Ruoh
Supreme [H]ardness
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I decided to build a new gaming system when I saw what the 980 had to offer. The system in my sig (Not the mac, duh) will be arriving today/tomorrow. I don't think I'll be disappointed.
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I am on the fence. I do so like new toys to play with, but a 970 does not really have a raw performance advantage over my 780 Classified @ 1300mhz and the 980 is compelling, but I may wait to see if AMD has an answer incoming.
Game-wise, so far I'm not seeing a huge reason to upgrade.
If your selling 770/780/780Ti or 280x/290/290x to get these new cards then that is not a win in my book but more of a lose as the only way to save face is useage of said card.
All I have to say is $399 used ASUS 780Ti DCUII http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HSY1RVC WHAAAA??!?!?!
I am just not impressed with the performance on the 980s.
I have had three Titans since a bit after launch, purchased for $800-$900 each (coming up on two years now!). From the reviews I have looked at, the 980 is as little as 5% faster in a few games or as much as 20%, with the vast majority of games at 10-15%. I would give up my 6GB of VRAM to "upgrade," which I actually need for my 7860x1600. Moreover I would give up 3 cards that are already tuned and known to be reliable/decent clockers in exchange for potential problems.
What it really comes down to is performance...I can't believe that I have achieved very close to top end performance for almost 2 years and will continue to be near the top of the heap until the Titan successor comes out. It's actually kind of pathetic that after all this time, Nvidia's so-called "next" generation is giving refresh-level performance gains. Even though many people derided the Titans as overpriced (and maybe they were if you bought at full retail instead of finding a deal), I think mine are shaping up to be shrewd buys in terms of money spent vs. amount of time as an elite viable card.
I'm going to either:
1. Wait until 780 drops to $250 or below.
2. Wait until Pascal.
However, if I wanted a 9xx, I'd likely reserve a backorder for a Strix 970 and wait for it to ship.
I sold one of my Asus DCUII OC 780s to a friend for $250. The other is for sale as well -- I just haven't had time to take pictures and write up a listing.
If I had the money, you'd be shipping it to me today.
Sadly, I have to wait until around Thanksgiving or Christmas...or tax return for worst case scenario.
I hope mine doesn't last that long!
I don't think I can wait out much longer, still on a GTX 260/Q6600 combo. My upgrade will have to be this upcoming Black Friday and I plan on getting SLI 970's
I have ran two 780's, easily closing in at 700W, now I have a little over 200W to spare.
I have two GTX 980s in SLI. I upgraded from GTX590. Huge upgrade, I mean massive upgrade. It was also a HUGE mistake. First of all, the performance just is not there. The performance in BF4 for example, is just not all that impressive, subjectively. I know the numbers are high in the benchmarks, but I just do not feel like this is a future proofed rig. I might be CPU bound, however.