got 2k to spend

[marcuzx]

so i’ve got 2k a spend; i could buy a white strix 3090, evga 3090ti, 2 evga 3080s, perhaps wait for 4070 4080 4090s to come out? idk, feel free to make a suggestion 

[IkeaGnome]

37 minutes ago, marcuzx said:

2 evga 3080s

Even if SLI wasn't dead as @Abyssal Radonmentioned, only the 3090 has SLI fingers. You could run 2 3080s, but they wouldn't be SLI. 

[Willg2007]

hello I am just cureious what do you need that much graphical power for.

[Willg2007]

ok

[jones177]

I had 2k+ to spend and got a EVGA 3090 ti.

On average it is 10 frames faster than my MSI 3090 and FTW3 Ultra 3080 ti.

It is also about 10c cooler on the GPU and about 30c cooler on the vram. 

[SteveGrabowski0]

$2000 is kind of a waste on a gaming gpu unless you're gaming on a large TV where 4k would make a huge difference. But if you're going to play on a desktop monitor 4k seems such a waste. I was shocked how close 1440p and 4k look on my 28 inch 4k monitor. No reason to blow 3090 Ti money for 20-25% more 4k performance at twice the cost when a 3080 is awesome in 1440p even in hard to run games like Cyberpunk, RDR2, and Control.

[xg32]

if you have to buy now, then 3090ti, thing that makes no sense at all on that list is the 3090 strix and 2x 3080

[IdealPC]

Surely wait if your current GPU could handle what you are doing....

[Montana One-Six]

19 hours ago, SteveGrabowski0 said:

But if you're going to play on a desktop monitor 4k seems such a waste. I was shocked how close 1440p and 4k look on my 28 inch 4k monitor.

Interesting I was looking at 1440p and 4K for a while before making the switch from 1080p and I saw a noticeable difference between 1440p and 4K even at 27/28 inch. So I didn't really see the point of 1440p since almost all games run above 60FPS at max or close to max settings at 4K with high end GPUs and 4K looking noticeably better.

[akio123008]

On 5/6/2022 at 5:57 PM, marcuzx said:

so i’ve got 2k a spend;

Cool.

 

Shame you're about to spend it on something as lame as PC hardware.

[SteveGrabowski0]

4 hours ago, Montana One-Six said:

Interesting I was looking at 1440p and 4K for a while before making the switch from 1080p and I saw a noticeable difference between 1440p and 4K even at 27/28 inch. So I didn't really see the point of 1440p since almost all games run above 60FPS at max or close to max settings at 4K with high end GPUs and 4K looking noticeably better.

Interesting. I wonder if my monitor just has really nice 1440p uscaling then. It's a pretty budget 4k monitor though, Asus TUF VG289Q. Or maybe it's my eyesight since I'm in my 40s haha. 1440p looks so night and day better vs 1080p though for me on that panel, while 2160p seems like such diminishing returns vs 1440p. 1440p looks so good on the panel I don't even bother with using NIS or FSR to upscale to 4k.

[Montana One-Six]

On 5/10/2022 at 5:55 PM, Abyssal Radon said:

4K is worth it on a larger panel, like 32” is the minimum size for a 4K resolution.

4K is worth it even on smaller displays. The amount of clarity and additional details is very much game changing even on smaller displays imo.

 

On 5/10/2022 at 5:55 PM, Abyssal Radon said:

I have tested games on my rig at 4K (5950X, 64GB, 3080 10GB) and there are only a small handful of games I truly cannot hit the 60fps mark at maximum settings.

Granted I don't play a lot of brand new titles but in my experience the games with fps below 60 at 4K are usually poorly optimized. You also can often tweak settings so that you get to the 60FPS mark only with very minor graphical downgrades compared to max settings.

[marcuzx]

i’m mining * and yea i’ll wait til 4090 comes out

[Toolhead1987]

On 5/6/2022 at 8:57 AM, marcuzx said:

so i’ve got 2k a spend; i could buy a white strix 3090, evga 3090ti, 2 evga 3080s, perhaps wait for 4070 4080 4090s to come out? idk, feel free to make a suggestion 

for sure wait for for the 40xx series.
even if they aren't worth it you might be able to save on a 3090 by then.