thoughts on ASUS ROG STRIKER-GTX760

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Should really wait for the 900m series laptops to come out. They'll be priced great and have superior performance.

That one you referenced, no, it's crap.

 

M series laptops? This isn't for laptops, he's on a desktop from what I can see.

OT: The card will limit your system's capabilities IMO. I know it pretty much limits mine. I was honestly waiting for the 900 (originally expecting 800) series myself and bought a 760 as a true placeholder card.

As a placeholder card until a truly next-gen series comes out, it's fantastic. But then again you're not a heavy gamer if I remember the conversations - it runs games like LoL without any bottlenecking. However, if you're running games like Battlefield or even a high-end RPG you may find it struggles.

 

why buy a 760 at this point in time? With the 9XX series slowly coming out, and the AMD cards at such an incredible price point...you're crazy to even CONSIDER a GTX 760. Especially that one, since it just has a jacked up price due to clock rates and its cooler. At the $270 average price that this card seems to cost everywhere, youre only about 10 dollars away from a R9-290( see http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161459 ) Which would dust that GTX 760 so bad you'd feel sorry for ever considering it.

 

Yeah, woah, no idea how I drew that conclusion that he was talking about a single component on a desktop. Lol. Whoops, my bad. Still crap. Buying a 760 now would be like buying a 5850 now (in terns of buying 2 series older mid graphics cards).

 

only reason i was thinking about that card was because kinda fit in with my build also watched a few videos of people with that card on bf and crysis and the graphics looked pretty good to me but not saying theres not better cards out there also just was never a huge fan of amd had alot of issues with them in the past. mostly game wise dayz and csgo right now but could change later heres what i got on my build so far.

case: haf x
cpu: i7 4790k 4.0ghz (overclocked to 4.4ghz)
cpu cooler: cosair h105
motherbored: Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO ATX
ram: cosair vengeance pro 2400 2x8gb
powersupply: Corsair 860W 80+ Platinum Certified
powersupply cable: cosair braided red cables
ssd: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB
gpu: nothing because had to wait to get paid

 

If you put a 760 on a build like that... Well... Might as well throw in a pentium 2.

Seriously with a build like that you should go with nothing less than the 980 or dual 970s.

I kinda think this is a troll thread now.

 

i have like a max of $300 to spend on a gpu right now still got some bills gotta pay if i lived in my moms basement maybe i could afford a couple $500-1500 cards

 

Gtx 970 is only like 330$

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...14133564&cm_sp=&AID=10440897&PID=3962334&SID=

Buy one now, SLI it later.

 

When you have the funds to the tune of about $350 available, I would go DIRECTLY to the 970 or the 290x. Either one of them are going to last you a long...long time.

 

ill have to check that out think i might be able to swing it but almost everyone out of stock and have to fork over another $30 just to get my hands on one from companys never really heard of.

 

order from ShopBLT. I have been buying from them for a long time on early-release items. If you wanna buy something while they're hard to get, those guys usually have it. They have a lot of 9XX gpus in stock currently. My 980 from them arrives today.

 

The card is good. Anything ROG related are good quality. But grab a 9XX series, they're great pricing, especially here in Australia. I myself am thinking of grabbing a 980 just because of the efficiency of the card for the price. But then again, I have a 780Ti, so I'll personally wait for a 980Ti.

But back to your card. The 760 is last gen yes, but still good, but save an extra few bucks and grab a 970.

 

finally decided and actually did some research im going to be buying ASUS STRIX GTX 970 when there back in stock thanks for all your guys help from me making a huge mistake found alot of your guys comments useful

 

You wont regret it. My 980 is an absolute beast, and Maxwell is incredible in itself.