Next GPU Upgrade?

Hardware GPU
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I am thinking of getting a 480 as I have a 370 right now. When I get towards the upgrade itself I don't think I'll want to do more than 230 USD. My rig now has a Xeon E3 1225 V 2 and I have a 500W PSU. I mainly stream with this rig and I have been noticing a lot of lag in my stream in games. I think it is safe to blame the rather lame 370 for that as a game like Overwatch doesn't use much CPU but still lags my stream greatly.

I was also looking at 970's as they should (SHOULD) be rather cheap to get I would think but all I ever see is like original retail price on those last gen cards. If anyone has any good suggestions please let me know :3

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How desperate are you to get a new card? If you can wait till Vega drops you can have my 980 if you cover shipping

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Ok where do you even live.

And what exact card is it.

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Ha my only problem I guess will be power supply at that point....

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Australia - and its an EVGA GTX980 SC ACX 2.0

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Oof. Uhhh, well I'm pretty sure I could buy a 1070 for the price of shipping :Y thanks for the offer though.

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i price checked 2 places. one says they'll do it for 40$ i think us dollars? another says 80 us/107 aus. it's worth it.

also, 1080p? 1440p? 4k?

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1080p for now as the main screen. The others are 1280X1024 tho so no real worries there.

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shipping from australia is bad but it's less then buying a new rx480 or a used 9 series. just do the shipping thing, and a 4g 980 will be fine at 1080 for quiet a while to come.

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I'll sit on it I think @Kocytean. I am looking at a 1070 currently. I bet you could make someone else really happy :3 (I need the VRam [8GB] and the firepower will last for way longer than a 980 :3 )

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Fair enough :) When Vega drops I'll probably just raffle it off to one of the other Aussies on the forums then

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Thinking about this route myself, check this out

they might be even cheaper come monday.

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LOL I'm also in the dell rewards program so I can get it for even less.

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Geez I would be on that then

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Its only 5 or 10 bucks lol but I have some points on there I bet I could get like 12 or 15 off.

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Have you monitored the system [ including the network ] while streaming?

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Yeah its a hardware issue I'm pretty sure. I could look at wifi issues I guess but the card I have works perfectly fine.

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You're streaming a game through wifi?!

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Well I don't really have any other choice lol. I know, I'm insane :P

We WOULD have had Ethernet all through the house but my dad was a fuckhead while the place was getting put up and "lost" all of the cable..... 20 years ago.

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Then I would monitor network traffic as part of it as well. You could be suffering from a bunch of things pertaining to the network while playing thinking your card is not pushing enough FPS.

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