New Video Card For Skyrim and for Skyrim Mod Reviews

[vatiwah]

hey hey. I am Vatiwah and some of you might know me :p. I have a gtx 760 2GB video card and I am looking to possibly upgrade to a better card.

I was trying out Somber 3 ENB and without recording, I get about 40fps ( less than 30fps while recording). Aside from the low framerates, When my character turns 360 degree to look at another direction, my skyrim freezes for a fraction of a second. I've only used 2 different ENB while playing skyrim, opethfeld and realvision. Now, I have been trying other ENB's and I see I get hit bad on performance.

I was looking to start reviewing ENBs for both skyrim and GTA5 (cant run on max without same type of freezing when looking around quickly) and it seems using the highest settings and best textures is probably most important.

Any suggestions for upgrades? Something less than 700usd @_@.

[Boombro]

700 bucks is quite the good budget. The best card right now is gtx 970 with 4 gba vram.

 

Here, to fish the best prices https://pcpartpicker.com/parts/video-card/#r=4096&c=186&sort=d6&page=1 make sure that your case and mobo can fit the card.

[vatiwah]

700 bucks is quite the good budget. The best card right now is gtx 970 with 4 gba vram.

 

Here, to fish the best prices https://pcpartpicker.com/parts/video-card/#r=4096&c=186&sort=d6&page=1 make sure that your case and mobo can fit the card.

What I read about the 970 is it only uses 3.5GB out of 4GB for the vram ;s.. i dunno if that is gonna be a big issue for the future.

[notmyhome]

What resolution are you going to play at? 970 is very viable for 1080p, many recommend an r9 290 for anything higher.

I have an msi 970, and when running the full STEP setup with Phinix ENB. Outside was 40-60 fps in grass heavy areas, inside consistently 60.

[Noortje]

Definitely get a 980 if you can afford one. With a 700 dollar budget you should definitely go for the 980 because it uses the full 4gb and aside from being one of the top three cards is future proof.

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487079&cm_re=gtx_980-_-14-487-079-_-Product

Edited May 4, 2015 by Noortje

[Boombro]

 

700 bucks is quite the good budget. The best card right now is gtx 970 with 4 gba vram.

 

Here, to fish the best prices https://pcpartpicker.com/parts/video-card/#r=4096&c=186&sort=d6&page=1 make sure that your case and mobo can fit the card.

What I read about the 970 is it only uses 3.5GB out of 4GB for the vram ;s.. i dunno if that is gonna be a big issue for the future.

 

I have r9 290x 4 vram, run a very heavy setup that fully 2k and it uses 3.1 vram.

If you wish for 4k textures, you will need 4 vram, Skyrim not much.

 

R9 290x is great too and stronger by a little, but you need good cooling.

[vatiwah]

Definitely get a 980 if you can afford one. With a 700 dollar budget you should definitely go for the 980 because it uses the full 4gb and aside from being one of the top three cards is future proof.

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487079&cm_re=gtx_980-_-14-487-079-_-Product

 

Hahaha. I was looking at that 980 earlier on newegg :p.. I was thinking of buying it and actually going to pick it up tommorow, but then its almost twice as expensive as a 970 for that 500mb of vram useable and 100hz faster clock speed and 400 more cuda cores.

 

 

 

What resolution are you going to play at? 970 is very viable for 1080p, many recommend an r9 290 for anything higher.

I have an msi 970, and when running the full STEP setup with Phinix ENB. Outside was 40-60 fps in grass heavy areas, inside consistently 60.

 

I will most likely stay at 1080p (but I would definitely go 4k if I can afford a 4k monitor from youtube earnings lol).

[Boombro]

Wait a year or a half for a 4k build. You need to dump a lot of money to run a 4k game with high fps and for it to stay cool.

 

If we are talking about 4k skyrim, forget it expect if you hate enbs.

[vatiwah]

Wait a year or a half for a 4k build. You need to dump a lot of money to run a 4k game with high fps and for it to stay cool.

 

If we are talking about 4k skyrim, forget it expect if you hate enbs.

4k recording as a youtuber is even more money extensive... you would need a good CPU to render videos for 4k lol. You'd have to upgrade CPU and need a ton of harddrive space as well.

 

But I would stick at 1080p for a while.

 

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Overall, i dont know if its justifiable to get the 980 over the 970 because it costs twice as much. But then the 970 only has 3.5k vram, and I will need all that I can get. >.<... I've used AMD cards before and I was not really impressed that much lol.

[Noortje]

 

Definitely get a 980 if you can afford one. With a 700 dollar budget you should definitely go for the 980 because it uses the full 4gb and aside from being one of the top three cards is future proof.

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487079&cm_re=gtx_980-_-14-487-079-_-Product

 

Hahaha. I was looking at that 980 earlier on newegg :tongue:.. I was thinking of buying it and actually going to pick it up tommorow, but then its almost twice as expensive as a 970 for that 500mb of vram useable and 100hz faster clock speed and 400 more cuda cores.

 

 

 

What resolution are you going to play at? 970 is very viable for 1080p, many recommend an r9 290 for anything higher.

I have an msi 970, and when running the full STEP setup with Phinix ENB. Outside was 40-60 fps in grass heavy areas, inside consistently 60.

 

I will most likely stay at 1080p (but I would definitely go 4k if I can afford a 4k monitor from youtube earnings lol).

 

 

There's a lot more to a GPU than clockspeeds. Here's a comparison:

 

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/EVGA-GeForce-GTX-980-vs-EVGA-GeForce-GTX-970

 

As you can see the gtx 980 has a 10% better passmark, a lot more texture mapping units, way more shading units, similar clock speed, a LOT higher pixel rate, a LOT higher floating-point performance, 10% higher base clock speed.

 

You can expect the speed of the card to be about a 10-20% performance difference, depending on how well a game scales with the GPU, on 1080p, but the memory is very important, if you ever plan on going 4k (the future of youtube reviews and gaming is definitely with 4k) you should definitely go for as much memory as you can get. Also, the higher you go the higher the difference is going to be, the 980 will have a way better performance at higher resolutions.

Edited May 4, 2015 by Noortje