Used 980Ti Purchase Paranoia

[refinedskillz]

Just now, Den-Fi said:

Yeah. The empty 2.5 bay was driving me nuts. It's so much more interesting this way.

 

 

If there's enough light you get a pretty good idea of what's inside.

Hahah, I've always been interested in what drive bay "gadgets" you can get.

[Brennan Price]

2 hours ago, Zando Bob said:

$1200 GPU vs two GPUs you can get for $300-350 together. 3 times the price for a couple more fps? Now there are a lot more advantages to the 2080 Ti than that, but if you wanna play games that do scale well in SLI, it's a good way to get insane gaming performance for a lot less money. 

I'm totally going to agree with you there. I now run dual 1080's in my rig and must admit that performance cannot be matched in some of the titles I play when it comes to FPS per £. 

 

Total for both cards came to £525 overall... Might sell one eventually though haha. 

[Zando_]

7 minutes ago, refinedskillz said:

Hahah, I've always been interested in what drive bay "gadgets" you can get.

Yos, sadly newer cases got rid of the drive bays. I have a cool hot swappable 2.5" tray that fits into a 3.5" slot though, and an adapter to take that 3.5" to a 5.25". They even make some straight 5.25" adapters that have 4 hot-swappable 2.5" bays like a teeny tiny server rack. Some cool res/pump combos if you have dual 5.25" bays too. My Air 540 does but sadly rad support is meh... and good lord do I have a lot of cases. That Air 540 can illegally fit my XL-ATX mobo though, it's a bit wonk but it works. 
 

4 minutes ago, Brennan Price said:

I'm totally going to agree with you there. I now run dual 1080's in my rig and must admit that performance cannot be matched in some of the titles I play when it comes to FPS per £. 

 

Total for both cards came to £525 overall... Might sell one eventually though haha. 

Yeah, I ended up selling mine. Was more of a noob then, single cards were much easier to use, and I had my fill of tinkering with X58. Actually moved from a pretty baller 2700X back to my Xeons from 2011 just because they were more fun to OC, ran a single 1080 Ti then. I got that for $550, barely less than your 1080s cost, and I can confirm that SLI 1080s are miles faster in anything that scales well, lol. Similar story on Turing, the 2070 Supers absolutely stomp a 2080 Ti while costing less, and SLI 2080 Supers would put on even more hurt while only costing slightly more than the base models (and still less than something like the kingpin tier cards).