Nvidia or amd person? 
GPU is pretty much a graphic card rightā¦? Rightā¦?
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A GPU is a video card (graphics card). So yes, youāre correct.
What kind of GPU do you have?
@Killertoad I used to prefer Nvidia because of CUDA, for video editing and Blender. Iāve heard that AMD have stepped up their game and offer the same GPGPU output now though, and you get some nice performance for the money too so Iām not sure. How about you? (Iām not very informed about the differences in the recent cards :P)
@XxGamingTownxX A Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT from a friendās old computer. I upgraded from a 9000 series ATI just three years ago because I didnāt have a lot of money back then (and I still donāt like spending too much on a computer).
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Iām leaning toward more Nvidia now (used to be AMD fanboy), Nvidia wonāt take Mantle (The new and better Directx) so I assume they are working on a bigger and better one maybe? And also, Nvidia has shadowplay (By far, the best recorder ever).
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Although, AMDās high end cards, are extremely overpriced right now, because of the Bitcoin mining (AMDās card are the best for that), like the prices for the r9 290ās are 600-700 dollars, when they debuted at 550. Lol. And the 780 is cheaper than the 290/290x and also faster 
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Donāt Mantle and DirectX 12 give the same advantages though? Maybe thatās why they havenāt shown anything yet. Even if they are working on something they are a bit late to the party unless they donāt mind an API war.
PhysX is another reason I kind of-ish prefer Nvidia, but the problem is there are barely any games that use it 
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I have a GeForce 8600 GT and it really sucks XD It gets the job done with little games, but along with my vram of 512MB and 2GB ram itās really bad lol.
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They are about the same, but Nvidia is set to launch their desktop 8xx series, with maxwell on it, maybe they will debut it then? (maybe thats why the 8xx series is taking so long to come out?) lol. And yeah, I donāt think Physx really took off like they thought it would, only a handful use it. But Iām building a new pc, and really hoping the 8xx comes out soon, because either way, itāll benefit me, either the 7xxās will go down in price (Iām getting two 780ās, and thats $1200 together 
) or the 8xx will just blow away every other card. Lol. I love computers, and this stuff fascinates me. Iām glad someone else here knows a bit about hardware
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Lol, if you have 60 bucks to spare, you can get a āokayā video card, thatāll run most games on low-med.
I got a laptop though XD
Ohhh you got a 8600m xD well, looks like youāre outta luck for now :b
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Yeahā¦ But I got a planned build for $500 GTX 750 ti
You can get a r7 260x for 50ish dollars cheaper, and itās about the same speed. Or get the new r7 265 for $200 dollars, and itās faster than the 750 Ti :b
Edit: Woops, sorry for getting off subject Darky. Lol
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Iām getting my 750 ti for $150.
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Where? And what brand?
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Zotac from Amazon.
Hereās my PCPartPicker list: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/XxGamingTownxX/saved/41lJ
Nice you can get, ehh, 40+ FPS on BF4 at high/ultra.
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Yeah, which as long as I can play any game on any setting with 30+ FPS Iām fine. The high/ultra is just better :3
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