Buying second hand gpu?

[not you]

Hello

gtx 970 or second hand 980 ti?

The 980 ti has warranty but to an other country :/
Is it worth the risk?

Thank you for the help

 

[RobCrezz]

Depends how cheap the 980 Ti is? Who is the warranty with? I would check that the manufacturer will honor it before buying it.

 

[Wayfall]

Well this is just me really but I always buy brand new out of the box so if anything happens I can RMA it's arse.

Also only go for used if it is an absolutely trusted seller and if you really that hard on cash, if your able to wait to get a brand new please do.

Regards

 

[Wayfall]

Depends how cheap the 980 Ti is? Who is the warranty with? I would check that the manufacturer will honor it before buying it.

Great questions....

Oh leave him alone he is only trying to help him decide.

 

[not you]

I already do have a 970 but i could sell it pay up the price of +1 gtx 970 and than i could buy it from e-bay it cost 612$ here it cost 780$
Evga is the manufacturer i think they do keep the warranty

 

[Wayfall]

Why do you even wanted to upgrade??

A GTX 970 is fine its just games are more CPU required now sadly. There is no point going for the 980 till next year really, the GTX 980 is overkill and completely overpriced at the moment in time.

What is your CPU?

Also if your getting maxed at 60fps then leave your GPU be. I got a MSI GTX 970 2 months ago and I won't be upgrading it for like two years as i'm getting maxed 1080 60fps with no problems.

If you want above 1080p get a GTX 980 over wise stick with the GTX 970.

Regards

 

[not you]

I7 6700k is my cpu its watercooled on an asus maximus viii hero i upgraded from an a6 5400k and it was not cheap so i expect this cpu to do some serious $@!t

The 970 is not a bad gpu its very strong in core but games like black ops 3 use over 8gb vram and it stutters :/ (in 1440x900<my monitor)

 

[Wayfall]

That is a lot of Vram. The only cards I know of with 8GB is that AMD R9 390 8GB and the Nvidia Titan X 8GB.

There are rumors Nvidia will be revealing 8Gb version of the GTX 970 and 980 soon which is good.

 

[not you]

^^ y but the 390 doesnt support gamestream :/ and i have an NVIDIAShieldTablet

A 980/970 8gb would be great

 

[Wayfall]

Looks like you will have to wait for the GTX 970 and 980 8GB then.

 

[not you]

Or titan x for the vram only :/

I dont give much chanse to the 8gb version of current cards to be released when pascal is in 2016 too anyway

 

[RobCrezz]

What? there is no way in hell that black ops 3 needs 8gb of vram @ 1440x900.

 

[not you]

See for yourself actually it needs more than 8gb in 1080p i hope its enough for my slightly less res

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qufD-1fFPM

Look at vram usage it stutters around 1:40 it uses around 7.7gb bcs the 390 only can push that much with its resources

 

[RobCrezz]

See for yourself actually it needs more than 8gb in 1080p i hope its enough for my slightly less res

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qufD-1fFPM

Look at vram usage it stutters around 1:40 it uses around 7.7gb bcs the 390 only can push that much with its resources

Thats got nothing to do with the vram usage, its because he has the settings up too high and its too much work for the GPU - that will happen if you go crazy with the settings and AA.( Look at the GPU usage, its maxed out)

Just because its filling up 7.7Gb doesnt mean it NEEDs 7.7gb. Many games will just take whats available for caching.

You run these same settings on a 6gb 980 ti, and I bet it will perform a lot better even with less vram.

 

[not you]

Gpu usage is never 100% (i guess bcs of vsynch)
So a stronger card with less vram will not do any better :/


What u mean too high?? Bo3 doesnt have much aa settings the most u can set is 2x :/
And well i bought the 970 to max out textures lol :/ if i need to turn that down i might as well have bought the 750 ti damn
About cacheing yes yes my father said the same lol xD
But it does stutter on my card and on a 980 ti too :/
http://www.techpowerup.com/mobile/217308/black-ops-iii-12-gb-ram-and-gtx-980-ti-not-enough.html

 

[RobCrezz]

Look at the point you mention from 1:40 - 2:00, it maxes out (high 95-98%).

If it stutters on a 980 ti, then its just a badly coded game, not vram requirements.

 

[not you]

It does run very well on my friends titan x (useing 8.6gb vram 1080p<resolution :/)

 

[Wayfall]

Even I think its insane that that game would use over 8GB, it has to be a memory leak or bad optimization or something.

 

[not you]

Memory leak confirmed but bethesda doesnt really want to do anything as its mostly ok in multiplayer its just bad in singleplayer and zombies :/

 

[RobCrezz]

Memory leak confirmed but bethesda doesnt really want to do anything as its mostly ok in multiplayer its just bad in singleplayer and zombies :/

bethesda?

Do you mean Treyarch? Or are we talking about another game now?

 

[not you]

Sry devs makers of cod forgot its name xD (its not bethesda?)

Sry my bad no idea might be that

 

[Wayfall]

No its not Bethesda. I was talking about COD maybe not being able to removing the memory that isn't being used which is what a memory leak its.

 

[not you]

^^ i answered them
I smbody showed me a fix on steam for black ops 3 so it seams you dont need a 700$ gpu to play in 900p nowdays