUs in the future, I'm also going to try overclocking the 6300, I didn't have much luck when I tried before but maybe it would make a good enough difference?

Keep in mind that I do plan to eventually go to a higher CPU down the line. If I get the 390/970 then I would be using it with my current build but also carrying it over when I upgrade (which will probably be to an intel ddr4 setup) and using it for as long as possible after that.

So if I'm always going to be running at 1080p then I don't have to worry about the amount of RAM? From what I know it seems like that the main reason people go for bigger gpu RAM is bc of running higher than 1080p but what about future games coming out? I'm just wondering bc I'm thinking they...