PC Video Card Qustion

The 680 and 670 kept decent value when the 780 and 770 came out. But the 970 was priced so damn low that it just ruined the used market.

 

Yea, they are rated for 1866 MHz.

 

Just sold mine for 415 on eBay. People want the 780 ti for SLI.

 

You got someone desperate. There's no reason to buy a used 780 Ti for $415 when a 970 outperforms it for $50 less.

 

Either way I am happy because it sold 5 minutes after I treated myself to an ASUS 980 on newegg.

 

You won big-time. Enjoy the 980.

I'm in preliminary planning for a full system upgrade when Skylake comes out. Skylake CPU, new motherboard and DDR4 RAM to go with, new GPU (whatever Nvidia has available at the time, most likely), and a new M.2 format SSD.

 

Cool. I waited for Haswell-E to make my next build. I am now debating which of the free games I should get. I am thinking FarCry4 which may test my build nicely. I can always get another game when I SLI the 980.

 

Far Cry 4 doesn't scale well. I wouldn't use that. Shadow of Mordor and Metro Redux are better candidates, IMO.

 

It's not that difficult... you just modify one number in the BIOS.

 

And perhaps the vcore.

 

If you need to touch the vcore, you're probably pushing too far, IMO.

Here's an excessively verbose guide that uses a Gigabyte BIOS just to confuse you further. You'll be fine.

 

My mobo has a physical button.

 

Let me guess...

 

I'm not a fan, honestly. Overclocking is something that has to be done meticulously, like using a sliding weight scale.

 

I know there are better ways, Tone E was just saying he didn't know how and I was illustrating it's so easy sometimes there's even a button for it.

 

I know how this conversation started, don't worry.

 

The free games I can choose from is ACU, FC4, or The Crew.

 

I chose ACU.

 

Oh, I see what happened there.

I second Stitches' nomination of ACU. FC4 is basically FC3 with a new map; if you've played FC3, you've already played FC4. The Crew is good in its own right, so I wouldn't blame you for taking it, but I like ACU best of the three.

 

I haven't played the FC series. I try to read reviews of the games and of course in true Ubisoft fashion, all the games seemed to be bugged with problems. Ubisoft has a bias against PC "ports" of course.

 

Yves Guillemot regards PC players as a bunch of pirates. So the bias comes from the top.

Still, FC4 is good and most of the problems have been patched, with the remaining ones being inherent to it being a ****ty port--bad UI, mouse acceleration issues, etc.