Deal on my new graphics caRD

[jpe1701]

So a while back I built a second pc to go in the living room. I have been using it just for browsing the internet and watching youtube. I finally got around to buying a gpu for it and was looking at 1050tis but I came accross an asus gtx 960 2gb brand new for $90. I couldn't pass it up. It's only going to be used for watching movies and possibly some of my older games such as skyrim or civilization 5. Now my question is did I do good? Does skyrim use much vram? That's the game I will be playing most on it.

 

[drkatz42]

You're in excellent shape!


Minimum System Requirements

Windows 7/Vista/XP PC (32 or 64 bit)
Processor: Dual Core 2.0GHz or equivalent processor
2GB System RAM
6GB free HDD Space
Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 512 MB of RAM
DirectX compatible sound card
Internet access for Steam activation

Recommended System Requirements

Windows 7/Vista/XP PC (32 or 64 bit)
Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD CPU
4GB System RAM
6GB free HDD space
DirectX 9.0c compatible NVIDIA video card with 1GB of RAM (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 or higher (i.e GTX550Ti)).
DirectX compatible sound card
Internet access for Steam activation

 

[jpe1701]

You're in excellent shape!


Minimum System Requirements

Windows 7/Vista/XP PC (32 or 64 bit)
Processor: Dual Core 2.0GHz or equivalent processor
2GB System RAM
6GB free HDD Space
Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 512 MB of RAM
DirectX compatible sound card
Internet access for Steam activation

Recommended System Requirements

Windows 7/Vista/XP PC (32 or 64 bit)
Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD CPU
4GB System RAM
6GB free HDD space
DirectX 9.0c compatible NVIDIA video card with 1GB of RAM (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 or higher (i.e GTX550Ti)).
DirectX compatible sound card
Internet access for Steam activation

Thank you. I guess I didn't realize how old that game is. It should do really well.

 

[Gam3r01]

Where are you finding this 960? Might be a little too good to be true.

 

[Chugalug_]

Seems like an absolute bargain, I wouldn't say too good to be true @Gam3r01, it performs about on par with a 1050Ti which costs $120, given it's an older gen card with arguably less optimization and not in high demand compared to lower voltage and more readily available modern cards.

 

[jpe1701]

I actually have it on hand. I got it on eBay. It's the reference model. I thought that too but he had 199 stars all positive transactions and it came today. I wonder if he just didn't realize what it was worth.

 

[jpe1701]

Seems like an absolute bargain, I wouldn't say too good to be true @Gam3r01, it performs about on par with a 1050Ti which costs $120, given it's an older gen card with arguably less optimization and not in high demand compared to lower voltage and more readily available modern cards.

How do you keep up with the prices of everything so well? Lol. Good stuff. Thank you. Yeah the charts look pretty close between the 2. I was just worried about having only 2gb of vram but I want to be able to shut my main rig down and not have to be in a separate room from the family while I play Skyrim basically and the price was right.

 

[Chugalug_]

Yep, good pickup.