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Title: Video card for video pinball
Post by: Buick455 on March 04, 2020, 04:15:54 pm
I am scrounging up spare parts to build a mini pin table and a buddy has a EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti, see link for specs..

https://www.evga.com/products/specs/gpu.aspx?pn=6a8f5e91-8aa1-49f6-9a4a-8ae25cad9d25

Will this be enough card or will I want to keep hunting?
Title: Re: Video card for video pinball
Post by: LTC on March 05, 2020, 09:07:29 am
I think you will be ok if you stick with a 1080P monitor.
Title: Re: Video card for video pinball
Post by: Gilrock on March 05, 2020, 09:12:50 am
Probably depends on what you will run.  I had a pretty decent PC and had issues with the PinUp system because it had several video streams at once and the intro videos were really laggy.  I upgraded to a new Ryzen setup and it fixed all the problems but everyone said my older hardware should have been plenty.
Title: Re: Video card for video pinball
Post by: stangx on March 05, 2020, 09:59:49 am
I started with a 760 but had to upgrade due to screen stutter on some tables. There are some pretty demanding tables out there for VPX. Attack from Mars is one of them. (Amazing table by the way) I am now running a 1060 and have no issues at all. That is at 1080p. 46" playfield with 32" backglass. good luck
Title: Re: Video card for video pinball
Post by: Buick455 on March 06, 2020, 12:16:04 pm
I upgraded to a new Ryzen setup and it fixed all the problems but everyone said my older hardware should have been plenty.

I was only looking at intel/nvidia bc I see a lot of posts "blaming" AMD/Radeon for their problems. I assume driver issues, but who knows. What are you running?


I have found an old gaming rig for sale locally, will it work? what do you think its worth?

Gigabyte GA-AB350M-DS3H Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard
AMD Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5 GHz Quad-Core Processor
Gigabyte Radeon RX 580 8 GB Gaming 8G Video Card
Corsair Vengeance LPX 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory
Thermaltake Smart Series 430 W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply
Kingston A400 120 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Kingston A400 240 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Title: Re: Video card for video pinball
Post by: Gilrock on March 06, 2020, 01:56:20 pm
Yeah I hadn't used AMD stuff in 20 years but decided to give it another shot based on friends that were raving about it.  My VPIN has:

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X 8-Core 3.7 GHz (4.3 GHz Max Boost) Socket AM4 105W YD270XBGAFBOX Desktop Processor
GIGABYTE X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING AM4 AMD X470 SATA 6Gb/s ATX AMD Motherboard
G.SKILL TridentZ RGB Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600)
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 DirectX 12 GV-N1060WF2OC-6GD 6GB 192-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 ATX Video Card
SAMSUNG 860 EVO Series 2.5" 500GB SATA III V-NAND 3-bit MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-76E500B/AM
Title: Re: Video card for video pinball
Post by: Buick455 on March 08, 2020, 09:57:38 am
I am possibly buying a used EVGA GTX 1050 Ti SC (4gb) 04G-P4-6253-KR in the next day or two. From what I have been reading it should be more then enough for 1080. My main goals are VP9/X, maybe FuturePin, PinFX2/3 playing well. I don't want to dump a bunch of money into something the fam might lose interest in.

There is a lot of info out there, a lot is outdated so I try to check dates on what I read but info overload for sure.