Buying a new graphics card

Sep 7, 2018
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I want a new graphics card and im wondering whats the best card i can use with my motherboard.

Motherboard:https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/B250M-BAZOOKA.html

 
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As the owner of an OC’d 4670k I will say it’s ok for 60Hz gaming but it is showing its age in modern AAA games, quad cores are now entry level. Therefore the best I would go with is a 1060/1070 for 1080p 60Hz, 1070, 1070Ti, 1080 for 1440p 60Hz or 1080Ti for 4K 60Hz. Alternatively wait for the 2000 series equivalents.


Absolute, "I don't care how much money I've spent, I want bragging rights over anybody else" best? Currently that's the nVidia Titan Xp (gaming), or the Quadro GP100 (rendering); once the new RTX lineup comes out, the RTX 2080Ti will slightly edge ahead of it (8-10% more GFLOPS of processing power plus the ray-tracing) or their RTX 8000 (rendering).

However...

If you want the "Provides the most bang for the buck" best GPU, or the "this provides the performance that I both want and meshes well with the rest of my system", then that's going to depend on your system. For example, pairing a GTX 1080TI or an RTX card with pre-Coffee Lake Core i3 & a 1366x720 60Hz monitor is essentially ludicrous, because a) the CPU will vastly hold back any performance by the GPU, & b) unless you're going to run it in DSR mode the GPU is way too overpowered for the monitor. So...what CPU do you have, how much RAM do you have, & what monitor resolution/refresh rate does your current system had?
 


I have 32 gb of ram and a intel core i5 4670k processor and im going to buy a new monitor.

 
As the owner of an OC’d 4670k I will say it’s ok for 60Hz gaming but it is showing its age in modern AAA games, quad cores are now entry level. Therefore the best I would go with is a 1060/1070 for 1080p 60Hz, 1070, 1070Ti, 1080 for 1440p 60Hz or 1080Ti for 4K 60Hz. Alternatively wait for the 2000 series equivalents.
 
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What kind of monitor? For a 4K/60Hz or 1440p/144Hz, you'll want at least the 1080TI (or possibly to hold out for the 2080/2080TI). For a 1440p/under 100Hz or 1080p/144Hz monitor, a 1070TI or 1080 will be plenty powerful. For a 1080p/under 100Hz monitor, a 1060 (maybe a 1070 tops) is more than sufficient.