Opinions of GTX 960

[smartroad]

Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone has a GTX960 they could give their opinion on. I am looking to upgrade from my ATI 7850 as I would like to really use my 3 monitors when out flying on better settings than 'low' What sort of FPS are you getting? Currently I get about 30-40fps when sitting in a station with mostly high settings and at 1920x1080.

I was thinking the 4GB version but not really sure if that would be any benefit over the 2GB, other than costing about £50 more. According to the PassMark site it offers almost twice the performance of my 7850 (7850 = 3737 marks, 960 = 5997)

[Roger Wilco Jr]

Hi. I can only tell you about my GTX970 4GB. At 2560x1440 sitting in a station with all maxed out settings I get 70-80fps depending where I'm looking. Outside the station it can be twice that. But I normally have v-sync on and max frame rate set to 60. Today in about 3 hours of playing I never saw it drop below 60fps. I think the 960 is about 1/3 less powerful, so I think it should handle 1920x1080 just fine, but maybe not a 3-monitor setup (just a guess).

That's with supersampling set at 1.0. At 1.5 it cuts the FPS in about half. And it look great at 2.0, but the FPS drops even more. I think that at 1.0 it looks acceptable, but at .75 it looks like crap. I think I'm going to experiment at 1.5 for a while and see how it works outside the station. You may want to check your supersampling setting and see how it affects the looks and FPS.

-Cheers

[qlock]

You're going to want the 970 with a triple monitor setup.

[smartroad]

Cheers guys. Due to financial constraints (I believe the words were "Your NOT spending that much on the computer" LOL) I have had to go with the 960 Still offers a good 150-170% improvement over my current setup so not too bad. I may sneak in another purchase at a later date an look at SLI two together.

[Loriath]

smartroad, does your motherboard support sli? I found mine doesn't so I am screwed and have to put up with my GTX 650 till I can upgrade.

[smartroad]

smartroad, does your motherboard support sli? I found mine doesn't so I am screwed and have to put up with my GTX 650 till I can upgrade.

It says it does... Its an 'old' Sandy Bridge chipset

[Colin The Grey]

Aye nearly all Sandy Bridge boards support SLI, - most important thing with SLI or Multi GPU cards besides motherboard compatibilty - is the Power Supply, if you are going to go the SLI route then you will most likely need to upgrade your PSU also - 800W or higher I would say. So you would need to factor that into the cost of going SLI also.

I say nearly all - as most Micro-Atx boards usually only have 1 PCIExpress 16x slot

[smartroad]

I say nearly all - as most Micro-Atx boards usually only have 1 PCIExpress 16x slot

I have a full ATX so def not got that issue

[qlock]

FYI: the current version of ED only uses one card in a system with SLI. I was disappointing to find that out when pairing 2 970's. still plays great on one though.

[smartroad]

FYI: the current version of ED only uses one card in a system with SLI. I was disappointing to find that out when pairing 2 970's. still plays great on one though.

Thanks for the heads-up Will hold off for now (not that I can afford it for a while anyway lol)