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Are you changing gaming resolution?
Are you picking up a VR headset?
Does your current card under perform?

Neither. Use your 980 until the 1080ti is released.
If you don't, you'll be disappointed again at the time as well. 

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So I biult my first pc about a year ago and bought a gtx 980, but I kinda feel bad since the new gtx 1080 came out looking so much better for the same price I país hehehe. My question here is, should I sell my gtx 980 (I can get around 415 usd) or maybe wait for the gtx 980s price to drop and buy another one? Thank you for your advise.

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1080 because SLI is never a super good idea and a single more powerfull card is almost always better :) 

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4 minutes ago, radical guild said:

Go with a 1080 it's more powerful than 2 980's In sli

Only limited to VR, in other benchmarking videos.

1080 is about 1.5X to 1.7X performance of 980 SLI in most games benchmark

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5 minutes ago, richyman said:

So I biult my first pc about a year ago and bought a gtx 980, but I kinda feel bad since the new gtx 1080 came out looking so much better for the same price I país hehehe. My question here is, should I sell my gtx 980 (I can get around 415 usd) or maybe wait for the gtx 980s price to drop and buy another one? Thank you for your advise.

but yeah, i will recommend to sell your GTX 980 if you can still get $415 USD, and get the 1080 !!

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A lot of the hype around the 1080 has been pretty thoroughly disproven by the more factual reviews.  It's still a great card, and my vote is upgrade to a single 1080.  I personally will be upgrading from a single 970 to a 1080 later this summer.

 

Check out these two which I found to be very informative:

 

AdoredTV review summary

 

Tek Syndicate - No Hype 1080 Review

 

 

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12 minutes ago, radical guild said:

Go with a 1080 it's more powerful than 2 980's In sli

Its not xD

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Are you changing gaming resolution?
Are you picking up a VR headset?
Does your current card under perform?

Neither. Use your 980 until the 1080ti is released.
If you don't, you'll be disappointed again at the time as well. 

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4 minutes ago, DioOmicida said:

Are you changing gaming resolution?
Are you picking up a VR headset?
Does your current card under perform?

Neither. Use your 980 until the 1080ti is released.
If you don't, you'll be disappointed again at the time as well. 

Does your bank account agree?

MY RIG

I5 6600k

16gb Corsair vengeance 2666mhz

MSI Gaming X 1070

WD blue 2tb

samsung 850 evo 250gb

EVGA supernova G2 650w

 

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