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I was offered a used 980 Ti for $180, should I go for it?

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So I built a PC to start the year using a 1050 Ti that my roommate gave me for Christmas because he was lucky enough to snag a 3070 at launch. It saved me some money and I've built with a 1050 Ti before so I know the card very well, but even at 1080p it's barely keeping up with the games I play (Black Ops Cold War, Warzone, Halo MCC, Titanfall 2 to name a few). A friend of mine said he has a 980 Ti that he'd be willing to part with for $180 because he was also lucky and got a 3080. While it's not the newest card by any means, it would still be a massive upgrade from a 1050 Ti. Considering even mid-range recent gen cards are hard to find without an absurd markup, is there any reason why I shouldn't buy it? My monitor is a 1080p 75Hz Freesync model.

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7 minutes ago, ALiLPinkMonster said:

So I built a PC to start the year using a 1050 Ti that my roommate gave me for Christmas because he was lucky enough to snag a 3070 at launch. It saved me some money and I've built with a 1050 Ti before so I know the card very well, but even at 1080p it's barely keeping up with the games I play (Black Ops Cold War, Warzone, Halo MCC, Titanfall 2 to name a few). A friend of mine said he has a 980 Ti that he'd be willing to part with for $180 because he was also lucky and got a 3080. While it's not the newest card by any means, it would still be a massive upgrade from a 1050 Ti. Considering even mid-range recent gen cards are hard to find without an absurd markup, is there any reason why I shouldn't buy it? My monitor is a 1080p 75Hz Freesync model.

I would say save your money for the upcoming 3060. That is what I will do

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It's a *touch* higher than other 980ti's I've seen, but by that I mean only by about 10-20$

Seems like a fine deal, especially for some of those newer games on your list

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980ti gives 1070 a good run for its money imo its totally worth it

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Considering how high GPU prices are right now. Buy the 980ti and sell the 1050ti for a markup to save some of that cost.

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I have a monster OCing 980. Even with it cranked up, smashing into the power limit like a Ford F-150 at an IHSTA crash test, the card just couldn't keep up anymore. It did absolutely fine on a 1080 display, but it just wasn't capable of giving good FPS on a 1440p display.

 

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Buy the 980 Ti and flip the 1050 Ti. It'd be a decent step-up against that 1050 Ti anyways.

For reference, 980 Tis seem to be hitting around the $170-200 mark while 1050 Tis sit around $120-150? Those mid-range GPUs of yesteryear are doing quite well on places like eBay, unusually.

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Thanks for the replies. I'm gonna go for it and flip the 1050 Ti like some of ya'll are saying. I don't plan on moving up from 1080p anyway until I can get my hands on a current gen mid-high end card, which doesn't look like it will be feasible anytime soon.

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UPDATE: I went for it, and I'm so glad I did. This is gonna hold me over much better until I can get my hands on a current gen GPU. Might even wait until the next gen. BOCW runs at 1080p max settings well above my monitor's refresh rate, and it can even handle Cyberpunk at medium settings with a very playable 45-60 FPS.

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2 minutes ago, ALiLPinkMonster said:

UPDATE: I went for it, and I'm so glad I did. This is gonna hold me over much better until I can get my hands on a current gen GPU. Might even wait until the next gen. BOCW runs at 1080p max settings well above my monitor's refresh rate, and it can even handle Cyberpunk at medium settings with a very playable 45-60 FPS.

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The 980 Ti is a great card.

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