Switching GTX 970's to 980Ti

[TenaciousD87]

I have someone interested in buying my 2 MSI GTX 970's with custom backplates for 800$ (pretty good). Im wondering if its still worth it to upgrade to a 980TI or if i should wait for the next *best* thing.

Thanks!

[Lord_Karango17]

Since the 980ti and fury cards are pretty new, I doubt there will be anything in the high end for a while...

[comicsansms]

I have someone interested in buying my 2 MSI GTX 970's with custom backplates for 800$ (pretty good). Im wondering if its still worth it to upgrade to a 980TI or if i should wait for the next *best* thing.

Thanks!

a 980ti is better than 2 GTX 970's

[Senzelian]

800$ for both 970s? wow!

The performance is around the same and you have more VRAM. I would definitly go for it.

[blu4]

I'd go with the single 980ti. Some devs completely shit on the fact that their games need to work with SLI (rarely happens). A single powerful GPU will be always better than two worse ones.

[1Scotty1]

800 for two 970s? :blink:  Holy mother of God... and here I was happy, that I sold mine for 275€ each... man, you ripped off someone good

[LiamApex]

I'd go with the single 980ti. Some devs completely shit on the fact that their games need to work with SLI (rarely happens). A single powerful GPU will be always better than two worse ones.

you know how everyone says SLI doeesnt work across games well so far this year all the new games that ive played scale fine and the ones that dont are like 5 years old 

 

but i see your point 

[blu4]

you know how everyone says SLI doeesnt work across games well so far this year all the new games that ive played scale fine and the ones that dont are like 5 years old 

 

but i see your point 

They scale well, to a certain point. Run a game and tell me the utilization of each GPU. The last game I saw hitting 90%+ was the Witcher 3. Others games are around 75-80% or even less.

[eQuilibrium]

800 for two 970s? :blink:  Holy mother of God... and here I was happy, that I sold mine for 275€ each... man, you ripped off someone good

He may not have ripped them off that hard, the GTX 970 is $500 here in Aus... god damn..

[RevoltTrain]

$800 for 970's?

Do it.

[arronleeds]

us prices are weird 800 bucks is £512, my msi 970 cost £289 so if i was to have two, brand new they would have been £578 which is $900, so infact they would have a decent deal. (basicallt $50 off each gpu, but then again they are second hand), are 970s like  $320 brand new? this kid must be retarded.

[Chiobe]

I have someone interested in buying my 2 MSI GTX 970's with custom backplates for 800$ (pretty good). Im wondering if its still worth it to upgrade to a 980TI or if i should wait for the next *best* thing.

Thanks!

I have just made that switch my self and I find my 980 Ti to be weaker then my 2 970's where, which is backed up by benchmarks: http://www.pcgamer.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-ti-review/

The only place the 980 Ti is better, is minimum fps.

 

But it dont mather that much too me, as I went for the 980 Ti so I could use 2 or 3 of them to run my new 3 monitor setup.

[SkywardKkalox]

800$ for the two of them is a rip off.

500$ for both of them would be the perfect price for them.

[Chiobe]

800$ for the two of them is a rip off.

500$ for both of them would be the perfect price for them.

It depend on what "custom backplates" means.

[arronleeds]

It depend on what "custom backplates" means.

exactly if hes bought them cheap off some website it doesnt automatically increase the value by nearly $200.

 

theyre $350, so two is $700, backplates dont cost $50 each, this guys basically charging more than what he paid, i wouldnt do that to someone, its not very nice, how would he feel if someone ripped him  off.

[Chiobe]

exactly if hes bought them cheap off some website it doesnt automatically increase the value by nearly $200.

 

theyre $350, so two is $700, backplates dont cost $50 each, this guys basically charging more than what he paid, i wouldnt do that to someone, its not very nice, how would he feel if someone ripped him  off.

You also need to include country into the mix. In Norway so would those 2 970 cost $874,68 new, plus the cost of the backplates.

[Slinkey]

There are custom backplates going for $40 (not including shipping). Also depending on country the prices varies for the card.

 

Where I am from a single MSI GTX 970 costs $426 not including shipping.

[arronleeds]

hes from the us or canada and the msi 970 on newegg is $350,  hes basically robbing someone.

[Aphala]

I'd go with the single 980ti. Some devs completely shit on the fact that their games need to work with SLI (rarely happens). A single powerful GPU will be always better than two worse ones.

That's why SLI / CF profiles exist.

[TenaciousD87]

So everyone knows, not getting 800$ for the 970's im selling him a few other pc parts i never use, im not that big of an asshole

[TenaciousD87]

Getting about 650$ for both and the backplates, which is pretty good in my opinion. To each their own i guess eh.