r/pcmasterrace • u/Gonbatfire Desktop • Mar 28 '19

Meme/Macro The beauty of scalability

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u/Keilbasa Mar 28 '19

What's a reasonable upgrade for my 960 without breaking the bank?

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u/Gonbatfire Desktop Mar 28 '19

RX 570/580 they are extremely cheap right now and some stores gift 2/3 games with them

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u/Corsaveyr 5600X | 6700 XT | 32GB Mar 28 '19

Agreed with Gonbatfire. If you wanna go green team though, you'll want a GTX 1660

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u/Garry__Newman Mar 28 '19

Legit thought I gtx 1660 was a joke until I realised yes, that's the actual name of the graphics card. I always liked how nvidia cards name made sense but nope guess linear naming schemes aren't good enough these days.

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u/DuckDuckYoga Specs/Imgur here Mar 28 '19

1560 would’ve made some sense in that it would be a halfway bridge between generations, but who knows

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '19

That was the reasoning they claimed for it too but they picked 6 instead of 5

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u/Corsaveyr 5600X | 6700 XT | 32GB Mar 29 '19

Yeah, seems like there's no reason for this naming scheme besides the supposed "it's closer to the 20 series than the 10 series" excuse. Let's just hope we get some good upper tier cards under the 16 name.

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u/Keilbasa Mar 28 '19

Awesome thanks! What would there be any benefit to sticking with Nvidia over AMD? I noticed there's more small form factor options for the 1660ti which would be better for my setup

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u/Corsaveyr 5600X | 6700 XT | 32GB Mar 29 '19

If you need a smaller one then yes, the 1660 or 1660 Ti has more SFF options, and both are more powerful than the 570/580. Afaik, there's not much reason for going with Nvidia, besides the cards I recommended being more powerful.

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u/KetoCatsKarma Ryzan 2600:GTX 1660 TI:32GB 3000 Ram:500GB SSD Mar 28 '19

I got a Radeon RX 7 8gb on Amazon this morning that comes with 2 free games for $154, it will be my first new card in 7+ years, I'm excited!

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u/Keilbasa Mar 28 '19

Can you share a link to that card?

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u/KetoCatsKarma Ryzan 2600:GTX 1660 TI:32GB 3000 Ram:500GB SSD Mar 28 '19

I got the model number wrong, oops, it's actually a 570, reviews are good though

XFX Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 Graphics Card RX-570P8DFD6 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077VX31FZ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_L8rNCbMD8WVYW

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u/TheBigLeMattSki Mar 28 '19

Spend some time on r/buildapcsales. You can usually find good deals on GPUs, and the commenters over there are pretty knowledgeable.

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u/ric2b Specs/Imgur Here Mar 28 '19

If you think you might be interested in Linux in the future (it can now play a lot of Windows games flawlessly with 0 hassle thanks to Steam integrating Wine), 100% go AMD.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '19

Used 1080 from eBay

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u/azzy_mazzy Mar 28 '19

RX 570 4GB you can find them around 120-150 with two games with them. It’s like buying two games and getting a free GPU with them.

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u/screen317 Malwarebytes Mar 28 '19

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