strawbqwerty Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Thinking of up grading my graphics. I have at the moment two GTX 760 cards in SLI that give me 4 gb . That was fine in the old 32 bit Sky rim, but I`m thinking it`s not enough in Skyrim SE. I have noticed a few times where the graphics start to struggle to keep up. I am interested in the Radeon r9 360 8gb. Spec are better than what I have now. Any one running one of these cards? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fyur Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 Stick with Nvidia my man! I'm running a GTX Strix 980 and have no problems with the game, verdant grass and lots of textures! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goranpaa Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 (edited) I have the R9 380 4gb wich is a bit faster than the R7 360. And my factory overclocked Sappire Nitro 380 handle the pretty heavy modded game in an ok. way but not great. I have an average fps of 39 - 45 outdoors and 59 fps indoors. So if you are going for a Radeon card? Get at least the R9 380 4gb or preferably the RX 480 4 gb. Or you could go down the GTX 970 4gb way too. Edited April 11, 2017 by goranpaa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strawbqwerty Posted April 12, 2017 Author Share Posted April 12, 2017 I have ended up getting a GIGABYTE RX480G1-GAMING-8GD ** 8GB ** RX480 VIDEO CARD . Gigabyte does some work with the fans that make them pretty much silent and they get the card to run a bit cooler. Specs are much the same as the GTX 980, slightly faster but not by much unless over clocked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goranpaa Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 Congrats to a nice new card! :) That should have no problems handling a pretty heavy modded Skyrim SE. Yes, Gigabyte, MSI, Sapphire and ASUS have great cooling systems on their cards. Happy gaming! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strawbqwerty Posted April 12, 2017 Author Share Posted April 12, 2017 Thanks for the reply. I did a bit of google research before buying. The MSI cards are apparently the noisiest and warmest going by the various reviews. I am not looking for 4k gaming so yeah it should be quite suitable . I mostly wanted more ram. No point having access to all your MB ram and bottle necking at the graphic card. Rest of my computer is up to speed, was only the graphics that needed a look at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goranpaa Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 (edited) Thanks for the reply. I did a bit of google research before buying. The MSI cards are apparently the noisiest and warmest going by the various reviews. I am not looking for 4k gaming so yeah it should be quite suitable . I mostly wanted more ram. No point having access to all your MB ram and bottle necking at the graphic card. Rest of my computer is up to speed, was only the graphics that needed a look at. You're welcome. I'm a bit surpriced though that people say this about the MSI cards. :- 0 They have othervice been considered having the best cooling systems for their cards. But maybe they just didn't succed with the RX 480? I'm confident that you will have a nice gaming experience with your rig now. Edited April 12, 2017 by goranpaa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strawbqwerty Posted September 7, 2017 Author Share Posted September 7, 2017 Just a up date. Should have stuck with Nvidia and should have done some more research. The mother board was three years old. I have now found reports that the card is known to draw to much power from the PCI E slot. New boards can handle this for a time. I knew the card may have rum a bit warm. So the card had over heated and then would stop working. When cooled it would work again. Tried fitting water cooling but the damage was already done and then the PCI E slot on the mother board failed. So one fried mother board and graphic card later. I have a new mother board but still looking at video cards. I am using a old card that will not handle games, so Skyrim is not happening for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeddBate Posted September 8, 2017 Share Posted September 8, 2017 Since your previous card(s) were two 760s, I would recommend a GTX 1070. Something along the lines of EVGA's ACX 3.0 Black Edition with 8GB of VRAM. Plenty of oomph for your SE (and just about any other game out there.) 1070s tend to be the best bang-for-your-buck deals out there. Of course, if you can afford the extra scratch, a 1080 would be even nicer. Sorry about your bad luck with the RX480. I knew they were power-hogs, but I didn't realize they could contribute to frying your mobo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COMBATFUN Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 (edited) Quite suprised hearing this. Almost all Boards should be able to run proper with the higher Watts on the PCIE Slot. Except very old and cheap Boards.Furthermore, AMD solved this issue by releasing a new Bios for the RX 480 cards. You might missed to install this.Put the RX 480 in your new board and look for this bios update for the Card. Do it before stressing the Card with benchmarking or playing games. If you want a new GFX Card, i would suggest a GTX 1060 6 GB. Edited September 12, 2017 by COMBATFUN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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