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grumbles069 Aug 8, 2015 @ 11:45pm
Preferred GPU
I am running an Intel Core i7 - 3.4 ghz, 64 Gb DDR3 RAM, on an ASUS Sabertooth-x79B MB.I also have 2 x SLI Gigabyte (NVIDEA drivers) GV-N780OC-3GD GTX 780 OC Edition GPU's. I was running 43 FPS and then Optimized the settings and the FPS increased to 60. Having read many comments here about the short-coming of NVIDEA GPU's and even quicker FPS's, can you experienced guys tell me what would be a better, high-end GPU (or GPU's to run in SLI) that would be more suitable to ETS2. Thank you in advance
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kitsumo1 Aug 13, 2015 @ 4:32pm 
Tom's hardware is one of the best resources around. If you're shopping for a card, definitely check out their Best GPUs for The Money, it has a recommendation for every price level. Also, their Graphics Card Hierarchy which compares all major GPUs since the Riva TNT era. Tom's is slightly biased toward NVIDIA, but if you just keep that in mind, it's a pretty good site.
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Etny2k Aug 13, 2015 @ 4:47pm 
I use 2 780s. I would recommend turning off AA, 300% and learn to play with grass turned off and reflections on low. Shadows are sick, leave those ultra. Too bad the mirrors dont show shadows...You can bump that up to 90-120 fps on a 144hz monitor. In cab drops around 15-20 fps.
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BOYCOTT Aug 13, 2015 @ 7:03pm 
Originally posted by kitsumo1:
Tom's hardware is one of the best resources around. If you're shopping for a card, definitely check out their Best GPUs for The Money, it has a recommendation for every price level. Also, their Graphics Card Hierarchy which compares all major GPUs since the Riva TNT era. Tom's is slightly biased toward NVIDIA, but if you just keep that in mind, it's a pretty good site.

yeah, agreed, they're a good site, i also used to love hardware firing squad as well, but it's been too long since i've checked them to give a totally solid recommendation.
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grumbles069 Aug 13, 2015 @ 11:20pm 
Thank you again good people
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tesTTrucker Aug 14, 2015 @ 2:41am 
Originally posted by kitsumo1:
How do you like you i7? I'm thinking of getting an i5, but I had a bad experience with Intel in the past. I had a Pentium 4 2.8ghz that was always either crashing or running hot, so I've stuck with AMD since.

I've been using an AMD Phenom II 6-core since 2010 and to be honest, it still works great. I don't know what my framerate is in ETS2, but it runs smoothly. GTA 5 runs well too as long as I don't have too many other programs running in the background.

Believe me... Intel has improved a lot since Pentium's era. I have Intel Core2Duo and I've overclocked it. It works perfect with a stock cooler. Anyway... it's kind of old now... so it's time to buy new PC... soon ;) (Friend of mine, which is a computer freak btw has told me that Intel's are now better than AMD's). But ..for the record.. my first PC had AMD Athlon 2200+ (15 yrs ago).
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kitsumo1 Aug 14, 2015 @ 3:09am 
008Ivan, yeah AMD seems to be running in a distant 2nd place in both CPUs and GPUs. I love my Phenom II but I think AMD made a mistake focusing so much on APUs for its new chips. They're fast for some specialized applications, but don't have the horsepower for general purpose gaming.
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Gizmosellsbunnys Aug 14, 2015 @ 5:36am 
hope AMD zen will improve its IPC gap with Intel get it narrowed to where Haswell level sits so Intel starts to sweat a little, APU good idea at lower end consumer market at 900p and 720p gaming resolution don't have money to buy graphics card. GPU it's mostly get what you pay for and always tough buying GPU always something better the next year.

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BOYCOTT Aug 14, 2015 @ 8:27am 
Originally posted by 008Ivan:
Originally posted by kitsumo1:
How do you like you i7? I'm thinking of getting an i5, but I had a bad experience with Intel in the past. I had a Pentium 4 2.8ghz that was always either crashing or running hot, so I've stuck with AMD since.

I've been using an AMD Phenom II 6-core since 2010 and to be honest, it still works great. I don't know what my framerate is in ETS2, but it runs smoothly. GTA 5 runs well too as long as I don't have too many other programs running in the background.

Believe me... Intel has improved a lot since Pentium's era. I have Intel Core2Duo and I've overclocked it. It works perfect with a stock cooler. Anyway... it's kind of old now... so it's time to buy new PC... soon ;) (Friend of mine, which is a computer freak btw has told me that Intel's are now better than AMD's). But ..for the record.. my first PC had AMD Athlon 2200+ (15 yrs ago).

quit being butthurt over bulldozer, you're giving him horrible advice, AMD has been and still is being utterly trounced for performance by Intel.
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kitsumo1 Aug 14, 2015 @ 10:54am 
No worries. I definitely plan on buying Intel. I'm just putting it off because my Phenom II is still going strong.
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BOYCOTT Aug 14, 2015 @ 11:21am 
Originally posted by kitsumo1:
No worries. I definitely plan on buying Intel. I'm just putting it off because my Phenom II is still going strong.

that's totally fair and understandable, honestly i wish i hadn't bothered with an i7 5820k and went for the i7 5960k to be quite honest, the processor just can't be overclocked as well/easily with this one.

which isn't a big deal, but i can nearly overclock it to 4.5ghz, so close, it's like a tease, blue screens though despite passing stress tests.
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