Thread: Advice on Video Card (mainly for 2.0)

I wanted to backup darkm0d's claims. The 600 series cards are some of the best chipsets to come out in a really long time in my opinion. I had the 250 before I bought my 670 GTX, but whatever card you get out of the 600 series you really can't go wrong with.

First off, using an AMD video card with an AMD CPU makes no difference, at all!

As to the PCIe interface, very few of the new cards have a problem running on non 3.0, and you would not know the difference between 2.0, 2.1 or 3.0 when in game.

By the sound of it you have a PSU good enough to support any card (if it is of decent quality), so with your budget you could get a GTX 570 which is an awesome card for the price.

However, if you are currently hanging in there, I too would wait for black friday and see what is on sale, possibly we will know more about the new engine and how the different cards (series, model and AMD/Nvidia) runs it.

I would recommend against TI series Nvidia cards, typically they are down tuned cards compared to lower number GTX cards, a 500TI series typically is outperformed by a 400 series GTX in the simliar mid number range (460GTX 480GTX ect versus 560 580ti's).

IF you can't go with a 680 GTX try a lower series gtx.

Yet those much higher cards you will probably not even come close to needign for XIV. So TI's will be suffcient to run XIV well and save cash for monthly subsciptions.

Originally Posted by kazaran

I would recommend against TI series Nvidia cards, typically they are down tuned cards compared to lower number GTX cards, a 500TI series typically is outperformed by a 400 series GTX in the simliar mid number range (460GTX 480GTX ect versus 560 580ti's).

Umm no, the TI version of the cards is the fastest, if you had said SE version you would have had a valid point.

The SE versions of the cards have disabled a shader cluster compared to the non SE versions, and depending on the series also lower memory interface bus.

In short, the SE versions is the least performance oriented, then comes the normal version and finally the TI is the top performing version (not counting overclocked versions).

Depends on the cash you have available, budget versus performance and chaeck bench reviews. I have dual GPU cards, and it is such an over kill even in 1.0 it's not worth the money just for this game.

Unless you are running PCI-E 3.0+ boards, you do not need top line cards, and even then it has marginal increase in games like this with 3.0 and 3.0+ matched cards.

Built a new system, went through benches, great in tests, no performance increase in XIV over the previous combo.

480's had great performance for their time, but stear away and go with budget midline 600 seris cards if doign Nvidia. 480 GTX OC's out performed most 500 series, but run hot as hell and are nto the best chip to be over clocked in the first place. 500ti offer a cutt down in throttle at a lower cost.

Originally Posted by Fear

I perfer ATI cards though since they usually run cooler, cost less and performance better.

I'd agree with you, but for the 600 series, that's no longer true. The only thing going for ati ATM is the price, they're actually hotter than nvidia now