Will do, for sure. I won’t get it until mid next week, so don’t start holding your breath until then. 
Nice!
Did you get a free game with it? I think they’re giving out Witcher 3 with the purchase of new GTX cards.
Yup. Is that game any good? I never heard of it (or Witcher 1 or 2).
What?!! The Witcher is like a Polish national treasure! 
It’s actually a really good RPG series that started out as a game running on a heavily modified version of the old Neverwinter Nights engine. Very gritty,d ark fantasy world, lots of grey moral areas, and featuring action based combat. Witcher 3 also features an open world and really interesting system where the time of day and the weather has an effect on both NPC’s and monsters, in terms of where they go, what they do, how they attack, etc.
More importantly, it’s the first game to feature NVidia’s Hair works on PC:
Look at that horse! And that wolf! And that bear! And those sexy tresses! :pAwesome. I think you will see a real difference in your games with the newer card.
And yes, the Witcher series is great. If you like single player RPGs it is one of the best. In fact I am upgrading my whole system in anticipation of it (to be fair my plan was to upgrade my system anyway at the end of the summer so this only moves my timeline forward a couple months…I went with the earlier upgrade when I saw Intel’s new release schedule and saw nothing special in it).
Between GTA V and the Witcher, plus Rocksmith, I’m going to have to quit my job or something to find the time.
Just checked with Newegg and my order hasn’t shipped yet. 
Hopefully it will show up this coming week.
Ran the GTA V video benchmarks with my current card and settings – 20-30 fps. When I get the new card, I’ll run the benchmark with the same (lame) settings and see how it does, then up the settings.
Just ask the family for a day free of responsibilities over the next weekend. Give yourself a good, solid afternoon/evening to play with the new card and enjoy it.
I suspect they’ll let you have that.
If you do find the time, Witcher 1 and 2 would be worth it for the story before 3.
I agree 100% (at least Witcher 2 if time is limited) but I saw a dev interview and they said they tried to make sure someone could get on with Witcher 3 without having played the previous games.
That said the previous games are definitely worth playing…no doubt about that. Just doubt RitterSport will have that much time.
Well, is it like the STALKER series or like the Mass Effect series in terms of quality and game play? Because I absolutely loved the Mass Effect series, but I could not get into STALKER.
Witcher 1 is on par with Stalker in terms of quality whereas Witcher 2 is on par with Mass Effect. The gameplay is closer to Mass Effect than Stalker, but no one would agree that Witcher 2 plays like Mass Effect.
Yikes! That price. And the glorious PC master race wonders why so many of us persist as lowly console plebs.
I hope it works well for your game.
Hmmm, have the option of PS4 like graphics on a $100 GPU, AND have the option to pay $300 for graphics levels and performance a PS4 will never, ever provide, if that’s your bag. Or pay $400 + a fee to play online + $60 for games and have NO options to upgrade or god forbid change anything about your gaming experience.
Options are good, IMHO, YMMV.
Are you getting 310$ too? It’s not petty change but 300$ every 3-4 years isn’t much.
When you divide the marginal cost of a good gaming rig* by the number of months/years between upgrades, you often get about a buck a day which is cheap as hobbies go. Plus, Saint Gabe’s Sales.
*By which I mean the difference between a computer not meant to play games and a computer meant to.
Consider it costs $50/year for a PlayStation Plus Membership alone.
If he upgrades once every three years (could go four) the comparative cost is now only $150 compared to owning a PS4 and that new card already blows the doors off the graphical capability of the PS4 (or XBone). Add in the comparatively high cost of PS4 games and I think this is quite cost competitive and for that you get an ever better gaming experience as opposed to being stuck with ever aging console graphics.
No denying that the PS4 is a bargain for the power you’re getting, even with the more low-end route Sony took with it. DX12 should help out low-end PCs though.
There are numerous builds out there that will let you make a PC that is as good as a PS4 for running games as the PS4 is. It’s a bit of a stretch but doable.
Then consider all the things the PC can do that the PS4 cannot.
As an aside not sure DX12 will help low end PCs since, AFAIK, the only cards capable of DX12 are the newest cards (read most expensive).
I built my computer in 2009 (that’s why I have the I7-920), so the computer has lasted 6 years already. I bought my current graphics card, which is plenty good for everything I have except GTA V, back in 2012, so good guess with the three years. I typically wait for games to get seriously discounted on Steam before I pick them up, so I pay $20 or less for games like Borderlands 2. The only exceptions lately are GTA V and I bought Rocksmith 2014 for about full price.
Also, my kids use the computer for homework, I keep my pictures and music on it, I work from home sometimes on it, etc. Stuff you can’t really do with a PS 4.
Some of the features, such as the call stuff that reduces CPU overhead, are backwards compatible with previous cards. Most cards purchased in the last two years or so should benefit, even the low-end ones.
That’s not exactly correct. While the RAM itself may not be strictly as fast, you’ll gain a considerable amount of performance because you’re no longer swapping to disk. RAM access is measured in nanoseconds; disk access is measured in milliseconds. RAM is 5 or 6 orders of magnitude faster.
Speaking of disks, you should strongly consider a SSD.