GTX 960

[Ceodore]

you only get lower scores on DX11 over DX9c if you your have a AMD card all 12 different cards i have tested show this

IDK where you are getting this, or if my card settings are wrong, but I'm using an MSI GTX 960 4gb 128 bit, and I'm seeing lower scores on DX11 over DX9 also.

[Yona87]

Get the GTX 970, its performs better if you can dish out extra 150 dollars. My benchmark is hitting 13000+ with it on max D11 1080p

[Blissa]

I have a I5 3330 3.0 GHZ 8GB of ram and a GYX 960 4GB and I get 60 fps almost everywhere. The only time it drops is where I am in a area with a ton of people. ANd on the DX11 benchmark I got 7038 with my crap processor. I am going to be building a new tower with a I5 4690k and 16gb of ram and I am going to use this video card. I am sure the 4690k will be a nice jump in speed over what I have now.

[saber_alter]

until last christmas i was using a 460gtx, 4 gigs of ram, and a 6 core processor. i can run on max settings. i have only upgraded my graphics processor, but i'm sure my old one could run the dx11 version on max as well.

i'm sure you won't have any problems. in fact you probably don't need that much power unless you have it for business reasons.

[Pickeybickey]

I just upgraded from a GTX 570 to a GTX 960. My old one would randomly quit when I would work in my animation programs. It was due for an upgrade. The 960 works very well. I have not overclocked it yet (got it yesterday). I bought mine from www.newegg.com and got $30 off. Not sure if that option is still up but its worth it.

[Sunako_Nakahara]

Ceodore EVGA 960 SSC default nvida 3d control settings Bench settings are maximum fullscreen @ 1080p
the 960 keep scoring 450-700 higher on DX11 Driver 350.12
CPU intel I7 5830k clocked @ 4.5Ghz 16 Gig DDR4 2666 2 Samsung 840 Evo's in raid 0 load time come out to 12.6 on average

[Ceodore]

Ceodore EVGA 960 SSC default nvida 3d control settings Bench settings are maximum fullscreen @ 1080p
the 960 keep scoring 450-700 higher on DX11 Driver 350.12
CPU intel I7 5830k clocked @ 4.5Ghz 16 Gig DDR4 2666 2 Samsung 840 Evo's in raid 0 load time come out to 12.6 on average

Okay, but I'm not using EVGA. I use MSI, so the software I'm using is different, since the stock settings of the Afterburner case needless wear and tear on the fan motors due to start and stop thresholds. I am running an i5, but again, this is with the same machine, and only changing the DX 9 to DX11 saw a drop in score. I have an upgrade to an I7. The Chip is already in my possession, just have to find time hopefully during a maintenance to back up everything then switch CPUs and reformat everything back. I'm only running 8gb ram, but I don't even max out the usage on just one of the 4gb sticks anyways, so my Ram isn't the throttle. I'll die before spending 5 or 6 hundred dollars on a solid state hard drive with half the capacity as my 100 dollar disk drive just for load speeds. Again, I'm not concerned with the scores themselves, just mentioning that the scores did drop despite my GPU also being a GeForce GTX 960 4GB 128 bit.

[Sunako_Nakahara]

you can get an SSD 250gig for 99 USD at micro center right now
also the only software diff. is afterburner and are you overclocking with it? besides that im not using any sofdtware from EVGA

[Ceodore]

you can get an SSD 250gig for 99 USD at micro senter right now
also the only software diff. is afterburner and are you overclocking with it? besides that im not using any sofdtware from EVGA

I try to avoid any overclocking I can. Yeah, I know it's more bang, but the hardware is already over the top for what I'm using it for that I don't really need it. Even at max settings with DX11 and 1080p I see absolutely no drop in FPS no matter what the situation. Even massive hunts, etc, and my card still sits pretty between 50 and 60 C. Also, 100 dollars for 1/4 my current hard drive's capacity? I get that SSD is great and all for speed, but 10 seconds longer times isn't a big deal for me if I'm saving 3 or 4 hundred dollars. I'd consider getting one for along side my main hard drive, but never to replace. Only for the game type of thing.

[ErzaScarlet77]

Im think of upgrading my 670 too and it was between 960 and 970

970 simply wins just because it has 4gb memory/vram or whatever instead of 2gb.

My 670 has 2gb and it caps out with gta5 and its pretty safe to assume games will start using more than 2gb from now on