Possible UPGRADE ???

[sighnbox]

Hi Guys I'm considering a upgrade as I want to get a 4K TV for the living room and hook up my PC to the card and poss eventually upgrade my monitors to 4K ones as well

I don't really do games I may play one literally only 1-2 times a year F1 or Battlefield.....I do like to make home movies and love taking pics but besides that my comp is just a general hack Ebay etc

I need a HDMI out to the 4K TV and two of the same type out ports to my screens (find a sort of lag if not using the same type of port for both screens)

What cards would people suggest ??? at the mo I'm considering ???

ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB ROG STRIX GAMING OC......... £306


Current set up

Asus P9X79 Deluxe Motherboard

Intel Core i7 3930K Enthusiast Unlocked, S 2011, Sandybridge-E, Six Core, 3.2GHz, 12MB Smart Cache, 130W, Retail

240GB OCZ Vertex 3 Max IOPS Edition Solid State Drive SATA 6Gb/s 85KIOPS (for operating system)

Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB x 2 for storage drives SATA 6Gb/s

1280MB Gainward GTX 570 Phantom, 40nm, 1950MHz GDDR5, GPU 750MHz, Shader 1600MHz, 480 Cores, DP/HDMI

16GB Corsair DDR3 Vengeance LP PC3-12800 (1600), Non-ECC, CAS 8-8-8-24, XMP, 1.5V
Corsair H80 Hydro CPU cooler

Iiyama ProLite B2409HDS 24" monitors x 2 (dual screen)

2 x StarTech.com 5.25 inch Trayless Hot Swap Mobile Rack with LCD
Cooler Master Silent Pro M 850w psu

Coolermaster SlickleFLow Blue LED Quiet Case Fan 120mm x Five

2 x LG Blu-Ray rewriter BH16NS40.AUAR10B - LG 16x Blu-ray Writer, 16x DVD±R, 8x +RW, 6x -RW, 12x RAM

Cooler Master Cosmos 1100 sport (powder coated black inside)

Icy box IB865 USB 3.0 supper speed card reader

Edifier 2.1 ...M3300SF Speakers

Logitec 9000 Pro HD webcam

Windows 7 ultimate 64 Bit OS

 

[Kavinqt]

You won't be able to play 4k on a 1060 with even 30 fps or so on bf1, you may get decent frames on like league or csgo thats about it... a 1060 just doesn't have anywhere enough power for 4k, my 1070 can't even play at 4k, it barely holds up at 60 frames at 1440p at ultra settings on most all games.

 

[Ramlethal]

To effectivly play at 4k you need a gtx 980 ti or gtx 1070/1080...

 

[solomspd112]

alright so first of, Out putting to different ports from the same GPU doesn't make any sort lag. once had 2 displays running off the same GPU; one was display port and the other was DVI and they both ran fine with no lag. and for simply viewing pictures, the simplest GPU solution should be fine. But if you're gonna view really high quality pictures ESPECIALLY if you're gonna view RAW files i'd recommend investing in a faster storage solution, that was usually the bottle neck whenever I viewed RAW pictures; sometimes it would take a good 8 seconds after pressing next picture to actually load it up. As for video editing, the hardware you might need might vary depending on the software you're using and the quality of the video and whether or not you're using a format that supports hardware acceleration. I'm guessing you're gonna be loading up 4K video since you're using a 4k monitor so (once again) i'd recommend a faster storage solution as that usually helps scrubbing through video and playback WAY faster. And yeah a better graphics card would help even if you're not gonna use a format that supports hardware acceleration since most video editing software has native hardware acceleration support (as in it will make scrubbing faster even if you're not using a hardware accelerated format(but still it wouldn't be anywhere as fast as a hardware accelerated format)). The GPU will help most at increasing rendering times by A LOT.As for gaming a 1060 is no where near fast enough to run battlefield 1 at 4k unless you're ready to play at a lower resolution. honestly, just looking up benchmarks for the 1060 in battlefield would help more than anything i could write.

Hope i helped! (and English isn't my first language so please forgive me if i didn't make my point clear)

 

[sighnbox]

Now Im confused...Recently brought the boy a 4K TV less than 4 week ago I spoke to Scan computers and told them I wanted a card that would output to a 1080 monitor and output 4k to his TV ...They Recommended a Asus GTX1050 saying it would easy do it ?????

 

[Kavinqt]

They probably thought you meant 4k video streaming not 4k video game playing 😛 there is a huge difference when it comes to 4k streaming for video watching and playing a video game at 4k

 

[sighnbox]

That's exactly what I mean for streaming Video........ As it says in my original post I don't really play games literally 1-2 times a year I may play one for an hour ....... SO I don't do gaming ...Just to confirm its to watch films and vid from my com on the TV in 4K and then in the future when I upgrade my monitors to 4K ones to watch vid / film on them as well.

So would the Asus GTX1060 out put 4K VIDEO to a 4k TV and 2 x 4k Monitors ?? would that be a good card for the job ?

 

[Ramlethal]

if you dont game... then the 1050 TI will be more than fine... The perfect card i would say... BUT JUST IF YOU DONT EVER WANNA GAME with it. Unless its a very retro game or something like league of legends

 

[Kavinqt]

If only for 4k video streaming yes a 1060 will be well over enough sorry for the confusion.

 

[sighnbox]

No games as say the only one I may do is F1 (2015) and battlefield1945 (not battlefield 1) and wouldn't care if there not in 4k ......also upgrading as my Gainwood Phantom GTX570 can only run 2 screens and with a new TV would like to link the comp up to it for films ....is it worth me paying the extra for a 1060 over a 1050 card ?????

(the boys GTX1050 I put in his comp runs his ONE TV in 4K great)

 

[Kavinqt]

If you plan on running multiple monitors especially 4k, on a single card (for streaming) It would be best to go with the better card, I'd say a 1060 with 6gb's would be plenty enough. as if it was for 1 monitor a 1050 TI would do perfectly fine.

 

[sighnbox]

Thanks guys as ever great help .....The trouble with comps and especially graphics cards is it all moves on so fast. I built the above comp 4 years ago now and that was after 6 week research and reading up and unless you constantly read up on components soon get out of touch

Thanks there

 

[Kavinqt]

No problem, hope it all goes well for you.

 

[Ramlethal]

Thanks guys as ever great help .....The trouble with comps and especially graphics cards is it all moves on so fast. I built the above comp 4 years ago now and that was after 6 week research and reading up and unless you constantly read up on components soon get out of touch

Thanks there

you are welcome.
1050TI is a very descent OverAll card in almost every resolution...
In some it will not be effective for gaming but if you dont mind gaming so... Its more than a perfect card for you

 

[sighnbox]

Thanks guys brought it today went the Asus GTX1070 OC........couldn't help my self lol