PC guys: What's a good CPU/Video Card combo to carry you the next few years?

[Alpha Skyhawk]

thats weird, it should be able to smoke forza 6 at 1080p..

maybe update drivers?

Nah, I've got the latest drivers. I just checked.

Perhaps driver updates in the future will squeeze out some extra performance.

 

[BladeDancer314]

I'm really considering just spending $80 more for a gtx 1070 and returning the 1060

I'll probably end up doing it.

 

[Alpha Skyhawk]

Nah, I've got the latest drivers. I just checked.

Perhaps driver updates in the future will squeeze out some extra performance.

Whoops, I missed a setting. It happens when you rapid fire play games all weekend.

I think it was trying to render at a higher resolution than 1080p and downscale it. I had that force resolution or whatever you call it option off. I turned it on and set the resolution to 1080p, and it's been quite solid ever since. There is still the occasional hiccup here and there, but the framerate does report as being within .01 frame of 60 nearly all of the time.

 

[BladeDancer314]

BTW, buy a GTX 1070 or 1080 and get Gears of War 4 for PC and Xbone free

 

[hyper]

If u have a reference model 1080 stick a EVGA hybrid 980ti AIO water cooler on it

lowers it to near room temp

 

[hyper]

Also turning off v-sync will give u above 60fps

 

[Alpha Skyhawk]

If u have a reference model 1080 stick a EVGA hybrid 980ti AIO water cooler on it

lowers it to near room temp

I have an EVGA Superclocked card, so I won't be doing that. I don't plan on dabbling in water cooling anyway. As for vsync, I do like vsync, but I'll have to check out fast sync soon. I haven't even tried it yet.

 

[BladeDancer314]

Well, I just ordered the gtx 1070, it comes with a download code for gears of war 4 (PC/xbone cross buy) which I was going to buy anyways.

Paid $389 total so I'm basically getting the 1070 for $329, not bad at all.

I'll just have to return the gtx 1060 I ordered last week.

 

[Cylotron]

I suggest avoiding the AMD RX cards all together(unless they go on clearance). It was one thing comparing benchmarks between AMD & nVidia... but we did a quick comparison at work w/ 2 desktops.
desktop 1: i7-4770 , 16gb ddr3 , 3tb hd , gtx 1060 3gb
desktop 2: i7-4790k, 16gb ddr3, 1tb ssd , rx 480 8gb

We ran Doom & Total War: Warhammer on both machines. Switching back & forth from medium to high settings(at 1080p.. no 4k at work), both seemed to handle the games just as well as the other. Also, the 1060 was $199... whereas the 480 was $279.
We did not do an actual 'fps' check, just wanted to see if we'd notice any difference(visually)

Goes to show that the memory size on a video card isn't the deciding factor... it's the quality of the gpu.