The New “What did you do with your Z today” (with off topic replies) XXXVII

Originally Posted by Ghostvette

On a side note;

I had the display output on one of my video cards shoot craps Thursday night. It's a GTX 760 with 2G VRAM. I thought it might have been a monitor, but I swapped monitors and still the same thing, it would show the desktop for a fraction of a second then go black, then repeat. I swapped from DVI-D (?) to HDMI and got the same thing. I have 2 of these cards, that I had been running in SLI mode, until I had to hook up a second monitor for my fiancee to work from home. It worked great until Thursday evening, then did the above.

I have a couple of options; SLI still works with the wonky card, at least the NVIDIA control panel doesn't show an error message and Skyrim still runs good. I can either 1)Leave it as is, 2)Track down another GTX 760 card and swap out the wonky one so I can run dual displays (which I normally don't do) or 3)Upgrade to newer video cards. The challenge with upgrading is I'm not sure what I can replace the 760s with that will work on my system board. What I know for sure is that it is an i7 4720 with 16G RAM. The splash screen shows CyberPowerPC, so I'm presuming that's who made the board. The drives are all SATA, there is DVI-D (?) video onboard and ethernet, but no onboard WiFi.

I'm going to have to open the case and see what the model number is on the system board, so I have more information.

Originally Posted by Ghostvette

On a side note;

I had the display output on one of my video cards shoot craps Thursday night. It's a GTX 760 with 2G VRAM. I thought it might have been a monitor, but I swapped monitors and still the same thing, it would show the desktop for a fraction of a second then go black, then repeat. I swapped from DVI-D (?) to HDMI and got the same thing. I have 2 of these cards, that I had been running in SLI mode, until I had to hook up a second monitor for my fiancee to work from home. It worked great until Thursday evening, then did the above.

I have a couple of options; SLI still works with the wonky card, at least the NVIDIA control panel doesn't show an error message and Skyrim still runs good. I can either 1)Leave it as is, 2)Track down another GTX 760 card and swap out the wonky one so I can run dual displays (which I normally don't do) or 3)Upgrade to newer video cards. The challenge with upgrading is I'm not sure what I can replace the 760s with that will work on my system board. What I know for sure is that it is an i7 4720 with 16G RAM. The splash screen shows CyberPowerPC, so I'm presuming that's who made the board. The drives are all SATA, there is DVI-D (?) video onboard and ethernet, but no onboard WiFi.

I'm going to have to open the case and see what the model number is on the system board, so I have more information.

Originally Posted by JARblue

Just check the video card slot. I would think as long as you've got a PCI-E slot you should be good to go with just about any video card.

Originally Posted by Ghostvette

IIRC, this system board is using PCI-E slots, so it's a matter of what card(s) to get. I had this one built for me, so I just picked stuff from a list and went with it. It was delivered assembled, so I just had to plug it in, turn it on and go. I've not paid attention to the advances in cards, so I'm a little stumped at the moment. Thanks Lein for the suggestions, I was looking at 1070 Ti, but the price was giving me pause....

Originally Posted by Ghostvette

IIRC, this system board is using PCI-E slots, so it's a matter of what card(s) to get. I had this one built for me, so I just picked stuff from a list and went with it. It was delivered assembled, so I just had to plug it in, turn it on and go. I've not paid attention to the advances in cards, so I'm a little stumped at the moment. Thanks Lein for the suggestions, I was looking at 1070 Ti, but the price was giving me pause....

Originally Posted by Leingod

Newest cards from Nvidia are the 2XXX numbers. They give you roughly the same FPS as the 1XXX cards, but also give you ray tracing which are fancy buzz words for fancier lighting.

2XXX and 1XXX cards are roughly the same price for whatever reason. Just get a 2XXX card if you can swing it. Another viable option would be a used 980 or 980ti. They're still very capable cards. Just don't get any 970's due to the VRAM being lower than actually supposedly built into the card.

Good choices pending on price range

Used 980 variant for cheap on FB or eBay
Used 1060 from somewhere
New 2060/70/80 if you wanna swing it.

980 is comparable to a 1060. 1070/80 and 2070/80 are overhauled beats comparable to the titan classes in todays age.

Originally Posted by Ghostvette

IIRC, this system board is using PCI-E slots, so it's a matter of what card(s) to get. I had this one built for me, so I just picked stuff from a list and went with it. It was delivered assembled, so I just had to plug it in, turn it on and go. I've not paid attention to the advances in cards, so I'm a little stumped at the moment. Thanks Lein for the suggestions, I was looking at 1070 Ti, but the price was giving me pause....

Originally Posted by bunk

If you want to do SLI, remember that the GPU and VRAM has to match.

Originally Posted by jchammond

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Originally Posted by jchammond

Baked chicken legs & tater salad for supper
Now some BlueBell ice cream