$300 - $400 bang for your buck

[DaNerdElite]

What is a good card i can acquire that'll be relevant for a while and play most of the modern games at max settings?

 

[whitecat]

GTX 770
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127741

 

[woltej1]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130946

go with this 770, evga is a better manufacturer than MSI in quality terms. There isn't anything around the $400 mark worth buying.

 

[DaNerdElite]

Will it be a huge difference between the 2gb and 4gb versions?

 

[woltej1]

No, not as single gpus. The point of the 4gb version is to SLI it with another 4gb 770 to run high resolution displays. Unless you plan to SLI go with the 2gb.

 

[whitecat]

Will it be a huge difference between the 2gb and 4gb versions?

If the processor and the RAM are fast ,no .

 

[DaNerdElite]

No, not as single gpus. The point of the 4gb version is to SLI it with another 4gb 770 to run high resolution displays. Unless you plan to SLI go with the 2gb.

Ok thank you very much!

 

[DaNerdElite]

Will it be a huge difference between the 2gb and 4gb versions?

If the processor and the RAM are fast ,no .

i7 2500k
16 gb ram

 

[whitecat]

Will it be a huge difference between the 2gb and 4gb versions?

If the processor and the RAM are fast ,no .

i7 2500k
16 gb ram

For me i5 2500K/ i7 2600K have enough power and 2GB should be fine.

 

[woltej1]

Will it be a huge difference between the 2gb and 4gb versions?

If the processor and the RAM are fast ,no .

i7 2500k
16 gb ram

For me i5 2500K/ i7 2600K have enough power and 2GB should be fine.

What does cpu power and system ram have to do with 2gb model vs 4gb.

 

[whitecat]

Will it be a huge difference between the 2gb and 4gb versions?

If the processor and the RAM are fast ,no .

i7 2500k
16 gb ram

For me i5 2500K/ i7 2600K have enough power and 2GB should be fine.

What does cpu power and system ram have to do with 2gb model vs 4gb.

If the cpu and the ram are fast , it will make no difference from where the data are fetched - through the pci-e slot or the internal VRAM . Btw , the cpu and the gpu are interacting every moment.

 

[woltej1]

yes, but VRAM has nothing to do with it.

 

[whitecat]

yes, but VRAM has nothing to do with it.

Only a little part of the VRAM is necessary , the rest are cache !!!

 

[woltej1]

VRAM isn't system cache though, so I still fail to see the significance of cpu and system RAM for performance differences between 2gb and 4gb.

 

[whitecat]

VRAM isn't system cache though, so I still fail to see the significance of cpu and system RAM for performance differences between 2gb and 4gb.

Before speaking , make some checks on Internet - 2GB vs 4GB in games !
http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Video-Card-Performance-2GB-vs-4GB-Memory-154/

 

[woltej1]

What does that have anything to do with what you were talking about? Your point was that VRAM is dependent on your CPU and RAM specs. The only thing changing in that test was the resolution, which I am very well aware that high resolutions require more than 2gb.