lala Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 ive been out of the loop a while, working/family etc, needed a good game, so picked up skyrim (ive been a fan since morrowind) - love it. brilliant fun! currently got a gtx 680 2gb under the hood, and its not cutting it ... and I would love 3dvision as well. gaming on 2560x1600 how would you guys upgrade? is it possible for me to get good enb and good 3d stereo for little £££? or do i have to pick 2 of these 3 choices? ive got nvidia 3d glasses, so i would prefer to stay with them, and if i can utilise the 680 gtx in SLI or can I relegate it to other duties? (told you im out of the loop a bit - i remember there was talk about using old cards for other things a few years ago) I really want the best bang for buck upgrade - I dont have £500/$1000 lying around cheers for any help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaosrex Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 From what i know you need something like at least a 3Gb Vram on such a big screen and 3dVision. Its something like 1.5GB that runs for the screen resolution, and at least 1Gb or less for the 3D iirc. Now you can use 2 x 2 GB Vram cards in SLI or Crossfire, but it don't think it would solve the problem, my understanding is that the two cards get the same data send to them, and so they use up the same amount of Vram for what they do, read something about the drivers who would make one card work for one thing and the other deal with other stuff, but not sure about that. Now of what i saw lately there is 3GB Vram cards under or at the 300$ mark, even at 250$ i think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djjohnjarvis Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 I would get the 4GB version of the GTX 770. It runs Skyrim smoothly at a steady fps with ENB and graphics mods, full settings and has plenty of VRAM. It's fairly reasonably priced for how powerful it is and is pretty much the most powerful Nvidia graphics card you can get till they start getting into the ridiculously expensive cards that are over your budget. I got mine for about £280. The only thing is I don't know how much 3dvision affects performance. You could always add in another GTX 770 later if you need more power though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ONIXer Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 I would recommend 770 or 760 Mars its expensive then 770, but its bit faster then 780 ti and cheaper + it got 4gb of vram since its 2 gpu's on 1 card, also you wont have as much issues with SLI. Myself im using 780 ti, with top mods some 8k resolution textures, average grass density, big and lush trees (you can see my latest screens) i have 25 - 45 fps in exterior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lala Posted February 4, 2014 Author Share Posted February 4, 2014 im a bit in gfx limbo arent i.. not much point going SLi & expensive to upgrade.. unless i pay more for a similar card but with 4gb.. is there anything i can do with my old gtx? maybe just sell it ... edit* yeah the mars looks good, wll investigate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ONIXer Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Forgot to ask, what CPU you got? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lala Posted February 4, 2014 Author Share Posted February 4, 2014 hex I7, it never goes near 10%. SSD, 24gb RAM. graphics workhorse. do you ever hit 3gb limit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ONIXer Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Nice workstation you got there. 2.5 gb of vram at max but im playing with 1080p, gonna switch to 1440 in couple of months when G-Sync will be available in my country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lala Posted February 4, 2014 Author Share Posted February 4, 2014 yeah, G-sync + smooth fps sounds like a dream - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jet4571 Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 im a bit in gfx limbo arent i.. not much point going SLi & expensive to upgrade.. unless i pay more for a similar card but with 4gb.. is there anything i can do with my old gtx? maybe just sell it ... edit* yeah the mars looks good, wll investigate Ill take that old GPU, I have a 9800GTX+ with 512 Vram. But I would keep the old GPU as a backup until you upgrade again, then Ebay it if I was you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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